The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-11-12


It is not so expensive to start pure
bred herd as it is to continue with
scrub lot.
Keep the soil covered with some liv-
ing crop. Get in rye If nothing else
can be used.
Keep the cows clean; keep the barn
clean; keep your yard clean; keep
everything clean.
There is no possession more deslr-
able fora woman with children than
that Of good home.
Milk clean at each milking. A little
care taken right at the start may save
serious trouble later.
Sterilizing means heating to 212 de-
grees Fahrenheit. It may be done by
boiling water or by steam.
Rain and snow bring some five
pounds Of nitrogen each year to an
acre of soil. It is washed out of the
air.
Gardening and horticulture are work
which may be easily done by women
| and children, and there is no occupa-
ton so beneficial to health.
Iowa ships approximately 100000
900 Of butter outside of it's borders ev.
cry year, the surplus product over and
above the home consumption.
Ground oats and peas make fine
feed for any stock. 1t pays better,
though, to cut the oats and peas early
and make them into green feed or
hay.
Long ago, in Holy Writ, were set
forth the advantages of dwelling under
ones own vine and fig tree-for which
last fine winter apple makes an ex-
cellent substitute.
Some warm Lighthouses, built before
cold weather comes on, will mean a
saving Of feed and hog flesh-another
way of saving, less expense and more
money in your purse.
It may be safely asserted that no
one with ordinary physical strength,
who has house, few acres of good
land, and few hens, need ever suf-
fer want, far less starvation.
In mans workshop his tools or
books are within easy reach in order
that he may accomplish the greatest
amount of labor within the shortest
time and with the least exertion either
of mind or body.
Crowd the fatteningg pigs along,
now. If you hold them till cold wealth
er, it will then take so much more
feed to keep them going, that it's a
question whether or not they will pay
for what they eat.
Don't let cold weather catch you
mapping. The first freeze is the one
that always plays the sneaking, dam
aging tricks on fellow. So wake up
and take notice of what ought to be
done before winter; then see that you
do that in good season.
The man on farm will work in
the cold and complain but very little,
while the man in town will sit around
the warm fire and make all kinds of
complaint of the intense heat. The
reason for this is that one has time to
complain and the other has not.
It Is astonishing to any who have
not learned by actual experience, how
much easier it is to five in comfort
how much farther the same amount of
money will go-in the country than in
the city, where everything, even pure
water, must be paid for in cash.
Now's the time to break the chick
ems from roosting out among the
sheds and trees. You are liable to
neglect this till freezing weather
strikes them unawares; then, with
frozen combs and frost-bitten feet. the
fowls will lay very little, If any, till
next spring.
A farmer in Vermilion county. Hi.
nois, last year discovered freak ear
Of corn which was composed of a core
of husk, the grains being neatly
wrapped on the soft foundation like
peas in pod. He planted the corn.
and the ears raised from 1t were al.
most an exact reproduction of the
cobless ear. The experiments will be
continued.
II man wants hard job, let him
90 out in search of a real good farm
team. He viii find many for sale, but
not one In . hundred will prove to be
right In all respects. There seems to
be an unceasing demand for this class
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