The L'Anse sentinel., 1907-09-28

Mended clothes and bills all PAID
| are better than new clothes on credit
Rye adds no plant food to the soil
and hence has no value as green ms
nure.
Feed the coarse fodder with the
small feed so as 70 maintain the
balance In the ration.
Cool the cream Immediately after II
comes from the separator. 1t will
make the butter better.
Wife will thank you for your
thoughtfulness In sharpening scissors
and the kitchen knives.
Wheat-bran middlings roots and
grass make a good ration for the pigs
selected as breeders Notice that We
omitted corn.
There Is economy in buying the
best made machine or tool. But re.
member after you have bought 1t to
take good care Of 1t.
The earth Of the chicksn pcn floors
Is as rich as many brands OF fer
tilizers. Get it out on the land and
put In fresh dirt. 1t will be better for
the chickens and better for you.
Stop that little gully In the field
which opened up with the last rain.
1t is easier to fix now than after the
next rain or two have made the
breech infinitely larger.
Make difference between the feed
ing of the pigs that are to become
breeders and those you are fattening
for market. Overf4tness mast be
avoided with the former.
If the pasturage Is dry and the feed
poor, one stalk of corn In the silk Is
worth more to the cows now than
the ear that the stalk can produce
will be worth next winter.
Store the oily feeds where they will
not become contaminated by foul
odors. Feed thus affected is more
than apt to taint the milk and carry
the cowy flavor to the butter.
Don't be content to do anything but
the best type of farming. Be on the
watch for new ideas. II your neigh
boris methods are better than your
own, do not be too proud to say so,
but adopt them. II you have an idea
or method which will help your neigh.
Dor. see that he gets It. Help others
and help yourself.
In taking the stock in from of the
pasture this fall remember that the
change from field where much exer-
else is obtained to the stall is quite Sc.
we're. For this reason the cows
should be allowed as much freedom as
possible in the yards about the barn.
They should be put in the barn only
when the weather 10 bad or at milk.
ing time.
| In the cutting down OF small trees
| farmers often rob themselves of larger
| profit later on. Arboriculture tells OF
an incident in Virginia. Ten years
ago about $4,000 young hickory trees
were cut down to provide hickory
hoops for about 10000 apple barrels.
The barrel hoops had been sold for
about $400. II the trees had been
allowed to grow, they would have
been big enough in few years for
cutting up into carriage spokes, and
would have produced, at the present
price of $35 thousand, spokes worth
more than 100000. This Is the kind
of forestrry argument that ought to
appeal to owners of brush lots.
: Make your own vinegar on the farm
Only sound, ripe apples should be
used avoiding dirty fruit or washing
1t before pressing. Use only juice
from the first pressing, place in clean
barrels which have been treated with
hot water or steam to destroy unde
sirable germs. The barrels should
I not be full, nor tightly corked, a.
, free access of air Is desirable. Ii
, ordinary temperatures, the first stage
, the alcoholic fermentation, should b,
! complete in five or six months; but b.
, storing in warmer rooms, and by tn,
use of yeast, can be much shortened
The second stage, the acetic fer
| mentation. may be FASTENED by hea
: and by the use of a good starter" o
mother" or sharp vinegar. When tn
required acidity Is reached, the bal
Y rels should be filled to the bung an
r tightly corked to avoid undesirabl
Y fermentations.
( Pinstch oil, the residue left in tn
r cylinders used to contain the gas 70
: lighting railway coaches, and whic
r can be obtained for about 25 cents pc
3 gallon in small quantities, is recon
r mended by the Colorado experimen
!, station as a good substitute for cal
; bon.bisulphide in exterminating pra
: rie dogs, gophers, rabbits, or an
{ ground burrowing pests. The follow
!. ing directions are given for applyin
the remedy. Three hands and bo
| will acconpIieb tho haot rocuIts