The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-12-24
III FARM
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Keep chick free from mites.
Be sure that the hens are provided
with dust bath.
A lazy hen will soon be sick hen.
Make her stir around.
Warm milk is better for fowls than
that which is very cold.
The Groom of the thresher is part of
the worlds popular music.
Get as much painting as possible
done before winter sets in.
Too heavy feeding is apt to cause
breaking down among the poultry.
Truck teams used in the large cities
are mated as carefully as coach teams.
There is good in all breeds; but 1t Is
true that while all are good some are
better.
When pigs are growing grazing is
important, and is conducive to health
and profit.
Time in live stock breeding is one
of the most costly factors that enters
into the business.
New corn is not safe feed for fowls
of any kind. ct it get fairly seasoned
before you begin on it.
There is no short cut to success in
poultry raising any more than there is
to success in anything else.
The water used in the barn and for
cleansing the milk utensils must be
absolutely free from contamination.
A decrease of from 10 to so per cent.
in milk yield follows exposure at this
season, or any other, for that matter.
The dairy industry is one of the
large industries. and in valuation
when dairy cattle are included, ranks
arst.
Potatoes are good for swine, but
they are best when cooked and mixed
with some meal into a mash and fed
warm.
Be careful of the brood mare as
foaling time draws near. Light farm
work will not hurt her if you use
good judgment.
No person having any communicable
disease, or one caring for persons who
have, shall be allowed to handle the
milk or milk utensils.
The use of any preservative or col
oring matter in butter or milk is an
adulteration and its use is sufficient
cause for the exclusion of the product
from the market.
If you wish to kill an evergreen
tree, girdling will do it. If you wish
to avoid the labor of girdling there
is an easier method; let the poultry
roost in the branches.
There is no better time than before
you'll need it to build a feed floor fol-
that bunch of shoats. It certainly
will not pay to shovel corn into a
muddy feed yard, this winter.
More hogs are being raised in Colo
RADIO than for some time and it is pre-
dtcted that it will not be long before
tho state will supply large portion
OF is own consumption of pork.
Old, over fed. under fed or neglected
breeding stock can never profit the
owner. The eggs are few and weak
or infertile. If the egg don't hatch, II
isn't the fault of the egg but of the
duck that laid it. or perhaps the mar
that failed to care for the duck thai
laid it.
There is more feed in the shock OF
some farms than there will be stool
to eat it, while in other instance.
stock may go hungry before sprin,
Any farm produces more feed Of tn,
rough nature than the usual amour
of stock kept can consume, at leas
In the corn belt, but some Just refus,
to put It In shock. We bought cor,
binder this year just to keep us iron
getting tired Of corn cutting befor
enough was up.
Owing to the extreme dry weathe
which has prevailed throughout man,
sections Of the country this season
bees were unable to secure muc]
+ honey except that from honeydev
Beekeepers viii do well to be YER
cautious In offering such honey "a
aale, or they may get into trouble "a
violating the pure food laws. AZ TIL
honey u likely 70 b Of fair qualit,
h aad bsss short o. stores foe wints
~ 70 the protractsd drought, Il NJ
ven q fse1 this product back {
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