The L'Anse sentinel., 1907-11-23


vent their roofing up the meadows
and pastures.
It is often the horse which cannot
trust its owner who is the animal
who cannot be trusted.
With the prevailing high prices for
foodstufYs, let the farmer ask himself
whether he is getting his share.
Be sure and see that all the vege-
tables are properly housed 30 that the
freezing weather will not spoil them
Good management and hard work,
with = generous seasoning Of patience,
will win out on the farm that Is worth
working.
A well-equipped work shop on the
farm will prove the most serviceable
and satisfactory of any other one de-
partment of the farm.
The horse winch has not been brok-
en- during tsc first year is never as
trustworthy ls the animal whose
training is begun earlier.
Apple or plum trees are Oetter for
the poultry yard than the peach tree,
for the latter is apt to make too much
growth and too little fruitage to pay.
Are you running a lantern brigade
on your farm. Chores after dark ia
a poor system. The good farmer gets
most of the work out of the Wny be
fore dark.
Clean out the COW staJle long
enough before the actual milking op'
erations begin to give the dust q
chance to settle and the atmosphere
to become sweet.
A little pine tar placed well down
the throat OF the pigs afflicted with the
spasmodic cough or a teaspoonful OF
tincture Of assafetida given in a, little
milk will give relief.
The horse whose shoulders have too
great a slope 80 that the collars presn
against the points Of the shoulder arc
not built for heavy draft work. This
explains many sore shoulder.
"The young man in love seems to
know a lot about fruit growing. He
is constantly referring to his girl as a
peach, thinks her the apple OF his
eye and yearns to pair with her."
Says a sheep owner: 1T did not
cost me any more to feed my sheep
which produced over IA pounds OF
wool than 1t did to feed those which
clipped only seven pounds, and that
is above the average.
Butter fat is too valuable to be fed
to pigs and calves. The separator Is
the only method by which all the fat
can be removed. This leaves the skim
milk which can be balanced up with
corn meal and fax seed meal.
Some Of the farmers down in Arkan-
sas who neglected the crops on the
farm to go diamond hunting are sad.
der and we hope wiser. Better stick
to sure thing, II 1t does mean hard
work, than to go nosing around for an
uncertainty.
Raising healthy calves by hand de-
mands absolute cleanliness. The meth
cd of good many farmers to let the
calves give the feed pals all the
cleansing that they receive Is danger
GUS. The pail should be washed and
scalded at least once a day. A calf
cannot lick a pail clean enough to be
germ proof
Look after the teeth OF the horse
that bolts It's grain. 1t may be that
there are sharp points which render
proper mastication difficult or impos.
sible. Discourage boiling, also, by feed.
ing the grain in box with very
wide bottom, 80 that 1t will be thinly
distributed and prevent the animal
from grabbing full mouthful.
Selling eggs by weight Is posi-
bility of the far distant future. A
large egg brings no more than the
small one when sold by count, which
the producer Of large eggs does not
think Is right, but all hands would be
suspicious Of selling eggs by weight
BY count 1t is easy to know the exact
quantity sold, but by weight there
would be chance for the old cry of.
he cheated me on the weight Of those
eggs"
Prof. Henry's advice concerning the
weaving Of lambs Is sound and should
be followed. First of all he says that
the lambs should be so far separated
from their dams that neither can
hear the bleating OF the other. For q
few days the ewes should be held on
short pasture or kept in the yard upon
dry feed. Their udders should be ex-
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