The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-23

Tram the lTulL lISSo W INV u0dQS
by proper pruning.
The ROSTERS should have long since
been taken from the breeding pens.
Profits of the dairy are dependent
largely upon the comfort of the stock
A good rule in feeding all stock is
to feed only what they will eat up
clean
Frequent cuttings will kill off sweet
clover which becomes pest in some
places.
Surprising what difference hand
full of grain will make in the ewes and
lambs if fed daily.
The National Orchard congress will
hold it's second annual exposition at
Council Bluffs, Ia, November Is to 20.
Look on the bright side of the
weather and the crops. They both
generally turn out better than it is
feared they will.
The drinking water in the summer
is an important matter with the stock,
especially with the dairy herd. Re-
member that foul water is sure to
breed disease.
Sometimes a stick becomes lodged
in the nostrils of the cow. There
will be indications of labored breath
ing. Always investigate, and remove
the cause of the difficulty.
Good fencing is required with sheep
and it's cost deters many farmers from
keeping small flock. 1t should be
remembered, however, that the sheep
will pay for the extra fencing neces-
sary if given an opportunity.
Are you particular to see that the
horses are watered in the field as
you are yourself You take water
which is doing far harder work, and
needs the water much worse than do
you.
According to an experiment by the
Kansas experiment station, an early
cut alfalfa will produce more pork
than will late cut alfalfa A ton of
the former fed with grain produced
S6S pounds of pork, while the late cut
alfalfa fed with an equal quantity of
grain produced only 333 pounds, less
than half as much.
The poorly lighted, poorly ventilat-
ed barn is a poor place to keep any
farm animals, especially. the cows
Pure milk cannot be produced from
such surroundings. During the sum-
mer time while the COWS are out most
of the time anyway and the barn lit
tie used, plan to make improvements
which will improve the conditions
and make your barn more sanitary.
Put in more windows and put in some
kind of ventilating system.
AT the Wisconsin experiment sta
ton the five poorest cows in the herd
ate $140 worth of feed and returned
SLAB. The five best COWS ate $2O4
worth of feed and returned 1895.
There is a chance to do some think
ing on that showing. Thousands upon
thousands of farmers have herds do
ing the same kind of work as those
hVe poorest COWS and they do not
yet know about it.
Cement paint which is easily spread,
hardens without scaling and will not
wash off, can be made as follows, the
formula being for one barrel of the
paint: One-half bushel white lime,
three pecks cement, ten pounds UNI
Der, ten pounds ocher, one pound We
nitian red, one-fourth lampblack. Stake
the lime, cut the lampblack with vine
gar and mix well together, then add
the cement and fill the barrel with wa
ter. Let it stand II hours before using
and stir frequently while putting on.
Cultivation may be stopped in the
orchard late in the season and a crop
can then be sown upon the land. This
crop may serve as a cover or protec-
ton to the soil and as a green ma.
nure. A green manure improves the
soil by adding fiber to it and by in
creasing it's fertility. 1t catches the
nitrates which, earlier in the season,
are used by the tree-roots. Vegetable
fiber in the soil increases its power of
holding both moisture and plant food.
The crops well adapted to this late
sowing are few. Vetch is probably
the best which has been we'll tested
in the state. But everything points
to crimson clover as the ideal orchard
cover and green manure.
What does it cost you to produce
your eggs? Do you know? Prof. Ora
ham of the Storrs Comm experiment
station says: 81 have been very much
surprised at the data received from
several of the experiment stations re-
garding ths cost of egg production.
In some caflss l find eggs have cost
as high as Il, cents dozen and some
as low as cents a dozen, including
labor. find that, speaking generally,
the larger the range the less food
was required; in fact, where birds
had free range the cost was anywhere
from to 10 cents, and in cases where
the birds were on limited range the
cost was under twelve cents. This
has forced me to the conclusion that
it is very hard work for a man to
run an intensive poultry plant and
compete with the farmer in egg pro
ductton."