The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-07-30
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III FARM
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Crimson clover is the ideal orchard
cover and green manure.
The smell from the hog pen indi-
Gates pretty accurately the lack of
thrift of the farmer.
The summer boarder may put
money in the bank, but look out it
don't put the wife in the graveyard.
Head lice on the little chicks tell
the story of that droopy condition.
Get rid of the lice or you will lose
your chickens.
Do not increase the hay ration to
the horse as the work grows heav-
Ter, but do so with the grain ration.
1t is the latter that makes muscle.
Ground intended for the strawberry
bed should be prepared now. Plants
may be set in September if not ear.
lier. Have the ground in fine shape
If the lice are unchecked they will
take about as much flesh off the pigs
as you can put on them by generous
feeding. Get rid OF the lice if you
want to make profit.
Ticks on cattle can be gotten rid
OF by going over the animals with a
sponge moistened in crude petroleum
Go over again in about two weeks,
when the eggs have Matched new
brood.
Lots of time is lost at harvest time
because the tools have not been got
in readiness for the work. Easier to
make repairs before the machines are
needed than just when crops and men
are ready.
Some farmers bore holes in their
pocketbooks by boring holes in the
barn floor to get rid of the liquid
manure. Little do they think that
they are letting the richest part Of
the manure escape them.
The horse which has picked up a
nail in his hoof must be treated care
fully or serious lameness may result
Cut open the wound until it bleeds
freely, then wash in carbolized water
and pack the foot with oakum.
See that the sheep are protected at
night from prowling dogs. The best
protection is a seven-foot woven wire
fence. Over this dogs will not go.
Such fence can be used in one cor
ner of the field and the sheep driven
into the enclosure at night and the
entrance closed.
If troubled with bloody milk exam
inc the udder. It may be that it has
become bruised. If not it may be due
to Inflammation. If due to the latter
condition give the animal laxative
followed by dose of nitre. Reduce
the diet and battle the udder fire.
quently in cold water.
Be sure the hogs have fresh water
and shade. Hogs will do well and
make satisfactory growth with but lit
tie grain if they can range in the stub
BILE fields after harvest. They will
soon pay the cost of fencing. But
poor hog fence is an abomination
and in the end will prove more ex-
pensive than one properly built. The
corner and gate posts must be solidly
set or no end of trouble will ensue.
The tried and proven SOW should be
retained as long as possible. Many
valuable sows are condemned to the
slaughter house that should have been
kept in the herd. When SOW proves
mother, she should 1e retained in the
herd until she begins to deteriorate.
With such a foundation one can
bank on something. One can reason.
ably figure on the outcome. Not so
with bunch of gifts. Half of them
may prove wholly unfit for brood sows
and the seasons work may conse.
quently be Improbable.
Millet is considered valuable crop
by many farmers familiar with it's
growth for the following reasons:
First, it may be grown as catch crop
where some other crop has failed, or
on land that has been too wet for
early sowing. Second, it may be
grown as a crop for smothering weeds,
where those perennial in character,
as quack grass, infest the land. For
this purpose it is very effective when
the land has been properly managed
prior to the sowing of the millet.
Third, it may be made to provide hay
in emergency VIXEN hay may be short
from other sources. Fourth, it may
be made to furnish grain that proves
a good substitute for corn where corn
may not be sure crop. Fifth, 1t is
a sure crop, when properly managed,
Is it can ba matured for seed in less
than 80 days from sowing; for hay
In lees than 80 days.