The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-01-02

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The neglected calf becomes the
stunted COW.
Feed costs money. Don't let the
animals waste it by careless methods
Of feeding.
Study your flock from now on with
view of sorting over for mating in the
early spring. 4
The satisfied farmer IL the farmer
who finds satisfaction and stimulus
in doing everything well.
II you want to improve your farm
land put It down to clover. field by
field. and pasture hogs on It.
Hens do not relish scratching In
damp. heavy litter. See that plenty
of straw or leaves that are perfectly
dry IL supplied.
Keep tho henhouses clean. Great
piles of frozen manure underneath the
perches IL not a very good testimonial
for the owner and not much encour-
agement for the hens to do their best.
Leaks in old single roofs can be
more surely fixed by the use Of strips
Of tin than by using shingles, as the
latter are apt to raise the edges Of
those about 1t and make the leak
worse.
Cows that are to calve in winter or
early spring should have about six
quarts of some vegetable every day
for two weeks before calving. II this
course Is pursued there will be no
milk fever nor any other Of the many
troubles incident to calving time.
Don't let your farmers meetings
drift into a mutual admiration society
in which nothing better is talked
about than neighborhood gossip. which
pats those present on the back and
criticises the absent neighbors. Make
such meetings profitable by taking up
real farm problems and discussing
them.
Have you taken an inventory of the
farm yet? No business house Of any
size In the world but that takes an
accounting of its stock at the end Of
the year preparatory to the new years
business. Does not the farmer need
to know what he has on hand and
what amount Of business he has done
during the year before he is In shape
to intelligently begin another years
work?
It's not Drawn alone which makes
for successful farming. Brains are
needed on tho farm al never before.
The man who Is going to reap the re-
wards which the farm can be made
to yield must be equipped for the task.
He must not only have a pretty COM
prehensive knowledge Of the principles
governing agriculture, but he must pos
sess practical business qualities which
will enable him to market his crops
after he has raised them.
Fowls suffering from contagious
disease should be killed and buried.
Lighter ailments. such AZ colds. for in
stance. should be promptly treated.
and we know of nothing better than a
Quinine pill Zone grain) each night for
about q week; four drops of tincture
of aconite In q half-pint OF drinking
water II good remedy for q cold that
shows itself by sneezing. When q
fowl is droopy. shows loss Of appetite.
and the comb and waffle do not have
that bright look they have in health,
. family liver pill viii very often
work wonders.
The foot and mouth disease, OF
aphthous fever, which has been caus
ing so much concern In the east, but
which has been held In check by the
vigorous and prompt quarantine meas
ures of the government, II a highly
contagious fever, characterized by
eruptions Of blisters in the mouth
around the crown Of the feet and be
tween the toes. It is spread by con
tact with the diseased animals, OF
with manure. hay or anything else
they have, touched, or the buildings OF
cars that have harbored them. Though
ordinarily considered disease of cat
tie. It affects hogs. sheep, goats
horses, dogs. cats. and, sometimes. hu
mans. The disease IL seldom fata
TO humans, and 10 confined chiefly Z.
children who have used unboiled mill
from infected cattle. In animals tn,
disease makes its appearance in from
three to six days afte~ exposure to in
lection. The nrst symptom Il chill
followed By . high fever. In day o
two small blisters about the size OF
pea appear IN the mouth. The NOR
tally Il usually one to three per cent
sometimes reaching fve per cent. I
q more fatal In, calves that have Vel
fed on infected milk Foul foot o
ground itch ID quite common With cal
he mat stand IN nth, but this u read
ny, distinguished. froln foot and rnousl
disease, - IN the latter the infamms
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