Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-10-03
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Get rid Of the scrubs.
Don't buy an article because it is
cheap.
The fall is a good time to tile out
the orchard or garden.
Trying, not signing, is what con-
quers the perplexing farm task.
In laying in the fodder arrange it so
that it can be handled with the least
possible labor.
It's the stirred soil which in dry
weather retains the moisture for the
growing of the crops.
These cool nights when the horse
comes in sweaty be careful to rub
him off and blanket until dry.
Generally speaking, the COW which
your neighbor is so anxious to sell is
just the cow you cannot afford to
buy.
Count the sheep often. How can
you know what is going on in the
flock unless you look it over occasion
ally?
Remember this next time you are
sowing turnip seed. Mix with sand
about pound of seed to a peck OF
sand, and then distribute by hand.
The hen-eating hog should be looked
after Such propensity is the out
growth of deficient ration. Expert
ment until you have supplied the feed
he lacks.
clean, dry bed is as much appre-
ciated by piggy as by you. Dampness
and filth are not conducive to sound
and refreshing slumber any more to
beast than to man.
Get the crops under cover. Farm
buildings may be expensive, but they
pay, for damage done to crops not
properly housed would soon pay for
the necessary buildings.
For collie in horses try alOes, two
drains, and spirits Of turpentine, six
ounces. Dissolve aloes in three
quarts of warm water, stir in tur-
pentine and give as drench.
The fair which gives the best prizes
to the horses Of the speed track, and
treats as side issue the best of
the hogs and sheep and cattle, is the
kind Of an agricultural show which
the farmer can proftably stay away
from.
Don't let the crowding of the work
rob you of the time to read your farm
paper and Meadowbrook Farm Notes.
The editor likes to visit with the
farmer during the busy season as well
as during the dull, in fact, little bet
ter for it is then that he is able to
be of more practical service to the
farmer than at any other time. 1t is
the hint in season that is worth more
than an encyclopedia of knowledge at
time when it cannot be used. Keep
read up.
The new barn of the Massachusetts
Agricultural college has been pro-
nounced by government experts as
the best in the country from a SAM
tary point of view. 1t is light and
we'll ventilated, and is equipped with
apparatus for sterilizing milk. AL
though it cost $4,000, farmers who
have not that amount of money to put
into a barn can keep their COW sta
bles light and clean, and thereby i'm
prove the quality of the milk and
prevent disease.
Investigations by experiment sta
lions have proved that hogs easily
contract tuberculosis by eating the
manure of COWS which are infected.
# the cattle show signs of the disease,
he hogs should be separated from
hem at once There is not so much
qanger in allowing the hogs to run
behind beef cattle as behind dairy
cattle. The former are young and
lave not at the time they are fed be-
zone badly infected. Dairy cattle are
older and the disease has had time
% get a frmer hold.
We have never tried it. but a, dairy
man who has, says that calf that
has never sucked will drink from the
Z ,,oi fro,,o tho uOr1 on Ho hxoc thin ca
so that the calf is kept from it's dam
after calving, and few hours after he
milks about three quarts in pail and
puts it under the calls nose so as to
touch, and says that the calf will at
once begin to drink. Our plan has
been to take the calf away on the sec
ond day and have found it no difficult
task to bring the calf to drink from
the pail by inserting two fingers in the