The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-11-12

Keep the soil covered with some liv-
ing crop Get in rye if nothing else
can be used
Keep the cows clean; keep the barn
clean; keep your yard clean; keep
everything clean.
There is no possession more desir-
able for woman with children than
that of a good home.
Milk clean at each milking. A little
care taken right at the start may save
serious trouble later
Sterilizing means heating to PIP de-
grees Fahrenheit. 1t may be done by
boiling water or by steam
Rain and snow bring some five
pounds of nitrogen each year to an
acre of soil. 1t is washed out of the
air.
Gardening and horticulture are work
which may be easily done by women
and children, and there is no Occupa
tiOn SO beneficial to health.
Iowa ships approximately 100000,
600 of butter outside of its borders ev-
cry year, the surplus product over and
above the home consumption.
Ground oats and peas make fine
feed for any stock. 1t pays better
though, to cut the oats and peas early
and make them into green feed or
hay.
Long ago. in Holy Writ. were set
forth the advantages of dwelling under
ones own vine and fig tree-fOr which
last a fine winter apple makes an eX-
cellent substitute.
Some warm hog houses, buiit before
cold weather comes on, will mean a
saving OF feed and hog fiesh-anOther
way OF saving. less expense and more
money in your purse.
II may be safely asserted that no
one with ordinary physical strength,
who has house, a few acres of good
land, and a few hens, need ever suf-
fer want, far less starvation
In a mans workshop his tools or
books are within easy reach in order
that he may accomplish the greatest
amount of labor within the shortest
time and with the least exertiOn either
of mind or body.
Crowd the fatteningg pigs along,
now. If you hold them till cold wealth
er. it will then take so much more
feed to keep them going, that it's a
question whether or not they will pay
for what they eat
Don't let cold weather catch you
mapping The first freeze is the one
that always plays the sneaking, dam
aging tricks on fellow. So wake up
arid take notice OF what ought to be
90 that in good season.
The man on farm will work in
the cold and complain but very little
while the man in town will sit around
the warm fire and make all kinds of
complaint of the intense heat. The
reason for this is that one has time to
complain and the other has not.
Ii is astonishing to any who have
not learned by actual experience, how
much easier it is to live in comfort
how much farther the same amount Of
money will go-in the country than in
the city where everything. even pure
water. must be paid for in cash.
Now's the time to break the chick
ems from roosting out among the
sheds and trees You are liable to
neglect this till freezing weather
strikes them unawares: then, with
frozen combs and frost-bitten feet, the
fowls will lay very little, If any. till
HtAl Spi MS.
A farmer in Vermilion county, Hi
nOis, last year discovered freak ear
of corn which was composed of a core
of husk, the grains being neatly
wrapned on the soft foundation like
-. peas in a pod He planted the corn,
and the ears raised from 1t were al
most an exact reproduction of the
cobless ear The experiments will be
continued
If man wants hard job, let him
go out in search of real good farm
team. He will find many for sale, but
not one in hundreA will prove 20 be
right in all respects. There seems to
be an unceasing demand for this class
of work teams in all sections of the
country, and the man who will coli
tinue to raise high-grade work horses
will always find a paying market fQy