, 1907-09-05
M3S$Iif%a5$s By
M"A FARM
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summer ID tuo lihie " pus Ill the
drains.
Trust in providence, but keep the
cultivator tools bright.
For the dairy cows clover hay is
far preferable to timothy hay.
The man who does not like COWS has
no business trying to run a dairy.
Take time to look up a good sire for
your flock. Improve your breed as
much as possible.
My, how good the vegetables are from
that garden now Pays for all the
trouble 1t cost, now doesn't It?
It's the little foxes that spoil the
vines and it is the little leaks on the
farm that spoil the farmers profits.
Have you been putting in to prac-
tice this year the new ideas and les
sons you gained at the institute last
winter?
Better seed, better soil preparation,
better cultivation will give better corn
crop lex year. Try this triple extract
of good farming.
The National Dairy show and the
National Corn exposition at Chicago
in October. Don't fail to plan to at
tend these two great shows.
The increasing demand for mules
and the better prices are making
them a most profitable animal to
raise. Better get a few and raise
some.
Finer, larger berries will be grown
on your strawberry vines If you keep
the runners cut OF after two or three
plants have formed from a parent
plant.
To be sure, breeding sows do not
cost so much at weaving time, but
who is keen enough to detect the ami
mails with specially good points?
Don't make a practice of it.
Wounds upon sheep which get fly.
blown should be treated with kero.
sene or turpentine, being sure that
every maggot is destroyed, after
which the wound may be coated over
with tar.
Have o ever noticed how quickly
you become accustomed to disordered
conditions when you make no effort
to pick things up? Never look twice
at the thing out of order. Pick 1t up
the first time your eyes light on it.
II there is one who would ask, What
are the advantages Of the silo? let him
think on these things: The silo pro-
vides fresh, s%ucculent feed the year
round; storage of a large amount of
feed in small space, and immediate re-
moval Of crop from land to make way
for other crops.
Though the value of milk, either
whole or SKINNED. is generally recog-
nized for chicken-rearing and chicken
fattening, 1t Is not SO much used as 1t
ought to be. On many farms the
skim milk all goes to the pigs. and the
chickens get none; yet, ID expert
ments have often shown, a brood
given all the skim milk shows more
rapid gains than upon any other feed.
Farming as Life sees It: Farmers
are most prosperous in the temperate
regions, quite as one would expect to
lind them. For in the temperate re-
sions the farming season is only about
three months long. leaving the farmer
nine months during which to engage
pm other pursuits and thus earn money
70 keep his farm going. Very obvious
~ the farmer in the tropics. where
the farming season is six, seven, eight
or even ten months long, is at a seri-
GUS disadvantage. Who can blame
MIN If he becomes discouraged and
sinks at length into apathy? II you
pre- about to take up farming. with a
view to becoming wealthy, by all
'heans secure land in the temperate
regions.
1t Is said that the laurel and the
tuniower have been found to be of
ne greatest use in damp situations.
eople who live in such srots-espe-
Eially near undrained land-think
mere is no help for them but by re-
hoVai' Successful experiments have
ho"n that 1t is possible to materially
improve the atmosphere in such neigh
Porhoods by the planting of laurels
rhd sunfowers. The former gives of
II abundance of ozone. while the lat
Is potent in destroying the malar-
~ conditions. These two, II planted