The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-09-17

The sire Is half Of the flock.
No butcher should tease you into
selling your best lambs.
The best method of weed destruc-
ton comes through rotation Of crops.
Slow, steady churning will get moro
fat out Of the milk than rapid churn-
ing.
Fowls in confinement have a ten
dency when moulting to pick feathers
of each other.
After pigs are six weeks old there
Is no better feed for them than skim
milk and shorts.
Why not screens on every door and
window of the cow stables and par
ttcularly where the young calves are
kept?
Diseased wood on tree can never
be made good again. Cut 1t of and
allow another shoot to grow In its
place.
The best remedy for pear and ap-
pie blight Is to cut out and burn
every affected twig as soon as they
are seen.
Undoubtedly one cause of much
trouble with milk In summer Is al
lowing cows to have access to foul.
stagnant water.
No farmer should use a wagon with
out good springs, and especially are
they valuable In hauling live stock
and perishable vegetables and fruits.
Many small pigs are stunted in
their early growth because they can
not hold their own against their
larger and more quarrelsome broth
ers.
The best skim milk is that which is
fresh from the separator and still
warm. Experiments show that It is
only one-fourth as expensive to raise
calf on skim milk as whole milk.
Bran, oats and oil meal fed in equal
parts by weight make better ration
and Is more satisfactory to supply the
needs of growth and development for
breeding purposes. than most anything
else.
At the present true the worlds
championship for the production of
butterfat for IL consecutive months
Il held by the Holstein-Friesian COW,
Colantha fourth's Johanna with to-
tai of 99S.26 pounds Of fat.
Thirty-six pounds of sheep manure Is
equal as a fertilizer to 100 pounds of
ordinary farm yard manure. being rich
er in heterogeneous substances than that
of the COW or horse. and ranking in
ammonia and richer In the phosphates
than the droppings of fowl.
A good hand separator takes most
of the valuable butter fat out Of the
milk; indeed. a perfect machine should
take practically all of the butter fat
from the milk; but 1t leaves most of
the protein. which is the most valu-
able food element In the SKINNED
milk.
The best time to water plants IL
late In the evening. Stir the soil
thoroughly and draw away from
around the stem of the plants, pour
on the water needed. let settle and
then draw the earth back again; in
this way the moisture will be re-
tanned better.
In selecting breeding stock It IL
highly important that the reputation
Of the breeder from whom the pur.
chases are made, Is well and favor
ably known, a man who Is noted for
square and honest dealing; and this
Is especially true II the selection IL to
be made by the breeder himself.
Forest Henry. one of the farmers
institute workers In Minnesota, and a
successful farmer. says that his ex-
periences teaches that the time to
wean the colt. even II not more than
three months old. Is before going into
the harvest field with the mare. He
teaches his colts to drink slim-milk
and to eat oats with the mare before
weaving.
II there ever were time when oat
straw is worth saving II will be this
year Hay n scarce and the price
viii be in accordance with the light
ness Of the crop. The farm that has
IN abundance of hay can turn pref
" penny by using a substitute for hay
% much ~ practical and selling the
hay that can be spared The city
trade will want It al, II good. stu
price. bssDrs the winter season IL
evsr.