The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-08-26
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Plenty Of shade Is essential.
Keep the peppers picked clean at
least every other day.
A few trees in the sheep pasture
will turn it into paradise.
Cement or concrete silos, when well
built. are practically everlasting.
Allowing weeds to go to seed now
means increased labor next season.
The best method to determine If
your hens are good layers is the trap
nest.
A strong swarm Of bees will furnish
a hundred pounds Of honey aside from
what they themselves consume.
II you grow late-maturing crops in
the orchard they will keep the wood
growing too late to make them safe for
winter.
Cowpea vine hay has feeding value
practically equal to that of wheat
bran, which is worth now more than
$50 per ton.
It is folly to raise hogs, feed them
high-priced feeds, get them in good
shape and then let them die on their
way to market.
Early potato blight is liable to at
tack the potato crop at any time from
June until the crop is ripe, but is
most seriously destructive in July and
August.
A heifer becomes COW after she
drops her first calf and begins Civ
ing milk-no matter at what age, and
she remains heifer until these ma
ternal obligations are assumed.
In dairying, there are special breeds
enough and reliable information
enough, SO there is no excuse for q
man who goes it blind and blames
luck and the weather for his failure.
With dairying. as with other lines
OF farming. the dairyman should ia.
miliarize himself as much as possible
with every fact which can be brought
to bear upon the quality Of his pro-
duct.
Bacon is only the intermingling Of
fat and lean meat, and If the meat is
grown along rapidly it will be more
tender and palatable than If it is
pinched until the lean is dry and taste
less.
In all those portions of the coun.
try where dairying is leading and
distinctive feature, and other grains
than corn are used as a growing and
fattening ration the bacon hogs can be
raised to advantage and profit.
AS the days wax warmer and warm
er ones efforts are apt to relax, but
the young fowls destined to take their
places in the show room must not be
! neglected. They must have their feed
regularly. and water in abundance
Upon the horse-collar depends
much more than appearl at first
glance. The day-in-and-out efficiency
Of the team, its labor service, it's
thriftiness depend very largely upon
the proper kind and fitting Of the
collars used.
The man with silo will be in q
position to congratulate himself this
winter and we urge every farmer to
consider the erection of a silo this
fall. No other means will provide
80 much palatable and nutritious
feed from an acre of land.
Cultivation as the plants develop re-
quires not only care and skill, but
forethought also. If heavy rains have
beaten the soil into a hard mass and
1t is water soaked it may be neces-
sary to go as deeply as possible with
out injuring the roots in order to
aerate the ground properly.
Once the calf is well started toward
an early and profitable marketable
maturity by liberal feeding and good
care at this season OF the year. there
IL little need Of advising with regard
to his future feeding care, as the
owners good sense will tell him that
Il viii pay to continue to feed and
care for him well. ~
Fowls will lay occasionally In win.
ter 4 they are not cared for other than
having . few coopfuls OF corn tossed
TO them = q filthy house, but they win
make q Dsont over ana above the Feed
md housing Is hey are well sheltered
4and ted HaEiety sof clean and wheie.
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