The Ely miner., 1909-12-31
Low-down wagons are not good.

Salt should be kept in the managers.
1t is purifier and Elild tonic.
Truly speaking, the turkey is the
only true American bird we have.
Get around to a new hen house this
fall If you can. 1t will pay you to do 1t.
No owner of work animals can af-
ford to let their shoulders get sore.
When soft-shelled eggs are laid you
are feeding a ration too rich in pro.
tein.
The hog having a clean place to
wallow is rarely troubled with lice or
mango.
he old-timers of the range are rap.
idly thinning, but we still have quito
few left.
Good. substantial shelter not only
| adds comfort to the sheep, but money
TO the purse.
Hare wood ashes are valuable to
spread around the grape vines and in
the strawberry patch.
In Norway and Iceland fish meat is
| used as . cattle food. Such Q diet
gives the milk fishy taste.
In marketing, eggs should be grad
ed before they are offered for sale.
Put them in boxes according to size
| and color.
BY having a dog proof yard 1t will
save great deal of trouble, for dogs
| are great hindrances to successful
sheep raising.
Because hogs utilize grain products
| so efficiently and economically, the
mistake of feeding grain exclusively
| Is too often made.
The subsistence ration is an expen.
sive one: plenty of wholesome food
| is necessary to farm animals well-be-
ing and good service.
The cattle will maintain better
physical condition than when they are
forced to their utmost capacity on a
ration of heavy, concentrated dairy
| foods.
| Many farmers never attribute the
| failure of their orchards to produce
| good fruit to lack of plant food in the
soil but just let their trees drift along
until they die.
Where there is still plenty Of native
burr oak timber growing the farmers
| do not know what the fence post
| problem is, but the prairie farmer is
not so fortunate.
drag when the soil is moist, but
not sticky" advises D. Ward King,
| whose efforts to introduce the road
drag in the middle west are bearing
such splendid fruit.
The greatest menace to hog raising
has always been disease, but now the
| Missouri experiment station has found
| real cure for cholera there will be
little loss in the business.
The feeding of late corn fodder to
| dairy cows should be continued just
as long as the corn is at all green. 1t
| is a splendid supplementary feed with
| the short autumn pasture grass.
Warping of timber is caused by the
movement of its ibers in adjusting
| themselves to the moisture within
| the wood and in the atmosphere,
| based upon the external conditions.
A New York man who has an or
chard of 1000 trees planted 20 feet
apart each way, plants currant bushes
| five feet apart each way except in
every other space running in the long
est way of the field.
When one has purchased bull Of
the conformation and breeding de-
sired the main idea will be to SO use
| and care for him that he will be
sure breeder and will reproduce in his
offspring the desirable characteristics
possessed by himself.
The difference between aged sows
| and gifts seems to be that sow two
years old or more is fully matured and
easily kept in good flesh, usually far
rowing much larger pigs than gilt.
| She is a much better sucker and
gives so much more milk that the pigs
get better start earlier in life and
thus grow very rapidly, making gains
younger in life.
Good sanitation is more and more
| coming into practice In modern dairy
ing. Build sanitary barn if you can.
and if you cannot, then remodel the
cow stalls and make them as COM
| Portable and sanitary as possible.
Floors that can be kept dry and clean,
and walls and ceilings that do not
catch dirt, or are easily cleaned, and
plenty of light and ventilation are
essentials for good dairy stable sani-
tation. The work may be done little
at time.
There are all sorts OF arguments
brought forward to prove that inbreed-
ing is sane breeding. Some point to
wild fowl; others to the Jersey breed
of cattle at home; others quote their
own experience covering few years.
but the majority of level-headed poul-
trymen agree that ineestuous inbreed-
ing will. If continued, result in lack