Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-01-02

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Raspberries and strawberries are gen.
orally best transplanted In the spring,
before the growth starts, or shortly aft
erwards.
fla dog has to be tolerated he should
be properly trained. 1t is as necessary
to train the family dog as 1t is to train
the children.
If boys are required to handle guns,
1t is well that they be taught how. 1t
is surprising how many men get killed
in the careless handling Of guns.
Pigs may try to become little too
familiar, but that Is good failing. 1t
is better to have them too tame than
so wild they cannot be handled.
Every farm should have small
flock of sheep on it to keep down the
weeds and turn them into dollars.
Sheep will eat 4s0 different kinds of
weeds.
1t requires as much feed and care
to keep scrubs as first-class animals,
and as the improved animal will ma
ture earlier and bring better prices,
the scrub cannot necessarily compete
when profit is the object.
A business must stand or fall on
the merits of its chief product; the
by-products may pay more or less, but
the business is not conducted for the
sake of the by-products. Dairying is
no exception to this rule.
High-priced labor cannot be made to
count on low-prlced land. On low
priced land the owner must perform
his own labor. At all times 1t will be
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ton down MS low as possible.
One of the greatest troubles in feed
ing poor grain is not SO much in the
loss, as compared with good grain, but
in the fact that overheated or musty
grain causes many of the diseases
which ordinarily affects fowls.
E. L. Stewart, owner of an orchard
near Prosser, south of Spokane, sold on
an average of $40 worth of apples
from each acre of his fifty-acre tract.
In one instance he secured between
1000 and 5000 boxes of apples off six
acres.
Occasionally horse will form a
habit of chewing the ends of the halter
strap and such other parts of the har-
ness as he has access to. Equal parts
of cayenne pepper and fish oil applied
to such straps will cure the worst
strap chewer. "a sss ~
+ Pigs will begin to eat with the sows
when two or three weeks old. II get
ting nlenty of exercise. if will not huYt
them to crack little corn. But rhe
ideal feed is skim milk and shorts in
the form Of a thin sion. It will make
them grow and not get overfat.
Lambs should be weaned at about
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s'as, anu 70 o,ie u ..ie i.iipielheA.s .la'
,iurries up lie ,e .lll'- Wheh Tue
nay Is eeltins ripe. a heiu OF corr
..iat can pe cultivated N one gay mas
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9uiles tMo 70 20 over II. 70 tue corn
grower tnis Is evldent.
Racen+ renorts foil ~ .bo ara.,
snread Of tho San 1osa sco,a Tb,s
fuilAous pest VIII sweep away the trees
wherever community mum neeiects u ana
periillts II 10 spread. ~ is possible to
cleck y, anu WINE tue checking may
ue cosby ~ is lar iess cosby than is
. .in obstruction OF the lruit ana othel
Trees.
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from eggs laid earliest In the season arc
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Horse breeding Is being greatly en-
Outraged by the government In Japan
and $5I5,00O has lately been made
available by the Mikado's government
ior the establishment OF public studs
and 1t is proposed TO begin at once the
purchase of 1900 stations to he placed
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