The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1908-04-10


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1hs animals comfort means he
swnsr's profit
No ons who has to labor wm . uving
ahoud slight small Industries.
TIE older and heavier IN animal b
the larger must b the ration Of sup
part
Good crops. stock. fertility and In
eustry = the essential fscsors In good
farming.
An unpalatabls food viii not b eaten
beyond the point Of maintaining mere
existsnce.
The palatabieness OF food II very
nearly . measure Of the mount that
win Be- consumed. while consumption
measures production.
There II IN urgent need OF more light
In . majority Of dairy stables. Many
dairymen also need moro Light on the
subject Of dairying In order TO suc
coed.
Ov~erfeeiing. overcrowding and lack
Of ventilation cause much loss among
amateur poultry keepers. A large per
cent of tie chicks die and those that
survive are runty and understood
Upto-dats sreamerics ara testing
every can Of cream on the day II II
delivered and giving the patron the re-
suits the next time cream Is deliver
ID; this II certainly q long step toward
building up tho home creamery.
While ron are pruning select god,
smooth shoots, Gut about % foot long
with twe or three huds- bud at the
top and bottom. Plant them at once
In a slanting position with the top bud
just out Of the ground lamp ths soil
ARMY and mulch with coarse manure.
Any farmer engaged In raising live
stock cannot afford to feed hts grain
to anything but the best. BY carefully
culling out the tail enders and steadily
striving to improve BY Q Judicous -
lection of breeding stock. q herd can
b built up that win give satisfaction
and profit
It 10 IN Interesting fact that. while
the exports Of bacon from the Unitot
States 20 ne United Kingdom have
fallen OF from 100000 pounds IN
1870 TO 1o7.0o0y000 pounds IN 1904
with hams the exports were 65.o00.00o
pounds In 1890 to 100000 pounds
In 1904
OF The agricultural products import
"a into the United States during H.
PAST year plant products constituted
tlO0,oO0,0oo. OF this mount the chief
items were: Sugar and molasses. ~
100000; coRss, s.S.0Oo.0oo; vegetable
dbsra &e20oo.O00: fruits and toosccA.
sacA @24.ooo.0oo; vegetable ors. o1Ar
100000
A fringe Of weeds o. brush along
the readable may be aaid to servs Z
double purpose. In the winter Il will
bod snow enough to blockade the road
and later On water from the melting
mow WIN make the roads nearly I'm
passable on account Of mud VIII some
enc please suggest q remedy for the
A~abitually t1red man who allows weeds
Or brush to adorn his roadsidsi
On every farm where grain l. raised
and where intensive methods have BE-
ccme imperative the Sod drill should
- used for al the small grainA Not
only b les ssed required where The
drill h ussd. bat BY sowing The SEED
ct N even depth and In moist coll Q
better and more uniform stand Of
grain II secured. Experiments con-
6ucted BY -the Illinois experiment sta
ton showed that an increase In yield
Of I'VE to seven bushels Per acre
was secured on plots Of ground where
the drill was used.
scat kiAa.
The owner Of a large goat nach.
gho has observed these little animals
closely. says: THE kidding time II oass
OF the most trying periods Of the year
with the herdEnen. In places owners
rf goat ranches have a corral In which
the kids are kept. inside OF a wire In
closure. fer about two weeks after their
birth. At certain intervals the mother
will come hack and jump over this wire
fence AMI remain with the Kid long
enough for II 10 feed. when she VIII
Jump out and join the eock. In other
ranches the XIII IL tied TO a stake. and
the mother will return TO IL. the same
AZ when IL is Ia a corral II left to