The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1907-02-09
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The onecrop system means ulti
mate failure wherever pracuced.
Keep the young stock growing II
you would increase your profits.
| II 1t Is a question of the sheep or
the dog. let the sheep stay and the
dog 60.
A company Of Russian Christians
is to locate on farm in Anne Arun-
del county. Maryland.
Yes, admitted Farmer Wise, tho
dual purpose COW is all right, except
Tor the man who wants to produce
milk beef at profit.
Collect the scions from fruit trees
now for spring grating. They may
be kept in moist sand or stuck into
potatoes and put In the cellar.
A successful onion grower uses
about 1000 pounds Of fertilizer per
acre. It is made up as follows: Four
parts Of ammonia, eight parts phos-
phoric acid and eight parts potash.
And now the frog is coming In for
protection. The New York State
League for the Protection of Fish and
Game recommends law making II
illegal to kill frogs between December
| 1 and Nav 81.
Experiments have shown that wa
ter glass solution properly made the
first year may be used the second
with good success. 1t should be heat
ed to the boiling point, however, to
stetrilize II before the second use.
The ideal farm, after al, is not
the one that shows the greatest net
returns in dollars and cents, but the
one where father, mother and chill
dren have found the greatest amount
of happiness and growth in charac-
ter.
To destroy the little white worms
which do injury at the roots OF
plants take piece Of perfectly fresh
cup, put in pail of water and allow
to dissolve. Pour off the clean water
and apply enough to the soil to thor
oughly saturate 1t.
1t Is the man behind the manger.
and not the cattle, who Is responsible
for the spread or the prevention Of
tuberculosis. A good airy old-fash-
toned stable Is better than science
which is not reinforced by the full
est supervision of all the conditions
under which the cattle are kept.
While 1t may not be advisable on
the large farm to compost manure.
the same being drawn directly to
the land as fast as made, the small
farmer and the truck gardener can
greatly increase the quantity of avail
able plant food by having well ar
ranged compost heap.
A clay soil which has been pro-
ducing good crops for any number Of
years may be seriously injured by
one injudicious blowing in wet
time as to ruin 1t for the growing of
crops for two or three years. This
Is due to the pudding of the soil
which so modifies its physical texture
as to lock up the plant food which 1t
contains.
A Wisconsin farmers method Of
getting a good stand Of clover is to
sow nurse crop in the spring with
his clover seed on finely pulverized
land worked down solid. He plants
from two to three quarts of Alsike
clover seed to the acre and from four
to five quarts Of red clover seed to
the acre. After the crop is seeded
during the first year he leaves 1t en-
tirely alone, keeping stock of and In
the fall the grain is allowed to come
to maturity.
A campaign OF education is going
on In Missouri and great things in
the poultry line may be expected of
that state in the near future. A poul-
try special of two railway cars is
travelling to all parts of the state,
where free lectures on poultry top.
les are given in connection with the
display. The object Is to stimulate
the production of more and better
poultry and to introduce more eco.
nomic and effective methods OF caring
for It.
The Iowa state board of agriculture
at its last meeting offered over $3.50
in cash for the best ears of corn
There were prizes for single ears and
for collections, and judges awarded
these prizes on a scale Of points such
az would be used In judging live
stock. Some of the ears which were
most favorably considered were
smaller than the best to be found In
m eastern cornfeld, yet It was easily
demonstrated that on the best Of
these ears the corn was 30 packed
that the yielS was astonishing