The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1907-07-06
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FARM
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The best farm hand is the farmer
himself.
It's easy to be shiftlcss, but It
doesn't pa~.
Raise poultry whether you like II or
not and learn to like It,
Fresh, clean water Is essential to
hogs as 1t is to other stock.
See that the collars fit the horses,
and keep them soft by proper care.
The best time to dock lambs 10
when thoy are about two weeks old.
Keep ahead of the weeds or 1t will
be tail end race with them all sea-
SON.
Feed grain to the ewes in pasture
II extra growth on the lambs IL de-
sired.
Regularity in the care of farm an
finals has much to do with obtaining
the best results.
Never let the horse stand when
heated without blanketing no matter
how warm the weather.
It takes more skill to market crop
proftably than 1t does to grow 1t, at
least often times It does.
Broadcast rape in the corn after the
last cultivation and 1t will afford good
pasturage in the fall after the corn Is
out.
You may not be able to afford a
new sanitary stable but you can af-
ford white wash which will make
the present stable more sanitary.
The sore places on your horse
should be kept clean by washing every
day with carbolated water and then
dressed with q little good tar ONT
ment.
Be sure that the new trees you set
this spring have no label wires left
about the trunks, as they will cut
OF the circulation of the tree and per.
haps kill 1t.
Turpentine soaked rags fastened to
the horse manger will do much toward
curing the animal Of cough or dis
temper, as he will have to inhale the
fumes Of the turpentine while he
feeds.
The lazy hen, 1t has been said,
bears the same relation to the hen
merry that the lazy man does in the
community. The only difference is
that the former does make good pot
pie. while the lazy man is good for
nothing.
Oats cut in the milk and cured as
hay makes the finest kind of hay One
farmer says that last season his hay
crop being short he cut three acres
Of oats for hay and found that the
stock ate It more greedily than any
other hay. and that 1t proved excep.
tionally good for his milch cows.
A successful asparagus grower says
he keeps rust out of his asparagus
and saves cultivation, by sowing two
bushels OF cow-peas to the acre at
the first cultivation after the cutting
season Is over. The peas keep down
the weeds and shade the ground, but
do not interfere with the growth OF
the asparagus. The pea and aspara
gus stalks are left on the ground un
I'll the following spring and ther
burned of.
There is no doubt that there ar,
many portions Of the country which a
the present time are practically unde
veloped agriculturally which have
great future before them, but do no
let the alluring advertisements O
such localities turn your head. Re
member that the man who has writ
ten them has something he wants t
sell, and that he may be just stretch
ing It little. Go slow in considerin
q change of location. Don't sell tn
old farm and rush of to the new loo,
ton. Investigate first. Inspect tn
land personally, and then don't max
the move until after the sober secon
thought.
Nearly all sheep have worms In tn
liver, but they do no harm unles
they are in such numbers as to caus
sickness and death. The treatmer
for sheep thus afiicted Is tomb
made up as follows: Linseed mes
or coarse wheat -four, 40 pounds
powdered anise or gentian, and su
phate or oxide of iron, four pound
each; half pint daily to each sheer
In all treatment 1t is necessary to n
move the affected animals to a pei
fectly dry pasture or salt marsh. o.
either of which the parasites will pei
ish. To turn them on q fresh pastur
that IL not dry, is to stock 1t with tn
pest