The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-03

age for sheep.
Every farm an experiment station.
| is good slogan.
Reports are that this is the great
est crop year in the history of the
country.
Don't let the days work drag into
the evening hours. Have time for
| quitting and then quit.
1t is absolutely necessary during
these hot days to keep every utensil
| used in caring for the milk scrupu.
lousy clean. Scald, scour and set in
| the sun.
One good brood sow is a valuable
asset on the farm. She'll make you
more money than any other animal
on the farm in proportion to the mon
| ey invested.
1t is foolish economy which Dor
ders on the criminal to try and make
| the weak and wornout harness serve
little longer. Many fatal acct
| dent has been caused by failure to
| recognize that fact.
The fair season is on. Plan to take
them in. 1t may seem hard to get
| away sometimes, but it will pay
you. The work will go easier after
you get back and you will find many
new idea sproutIng into careers of
| usefulness.
Electrocute the peach tree borers is
| the way the Long Island experiment
station man says his friend rids his
trees of the pest. This careful observ
er is said to have noted that lightning
which had followed a rift or seam in a
tree had destroyed innumerable Dor
ers, and this tree at once showed
thrifty growth. His plum trees were
badly infested with borers He has a
household Faradic medical battery in
his home, and decided to follow ma
lures example on his plum trees and
watch the effect. After a heavy rain
he cut off a branch to give clean
section full of sap. He applied the
battery, placing one terminal at the
end of the cutoff branch and the 9th
er at the base Of the tree, and turned
on the current. Investigation showed.
tits claimed, that he had killed every
borer with which the tree was in
| tested.
A new stallion law has been passed
by the Illinois legislature which goes
into effect January 1 next. 1t pro-
vides a fine of $25 to 500 for failure
to enroll any stallion offered for pub
lie service, or for failure to comply
with any of the other provisions Of
the law regarding his examination,
transfer and advertising. No stallion
will be registered unless certified by a
veterinarian to be free from periodic
ophthalmia, bone SPAWN, ring bone,
bog SPAWN, curb accompanied by cur
by shaped hook, or any contagious or
infectious disease. The law requires
that stallion must be enrolled and
advertised as either pure bred, cross
bred or grade. The stallion registra-
ton board is required by the law TO
use funds derived from enrolment
for publishing lists of stations and
other information pertaining to horse
breeding. Stallioners who comply
with the law will be given a lien ON
foals, the same as under the old law.
| Prof. William DIETRICH, swine spe-
cialist at the Illinois Experiment sta.
ton, declares that nobody knows yet
how to feed hog. He complains that
in pig feeding We have not been work
ing on any fundamental basis. Some
men have obtained good results, but
they are not uniform from year to
year, and these results cannot be sure
ly traced to their causes. 1t has been
too much like guessing and gambling
He says that pig feeding will not be
mastered until we get the largest and
most economical gains and get them
every time. We must know what the
hog is made of, and supply the kind
and amount of each food material re-
quired and no more than will be prof
itably used. He has been able to
make 40 per cent. greater gain in live
weight and at less cost per pound, by
his method of feeding than by the
long accepted Wolff-Lehmann feeding
standard. In two lots he made his
pigs weigh $50 pounds at eight
months. More than 400 pigs, all bred
at the University farm, have been
used in seven feeding experiments
and two digestion experiments since
1904. But the work is incomplete
some parts uncertain, and he suggests
That some of the important factors in
swine feeding may not have been con
sidered at all yet.
Prof. w. C. Coffey has Just com.
pleted some feeding experiments with
lambs at the Illinois experiment sta
ton, the chief object being to deter
mine the effect of silage upon the ex-
tent and economy of gains when SUD-
plementing these feeds. Since feed
ers have at times reported trouble
from the use of silage, the experiment
was planned to ascertain, if possible,
whether it may be fed in combination
with the above feeds without injury
to the health of lambs, and, if not
what may be the cause of trouble.
Following describes the ration of each
lot of 16 lambs Lot 1. Shelled corn.
clover hay. Lot 2. Shelled corn, sill
age-small amount through expert
ment-clover hay. Lot 8. Shelled
corn, silage-medium amount for first
sc days-clover hay. lot 4. Shelled
corn, silage-medium amount through