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

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Alfalfa makes dairying profitable
It is useless to plant clover on wet
soil.
The life of the honey bee is very
short.
Few plants will grow without air in.
the soil.
Glover and legumes do not succeed
On lands that are sour.
The fall of the year is the best time
for setting peony plants.
Gasoline has recently gained con-
siderable reputation as vermifuge.
The peony Is one of the best and
most popular of all our early towering
plants.
It is not good plan to plant the
same field to the same crop two years
In succession.
The wise farmer wants assurance
on the soil of any land that he may
contemplate buying.
When the timothy crowds the clover
entirely out the following crops of
timothy are usually very large.
Farms where the soil Is thin, and
practically must be bought over by
the cost of fertilizing. are not a good
investment.
Acidity may be overcome by apply
ing from 500 to 1000 pounds of lime
per acre, or by the use of floats or
ground shells.
Reports have been received that
about 5000 homestead entries were
fled in Montana during the first six
months of 1909.
No other people set so high value
on good soil as the Hollanders, and we
are learning that not many acres, but
rich ones, make the profitable farm.
Glover fields that are thin may be
seeded to timothy for crop next
summer by sowing the clover field
now to timothy and narrowing in the
field.
The roots of the cowpea penetrate
rather deeply into the subsoil and en-
ables the plant to feed upon the min
eral food that is not readily extracted
by other crops.
A common variety of intestinal
worm which is source of much an
noyance to horses and which calls for
special attention just now is popularity
known as the pinworm.
An effectual remedy for potato
blight has been found in bordeaux
mixture, which consists of four pounds
of copper sulphate and five or six
pounds of fresh lime in go gallons of
water.
All milk must be cooled to a tenn
perature not above So degrees within
two hours after being drawn, and kept
thereafter below that, and must be
cooled to 80 degrees or less II not de-
livered at the creamery twice day.
Live stock farming does not always
mean diversified farming, and some
forms of live stock farming may be-
come as Objectionable In many ways as
q form of farming in which single
crop is grown for sale.
One of the most serious objections
to single-crop system Of farming is
the effect It has on the fertility of the
land. Our best agricultural lands will
stand exploitive farming-that Is,
farming without any attention to fer
about two generations.
Agricultural teachers nave urged di-
farming for many years, but
with little effect until the appearance
Of the boil weevil. This insect made
cotton farming very precarious and
has led to radical notifications in the
systems Of farming prevailing in that
section.
The soy beans make the best hay II
cut when the pods have formed and
the lowest leaves have turned yellow;
but for seed the cutting should not be- |
gin until half the leaves have turned
yellow. Even the soy bean straw is
. valuable feed. Animals relish the
hay and thrive upon It.
/. The milch goat like all goats, can
make living on brushy and hilly |
land, where most other animals would |
starve They are very beneflcial to !
land in cleaning It of weeds, sprouts
and brush. They cannot endure low,
wet land. but thrive perfectly on
rough. hilly land. Those giving milk |
should be fed on good grass, hay fod- |
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