The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-08

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Care and food are the requisites IN
profitable stock raising.
possible without silo.
When the tins begin to show rust
discard them from the dairy
The weed which is allowed to go to
seed means lot of extra trouble next
season.
Feeding experiments have proved
that silage is good in fattening cattle
if properly fed.
The root of a hog like the root of
tree helps it to grow, therefore give
the hog a chance to root.
Clean water for the hens should be
the rule. Have the water dish so ar
ranged that the chickens cannot foul 1t.
Cold fall rains never helped put
milk in the udder of the cow or flesh
on the backs of steers. Provide proper
shelter.
Keep the ground stirred and the
weeds out of your strawberry patch.
You will reap the rewards of your Ia
Dor next season.
Even with the flock which has
range it is well to provide box OF
grits and charcoal so that they can
easily help themselves.
Keep the machinery on the farm up
to date, but don't go to the foolish ex'
IRENE of thinking that every new ma.
chine is better than the old and tried
one.
More dairymen are following the
! practice of keeping individual records
OF their cows and of also keeping a
debit and credit account of their en-
tire business.
Look over your fields carefully, con
| alder the varying conditions of your
soil and then consider if there is not
some other layout of fields and crops
which would improve the farm ant
| give greater profit.
An old dairyman declares thai
| farmers make mistake by looking
| too much at the creamery, the price
they are to receive for their milk, ant
not enough at the farm end-wha
| their milk is to cost them to pro
duce it.
That piece of meadow which is get
| ting thin but which is hardly read!
for the pillow can be greatly improved
by liberal scattering of seed follow
ed by light narrowing. If this is done
! just before rain so much the better
will the results be.
Don't let the long ladder stant
I
through with it for the night. A stront
| wind might throw it over to thu
wrecking of the ladder and damage o
other things.
Pears are best ripened in doors
The time to pick is determined, first
by their known season of ripening
and, second, by the ease with which
the stem parts from the branch whel
the fruit is slightly lifted. Most pear
are marketed in a green, but mature
state.
Loco disease, which afflicts stock il
some sections of the west, has beer
Investigated by the bureau of ANNA
industry and proved to result from
eating certain poisonous plants, know
as purple loco-weed and rattleweed
which are common in dozen plains
states. The best remedy is to destro.
the weeds and remove the stock from
access to them. Ordinarily the stool
will soon recover when so removed
and fed upon alfalfa and other nutri
tious grasses.
The square or oblong silo are oh
jectionable because it is difficult t.
build the walls strong enough t
stand the pressure caused by tn
great weight of the silage, and tn
amount of silage lost in the corner
will amount, in a few years, to cor
| siderable value. The best shape i
circular. A silo should be more thai
twice as high as wide. Do not buii'
silo too large in diameter, as tn
amount of silage spoiled from day t
day will more than pay the interes
on the cost of an extra smaller one
The main qualities of a silo are tina
the walls be strong enough to with
stand the pressure and it shall b.
alright. To get this the first stel
is to build a good, solid foundation
commenced below the frost line.
Hogging down corn saves the labo
of harvesting. The hogs become tn
harvesters and turn the corn into porl
right on the field. At some of the e1
pertinent stations and on privat