Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-30
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Cultivate the spirit and feeling Of
partnership between the boys and
yourself and there will not be so much
danger of their becoming dissatisfied
and leaving the farIc.
There Is nothing like plenty of
good, fresh air in living and sleeping
rooms, whether the rooms be for the
occupancy of man or other animals.
This holds good for both winter and
summer.-EXchange.
Scientific research has done great
things for agriculture. a striking
| illustration of his is found in the
/ sugar beet, whose sugar content has
within a remarkably brief period of
| time been increased from 1875 per cent
to 1875 per cent.
The cement flooring with movable
! STAT platforms makes tho IDEAL form
for the hog house. The cement floor
alone Is too cold and damp for the
hogs, but with the Slated flooring on
top which can be taken up TO clean
out the place there is nothing which
is better.
1t is always best to feed the calves
by hand because knows Just what
they are eating and how much. 1t is
really not such a terrible task to feed
a dozen calves, but it is quite a NUS
ance to go through the motion just
Gov o,~ ~ tuyp Darhanc q crpaf nNonV
dairymen who object to raising calves
for their own herds would change
their minds If they should practice it
in a wholesale way.
It is q great mistake to sell whole
milk off tho farm. for where the skim
milk is not kept to feed to the stock
one OF the richest elements for ma
nure making IS lost. Keep the milk
home by means of a separator. Sell
the cream, feed the skim milk to the
calves, hogs and hens.
If corn Is very weedy or II there
comes a heavy rain it pays to cultl-
yate after it Is laid by. I have cult
waited when corn was in tassel and
think it paid me well. | cultivated
part Of a field one year with n horse,
and when husking time came 1t took
two rows less Gao rods long, to make
q load than on the land which had
not received the extra cultivation. l
use a fve-shovel adjustable cultivator
and plow as shallow as | can. l be-
lieve in Lowell cultivation. Most peo-
pie in this country plant corn too
thick. Sixteen to twenty inches IS
my way, then cultivate at least foul
times ovsr.-E. J.. Hotchkiss in Farm
ers' Mall AND Breeze.
Most Of us try to raise more enAe,.-J
ems than we can handle properly. l
have come to the conclusion after ten
years work raising fancy bred fowls.
If one can house only fifty, thai is all
he should raise. Feed Il house them
we'll and the eggs will come. Don't
raise chickens to sell. If you do you
are giving dollars for cents. | have
never been able to get so cents per
pound for fries. and 6 to s cents is all
one can get in the fall. Keep just
enough hens and fries to pick. up the
waste around the placa. And don't
let lle llLllS 11fChenS tdhe SdiS VI
Themselves while you are watching
the incubator. It's not how many you
caz hatch. but how many you can
raise, that counts. Keep a box of so
to 100 pounds of lime in the henhouse
the year round.-G. L. B. In Farmers
Mail and Breeze.
Under our present methods there Is
entirely too much waste and careless
ness in the handling of wool clips. In
the first place much wool is shorn
in a reckless manner The shearers'
entire endeayor Is to fleece the wool
and leave from one to two pounds on
the Sleeps back, thereby unconscious
ly depreciating the value Of the fleece,
IN the sacond place the wool IS col
lected, tied in bundles and placed
in bags regardless Of grade texture or
general character: A little attention
to th1s particular feature of our in
dustry would have a tendency to in
crease the value of the fleeces. If
wool Is badly tangled with burs about
the only way to get the real value Of
the feeces Is to send them to a scour-
ing mill. If marketed while still
filled with burs the loss is from 3 to
4 cents a pound. A securing mill will
take out all of these burs by the car
bombing process, which costs 2 cents
a pound and 1 cent for finishing.
After the process the feeces are put
upon the market as secured wool and
bring good prices.-Denver Field and
Farm. a..
American Phosphate.
The phosphate lands recently with
drawn from entry for settlement by
the national government constitute, it
is said, the greatest known phosphate
in the world. These lands COM
prise nearly the whole of Uinta Coun-