The L'Anse sentinel., 1907-09-14
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Summer is the time to put in the
drains.
Trust in providence, but keep The
cultivator tools bright.
For the dairy cows clover hay is
far preferable to timothy hay.
The man who does not like cows has
NO business trying to run dairy.
Take time to look up a good sire for
your flock. Improve your breed as
much as possible.
My. how good the vegetables are from
that garden now. Pays for all the
trouble 1t cost, now doesn't It?
It's the little foxes that spoil the
vines and 1t is the little leaks on the
farm that spoil the farmers profits.
Have you been putting in to prac-
tice this year the new Ideas and les
sons you gained at the institute last
winter?
Better seed, better soil preparation,
better cultivation will give better corn
crop next year. Try this triple extract
OF good farming.
The National Dairy show and the
National Corn exposition at Chicago
In October. Don't fail to plan to at
tend these two great shows.
The increasing demand for mules
and the better prices are making
them . most profitable animal to
raise. Better get few and raise
some.
Finer, larger berries will be grown
the runners cut OF after two or three
plants have formed from . parent
plant.
To be sure, breeding sows do not
. cost 30 much at weaving time, but
who Is keen enough to detect the ami
mails with specially good points?
Don't make a practice Of it.
Wounds upon sheep which get fly
blown should be treated with kero-
sene or tirpentine. being sure that
every maggot is destroyed, after
which the wound may be coated over
with tar.
Have you ever noticed how quickly
you become accustomed to disordered
conditions when you make no effort
to pick things up? Never look twice
at the thing out Of order. Pick It up
the first time your eyes light on It.
II there Is one who would ask, What
are the advantages of the silo? let him
think on these things: The silo pro-
vides fresh, succulent feed the year
round; storage OF large amount OF
feed in small space, and immediate re-
moval Of crop from land to make way
for other crops.
Though the value of milk, either
whole or skinned, Is generally recog.
nized for chlcken-rearing and chicken
fattening, 1t Is not 80 much used as II
ought to be. On many farms the
skim milk all goes to the pigs, and the
chickens get none; yet, as expert.
msnts have often shown, a brood
given all the skim milk shows more
rapid gains than upon any other feed
Farming as Life sees It.: Farmers
are most prosperous in the temperate
regions, quite as one would expect tc
find them. For in the temperate re
gions the farming season is only about
three months long, leaving the farmer
nine months during which to engage
in other pursuits and thus earn money
to keep his farm going. Very obvious
ly the farmer In the tropics, where
the farming season Is six, seven, eight
or even ten months long, Is at a serI
Gus disadvantage. Who can blame
him II he becomes discouraged and
sinks at length into apathy? II yor
are about to take up farming, with 9
view to becoming wealthy, by al
mems secure land In tho tempefat,
regions.
It Is said tnat the laurel and the
sunfower have been found to be o.
the greatest use In damp situations
People who live In such spots-espe
ciaily near undrained land-thinl
there 10 no help for them but by re
moval. Successful experiments have
shown that It is possible to materially
improve the atmosphere In such neigh
borhoods by the planting Of laurels
and sunHowers. The former gives OF
an abundance of ozone, while the lat
ter Is potent In destroying the malar.
ial conditions. These two, II planted
even on the most restricted scale In
. garden. or any ground close to the
house. win be found to speedily in
crease the dryness and salubrity Of
the atmosphere. The experiment IL
well worth trying in badly-drained 10
calities.