The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-03-11
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High priced grain foods mean high
producing dairy cows.
The farm is a sort of clock which
reflects The time of year.
It does not pay 20 allow the pigs to
run through wet pasture.
Early maturity is an important
quality to consider in selecting sheep.
Blanket your horse during the sleet
storms as well as when it is extreme
ly cold.
good way to make your calves
sickly and weak is to keep them in a
dark STALL
New land will always raise crop
but 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.
If there is fowl in the flock little
out of condition. that bird is apt to
prove the most lousy member of the
flock
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
frys In the winter time. They find a
ready sale before the spring chickens
come on the market.
To prevent throat and lung diseases
among the poultry, put piece of alum
In the drinking water and repeat the
dose every three or four weeks.
There is NO reason why the bulk
OF the feeding cannot be done in a
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 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 it 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.
The best of the spring crop of lambs
should be selected for breeders; in
ferior ewes, 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. Put set alarm
clock in the nest. The ticking will
annoy her and she will go off when
the alarm does.
While the effect of the cow-peas in
maintaining the fertility of the soil.
where used as 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 a teaspoonful must
be given to each at time, yet from
five 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.
The preliminary estimate of the
corn crop in the principal states is as
follows: Illinois, 366 million bushels:
Iowa, 294 million; Nebraska, 1876 mil.
lion; Missouri, 215 million; Kansas.
155 million; Texas, 1T million; Indi.
ana, 1876 million: Ohio. ISL million;
Oklahoma, 100 million.
The method of procedure by which
a variety of potatoes is improved is
very simple and easily carried out by
any careful grower. When the crop
is dug the most prolific hills may be
selected and kept separate for COM
parative test the following season.
In this manner prolific strain may
be started.
In growing young bulls, folders that
are leguminOus are to be preferred.
These are such as clover, alfalfa, pea
and vetch hay, fed twice daily. For
meal there is nothing better than a
mixture of bran and oats, with little
oilcake added. Calves of the best
breeds may also be given more or less
cornmeal to maintain flesh, but usual.
ly the proportion of this should be