Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-08-22

from two-year-Old hens for Matching
Enthusiasm is as important an as.
set in farming as in any other bust
ness.
The breaks in your neighbours
fence are easier to see sometimes
than those in your own.
Crumbly cheese can be remedied in
the manufacture. A variety of con-
ditlons may give rise to this fault.
Let the garden BE- half the living.
Tie garden plot may not only be a
money maker but health giver.
A good show for the pure maple
sugar product now is the new pure
food law. Will help the farmer some.
requires from rs to so loads per acre
annually to secure a paying crop.
Peorle engaged in chicken raising
as a business have proved without
doubt that single kind kept to itself
makes the most money
Make it practice every spring to
set out few trees on the farm. You
will be surprised as the years roll by
to see what a showing you will make
in timber
A hump-backed lamb has an empty
stomach or something worse. Find
out the trouble and then remedy it.
Perhaps the eve has not enough
milk to nourish the little fellow.
Remember that cloudy warm
weather is the best for the sprouting
of seeds and for this reason the seeds
of the garden should be planted at
time to secure these conditions.
The proper handling Of machinery
on the farm is vital factor not only
in the results obtained but in the
wearing qualities of the machine.
Don't blame the machine for your
own ineficiency or carelessness.
From experiments at the Maine ex.
pertinent station the indications are
that by selecting best layers for
breeding. purposes, and by proper
feeding, the average egg yield of
flock can be increased
The annual butchering on the farm
is great event to the country boy,
but care should be taken that it does
not become a brutalizing influence
upon the younger children of the fam.
lily.
Oliver Wendell Holmes said this for
the encouragement Of the tree plant
er: When We plant trees we are doing
what we can to make cur planet a
more wholesome and happier place for
those who come after us, if not for
ourselves.
Roup has become almost a common
disease among poultry, and it is doing
much damage to the poultry industry
everywhere. A well known poultry
writer says: mo fowl is ever really
cured of roup, and the disease is
spread by the use of these apparently
cured fowls as breeders"
Professor Babcock of the Wisconsin
experiment station says that cows
should receive about one ounce of salt
each per day. Cows differ greatly in
regard to their ability to live without
salt. At the station mentioned COWS
were kept without salt to see how
soon their health would appear to be
affected by the deprivation. One COW
showed the effects in a month and an.
other in about year. In time, how.
ever, the effect of not having enough
salt is very injurious.
The value of the Babcock tester In
determining the relative merits of diff
ferent members Of the herd must nec-
essarily depend upon the frequency
with which the tests are made, the
number of milkings from which the
sample is taken and the accuracy with
which the test is carried through
Many have claimed that two or three
tests, made at intervals of sever al
months, with the weight of milk, will
furnish a fairly accurate basis for es.
timating the fat yield Of cow for
one year.
The most successful farmer is not
always the best farmer. The former
may raise fine stock and grow big
crops, but if he does not also grow a
crop of good ideas and rear bunch
of manly boys and womanly girls, and
reach out the glad, helpful hand to
push along right conditions in his
community, state and nation, he lacks