The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-03-11
Hens favor charcoal.

dens FAVOR charcoal.
Grapes should be set eight feet
apart.
High priced grain foods mean high
producing dairy cows.
The farm is a sort of clock which
reflects the time of year.
Early maturity is an important
quality to consider in selecting sheep.
Blanket your horse during the sleet
storms as we'll as when it is extreme.
ly cold.
A good way to make your calves
sickly and weak is to keep them in a
dark stall.
New land will always raise a crop
put 1t takes care and labor to keep
old fields productive.
Some cornstalks may be fed to the
porkers every day. They are sweet
and do the hogs good.
II there is fowl in the flock a little
out of condition, that bird Is ant to
prove the most lousy member of the
COCK.
You cont have to wait for the incu-
bator to get broody and then If you
don't want to set it you don't have to
break it up
Late Matched chickens make fine
trys In the winter time. They find a
ready sale before the spring chickens
come on the market.
10 prevent throat and lung diseases
among the poultry, put piece of alum
In the drinking water and repeat the
lose every three or four weeks.
There Is no reason why the bulk
OF the feeding cannot be done in
small yard, even though the cattle are
allowed considerable range during the
day.
A final condition Of success with
an incubator is not due to the incu-
bator at all, but to the ability to sue.
cessfully rear chickens, after they are
Matched.
When clover is buried in the soil
1t will, of course, put more food in
the form of humus and also more nu.
TRENT into the soil than if it is re.
moved and sold.
Why not build up a private egg and
poultry trade of your own, and get
the profit the other man would make
for selling and delivering them? It
can be done very easily.
The trouble with alfalfa, and the
reason why its use has not spread
faster is that so many that try it as
an experiment have failure the first
time. Then they give 1t up.
Any of the ailments such as collie.
indigestion, milk fever, etc., come on
after eating and drinking. Often the
life Of an animal is saved by visiting
the stables just before retiring. 81.
The best of the spring crop of lambs
should be selected for breeders; in
feriortewes, wethers, lambs. etc. dis.
posed Of Ewes that have not been
profitable should also be turned of.
It is said that an unusual noise
will usually cure the stubborn hen Of
an inclination to set 1Put set alarm
clock in the nest. The ticking. will
am oy.l her AN, and she will go OF when
While the effect of the cow.peas IN
maintaining the fertility of the. soil
where used as a catch-crop with.
wheat. is clearly shown by this expert.
ment, the practice can hardly be rec.
commended in general farming.
In feeding milk to right young pigs
only fraction of teaspoonful must
be given to each at time, yet from
I'VE to seven feeds must be given dur.
Ing the day, gradually increasing the |
amount after the first day. but never
giving them all they will drink.
81 A
\. The preliminary estimate Of the
corn crop in the principal states is as
folloWs:ss Illinois, 36e million bushels:
I6wa2s4 million; Nebraska. 1876 mil |
.hon;;ss Missouri, 215 million; Kansas,
1855 million; Texas, 1T million: Indi. |
ana. 1876 million; Ohio. ISL million; /
Oklahoma, 100 million.
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{ {. Tho ame thict pf procedure BY which |
Z variety of sp6tatoes is improved Is
very simple and easily carried out.b |
kseaxes.N When ths crop
- dug the most prolific hills may Sc /
selected and kept separate for com.
pafativs test tho following season.
II this manner prolific strain may
hnsntartAd 81 i.