The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-22
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MI FARM
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Sheep are excellent farm cleaners
The bruise on an apple is injurious.
Lice and mites come with warm
weather
Tie the grape vines to the trellis
wires before the vines begin to run.
No well bred farmer ever contents
himself with scrub stock or poor crops.
It Is a sad mistake for man to
make q good crop of grass into poor
hay.
Pure fresh air, day and night is
one of the prime essentials for keep
ing fowls in good health.
Most separators do their best work
with the milk at a temperature of
from IS degrees to 95 degrees Fahren-
heit.
When the cream has been held at
churLing temperature for a period of
two or three hours, it is ready to be
churned.
A good way to keep manure for the
garden is to fill large box, turning
it over with a fork about once a
week and keeping it moist.
The government is sending out ex-
perts to various parts of the country
to teach fruit growers the best meth
DDS of spraying their trees.
When shrubs are first planted they
should be headed back one-half or
more, but after they become estab-
lished they should be allowed to
branch at will
One of the prominent symptoms Of
shoulder lameness in horses is a diff
ficulty of lifting and extending the
limb, which is particularly noticeable
when the patient is urged to trot.
The flea beetle is a small, metallic
blue insect which is destructive to the
fruit both as the larva and the adult.
Spraying with arsenate of lead or
paris green is generally effective.
Some of the amber honeys are
made from the aster, goldenrod, bone
set, queen of the meadow, heartsease,
wild sunflower, Spanish needle, SUI
mac, magnolia and marigold.
The earliest sown lettuce should be
of some of the loose growing varieties.
For summer use plant cabbage lettuce,
or heading varieties. as the leaves
during the warm season will be whittier
and more crisp.
Soy beans shed their leaves before
the grain begins to ripen; therefore
when hay is desired the plants must
be cut when half or more of the pods
are fully grown, but before the beans
begin to harden.
1t is a we'll known fact among
farmers and fruit growers that black
berries improve the physical nature
of the soil through their root action
When they are removed from the ap-
pie orchard the soil is left in ideal
condition for the outer feeding roots
of the apple trees.
While it is conceded that permanent
maintenance of soil fertility without
live stock is possible, it is not prac-
ticable az a statewide policy, because
it is not the highest type of agricul-
ture and because few farmers can be
induced to comply with all the condi-
tons necessary to make 1t effective
Plant cannas one to two feet apart,
depending altogether If they be dwarf
or the tall-growing sort. They like
very rich soil and plenty Of water
during the growing season. A mulch
of straw manure will help to con-
serve the water that is given them.
Cut off all the seed pods as they
form.
Root plants may be transplanted,
but it is not advisable unless 1t were
in the case of extra early beets start
ed in the hotbed or turnip-rooted rad
ishes lifted out at thinning time. The
roots are usually i'll shaped, yet their
table quality is not injured. Long
varieties always become distorted and
are not marketable.
Although rape can be used as soil
ing crop, and Is so used in many
places, it is doubtful if it will supplant
other plants for this purpose. It's
chief use is for pasture, especially for
hogs and sheep. Geese and other fowl
will do well upon such pastures, and
those who are raising poultry as a
chief industry will find field of rape
useful adjunct. 1t cannot be recon-
mended for curing as a dry fodder or
for silage. 1t is so succulent that it
cures with difficulty, and it cannot be
compared to corn for silagv.
Fowls to lay eggs that will hatch
out the best chicks must have as
nearly natural conditions as possible
plenty Of outdoor exercise, except
in wet and bad weather, plenty Of
fresh air day and night in the hem
house, cleanliness, sunshine and a va
riety Of vegetables, animal and min
eral food, such as wild birds secure in
the open fields and forest. Free range
is best unless the housing and yarding
conditions meet all the natural re-