Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-09-25
The leaf is the lung of the tree.

Nct AFTER tue tent caterpiiafb upon
the trees.
The cows appreciate a share of the
sweet apples and the pumpkins. Don't
forget them.
Turnips make a good crop to add
humus TO the soil and are also good
for feed to the stock.
Where is the profit IL you winter
the old eve and let her die In the
spring. Better At her for killing this
fall.
The value of the horse is largely de-
pendent on his gait. For this reason
see that the colt is taught to walk
fast.
Tubs can be kept from drying out
without putting water in them by
turning them over a pail or vessel OF
water.
Allow the horse which has been
working or driving hard to rest 10
to 30 minutes before watering at night
when putting up.
Think how you feel about 1t your
self: You would not sell your best
COW, neither should you expect the
other fellow would do 80.
Turnips are a questionable feed for
the cows as the flavor is apt to be i'm
parted to the milk. They are good
feed for the other stock, however.
Feed them.
Have the children gather the fallen
limbs, chips, etc, lying around and put
them under shelter before the fall
rains come. They make fine kindling
and the place will look better with
the rubbish cleared up.
In moving the pillow to the field use
a pillow skid-it is easy to make one
from a curved sapling-and make the
task an easy one as well as avoiding
the risk of breading the mold board
or straining the shares.
The time to plow is when the soil
is just moist enough to crumble nice
ly. II the land is plowed then 1t will
be found that the work can be done
with less labor than at any other
time.
There is yet a great host of farmers
who are not convinced of the profita-
belness of the cream separator. Well,
every man must decide for himself,
but il is certain that those who have
used the separator never want to go
back to the old methods of cream sep
aration.
II you are planning the planting of
trees along the roadside, and this Is
a splendid thing to do, remember that
the trees with high growing trunks
are best. Such trees do not have low
hanging branches to interfere with
passing teams, and 1t gives the sun
a chance to work on the road and dry
up the mud puddles after rain.
Good ventilation in the dairy barn
is essential to the production OF pure
milk. The spread of tuberculosis dur
ing recent years has been in large
part due to the shutting up of cows
in close stables, where all must
breathe the same air and the same
germs. In such a stable a single tu-
berculosis COW will spread the disease
to the whole herd.
1t is said that the increasing use of
vegetables is tending to the lengthen-
in the life of the caucasian race.
When populations were more sparse
than now, animal food and fish were
easier to get than now. Only in late
centuries have such vegetables as
potatoes, tomatoes and many forms
of cabbages come into general use.
1t is certainly true that the eating of
fresh vegetables greatly assists di.
gestion of all foods.
Friend Thorson delivered himself of
this bit of wisdom the last time I
saw him: Some men amt fit to own
cows. They don't treat 'em right
But take away the milk and the
cream and the butter and their meat,
and don't give 'em even a smell of
cheese, and they'd begin to realize
what the cows were doing for them"
Thorson is one of those fellows who
believes IL pays to be kind to your
stock; to see they are sheltered from
the sun, have plenty of fresh water.
and are protected in some way from
the plague of flies. And 1t does!
Investigations by experiment sta,
tons have proved that hogs easily
contract tuberculosis by eating the
manure of cows which are infected
II the cattle show signs of the disease,
the hogs should be separated from
them at once. There is not so much
danger in allowing the hogs to run
behind beef cattle as behind dairy
cattle. The former are young and
have not at the time they are fed be-
come badly infected. Dairy cattle are
older and the disease has had time
to get firmer hold. u,
According to an English scientific
journal milk poor in fat is as valuable
a food as milk rich In fat. The fat
percentage, the popular standard by
which milk is judged. is most valuable
while the proportions of the albumin
oids, sugars and salts vary but little in
the different samples of milk. In