The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-05-21

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Weeds are costly.
A sour Manager is All abomination.
Plant the garden when the cherry
blooms.
Weeds are not necessity. but 9
costly luxury.
Make a good seed bed before plant
ing corn, potatoes and garden.
The old brood SOW should be kept
as long as she remains vigorous.
If you doubt whether pig enjoys
| grass give him a chance to show you.
The time is fast approaching when
the dairyman will find he can't afford
pasture.
The brood sow needs mixed diet
In which there is plenty of food rich
in protein.
Feeding COW milk to young lambs is
very dangerous practice, and is very
apt to kill them.
Glover sown without a nurse crop
should be sown very early In the
spring in a mellow seed bed.
You can't tougher a horse to the
spring work In a day. Start in easy.
Think how it is with your own shoul.
ders.
Shearing sheep too closely, even
when the weather Is warm, Is bad
practise. as either a chill or sun
scald Is liable to result.
A mixture of a little salt, charcoal.
ashes and air-slacked lime has good
effect upon parasites of the digestive
system Of either young or old pigs.
Enough extra time is wasted every
year with matted and sodded over
weeds to keep our fields clean several
years II the work had been done In
time.
Many fields of alfalfa are ruined
by too close pasturing, the stock eat
ing the crown of the plants so that
they are injured and they cannot
send out young shoots.
Onions are one of the crops that
need regular and heavy fertilization
Of the whole ground, and one cannot
make money with onions II planted
wide enough for horse cultivation.
operations this year. Unless you do
this you will profit little in experience.
If you keep correct record, you may
profit in both experience and finance.
Weeds will always be in the land
to certain extent unless every farm
err will clean his grain and work to
destroy them in place Of sowing the
seed and trying to cultivate the weeds
out
\ Teach your boy how to shoe horses,
sharpen plows and use tools intelli-
gently. He will take pride in making
cd hn a
II allowed the use of sharp tools and
encouraged to make the home at
| tractive.
Standing in the barn will spoil q
horse sooner than good steady work
When you see his legs begin to stock
up, hurry and get him to work al
something, II It Is nothing more than
exercising in the yard every day
Keep that up till you have some real
business to do.
To make hogs Of 225 pounds a
seven months or $50 pounds at eigh
from early March farrows is NOR,
profitable than to have pigs come II
April or May or later. since the earl,
pigs are ready to make use Of thu
pasture while 1t Is at its best and cd
cape stormy cold weather before Nm
ished.
| As rule 1t II not good practic
to plant potatoes after potatoes on tn
same land. The crop II more likel
to be diseased. and the yield not a
good as II planted on one or two
year clover sod, or after corn. Tn
spores Tor seeds) Of fungus diseases
such as blight, scab, ETC., will remsi
in the soil for q year. at least. afte
the potatoes are harvested.
There IL no other food stun to b
found more constantly upon on
tables than dairy products, and non
that are more worthy to be there
and It only rests with those 4 VIII
have the handling Of such product
under their direction to realize an
keep In mind the fact that these pro,
ucts are to be used for food and this
they must use good Judgment an
proper care IN handling them or Ii
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