The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1907-02-02
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The hen needs grit to succeed as
well as man.
It's not the lazy hen that fills the
egg basket.
Clean milking and milking clean are
not exactly the same. but they are
both essential to profitable dairying.
1t is not 80 much overproduction
which lowers prices sometimes as 1t
Is underdistribution.
An ounce of changed diet with the
sheep is worth more than a pound
Of medicine.
Training has much to do with the
making of the good dairy COW, and
the training should begin back with
tho sire and the dam.
Sheep won't thrive on poor food
and raise good fleece any more than
thO lal LII holoO Cdu w - 6OOu ddl
work on half rations.
We speak Of the poultry business.
Business is It? Then 1t won't run It.
self any more than any other business.
Attention is essential to success in
any line.
Too much water in the soil is Sc
rious handicap to many an orchard.
and the trouble can be easily cor
rected by laying tile between each row
Of trees.
Many turkey growers retain the
small, immature turkeys because unfit
for market and then breed from them
the next spring. This results in weak
ened stock, which IL more liable to
disease.
One farmer who has tried It and
says 1t works cured kicking COW by
passing small rope in front of the
,udder and tying 1t back of the hip
Joints. No harm to try 1t II you have
q kicking COW.
The farmer ought to take an inven-
tory every year Just as the business
man does. The winter time is the
convenient season for this work. Find
out where you stand. Let cold. hard
fact tell you how you did last year.
Don't guess at It.
An Ohio reader tells how he clean
ed out field badly infested with sas-
safras. His plan was to cut them of
with grubbing hoe at the top when
the ground was frozen hard and then
In the spring turned in the cattle,
which finished up what was started.
Get microscope and examine clover
and other seeds you expect to SOW next
season. Know whether there is dodder
and other noxious weed seeds in the
mixture. A little study and practice
makes one quite proficient in judging
the quality of a lot of seed.
Method Of feeding has much to do
with the value of the feed itself Skim
milk IL sprayed into steamed hay or
straw or ground feed Is worth as
much as 25 cents per 100 pounds for
feeding calves and hogs, but without
such treatment It is not worth more
than ten cents per 100 pounds.
Milking machines operated by cleo
tricity are to be installed by the Ne
braska university dairy department,
and II the experiment proves success
full It Is probable that many dairy
farmers throughout the state will
adopt the method. Interurban trolley
wires will be the source Of the cleo.
trical current for the work.
Blackhead in turkeys is simply liver
trouble. and therefore a germ disease
and contagious. The primary cause
of the disease Is said to be the over
taxing of the digestive organs with
grain feed as result Of insect life
being scarce, diet which is essential
TO the keeping Of turkeys in healthy
condition.
The Percheron Horse society OF
France has offered to the Ohio Agri
cultural college trophy which will
probably be bronze figure of a Per.
cheron. This is to be competed for
annually by the students taking in.
struction in horse judging at the uni
versfty. the one showing the greatest
proficiency to have his name inscribed
on the base Of trophy.
The eleventh annual poultry. pig
con and pet stock show will be held
In Chicago January % to 80. 1907. II
10 under the management Of the Ma
tional Fancicrs' and Breeders asso-
citation. Fred l. KINNEY. s25 Dear
born street. Chicago, IL secretary, and
Ali information in regard to exhibits.
premiums. ETC., can be secured from
VIVA. Henry, dean OF Wisconsin
AGrieultnral college, reports two youns