The L'Anse sentinel., 1907-12-28
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Don't 90 away from home now with
out the horse blanket-and use II.
Select the show birds early and feed
and groom to get In prime condition.
Sheep Shen crowded into dark,
poorly-veLtilated stables will not
thrive.
Grade up your herd by getting
pure bred sire and using the tester
and scales.
The rich barnyard makes the poor
field. Get the manure out where It
will feed the soil and do good.
Keep the horse under as even condi-
tions az possible. He II sensitive
creature and faels weather changes.
dry as possible, and don't forget that
sunlight is tonic which the horse
needs.
Every farmer must be an expert
menter to limited extent II he would
make the success OF farming which 1t
is his privilege to do.
Get rid Of the idea that one COW is
as good as another. Only the test can
prove what each COW is doing. Keep
record and weed out the improbable
cows.
One large feeder of sheep figures
that he does not come out even on
his feed bills, but he counts the clean
ing his fields get and the manure
which is dropped is profit enough.
The time to begin the development
or the dairy COW is several generations
before she Is born. But II you cannot
do that, you can at least treat the
heifer calf right and make her all that
is possible.
In setting out the new fruit trees be
sure and leave plenty of space be-
tween them. You must make allow
ance for the growth Of the years.
Crowded trees interfere with one an
other and have their fruit bearing
possibilities checked.
The most money is made out of
horses that are well bred and free
from blemisnes. Why raise any other
kind? AS has been repeatedly said It
takes just as much time and trouble
and feed to raise a poor horse as
good one, and see the difference in
the prices for which they are sold.
The following treatment for San
Jose scale Is recommended by the
North Carolina Experiment station:
As soon as the leaves fall, spray the
trees with scalecide Zone gallon di-
luted with IL or Is gallons Of water),
and then, In the early spring, give
the trees a thorough coating with
the lime.sulphur mixture.
The story Is told Of one farmer In
Illinois who went to county fair.
This Is not strange, but when the
judges came to the stall where he was
feeding his horse and gave 1t pre-
MUM he was surprised. He simply
"put his horse up" in q stall for the
day and they supposed 1t was en-
tered In the competition. Must have
been pretty good horse.
Clovers, alfalfa, cow-peas, soy beans,
Canadian peas, etc., are the main
fesh-forming foods. Oats, as single
food, approaches nearer balanced ra-
tion for young stock than any other,
with barley close second. What the
farmers need to grow Is some of the
fesh-formers above mentioned with
which he can balance up his cheap
corn and not be obliged to buy bran,
shorts, oil meal, or cottonseed meal,
to get the full value Of his cheap fat
formers.
The experiment stations in more
than one state have taken hold OF the
question of cloth ventilation for the
poultry house Perhaps the most ef-
fective arrangement is that which has
been put into use by the Maine Ex-
pertinent station. where fowls are per-
mitted to sleep In . roosting chamber
that is separated from the rest OF the
house by a cloth curtain that Is pulled
down In front in the winter. Prof.
Woods says that the fowls behind this
are warm and comfortable and that
water does not frceze In the chamber.
In the morning there 10 no smell in
this chamber. the air being pure. The
window to the heu house Ia allowed to
remain open except during the driving
storms, when the snow might come In.
None Of the birds in the roosting place
have colds. and, on the other hand,
CONTAGIOUS diseases do not spread.
whe,, the cloth ID used the fitting
shouts be 20 tight that the air can
drift around t. The air should be
compelled to pass directly through the
cloth and not around II or over II OF
under t. Il 10 probable that this viii
prove usabls on ap our farms.