Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-05-23

:. The Mexican Agricultural society j
announces the discovery of new kind
OF wheat grown for several years in |
the state of San Luis Potosi, which
has proved to be immune from attacks
of wheat rust.
The styles of harrows are legion i
and there is no doubt that some makes |
are better adapted to certain soils
than others. The farmer would do
Well to study the different makes and
get the one which will work best on
his SOIL
A new system of corn culture seeks
to retard the over-production of stalk
growth and later when the plant is
ready to ear stimulating the develop
ment of the ear by the use of fertiliz-
ers and cultivation.
It is estimated that one chickadee
bird will destroy $500 cankerworm
eggs in one day, or 138,750 eggs dur
ing the IS days it takes the moths to
crawl up the trees in March. 1t will
pay you to entice the little birds to
your orchard by hanging suet or beef,
bones to the limbs of the trees
Dairy stables should have plenty OF
windows, we'll distributed. Then from
each window frame remove some of
the small lights of glass and place
over the opening muslin curtain,
stretched tightly. This will allow a
free passage of fresh air without a
draft, and will make the stable sweet
and wholesome.
Examine all the farm tools now. If
new parts are found to be needed you
will have plenty of time to order
them and get them in place, and if
repairs you can make are needed you
will have plenty of time to make
them. And how glad you will be
when the machine or tool is wanted
that it is in working order.
"COw clubs" are popular among
farmers in England. 1t is a sort of an
insurance association of COW owners.
Each pays a stipulated yearly fee for
each COW owned, and the fund thus
raised is used in paying veterinary
to look after the cattle and in paying
fair price in case of death of a COW.
Here is an idea quite adaptable to
dairying communities in this country.
If there is no special work for the
horses to do during the winter days
there is temptation to let them stand
in their stalls and get out of condition.
Then when the spring work opens up
it is long tedious task getting them
in working condition again. 1t is bet
ter to make work for the horses, If
necessary, in order to exercise them.
They will stand by you better in the
spring if you do.
The cream separator can be run too
fast and too slow. The first condition
is too severe a strain on the machine,
and the second results in imperfect
separation of the cream from the milk
and consequent loss of butter fat.
The number of revolutions a minute
required by a machine is usually indi-
Gated on the machine or in the in
struction book accompanying it and
should be strictly observed.
It is generally one of two causes
failure of valve to operate or short
age of water. The difficulty with the
valves may be detected by printing
and noticing the action of the handle
If the check valve is not working the
handle will fly up. If the plunger
merely churns the water poured in
without raising any it indicates that
the plunger valve is at fault. And
both valves may be faulty as shown
by the printing water flowing down
into the we'll.
Here is plan followed by the dairy
men of Denmark which suggests
practical method of which dairymen in
American communities may weed out
improbable COWS and thus insure
larger net profit: Thirty or more own
ers of dairies employ an official test
err whose duty it is to keep record
of each COW. His reports are made
regularly and the owner Of each herd
knows exactly what each one of his
COWS is doing and is able intelligently
to weed out the robber COWS. AS re-
suit of the system in Denmark the pro-
ducing value of dairy COWS was in
creased in one year from $13 to $50
each.
Generally it is the farmhouse which
which is the last to be modernized
and improved. There is always some
comfort and convenience which can
well be added, and many times not
much expense is involved in the i'm