The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1907-11-07

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Careless picking and packing loses
many a dollar to the fruit growe:.
In mating a team not only color
and size, but strength, endurance and
gait must be considered.
Accustom the heifer calves early to
being handled. It will make their
handling when calving much easier.
Even the common COW will often as
tonish one by the results she will
give with proper care and generous
feed.
Is the well close enough to the
barn to catch the surface water when
it rains hard? This is important. II
it is stop using that well.
Make things snug for winter. Get
everything under cover. Store the root
crops properly. Do everything you
can to cut off winter losses.
Again this winter you will probably
wish that you had built a silo. Make
definite plans for building one next
year, and then don't forget the corn to
fill it.
Three things are needed to handle
q horse in the breaking. A good whip,
but use it little. A real rope, use it
kindly. A surcingle and trip rope,
best Of all.
Be sure in distributing the manur
that the thin bare places are well COW
cred. Sometimes the fields that need
it least get it because they are handy
to the barn. This is a mistake.
When unhusked corn is fed to the
COWS care must be taken to supply
only the requisite amount of grain,
which can be determined by selecting
an average shock, husking out the
ears and ascertaining how much she'll
ed corn it carries.
The only personalities which
should be used in milk are cleanliness
and cold. Milk through a sterilized
cheese cloth cover on the pail, remove
the milk at once from the barn and
cool to 60 degrees or below, and the
milk will not sour sooner than it
should.
The horse stepped on my foot the
other day. My, how it hurt and how
the hot blood rushed to the head and
made me want to use the whip on the
animal. But it was not his fault. 1t
was my carlessness. l am glad ]
didn't lose my temper, for to punish a
horse for something for which he is
not to blame is to do the animal a real
and lasting injury.
A farmer who has had much expert
ence with quack grass and the meth
DDS of eradicating it say he finds that
the only way is to dig it up root and
branch, and he accomplishes it in this
way: He goes over the field with a
spring tooth harrow, followed by the
ordinary harrow several times. AS
fast as the roots accumulate under the
harrow they are gathered and carried
TO the road or put into a heap with
dry straw and set on fire.
Green tomatoes left on the vines
after the first heavy frosts can be
ripened by pulling up the whole plants
and placing them on a freshly spade6
corner which is sheltered. Spread
them on the ground and with
straw, leaves or burlap and thus the
fruits will ripen beautifully. Another
way is to turn a dry goods box into
a ripening-house. Put in sliding
shelves that can easily be showed IL
and out so as to examine the toma
toes and have a close-itting door
Keep a warm, moist atmosphere IL
without the sun.
) The quality of the butter depends
much on the nicely with which the
various processes are carried out. Al
soon as granules are well-formet
: water with a handful of salt should b.
= added and the churn agitated slightly
This thins out the buttermilk, makei
it more fluid. The salt adds gravit.
to the caseine and settles it. If thi
" butter is left in the wash" for a few
minutes undisturbed, the butter will
8 all rise to the surface in a distinc
mass, and then the buttermilk can b.
drained out from beneath it. Do no
draw out all Of the fluid. Stop whe,
you think it is nearly all out and re
peat the process two or three times
or at least until the water runs clear
but the last time let the butter drai.
9 all it will. Then let the butter stan
d in salt brine 20 or 80 minutes and it I
ready to mold for market.
s. Soil nitrogen is lost in three ways
by crops, by gas given off in free for1