The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-12-26


medium-sized hogs.
Better to sell some Of the cows than
to stint them on feed.
Set standard for the farm work
and then strive to maintain It.
X Not a question as to keeping live.
stock but rather what kind of live
stock.
Salt should be kept where the
horses and other stock can help them
selves.
Never allow any dust-raising opera
tiions in the barn Just before milk
ing time.
Corn-fed cattle are likely to be
scarce the coming season. owing to
the high price Of corn.
The pig pen has given place to the
pig pasture on farms where pig-rais-
Ing is conducted for profit.
To get the best out Of any soil
leguminous crop should be grown at
least once in four or Ave years.
Keeping UP the milk flow IL the
problem which now faces the farmer.
You can't do It except you feed for It.
The curtain front to the poultry
house provides fresh air without per-
hitting draft upon the chickens.
Try 1t.
Keep close eye on your flock Of
chickens and mark the ones that are
the best layers for breeding purposes
next spring.
Lots of dirt Is firted into the milk
pail from the tail Be sure and do not
neglect to brush and clean 1t with the
rest of the animal.
Care must be taken in breaking tho
colt. that proper bit Is used. Many .
horses mouth has been ruined by the
use of the wrong bit.
Think of the folly of trying to build
up a good dairy herd with a scrub
bull. And yet that is what many a
farmer is trying to do.
Thing not only draws on the sur
plus water from the land but 1t helps
to aerate and wc~m the soil. Crops
need air and warmth.
Winter the calves well. You will
see the wisdom Of 1t next spring when
you turn them out to pasture and see
the rapid gains they make.
It were almost better to turn the
stock out into the open air as to
make them stand in the draughty
stable. Close up the chinks.
Fortunate indeed Is the farmer
whose cows freshen in the fall and
winter. Try and manage 80 that this
will be the rule in your herd.
Don't let your horses drop suddenly
from hard work into days of idleness.
The radical change will work to his
hurt. Bring into the slack season OF
winter gradually and let down On the
full grain ration gradually also.
Cows that are trained to milk from
either side Is a Kansas idea. A farmer
from that state reports that his cows
are broken thus and that when one Of
his young folks gets through milking
and there are no more whole" cows
to be MIXED, they take 1t two to q
COW, one on each side. Kansas al
ways was a strenuous state.
Farmers above all others are inter
ested in the work Of the conservation
commission, and scarcely single
farmers organization meets but that
1t adopts resolutions indorsing the
commission and urging cooperation in
the work. It's good thing. What are
you doing to carry out the idea OF con-
servation upon your own farm?
It Ia a mistake to think that any old
place Is good enough for the hog. His
layer of fat may make It possible to
stand deal Of cold but 1t will not
help him to make good return for the
feed you are putting into him. Re-
member that the animal that II to
give q good account Of itself must be
provided not only with good food and
plenty Of It but with comfortable
quarters.
Cats in the orchard in the summer
time will tend to lessen the mice
there In the winter time. One farmer
who has a large orchard keeps .
dozen or two of cats feeding them new
milk each morning In the center Of
the orchard. This keeps their activi-
ties cehtered in the orchard and the
farmer declares there are few mice.
squirrels, rabbits or rats on his farm.
We are little afraid that the cats
would interfere with the birds though.