The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-12-04

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Land gets its value from the inter-
est It will pay on the investment.
An acid condition may be deter
mined by testing the soil with blue
litmus paper.
Drainage will ultimately be seen to
be of vital Importance in every irri-
gated district.
Worms are most frequently seen in
young horses and in those that are
weak and debilitated.
Timothy and clover mixed makes
good hay because the timothy holds
the clover up and the curing is easier.
Glover alone cannot indefinitely
maintain the land. A rotation will not
enable us to maintain the fertility of
the soil.
Chickens are very fond of the aspar-
agus beetles and a few fowls will soon
capture the matured insects II allowed
in garden bed.
Those who have studied the canta-
loupe market all over the United
States declare that there is no danger
of over-production.
Luther Burbank says that the spine
less cactus will make millions of acres
of land now unirrigable, produce more
fodder than the rich meadow lands.
The addition of roots to an already
complete ration of silage, clover hay
and grain for dairy COW stimulates
both milk and butter fat production.
Few of the honey bees live to exceed
the age of As days, except during their
time of Information in winter, yet In
this short period much is accom-
plished.
Just because wheat Is high this
year do not SOW an extra large crop
for next year. Everybody will do that,
which will have the tendency to lower
the price.
Perhaps a cow Is at her best at six
or seven years of age, though such
tests as have been made do not always
prove that. The data seems to be linn
tied for some reason.
1t may not be generally known that
soy beans make the finest egg-pro-
ducing food for poultry. The beans
would better be cracked until the
chickens are educated to eat them.
Some of the clover plants will re-
main alive and some clover seed will
be in the soil so that the meadow
next year will be mixed clover and
timothy, which makes excellent hay
for the horses.
The first two weeks of a bees life
are spent almost entirely inside of the
hive nursing larvae, taking only
short fight on sunny afternoons to
strengthen it's wings and mark the To-
cation of its home.
When pinworms are noticed to be
present In horses, frequent injections
of infusions of tobacco, infusions of
quassia chips, one-half pound to one
gallon of water, followed up by a ca
thartic, are most efficient.
Land plaster Is soil stimulant, and
while it increases growth at first, 1t
will injure the soil. Land plaster is
put into some fertilizers, but 1t hurts
the land. Farmers don't want to be-
gin to use stimulant for the land.
The farmer, to win the highest sue
cess, must be in thorough sympathy
with his work and proud Of his cali
ing, and he must mix great amount
of brains with his labor. The keynote
for achieving high success is careful
to details.
Rock phosphate does not leach out
of the soil; 1t might wash of from q
AS to the quantity, 1t Is best
to keep applying rock phosphate until
the soil content Of phosphorus has
been brought up to 1900 or 1900
pounds per acre in the surface sever
inches.
An ideal of farm 10 one which
maintains system Of agriculture
which builds up the soil to a high
state of fertility, produces everything
needed on the farm that can be salts
factorily produced and maintains not
less than two principal industries as
sources Of revenue.
A very good ration for milk produc
ton would be as follows: Feed daily
to each COW 30 pounds of silage and |
about 10 pounds of hay. A very good.
mixture to go with this rougha@e |
would consist Of 500 pounds of gluten