The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-07-23
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Keep pure bred ram.
Any climate suits alfalfa
Glover Is a more efficient sub-soiler
than the best sub-soil pillow.
Some say that cows need salt when
The butter is hard to churn.
A good wick to the incubator lamp
Is ono of the important things.
Dampness In the poultry house,
yards or runs is often source of
trouble.
The thing that counts In the poul-
try business Is doing the right thing
at the right time.
Don't let the weeds get foot high
and then pull them, disturbing the
surrounding flowers, even If none are
pulled out.
Fight green lice with tobacco-tea
and the rose-slug with lime-water. Or
try busting air-slaked lime on the in
tested rose-bushes.
Few horsemen pay enough attention
to the teeth of the old horses, and
then wonder why they look out Of
condition.
On land at all subject to foot-rot
many sheep will fall lame-mere es-
pecially the close-wooled breeds on
grass.
1t Is very seldom that a group of
sheep may be fattened on dry food
without some Of them dying or suffer
Ing with constipation.
There may be such thing as bad
luck In the dairy business, but It is q
peculiar coincidence that it always
follows bad management.
On receiving new rose bushes from
the dealer or from other sources,
transfer them Immediately to the soil
without exposing the roots to the sun
or drying wind.
When a colt or other animal on the
farm is cut with barbed wire or by
other means, the wound usually car
be successfully treated without the
services Of veterinarian.
.. Probably the best vegetable grown
in the garden is asparagus. It is {
perennial plant and lasts for many
years without renewing. 1t is the ear
.. Hest and most delicious vegetable.
Select good, strong colony Il
build the queen cells, remove al
combs containing unsealed larva, alst
remove the queen, and let them re
main queenless few hours.
|. The common foxtail millet is tn,
best for dairy cows. This threshet
! and mixed with an equal part Of clio
ver hay makes one of the best rough
nesses. INTERESTED millet shoult
!. never be fed alone to any kind o
!. stock.
& Vine crops should not be disturbe,
: after the vines commence to run, Al
the leaves act as mulch of the plant
spread almost as far as the vines an,
grow quite near the surface of tn,
+ soil. Any weeds not destroyed b,
former civilizations should be pulle,
by hand.
Salad plants. tomatoes, muskmelons
Of late years been added, one afte
another. to the greenhouse crops, an,
the enlarged menu resulting there
? from has gratifled the epicure and ha
8 been q source Of revenue to the pre-
a ducers.
Leave all the good eve lambs 70
breeding, but give extra feed h
lambs intended for summer market
) They may be growing now, but the,
\ will put on better flesh for highe
prices with daily feed OF groun,
grain. It is good way to cash Il
surplus grain.
II you have separator you will no
8 be bothered with lot Of sour mil
e standing around during the warn
d months. Pigs will drink sour min
9 but the sweet milk will do them NOR
good. Get q cream separator an
save moro Of the cream, besides d.
= irving more benefit from the skir
!, milk.
: II the mare II fed on timothy ha
and corn alone she cannot furnish tn
proper elements for the development
Of the foal. Wheat bran, shorts, Of
meal and clover hay should be grea
& part Of the daily ration. Give the mar
daily exercise and Il will not hur
= % work hor up to foaling time. PR
viding nhn = not strained or oveI