The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-01-16

Plan your work now for next sea-
con.
Grade your flock carefully. Keep
only the best.
Do good turn for your neighbor
and you win find that it will do you
good, too. ~. y
The sheep need plenty of yard room
into which they can b. turned ON
pleasant days.
A little oil meal for the sheep oc-
casionally will prevent constipation
and will keep them In thrifty condi-
ton.
The farmer Is not looking for pro-
lection or charity, but he does want
his rights, and he has right to ex-
pect that he will get them.
The calls FIRST winter may make
or mar the future COW. II she is only
half fed and insufficiently sheltered
you cannot expect she win develop.
Many horse has been permanently
injured by slipping on the frozen road
because smooth shod. See that his
shoes are changed to correspond with
the season.
Do something worth doing and do
It well and then feel proud OF your
achievement. but don't get chesty and
big-headed over the big things you
propose to do.
Stretches" in sheep are caused by
too much dry feed. When the sheep
are seen to spread their legs out and
stretch give a bran mash and an
ounce of raw linseed oil.
Red ants, It Is said, can be easily
trapped by means of sponges soaked
IN sweetened water. And then, when
the ants collect thereon, the sponges
can be occasionally dropped into boil
ing water.
Roupy conditions in the poultry
must not be dallied with. Either en-
ter upor vigorous course Of treat
ment or kill the affected birds at once.
The disease Is contagious. SO that the
sick fowls should be separated from
the rest of the flock at once.
There are profitable and Improbable
COWS. Have you any of the latter class
on your farm, and can you pick them
out? According to Massachusetts,
dairy experts COW to be profitable
should produce 5000 pounds (2.S00
quarts) Of 35-4 per cent milk yearly,
without being forced. A COW ought to
produce 800 pounds Of butter yearly.
II she does not do 1t she IL not helping.
after tests found that when whole
corn was fed to cows 20 per cent was
unmasticated, when fed to heifers ten
per cent, when fed to calves six per
cent. Chemical analysis showed no
change in composition of the unmas-
ficated parts, SO It 10 q safe assump-
ton that the animal derives no bene-
at from grain that passes. through the
digestive tract unaltered.
Use the wagon for tightening the
fence wire by the following method
One of the rear wheels Is raised from
the ground and the wire IL passed
once around the hub and fastened to
Q spoke Of the wheel. The wagon II
then braced by any suitable means.
and the wheel turned In the manner Of
the mariners wheel. In this way .
pull of 100 pounds ON the tire will ex-
ert force Of 400 or 500 pounds on
the wire.
DO you know how much It costs you
to raise calf Prof. r. 8. Shaw Of
Michigan kept track Of the nrst years
expenses of Holstein calf. Here II
the record: The amounts OF feeds used
IN that time were 3S1 pounds whole
milk, 1858 pounds skim milk, 1.261
pounds silage, 219 pounds beet pulp.
1884 pounds hay, 1,247 pounds grain.
1l7 pounds roots, IL pounds alfalfa
meal and so pounds green corn. At
the end Of the year the calf weighed
500 pounds at q cost Of $2s.55 for feed.
According to story in the eastern
press the experiments In lighting
eAinch bugs and some other insect
pests by injecting them with parasitic
diseases have bean 20 ENCOURAGING
that the agricultural department has