The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-05-09

dreen onions and green peppers put
ginger into the laying hens.
| Be sure there are no lice on the pigs
when you turn them out to pasture.
| A good road between you and tho
town makes your land more valuable.
Protect your bird friends. They arc
needed on the farm. Make them well
come.
Wood ashes are not good as fertil-
izer for potatoes, as they tend to dc
velop scab.
Keep the best calves and raise
them. How else are you to keep i'm
proving your herd:
Dirty quarters and moldy food will
not keep your hens healthy or pro-
duce good-favored eggs.
A successful poultry business is not
built up in a day of work or q night
Of dreaming. Go slow.
A good rule In buying clover and al.
falfa seed is to first get sample and
test 1t under the microscope.
Infertile eggs keep best. Eggs for
the market should be from focks from
which the ROSTERS have been re-
moved.
The surplus eggs should be mar
keted at least once a week, 80 that
they will come under the classification
of strictly fresh.
Be sure the collar fits. Many . horse
Is suffering from too small q collar.
Horses cannot do good work II
equipped with ill-fitting harness.
Spring fever Is the forerunner of
hen fever, and hen fever Is not dan
gerous unless 1t leads you to try to
hatch more chickens than you can
handle.
The demand for sheep increases.
The spring is good time to start a
flock. Begin with few, get good
ram. and another season you will bo
doing business.
| Good stock will put more profit into
your pocket than poor stock. Keep
this constantly in mind and make a
determined effort towards improving
the quality of your stock.
| II you want to have any control over
your breeding operations In your
flock, toe-mark your chickens as they
are Matched. so that you may know
just what breeding pen they came
from.
Skim milk fed to pigs on grass
gives big return. The pigs must
be thrifty, growing stock. and be sold
at the weight of 1875 pounds or little
more. and at early prices before the
market Is glutted
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outlast that Of most of his neighbors
does 1t by annually giving the harness
good overhauling. yedressing 1t and
repairing the weak places which have
developed. A stitch In time saves
nine, and the harness, too.
A good harness hook can be made OF
piece of one-half-inch iron rod Is
inches long. At point one inch from
end make right angle bend. Bore
hole In post to receive short end,
staple shank and bend other end OF
rod into semi-circle having diameter
| of four to six inches.
After the pigs come keep them go
ing along from the start until ready
to ship. as any day they do not make
q gain there Is money lost. When
large enough send them to market and
save all the best sows for breeding
and you will get stronger and larger
pigs than breeding from immature
young sows.
Deep blowing on old fields Is good
practice. This deep blowing should
be done In the fall so that the soil
brought up may have the action Of the
frost to put 1t in shape for the next
crop. Land does not need to be
plowed deep every year, but every
three or four years an attempt should
be made to pillow deeper and bring up
some fresh soil. Plan to treat some OF
your land this way next fall.
The agricultural department Of Pur-
due university (Indiana) is to have a
fine new building for its growing
needs. It will be 200 feet long, 10
feet wide and two stories high. This
marks another milestone in the
progress OF agricultural education.
The various states and the national
government are doing great things for
the farmer. The surprising thing il
that the farmer Ia 30 slow 10 avail
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