The log cabin Democrat., 1909-09-20

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 ease among the hogs Keep things
 clean.
 Very little more trouble or expense
 to raise a blooded animal than it is to
 raise scrub.
 Poultry confined to run must have
 green food supplied them if they are
 going to thrive
 The mouse in the granary is wis
 itor which the thrifty farmer will not suffer to remain.
 The nearer poultry can be kept in
 the natural state the harder they will be, and the greater profit they will re turn.
 Been swimming or fishing this sum-
 mer? Take a half day off and go with the boys. It will bring dad and the
 boys closer together
 High prices encourage sheep raising, but don't jump into the business too
 brashly. Begin in small way and
 work up Buy few ewes and a good
 ram.
 It is the thriftless farmer who is
 cettain that farming does not pay.
 Neither would any other business pay handled in the same way as he does the farming.
 Could some farmers be made to un- ierstand the aggregate damage which vermin of various kinds cause upon their farms they would be more dili
 gent in fighting them.
 The dust bath must be provided for the fowls They will cooperate with you in keeping them free from lice, | They enjoy rolling in the dry dust
 and it drives away the vermin Plant roots find a feeding ground at
 much lower level in drained than
 undrained soils, as they find condi | tions favorable for such growth l Worms, ants and other insects burrow deeper. These worm holes and root | channels permit more perfect aera | tiOn and oxidation, until the whole | body of the soil down as deep as it | has been drained becomes a fit home
 and feeding ground for the roots of | our plants.
 Don't use binders, for these relics of barbarism there is no possible ex- | cuse. They are entirely unnecessary and decidedly hurtful to the best serv- ice from the wearers. They detract from the natural beauty of the horse and prevent the full use of the eye
 sight that Nature endowed him with
 Instead of acting as preventive from
 fright at the sight of strange objects,
 they render him suspicious of many
 ordinary things coming within range
 of his obstructed view, thereby mak-
 ing him unnecessarily nervous and
 over eXcitable if he is creature of
 mettle. Man has no right to deprive
 the horse of one of his keenest senses
 through the use of the punishing
 binder.
 The wheat straw infested with Hes
 sian fly breaks over just above the
 joint, which, while it varies consider
 ably in location, Is usually relative
 ly short distance above the ground. If
 the grower will carefully pull the leaf
 away from the stalk where it is
 broken over Ne will find lying in little dent lengthwise in the straw an oval dark-browG seedlike body one fourth of an inch or less long. This
 is the "flaxseed" stage of Hessian fly,
 and is sometimes improperly spoken
 of as the "eggs" of the fly. Some times, through careless handling or other causes, the "haxseed" will be gone over and only the little dent in
 the straw left as evidence of its for | mer presence. If the grower does I not find the ''flaxseed" in the first ex- | amined he should continue to examine | broken straws until he does find it, or | until he is convinced that the fly did | not do the work.
 Cow testing associations are doing good work in Wisconsin. and the sys- tenn might profitaby be tried in
 other dairying sections. These as sociations are of two kinds. the "$i a COW plan" and the "50 cents COW plan" In the former the Dairymen's | association furnishes man to do the work of weighing and testing the
 milk of the individual COWS in the herd at an expense of $1 COW for the year There are generally 26 | members in each association, so that tests can be made once month on each farm. Under the second plan | the farmers themselves weigh and sample the milk from their cows for one day each month and bring the samples to their creamery or cheese factory, where they are tested by the operator at an expense of 50 cents a year COW. The associations in | Wisconsin at present are generally | organized on the 50-cent plan and are