Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-08-22
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The noisy, singing hen is generally
the hen that lays. ez
Your garden seed order In yet!
Ought to be. Hurry up.
The health Of the flock is dependent
largely upon good dust bath.
Plan for the draining of that swamp;
Why let it. remain idle longer?
Put yourself In the horses place..
You wouldn't like binders, now, would
you?
It is not good practice to, put ma
nure in the hole in setting young
trees.
The best time to fight the scale Is
in the spring before the buds begin to
swell.
An empty salt sack used to rub
the horse down with will make the
coat glisten. .-tt.
Will the coreless apple be followed
by the cobless corn and the r1ndless
watermelon?
Don't forget that thinking cap
should be included In your spring
equipment Of tools. .
Lima beans cannot be grown on
poor soil, and should never be planted
while the ground is cold. -"
The earlier that the colt is broken
the easier it is for the animal and
the better is the job done.
The large importations of wool en-
phasize the fact that more sheep
ought to be raised in this country.
Again we say, clean up the or
chard. burn all rubbish. Insects will
trouble you less next season if you
do. g..
The we'll balanced farm is the one
where stock is kept to rebuild the
soil which the grain crops have de-
pleted. s's.>s i
The percentage of profit on any
farm Is dependent upon the kind OF
management the farm has, remember
that, Mr. Farmer.
The San Jose scale louise is no re-
specter of persons, attacking all
orchard trees, rose bushes, berry
bushes, vines and shrubs.
A progressive dairyman will rot
put up with scrub stock, and scrub
dairyman may be given wellbrea
stock and soon bring it down to his
level. .... -..
The more evenly manure is spread
over the land the better will it be in
corporated with the soil. Don't leave
it in Jumps. The manure spreader is
great help.
Western farmers are coming to ap.
preciate more fully the value of alfalfa
as a forage crop. 1t may cost extra
trouble and expense in getting good
stand, but it pays. -. H.
A good hen man when asked wheth.
er he gave his hens pepper, said:
MOI" and the emphasis was so
strong that we concluded that it was
not a good practice.
Rotting vegetables in the cellar are
disagreeable and unhealthful Now is
the time of year when the cellar
needs Strengthening up and the vege.
tables stored there looked over.
Lifting that mortgage may cost lots
of backache and long hours, but
think how good it will seem when
you can look out over your broad
acres and realize it is all yours.
The man who said that poultry cul
ture was made up of chain of lit.
tie things, one link out of place max.
ing a bad kink in the whole chain,
struck the nail pretty nearly on the
head.
Handsome is as handsome does,
whether the poultry are handsome
pure bred. prize winning stock or not.
IFS the eggs laid during the season cl
high prices that determine the real
value of the hens.
Mr.. Yerkes, the commissioner Of N.
ternal revenue, gives 1t as his o;nn.
ion. after Investigations in Europe
and this country, that denatured alco
hol can be made at cost not to ex
ceed So cents a gallon.
The best adviser on farm practice is
not the distant expert, as a rule, but
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