The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-23
A lazy man is sure to have lous,

A lszy man is sure to have lousy
fowls.
Shallow rather than deep cultiva-
ton for the corn.
Musk melons picked green will be
lacking in flavor.
Crimson clover is the ideal orchard
cover and green manure.
Select large sheep for breeding
ewes, for size tells in the offspring.
Skim milk and clover pasturage
will make profitable pork out of your
pigs.
Corn should be cut out Of the ra-
lions for the chickens during the hot
weather.
Turn the horse that is not given
regular work loose in the paddock for
part of each day.
If you have never tried a field of
alfalfa, get the ground in shape and
plan to make the start next year.
Make the trees of the orchard send
their roots deep into the soil by hav
ing the soil well-drained, and by deep
blowing.
Select land which is well drained
for the orchard, for it is drier in wet
spells and moister in dry spells than
other lands.
Nitrogen promotes growth and for
this reason should be used with eau
ton in the orchard where fruit rather
than wood is desired.
How are the roads in your section?
Set a good example and put them in
good condition alongside your place.
1t will encourage others to like SER
vice.
Don't try to make the weather, just
keep busy trying to fit your work into
the weather an all wise providence
provides and all will come out right in
the end.
In the warm weather it is good
plan to churn every day. This avoids
the necessity of mixing the different
days cream and insures better fla
vored butter
Look out for the farmer whose
chickens scatter and run every time
he passes through the barnyard. He's
ill-tempered and is pretty good man
to leave alone.
Sod-bound orchards cannot be ex-
pected to be productive. Break up
the ground and give covering of ma
lure. You will be surprised at the new
vigor which your trees will display
another season.
Sod is sometimes allowable in ap-
pie and standard pear orchards, but
never in other fruit plantations; but
even then it should be pastured close
ly with sheep or hogs. If the stock
is fed at the same time, the land will
fare better.
Join the boosters club and give
your neighbor good boost every
chance you get You will be sur
prised how many boosts you will get
in return for the favors you bestow
upon others. That is a poor motive
for extending the helping hand, but
nevertheless such service always
brings it's rewards.
Prof Spillman, United States agri-
cultural department expert, declares
that the paying dairy consists of cows
that eat heartily and do not make
meat, but do make milk of their feed.
This means that they must be dairy
and not beef cows. A good dairy cow,
though she be killed and buried when
she gets too old to give milk, will give
a profit that will buy each year three
good beef cows.
Hog feeding experiments by the Mis-
souri, station produced the following
results:
Corn and bluegrass. q per 100
Corn and rape. 3.34 per 100
Corn and red clover. 2.9S per 100
Corn and alfalfa. 2.59 per 100
Corn and skim milk. ............ II per 100
Corn and middlings.. ........... 3.99 per 100
Grade Poland China pigs of so pounds
each were used in the experiment
and the prices quoted were the cur
rent market prices at time of the ex-
pertinent.
Late cultivation in the orchard is
apt to be injurious for the reason that
it induces late growth. At all events
it can be of small utility when the
tree begins to mature and rains be-
come frequent This season of res
pite gives the grower the opportunity
of raising a green manure, and of add
ing fertility to his land at tri1ing ex-
pense and with no harm to his trees.