The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-05-16
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Sow only cleaned seed.
Selected that name for the farm
yet? y,
The radish maggot can be eradicat-
cd with tobacco dust.
Bury the shriveled tree In moist
soil and 1t will soon become plump.
Keep the machinery oiled. Oil is
cheaper than repairs or new machin-
cry.
When the lambs are weaned turn
them on fresh pasture, II It is a pos
sible thing.
The farm dairy can by proper man
agement be made the largest profit
Garner on the farm.
Put a curb on your appetite. Farm
ers are more subject to digestive
troubles than any other class Of peo-
pie.
Outdoor exposure of farm machin-
cry Is one large item Of loss to many
farmers. 1t pays to take care Of
farm tools.
The farmer who Is making q fall
ure of his business Is generally the
last ono to discover 1t, when he should
be the first.
Formalin is cheap and effective
remedy for grain smut and potato
scab and is working a revolution in
these branches Of farming.
Much of the heritage Of the earth
that is inedible to man, is made edible
animals which man uses for food.
Soil exhaustion Is as great men,
ace to this country as forest exhaus-
ton. What are you doing to prevent
either or both calamities from fall
ing?
To break colts of kicking or biting,
begin before they have acquired the
habit. In other words treat them
right in the days. of their youth and
they will behave right.
When you sit down to your table
groaning under the good things which
your farm has produced remember
It's good thing to eat what the body
needs, but hurtful to eat Just because
It tastes good.
Dust is bad for hogs. The season is
now approaching when the hog yards
are apt to be dusty. Provide green
sward for them when possible. Change
their quarters occasionally so that the
ground does not get all powdered up
Do not let the weeds, briars and
brush grow along the fences and wa
ter courses, II you have such on your
farm. Year after year they extend
their borders and render much oil
your land unproductive. Utilize al
your space and keep the fence corners
cleaned out.
Planting inferior seed is the rankes
kind of folly. Some farmers do Il
under a mistaken idea of economy
some do 1t because they are too care
Ioao - 40 opytNrco ~t~h< ocl co,..
farmers do 1t because they are fool
lsh enough to believe that they cal
raise good crops from inferior seed
A splendid fertilizer for younl
peach trees II said to be three-quaI
ters Of pound of nitrate OF soda, on
pound Of Stag phosphate. and ~
, pounds sulphate Of potash Thi
amount applied last May to youn
trees by George T. Powell of Ne,
York made the trees grow four time
|, as much as similar trees In adjoinin
rows not fertilized.
. Why keep hundred average COW
when so picked ones will return a
, much profit as the hundred? Il. +
: Winship, a successful Minnesota dairy
man, by testing and keeping an exac
!. record Of every COW in his herd, no,
4 keeps only 80, one-half as many a
' formerly, and makes more money
! takes less risk, has less invested, use
a less stable room and hires less labor.
A successful raiser of blackberrie
4 explains how he gets a crop whe
1 others fail in dry season. He begin
before the bushes are set out, having tn
!. ground deeply plowed and then heavil
. fertilized. After the bushes are full
4 grown and dry season comes, b
!. keeps the cultivator going till he
! sure that no moisture IL getting ava
from the ground except through Oh
. leaves OF the plant. The fact of IN
heavy fertillzing makes the bushe
!, send down their roots to the layers {
/, moist soil. and as this moisture is nc
permitted to escape through the pore
Of the soil 1t must escape through Ii
pores Of the leaves.