The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-12-24
Sheep are s4lcient weed killsrs.

Ia0 SOW 0houl0 DO large ana ro0my
II the hens are too fat they win lay
soft shelled eggs.
The watched clock never strike,
Come thou up higher!"
A brooder will raise more chicks
than the average old hen.
It is Just as easy to grade your flock
up as It Is to grade It down.
A brooder can easily be kept free
from vermin. Not so the hen.
Good management Of the poultry
plants allows no waste or leaks.
Wood ashes are good in their place,
but that place is not In the hen house.
Too constant sitting makes the henA
Of bad disposition and difficult to man
age.
Molasses is highly recommended az
a portion of the ration for draft
horses.
| Many farmers are finding the use OF
hameless collars remedy for shout.
der gals.
Roots should not. generally speak
| ing, be fed alone. as they carry too
much water.
Some trees will bear planting quite
thick. while heavy foliaged trees must
be set far apart.
The hands of mixers must be
washed and thoroughly dried immedi
ately before milking.
Swine need more room, more free.
dom. more grass and succulent feed
than they get on the average farm.
II an orchard is on low ground 1,
should be drained because air must
be admitted 70 the soil or the trees
will die.
Breeders should be in no hurry to
dispose of rams in service, as some
times lambs of little promise develop
into good sheep.
A two-year-old tree can be started
more easily than three-year-old.
With some varieties a one.year-old
tree is even better than a two-year.
old.
One cannot afford to pay for gain
on an animal, then lose it. Making
stock live on scant pasture, when
there is plenty of feed in the field,
is poor economy.
The more than usual number Of
wormy apples this season is remind
er that we must spray the trees thor
oughly in the spring in order to have
clean fruit in the fall.
Since the farm is the source of our
wealth it behooves us to learn more
Of our property, and the methods ia
keep it at it's fullest producing capaci'
ty without impoverishment.
If there is patch of late corn, cure
and store it away. When chopped
into sizeable pieces, it will be found
valuable feed, when all green forage
is sealed up with snow and ice.
Were the turkeys good judges OF
human nature they would know that
the extra feed and kindness now be
ing bestowed upon them are but thu
beginning of plot for their downfall
Do not have pullets and hens in thu
same pen, for if you do it will be i'm
possible to so feed that the pullets
will come to laying at the right time
The house should be kept open and
the pullets allowed outdoor conditions
as nearly as possible.
When cabbage is to be stored over
winter, the heads should be examined
critically and diseased ones rejected
and kept by themselves. Black ROT
may be detected by breaking off the
lower leaves and examining the stalk
II the fibers of the leaf stalk are
blackened the head should be de
stroyed.
Tho farmer is not dependent on the
prosperity of his neighbor for success
The husbandman is close to nature
and derives his wealth from her in
exAaustible resources while other in
dustries depend on success in the ex
ploitation Of their fellow men. Tit
farmer looks to the soil for his sue
cess and becomes responsible for hi!
own failures.
In grading the surplus poultry ant
dividing it into lots for fattening, afte
the plan suggested few weeks ago
farmers having pure-bred flocks will