Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-02-02

| 1t costs no more to produce clean
milk or cream than it does to produce
| the other kind.
Keep the cows out of the corn fields
on cold or stormy days. 1t is expen-
sive feed they get.
1t is mistake to breed SOW too
old, and II is better.
You should have hotbed and a cold
frame, so that you can have fresh vege-
| tables in April and May.
Give the seeds and plants plenty of
room to grow, so that seeding will be
easy and tangling of vines impossible.
Roup starts simply as a cold. Germs
seize upon the infiamed parts as good
home and then we get a malignant, in
fictitious type.
Fowls are valuable only when they
are handled with view to getting the
best there is in them. Once proved,
fowl is valuable asset.
Nothing looks much better or pref
| tier in summer than a well-kept hedge
fence On the other hand nothing can
| become a greater nuisance than one
) that has been poorly kept.
| Sheep increase so rapidly and ma
ture at such an early age, and their
| flesh is so wholesome for food, that
on the majority of farms a flock can
| readily be made profitable.
There is a shortage of horses and
mules. The only remedy for this stu
| alton is for breeders to hold good ones
| for high prices and breed the mares
more diligently The former move is
the safest method.
There will be no investment for
good blood on q farm where the OWN
er does not believe in it. One has to
| believe before he is convinced that it
is a good thing. The fact that there
are many scrub farmers trying to
keep good stock on scrub care is in
creasing the ranks of skeptics. Good
stock and good care go together
The weight of the grain from an
acre of corn is about the same as the
weight of the cured fodder. Forty
bushels of corn should weigh about a
long ton, and the weight of the fod
der will be nearly the same. There
may be variations sometimes, but one
can estimate very close to the weight
Of the cured fodder by arriving at a
knowledge of the number of bushels
of corn from each acre.
The average American farmer would
marvel at some Of the things eaten by
foreigners. Laplanders mix earth with
their bread and Russian peasants use
''rock -four Some poorer classes of
Hungary actually eat earth. Seaweed
Is sometimes used as q food from neces-
| sity. Chinese are said to eat bird
nest SOUP" whatever that is. In Spain
| the snail is a luxury. Americans are
eating many things in the absence OF
pure food laws, that they have no de-
| sire to eat.
A large pecan tree in Berrien Coun-
| ty, Ga, has q spread of branches of
| 1913 feet. It's trunk at two feet above
the ground has a circumference of IL
| feet, and at a height of five feet 1t
| measures 91a feet around. 1t is said
| IL hon .o1c Of
nuts annually, and as they are OF the
unimproyed or common variety, they
never sell for less than 10 cents a
pound, and the crop brings from $40 to
800. The tree is supposed to be be-
tween sixty and seventy years old.
| Measure accurately the length. and
breadth of your kitchen garden. 1t
does not pay in dollars and cents, If
YOU count your time worth as much
| as the market gardeners. And this
| should be enough, for there is great
satisfaction in seeing the best results
| from your own work. The home gar
den never pays except as you get from
| nature what it can give in the best of
table delicacies. 1t is on too small a
scale. A man ought to be ashamed
of himself if he cannot sell his time
for better pay than that.
Some farmers in New York State
have found that it pays them to skin
their hogs rather than scalding them
when butchering. This change has
been brought about by the demand for
hog skins which has sprung up in re-
cent years. 1t is said that they bring
/ from fifty cents to one dollar each.
When this plan is pursued it does not
REQUIRE the extensive preparation for
| butchering that is required in scald-
| ing. 1t is said that they get one-ha1f
/ cent per pound more for hogs dressed
| in this manner than when dressed in
the old way. The practice Is said to