The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1907-01-05

seeds of apples grown In France. for
the reason that they come from the
pulp from the cider mills which use
harder apple for that purpose than
is used In this country
Good brisk work for the cold day
Is the sharpening up OF the saws. the
grinding of the axes. and tho filling
of the wood box. You keep warm
outside getting the wood. and you
keep warm inside with the wood after
It IL laid In.
The careless housewife floats on
many q pound of butter during the
season in the buttermilk which she
draws on from the churn. II she has
not strainer to catch the butter
particles. These little fakes of but
ter seem so Insignificant, but In the
aggregate they prove an expensive
waste.
The first steel frame barn has been
constructed by F. e. Dawley at
| Fayetteville, N. Y. It IL a gigantic
affair, capable of storing 500 tons Of
alfalfa hay, $50 tons of alfalfa ensil-
age. and $50 tons of corn ensilage.
grain for so cows and stable room
for 80 mich cows for the produc-
ton of sanitary milk.
w. H. Jordan, New York expert
ment station, in speaking Of pig feed
ing, says: 81 doubt the wisdom OF
feeding pigs with oil meal at least In
anything more than very small guam
tity. The oil meals are not consid-
cred as desirable hog feeds. and
would not In any case put In more
than ten pounds of oil meal to 100
pounds Of ground oats"
The 6,000-acre government swamp
land In Kalamazoo county, Michigan,
is to be drained next summer at
cost estimated at $4,000. when 1t IL
expected that It will be the finest Of
land for celery culture. Such is the
progress of agricultural science. The
waste places of the earth are being
conquered and made to yield their
fruits In their season.
One of the important questions
which is up to the interstate COM
MERGE commission to answer 10
whether the potato Is a fruit It
seems that the new railroad rate law
permits the giving of transportation
to caretakers who travel with per-
ishable fruit, and the potato carrying
roads have been in the habit of CIV
ing such transportation with potato
shipments.
What are you going to do with
those culls from your flock? They
are not fat enough to kill, and under
the ordinary conditions they will not
fatten for market Try this plan:
Put by themselves In quarters that
are reasonably warm, and feed corn
meal mash, in which oyster shell Is
mixed. Crowd the feed, and In q
week or two you will be surprised to
see what a marketable lot Of birds
you have.
An orchardist who has tried Il
for several seasons. says that ~
green boughs are scattered between
the rows of fruit trees 1t will prevent
the mice from gnawing the bark Of
the trees, as they will prefer the
tender bark of the twigs to the tough
er bark of the trees. Worth trying,
anyway, although 1t may encourage
the breeding and protection OF the
mice. Along with the green boughs
use little poison to kill of the mice,
or, better still, soak the boughs In
arsenic solution.
Two lots Of steers fed at the Kan
sas experiment station, one lot fed
with silage and the other without It.
were marketed with rs cent per 100
pounds in favor of the silage fed
steers. In this test silage was esti-
mated to be worth 1929 per ton and
three tons Of corn silage was equal
to one ton alfalfa hay. The silage
lot were pronounced excellent cattle,
fat enough for the ordinary trade.
The carcasses showed good quality
with very little waste, and would BE-
salable in any market.
The influence and power Of organ.
ization is shown in the statement Of
President Miles of the National Asso-
citation of Agricultural Implement
and Vehicle Manufacturers made at
the thirteenth annual meeting of that
organization recently held. He said
that while in 1893 when the associa-
ton was formed, the expectation Of
farm tools and machinery amounted
to only 100000. in 1900 II had
reached $16.000.000. in 1905 II was
100000, and this year It was 924,-
100000. With our billions in crops
and our millions in farm machinery.
we are going long ways towards
farming and feeding the world.
It Is interesting to note the diner
ent ideas which farmers hold a. to
the meaning Of rotation of crops.
There are those who think that ~