The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-08-27

Experiment. but do not speculate.
A good road brings the town nearer,
and market day more frequent.
!, Lousy pigs will not thrive. Get rid
.of the lice by dipping.
Shade for the hogs. as well as other
'arm animals.
The repair in season saves the un.
seasonable delay caused by an un-
'oked Tor breakdown.
First, select the. proper place for a
thing and then see that 1T 10 put in
tts proper place.
5s More hawks and owls mean less
field mice and rats Which do you
Sreferi Well. take the former.
With hogs as with all other stock.
no single breed can rightly claim to
possess the only good qualities.
Every farm should be. a miniature
experiment station. Every farmer
should be investigating and testing
out some proposition which will i'm
prove conditions on his farm and
make it remunerative.
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q, 1t is a good rule in fattening. hogs
never to feed quite as much as they
want, OF not enough SO, they will
waste any. They will take the next
feed better and do better. At the
same time be sure to keep pens and
sleeping quarters well cleaned out
Brood sows should have plenty of
exercise. that they may get strong lit
ters Of. pigs, full of vitality. It is best
to keep the same sows for several
years if they have proven good breed
ers and careful mothers; they will
raise more and better pigs than the
Young gifts.
In caring for the sheep. remember
that the feed lot must be dry, with
plenty sof clean, dry bedding; the ami
mails must have plenty OF clean, pure
wateE, and the feed troughs should be
kept clean. These should be arranged
so that the sheep cannot foul them
with their feet. Another point is to
keep them from becoming excited ) or
frightened. To this end 1t is better
that one person feed them all the
time. "a, y. al
One-sided feeding isn't good for the
pocket book or the animals. Alfalfa
is a one-sided feed in the other direc.
ton from corn, and should not be fed
exclusively any more than corn. Al
falfa cannot be balanced by feeding
bran, but can be balanced by feeding
corn or cornmeal. In roughage, tim
othy hay is balancer to go along
with the alfalfa. One-sided foods are
good If they are properly combined
when being fed. The great number
of these foods make it imperatively
necessary that the feeder educate him
self on the constituents Of the differ
ent kinds Of plants and grains that
are used in stock feeding.
II the farmer wishes to be his own
repair mah, and he can do so in most
cases IL he is at all handy. he will find
that a vice and set Of taps and dies
will come in handy. Get sizes one
quarter, five-sixteenths, three.eighths,
seven-sixteenths and one-half-inch
bolts. These sizes will cover almost
everything common on . farm. You
can buy blank nuts and you can cut
the rods any length you want with an
ordinary cold chisel. You can put a
nut on each end of the bolt. This an.
swers just as well as to have a head
on the end and q nut on the other. "A
great many farmers try to. keep bolts
Of different sizes, but 1t is much bet.
ter to buy the round rods and make
youE bolts as you want-them.
~ W AAG0I ! SA0A6ne6- 1udy 10 SOWu the
latter part Of August. II sown earlier
they lack the crispness 80 desirable
to q vegetable Of this kind and do not
keep well. IL sown much later they
may not have time to mature before
cold weather. No special treatment
Is required. The seed is sown like
other radishes and the cultivation is
not essentially different. But il the
ground = dry It should be well mois.
tened. Asgood way to do is to make
J trench SIX Or eight inches deep and
III II with water, 3 repeating IS It
soaks away until the ground is sun.
GENTLY moist; then All with moist
sarth and SOW the seed ~ row. sou
% treated viii remain moist for sey
sral days. The roots win endure 4 |
dghk rss4ss ittthnut ~ nut sthsy5I
ought to be dug md stored before
winter .setsa In They can tn ,ept by
,urying 81 pits Ike potatoes 81 tur.
aips, 81 they may be- packed II boxes
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