Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-03-13

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An old horse can stand neglect bet
ter than the colt.
The horse needs daily exercise and
likes Il variety Of food.
Watch the feet Of the colts. See
hat the hoofs are kept even.
AS a rule the offspring Of immature
and pampered animals are predisposet
! to disease.
Hawks have been known to follow q
train to pray on the small birds star
tied by the sudden noise.
A building free from draughts and
having a dry floor is absolutely essen
tial to the health Of poultry In the
winter time.
One successful Eogman has gotten
away from the idea that hogs like filth
| and must have it to prosper. He
sweeps out his pens every day.
When a horse gets to gnawing at q
manger the best thing to do is to cover
everything gnawable with tin. Better
ever.
Breeding is not an exact science,
however 1t is painstaking study and
observation rather than guess work
| which produces improved strains of an
imals.
Did you yer try to hang soap on
! a wire chain over the wash bowl, IN
stead of keeping it in a dish? If you
haven't, just try it. 1t saves soft
soap, bad words and, best Of all, dirty
hands.
If you had fixed that hole in the
foo of the pen, you would have saved
the broken leg of that hog. AS 1t is,
your porker Is done for. But be like
the boy that is getting a good whipping,
say, 81 won't do it again." and mea It,
too.
Some Of the currycombs n brushes
used or the farms of this country are
n sight to behold. Better throw them
over the fence and get new ones The
cost Is slight, and you will do a great
deal better job. Think how much bet
ter the horses will feel about 1t, too.
The proper dimensions and arrange
ment for a farm Kitchen is q subject
which will probably never be exactly
settled from the woman's standpoint.
A few things, however, must always be
borne in mind by the lady Of the
house, and the privilege Of having a
place to deposit boots behind the stove,
to dry wet gloves over the dishcloth
rod, or make a fcot-warmer of the
kitchen oven cannot be denied the folks
who weather the blasts.
Every head of clover consists Of
about sixty flower tubes, each of which
contains an infinitesimal quantity OF
sugar. Bees will often visit a hundred
different heads of clover before retir-
Ing to the hive, and in order to obtain
the sugar necessary for a load must,
therefore, thrust their tongues into
about 5000 different flowers. A bee
will make twenty trips a day when the
clover patch is convenient to th. hive,
and thus draw sugar from 10000 diff
terent flowers in a single days work.
A test was made several years ago
to ascertain the effect Of stabl.ng OF
stock as compared with allowing the
animals access to the open yard with
sheds adjoining. The test was carried
on during November, when the nights
were cold and frosty. The parties
making the experiment state that they
found in this short test that in every
instance where the COWS were COM
PEELED to sleep in the barn in stalls
they did not give as large a yield Of
milk as when allowed the open air.
We were quite surprised about this,
for the nights were very cold, though
dry. The barn was well ventilated and
the animals had plenty Of good, dry
bedding and We're in clean stalls.
Nevertheless, a stall is not as comfort
able for an animal as the ground, pro-
viding it is not muddy or disagreed
BILE.
Before the Trees Bud.
While the trees and shrubs are bare
is the time for working to prevent any
spread of the San Jose scale. If igno-
rant about this pest, call in some ex-
pert %neighbor and hire the spraying APP
paratus, for such is rather an expensive
affair for a small place owner to be
numbered with. The sm4.1 cheap things
are onlv good for a b1Sh or two in n