The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-30
Cut out the pear blight and burn.

Cut out the pear blight and burn.
Keep salt handy for the horses and
the stock.
Concentrated sulphuric acid will kill
poison ivy.
Dat hay has a high feed value if
made right.
Give the dairy utensils a good sun
bath each day.
Ordinary wire fencing makes good
support for peas.
Sheep thrive under good care, and
are a good source of profit.
TIE discarded broom may find
new life of service in the hen house.
Peas and oats grown together make
a splendid grazing ration for either
swine or sheep.
Plan for a rest during the fair sea-
son. Take wife with you and have
good old-fashioned vacation.
Hogs like to root because it's the
nature of the beast. They're built
that way. Why not give them the
chance?
Use the washday soapy water on
the garden. Sprinkle on the plants
which have lice on them and it will
kill them.
Fresh, clean water is important
with every animal on the farm in the
summer time, but above all others
with the cows.
Sheep kept continuously upon the
same pasture for several years are
more than apt to be troubled with
stomach worms.
Powdered soapstone sprinkled on
the hands before milking will make
the operation pleasanter for both the
cow and the mixer.
Poor seed sown means a CORE
spending poor yield Too much care
cannot be taken in knowing the quail
ity of the seed to be sown.
Careful feeding is better for the
stock and better for the farmer, for it
makes profit for him at both ends,
saving the food and bringing better
gains in the stock.
To keep the cloth wet which you
place over the milk or water bottle to
keep it cool when taking it to the
field set it in a shallow dish of water
and let the edge of the cloth dip into
the water.
No trees in the pastLfS? Then
make shade for the COWS - putting
up some posts and throwing over
them a matched roof. 1t is shame
to keep the COWS under the hot rays
of the sun all day.
North Dakota is hot after the tuber-
cular COW. A new law compels the
branding of all cattle that react under
the tuberculin test. A letter "T' not
less than one inch in length must be
punched in the left ear Of each animal
proven tubercular.
Two ways of curing clover hay is
first to let it get well wilted, cock it
up in small heaps, let it sweat over
night, stir it out in the sun next day,
then haul to the NOW before it gets
really dry so the leaves shatter off.
The second way is to cut when the
dew is well off, follow with a tedder
and rake up and haul in the barn as
soon as dry enough so it will rattle
when handled with the fork.
Extensive farming and dairying
don't go together. 1t takes small
farms and intensive dairying to make
good dairymen. Just as long then as
the average farmer wants to own all
the land that joins him, and under
takes to farm it all, he isn't going to
pay much attention or take much in
terest in dairying. Occasionally there
will be farmer who appreciates what
dairying means to his soil, to his fam
lily and to his posterity, and he will
be interested in dairying. He will be
a dairyman, and of all the farmers in
his community he will be the most
successful.
Perhaps it would be safe to say that
a majority of the farmers who keep
cows for milk production guess at
what their cows cost them, and what
profit they return. Not so the dairy
men of Denmark, who follow pretty
closely the following scale of expense:
Cost of construction of stable, per
COW, $54.00; per cent. interest and
21a per cent. wear and tear..........$ 4.01
care per cow. ..........-...'......... o.o4
Milking per cow. 4.Ol
Veterinarian, per cow. ............ O.S7
20 per cent. interest and deterioration
in value of COW, $500. IL. 80
Peat bedding ........................ $40
Total ..................... .$33. 70
The manure we'll cared for valued at
SASS; and the calf at $40. ST.. %
Net sic. As
Records of the individual cows are
kept to see whether they come up to
the average as given in the table.
Prof. j. B. Reynolds points out the
troubles which arise from faulty juno
tions of drain laterals with the
m oipc leading to an interferanco with