The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-04-23

|, Don't hurry the ducks.
!, Study the "othcr fellows" method
The little chicks like clean hous
. as well as anyone.
When about three weeks old Is
critical time with early chicks.
In ordering trees Of any kind COZ
suit your soil. climate and market a
to varieties.
Young apple trees At for setting ar
higher than last year. Poor trees ar
awfully dear as gift.
4 The great difficulty confronting tn
average planter Is In selecting varie
ties adapted to his particular soil.
The pure bred herd of hogs will
be more profitable even from tn,
standpoint Of meat production thar
the scrubs.
When a mixer does all sorts OF
farm work he will soon have hit
hands In bad shape for handling the
cows udder properly.
Beef scraps or cut green bone mus,
be fed In winter to furnish the meat
food. which is necessary for the pro
duction OF large number of eggs.
II you keep cross-bred or mongrel
hens. buy a well-built, vigorous male
and see how much bigger, better lay
Ing. more uniform the chicks will be
next summer.
Winter apples fully matured will
keep longer than those that were
picked early before maturity. Mature
fruit Is not liable to scald as imma-
ture fruit well colored.
The American hen has made her
place In agriculture by producing mil
lions of dollars every year and she
mas earned the respect of every right
thinking farmer in the land.
The nurseryman prefers to sell
something which brings immediate
satisfaction rather than to urge upon
the customer a poor tree which he
receives with protest and harbors
under suspicion.
Information gathered from a mum.
Der OF sources indicates that cattle
VIII consume from 80 to 100 pounds of
water per day per head; that horses
weighing 1900 pounds will consume
from 30 to 80 pounds per day.
When the utmost cleanliness Is not
observed in the poultry yard the birds
become infested with vermin. which |
set up a certain amount of irritation.
and to overcome this the fowls are |
constantly picking at their feathers.
There are usually two ways of do
Ing anything. the right way and the
wrong way. The wrong way to feed
steers Is to feed them without hogs
following. The waste that hogs get
% sometimes the only profit there is
In the transaction.
Poultry raising In Germany has not
Kept pace with the demands of the
market. Imports of poultry into Ger.
many have increased in 20 years from
100000 annually to nearly $50 .OOO.-
700 worth at the present time. an in.
'rease that is almost incredible.
During recent years the pea vines
lave risen to the dignity Of a by-prod-
let from which the factories derive
profit. They are now
Utilized for silage or fed to stock in
fresh state or cured for hay. They
make silage superior in value to
orn silage.
Everyone should understand that {
nix Is not formed in the udder. ex- q
ept In small quantities, until milking q
line. Therefore. II COW is used to q
cling MIXED at certain hour, her @
Ink flow starts at that hour, Just as 8
egularly as o clock, and she will call
nd call for the mixer to come and
slfeve the sorged condition. LII
For breeding stock, growth and q
lsor are desired. and, to promote D
le best growth and development. a Al
part Of the ration should n
made up Of feed rich In protein. n
he feed. however. should not be too Il
'ncentrated. Corn may be used in
with other material but
no time should It constitute over le
Ie-half Of the entire ration. m
In
Vicious bulls are generally made 90 to
unwise treatment when they are be
ung. giving them too much liberty nd
using them cruelty. II 10 well to he
. them kindly, but they should be- III
lsted NO more than II necessary, for th
sometimes happens that bull that 81,
} been quiet suddenly and unsxpsct- or
y becomes vici6ds and mains . ~