The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-05-09
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The Industrious hen is the bulwark
Of the farm.
The 300-pound butter COW soon gives
her weight in butter.
It pays to buy the best, especially
IN the case of farm machinery.
The farmers profits are largely
measured by the animals comfort.
Read your farm paper and keep
up with the progress in agriculture.
Castor oil rubbed into the warts on
tho horses will, 1t 10 claimed, cure
them.
The old ewes that lose their lambs
should be fattened and shipped to
market.
Molasses In limited quantities Is
coming into favor as feed for all
classes OF animals.
The early chicks are the layers of
next winter, that is II you push them
right along to maturity.
The early bird catches the worm
and the early sprayer gets the fruit.
Get IN line with the earlies.
The bad fence may not only let the
cattle out, but it may let the neighbor-
hood quarrel In. Mend your fences.
Some farmers are always behind,
80 that left over work Is forever inter-
fering with the demands Of the new
season.
Harrow the potato ground just be-
fore the plants are ready to push
through the ground. 1t will hurry
their growth.
Buy seed because It is good, not
because 1t is cheap. The best at a
good price Is cheaper than the poor
est, even II It is given to you.
Make your own lice powder. Seven
pounds of powdered sulphur. one
pound of camphor and four pounds Of
finely sifted ashes will do the work.
Some farmers are so stingy and I'M
reasonable as to expect the cows to
give milk, and rich at that, when they
are feeding them on the poorest kind
OF ration.
Many a farmer thinks the rush of
spring work is an excuse for letting
tools and machinery lie around where
last used. Keep things picked up and
shelter the machinery.
A wooden reinforcement in the GEN.
ter of concrete fence post is worse
than useless. II does not make bond
with the concrete and thus weakens,
instead Of strengthens the post.
Look to the fences. The frost has
been at work all winter loosening the
posts. See that they are driven in
snug. and that all weak places are
strengthened before you turn the
stock out.
Never bring a new animal onto the
farm and place directly with your own.
Keep In quarantine q week or two to
make sure that he brings no disease
with him. This rule Is especially i'm
portant in the case Of sheep or hogs.
Think your work out well and save
( many minutes when you have actually
begun the task. The trouble with
some farmers is that they never an
ticipate difficulties and avoid mistakes
because they plunge into their work
without any forethought whatever.
Try patch of COW peas for the
poultry. The peas make the finest
poultry feed. and are highly appre-
ciated by the fowls. Soy beans, too,
are good. but they are apt to cause a
d'sagreeable taste. both to the eggs
and TO the flesh OF the chickens fed
on them.
The COW census work OF the Hoard's
Dairyman showed that out of ass
farmers keeping SALT COWS. the aver
age loss per COW per year was $3.50.
That 10, these farmers. taking the
whole lot, got from the creamery $3.50
ieas per COW than the fsed cost ana
that only 80 Of the whole numbsr rssd:
dairy paper. Have you soms. Of the
poor COWS and DO you fail to take dine
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Casein In butter varies With the con-
ditions under which the butter was
made. It usually runs from one to
AZ per cent. When cream b 70 sour
that the casein u precipltated and the
butter h not washed much. the
amount Of casein may run sometiu,ss.
( from ~ 70 three PER cent. 4 Il not
decfratle ~ increase the Per cent. of
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