The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-04

change its contents.
 Dry shelters and beds for the hogs are essential to best results.
 During the molting season take the male birds from the flock.
 Don'ts as well as dos are a conven tent and proper thing to have around the farm.
 Never be so busy that you cannot be friendly and lend a helping hand to a neighbor in trouble.
 Rotation of crops gets the fields out of the rut of deter. ration and makes for enriched soil and greater crops.
 Yes, it is too late to build and fill siio. Let your disappointment at your lack spur you on to better deeds next season.
 If the colt lets it's tongue hang out of it's mouth, you may be sure there is some reason for it. Find the cause and remove it.
 A little spray on the cows the past summer would have given you many pound more of milk in the pail. Spray is cheaper than milk.
 After a days work or long drive over the roads sponge out the horses mouths and noses with cold water. Also rub down the legs and body well,
 Boil the small potatoes and feed oc- casionally to the chickens. That they enjoy them Is only too evident from the manner in which they go after them
 It will not hurt the beets to be left in the ground until freezing weather comes Then they should be pulled, packed in moist sand and placed in cool cellar.
 Watch the hired man when he is tending to the stock. If he is rough and brutal you can well dispense with his services, for the animals will not thrive under his care.
 If you are going to get new breed ing stock for your flock secure it this fall, as now you can get better SC lection at better price and will give the birds better chance to become acquainted
 The farm where the days work ex- tends from three or four o'clock in the morning until eight or nine 0 clock at night is the farm where it is hard to keep hired help and where the children are inspired with the am- bltion to leave it on the first oppor- tunity.
 The National dairy show will be held at Milwaukee October IA to "A B. H. Rawl, chief of the national dairy division of the agricultural de- partment of the government, will CO operate with Manager Van Norman of the Dairy association in making the show a success.
 The bureau of animal industry. which has been conducting experi- ments for the past three years, has concluded that better butter can be made from cream pasteurized and not ripened, that is, churned sweet, than by the old processes, and better than from the new process of pasteurizing and ripening with pure culture start CT New butter made in this way, without the addition of a starter and unsalted, has too mild flavor to please most dealers; but it undergoes fewer changes in storage than when made in the ordinary manner and may be sold, after being held in artifi- cial cold storage, as high-grade butter.
 The Ontario experiment station has been treating winter wheat in differ eIt ways to kill the stinking smut, and the results have been very satis- factory. Untreated seed produced an average of 36 per cent. of smut in the crop of last year and 93 per cent. of smut in the crop of this season. Seed wheat which was immersed for 20 minutes in solution made by adding one pint of formaldehyde Cformalin) to 42 gallons of water, produced an average yield of grain per acre of 5O.4 bushels, and that which was untreated produced only 46 bushels per acre The treatment here mentioned was
 asily performed, comparatively cheap. ef1ectual in killing the smut spores, and instrumental in furnishing the largest average yield of wheat per acre of all the treatments used.
 Look out for weevils in the grain. Thresh as soon as possible. Fresh crain should not be exposed to attack by being placed in bins or granaries with that already infested. Before storing, the old grain should be re- moved and the floors, walls and cell ings of the bins thoroughly cleaned If the granary has been badly infest-
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