The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1909-04-09

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Gtve the breeding mare exercise
every dag.
Alfalfa or clover hay II good for the
brood sow. Give her all she Will eat
up clean.
liens do not like 10 scratch In wet
litter. See that everything Is dry
MS a zone ard snug rs you can
make II.
Fairly good work may be done With
poor tolls. but how much easier ana
better work could be done With good
| tools. The best are none too good for
the farm.
Many n horse has been permanently
injured by slipping on the frozen road
because smooth shoi. See thai his
shoes are changed to correspond with
the season.
Men will have to do some thinking
on the quack- grass problem this coming
season In some parts q the country.
With strong measures II can be elm
mated from the soil. Quack methods
are useless.
Eoot-rot In cattle should be treated
with water three parts and sulphuric
acid one part, after the affected part
has been thoroughly cleansed. or II
should be smeared with pine tar and
q bandage tied between the claws and
about the pastern to keep out the dust,
Have manure shed where you can
keep the n spreader standing
Have II handy to the barn so that the
manure can be dumped into the spread
er when the barn Ii cleaned each
morning. Then when the wagon Ia full
haul to the field and put on the land
at once
The up-to-date man whether farmer
or merchant is generally we'll paid. a
case comes to notice where a farmer
by extensively advertising his farm
sale. brought out the community far
and near, and realized large net returns
for his progressiveness. He who cal
use talk skillfully In his business has
a great advantage.
Make the farm and the home some
thing besides Just n place for work i
you would tie the boys and b girl
to 1t. The farmer who thinks onl,
OF the work he Is going to get out o.
his children and who thinks more o.
the farm and the stock than he doe:
OF his boys and girls need not be sur
prised that they are anxious to breal
away from the farm VIII II they arr
old enough to choose for themselves.
Every mar ought TO be kind to dum'
animals without having his attention
called to II. A farmer In an adjoinin.
county kicked at a neighbours dog on
morning when the ground was soft ant
his boots loaded with nice, rich clay
He missed the dog and the grea
weight ON his boot resulted In carrying
him over q fence into an old cisterl
that had been left open. The moral o
this tale Is to be kind to all animals
Here's a hard ne: An automobil
frightened a Jack rabbit the rabbit i
getting through n owe wire fenc
scared a flock OF sheep the sheep too
to their heels and caused a team to rul
away the team went crashing into
farmyard gate just at milking time;
beautiful girl had just finished milkin
eight cows the herd stampeded and a
but one pail OF milk was upset an
old Brindle even stepped In that on'
though 1t wasn't overturned. Now VIII
Is to blame for the loss of all tina
milk?
Carefully conducted experiment
show that the manure produced pc
thousand pounds OF live weight Of til
following classes Of farm animals
valued Mt from So5 to $50 per head Pc
year. The valuations given are as 10
lows: For cows. 500: horses. $27
sheep. $26 calves. 81 pigs, $50. Tn
valuation takes into consideration on
the actual amounts of nitrogen, pho
phorus and potassium contained In II
manure from these animals. valued
accordance with the present prices {
these constituents In the form OF con
mercial or fertilizers. It doe
not take into consideration the valr
Of the manure as n human builder dt
to Its large organic matter conten
From this II should be plain TO any OF
that the economical handling OF far
manure II one Of the very importal
factors In maintaining the fertility
our soils.
ImgeniOus Eg9 Tester.
An fuUnnfous insfrumOnt has been II