The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-10-01


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Dry shelters and beds Tor the hog,
are essential to best results.
/ During the melting season take the.
male birds from the flock.
Don'ts as well as dos are conven.
lent and proper thing to have around
the farm.
Never be 30 busy that you cannot
be friendly and lend helping hand
to neighbor IN trouble.
Rotation Of crops gets the fields out
OF the rut Of deterioration and makes
for enriched soil and greater crops. ).
Yes. It il too late to build and all a
sile. Let your disappointment at your
lack spur you on to better deeds next
season.
II the colt let's its tongue hang out
OF Its mouth. you may be sure there
Is some reason for IT.. Find the cause
and remove 1t.
A little spray on the cows the pas,
summer would have given you many q
pound more of milk in the pail. Spray
Is cheaper than milk.
After q days work or a 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.
casfonally to the chickens. That they
enjoy them is only too evident from
the manner in which they go afte,
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 q
cool cellar.
Watch the hired man when he ia
tending to the stock. II he is rough
and brutal you can well dispense with
his services, for the animals will not
thrive under his care.
II you are going to get new breed.
ing stock for your flock secure 1t 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
o'clock at night is the farm where IL
is hard to keep hired help and where
the children are inspired with the am
b1tion 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 success.
The bureau Of animal industry,
which has been conducting expert.
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.
er. New butter made in this way.
without the addition of 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.
ent ways to kill the sinking smut
and the results have been very salts.
factory. Untreated seed produced an
average of SO per cent Of smut in the
crop Of last year and 9.3 per cent. Of
smut in the crop of this season. Seed
wheat which was immersed for &c
minutes in solution made by adding
one pint Of formaldehyde (formalin)
to ~ gallons Of water. produced an
average yield of grain per acre of 50.4
bushels. and that which was untreated
produced only 46 bushels per acre
The treatment here mentioned was
easily performed. comparatively cheap
enectual 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
grain should not be exposed to attack
by being placed in bins or granaries
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