The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1908-08-07

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What has become of the 'seesiiess"
lppie?
Thirty iowheaded apple trees are
enough for an acre.
A money making combination Is the
cow and the SOW. Give the latter warm
skim milk.
One Of the best medicines In the
world for delicate women or men In
work In the orchard.
Rake any leaf and twig and other
rubbish from the ground beneath the
grape vines and burn them. Don't walt.
Bordeaux mixture Is only good when
on the trees. II doesn't amount TO much
on the shelf OF the drug store or In
mindA
Dairying Ia a ready money business.
and no other branch Of live stock keep
ing can compare with 1t for enriching
the farm.
Five hundred dollars invested In an
orchard will bring better returns than
$500 invested In the stock OF freak
fruit companies.
To- Apo-hop~tac vtar~ rswInp = rpx<FS
Of COW peas and then add from 100
to 100 pounds OF ground bone and
800 pounds OF potash psr acre.
Pastures would last longer and pro-
duce more feed II stock were taken
Off occasionally, and the grass given
an opportunity To get Z fresh start.
The late. wet season has been pretty
hard on young chicks and they will.
therefore, require careful attention all
summer to bring them through In good
condition.
Three common faults In butter max
Ing are over-ripe cream, over -churning
and over-working. The first means
strong butter. the second and third
soft butter.
Dairying implies a prosperous com
munity OF w~ide-awake. ur-todate far
mers. All not belonging to latter class
had better think twice before enter
Ing the field.
A Missouri farmer with fifteen feet
Of beard has recently been photographs
ed. Thirty years ago he made q wager
that II a certain man was not elected
he would never touch q razor 10 his
face and he lost
One New York dairyman sells his
milk for seven cents per quart the
year round, and with good Jersey and
Holstein cows his herd produces on an
average Of $15 worth OF milk per
month. 1t requires SIS pounds out Of
every 100 pounds to pay expenses.
To separate butter from the butter
milk I get a yard Of cheesecioth, wet
1t Is cold water and spread over the
top Of a crock. then pour the but.
termilk and butter Into the cloth from
the churn. Taking 1t up by the n
and working 1t back and forth easily l
am soon able to drain out all of the
buttermilk and have the butter ready
to put into a crock and salt.
PFoAt ON HOgs.
The cost OF feed will largely deter
mine the profit Of hog raising. and the
feed got from pasture IL the cheapest.
Rye will stand much frost at each end
of winter and will greatly lengthen the
pasture season IL sowei early
though to get a good start before cold
weather. bur clover or hairy vetch
might be preferable. since either would
be more heterogeneous and build up the
red meat after the manner OF wheat
bran.-Progressive Farmer.
Animals Their Own Doctors.
when you see pigs wallowing In
the mud, or birds taking a dust bath.
you should marvel" said a nature stu.
dent, for these creatures are then
~doctoring themselves-they are getting
rid Of parasites.
when a dog loses his appetite, he
goes straight OF and eats dog grass
This brings him round at once. Cats.
In like circumstances. go to cat grass
Cows and sheep take certain medicinal
herbs.
Monkeys have been known 10 dress
wounds with leaves. Latreilli cut OF