The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-01-16

II possible provide water in every
stall. This saves crowding around the
water trough in the yard.
Too much guessing in dairying II
sure to result In too little profits.
Know what you are doing.
Watch the methods Of the man who
raises the most grain per acre. Per.
haps you can learn how does It.
II is unreasonable to expect that the
overworked and rundown mare VIII
produce colt Of great strength or
quality.
Teach the heifers to stand and get
them used to being handled. A little
preliminary attention helps wonderful
ly when the first calf comes.
Warm the drinking water for the
cows. The animal that nils up on Ice
cold water will slow up the milk-ma-
king machinery, and give less milk.
| Properly cared for and then prop
erly fed, cornsta1ks are worth more
| to the farmer than they would be II
sold to make paper by the alleged new
process.
You will find It will be cheaper to
keep the horse in flesh during the win.
ter than to try and bring him into con.
dition next spring after the pull down
caused by neglect during the winter
months.
Paint judiciously used on farm
buildings and farm machinery is
money saver. One farmer who paints
his buildings every three years. and
the farm implements every fall. fig
ures that he saved about 500.
Take an occasional walk through
the orchard and keep an eye out for
cocoons. egg clusters. etc. Pick them
OF and destroy them. You will find
| the insect pests next seaSpn will be
greatly, reduced II you follow this
plan.
Some one who has tried It says pine
tar will drive away the rats. His
method IL to smear the holes all
around, using plenty of It. 30 the TO
dents will get their coats well smeared
as they pass through. The first one
to pass informs the others, 1t is said.
and II all holes are treated likewise
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Look out for the swill barrel. Al
commonly maintained It Is not only .
menace to the health Of the family
but of the hogs .as well. A better
method 10 to keep q couple Of good
sized galvanized pals which can b
easily emptied when full and then
scalded before they are used again.
In this way the danger Of providing .
breeding place for all kinds Of germs
win be done away with.
The old-fashioned farmer still lin
gers, and declares that there II no
money in raising hogs. And this 10
why he thinks so: He keeps ten
COWS, sets the milk in open pans and
feeds the hogs butter fat worth 2B to
80 cents per pound. He's losing the
price of good hand separator every
year, and the discouraging feature II
that he knows It, but is too set in his
old ways to shake OF the moss and
make a change.
Why says II does not pay to spray
orchard trees? Read this report Of 70
suits obtained by the Vermont expert
ment station. and then resolve to try
q little spraying yourself next sea-
son: "All the sprayed trees were cas-
lily recognized by the cleaner and
brighter color Of the bark. The buds
started earlier and more vigorously.
Trees were sprayed four or 1--WE times
with results az follows: Ninety-nine
per cent. perfect scab-free fruit: only
one scabby pear in six barrels where
trees were sprayed i've times, and
but four IN two barrels where the
trees were sprayed four times. Practi-
cally every pear on unsprayed trees
was scabby, 10 per cent worthless for
marketing, and 81 per cent. inferior to
the sprayer fruit. The sprayed pears
were valued ia New York at $2.26, the
best Of the unsprayed fruit at s1.7b .
barrel"
We visited one place last week
whore the litter about the farm build
ings made It look a. though the place
had been struck BY Cyclone. 40
cumulations Of old posts. wire fencing,
old boards, discarded machinery. old
boxes. barrels. etc. and back Of the big
barn, which looked ~ though ready
to tumble down because Of lack Of
l needed repairs, was . great mass ct
wreckage which we learned had orig
inally been feeding shed. Three
| years ago It had blown down apd The
boards and timbers were lying just