The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-08-19
There is money in bees.
Start an asparagus bed. 1t thrives
on sandy soil.

roads.
| A dogs bark is rather to be encour-
aged. There is argument in the barking
of a dog.
One man cannot well do two things
at once, but two men can do one
thing nicely.
| Young shrubs need more cultivation
and care than older ones, especially
the first year.
Some men never discover where
fence is weak until they attempt to
climb over it.
Even a city man can come to the
front with small flock of poultry in
his back yard.
No cow which averages less than
one and one-half gallons of milk per
day can be kept at profit.
Take the chill off the water for the
mare, and feed her carefully and keep
her quiet for a number of days.
The cow is doing her best for you
and you can afford to pamper her
whims. They are usually pretty good
ones.
The man who said "that the best
poultrymen on most farms are the
women" knew what he was talking
about.
| Onions stand a good deal of cold.
If you have new ones earlier than
your neighbors, you must take some
/ chances.
1t is more difficult to secure the
seeds of forest trees than any other
kinds of seeds, since there Is SO lit
tie market for them.
Beets may be canned or picked and
saved for winter use. When vegeta-
bles are scarce they will be greatly
enjoyed If saved in this way.
In Japan there are 1872 people for
every 40 acres of land and 256 cows,
256 donkeys, and 512 swine for every
square mile of land in the kingdom.
Take some time to make handy de-
vices for the house and barn. They
are easy to make, and many of them
| fIox
1t is not fair calculation to take the
average of the herd as the basis Of
computing annual profit from the
dairy. Let each individual stand on
her merits.
The sitting hen should be given a
new, clean box for nest, filed with
the cleanest of material. Place her on
the new nest and give her the eggs
in the evening.
No animals are bred that are capa-
BILE of supplying the largest amount OF
rich milk and storing away the largest
amount of flesh and fairness in their
bodies at one and the same time.
Most people find that the yearling
hens lay more eggs than the older
hens, but some chicken raisers claim
that the old hens eggs are better for
Matching, because they are more
strongly fortified.
Good food never creates the char
acter nor temperament of cow, nor
makes of her a good dairy animal,
any more than it never makes good
cow out of small mixer; it is use
less to make the effort
Water or moisture is always on the
move. When it rains 1t soaks tho
ground, and as soon as it stops raining
it starts its upward movement by capil-
larry attraction. 1t travels from one
soil particle to the next and so on until
the soil becomes what We call dry.
All stock will be healthier and will
thrive better if salt is kept where
they can help themselves daily rather
than at intervals. Medicated salts are
now put up and sold tnat are better
in every way for the stock than the
common salt usually used besides be-
ing a better conditioner.
The soil has wonderful absorptive
power to hold on to its moisture, for
If we place some soil in the oven and
drive off the moisture by heat and
then examine these soil particles un-
der powerful microscope we will find
each soil particle coated with thin
film of what is termed microscopic wa
ter.
Shade and water are important mat
tiers in connection with grazing cattle,
and the more nearly natural the condi-
tons can be made, the better. In a
pasture which contains no trees, it
sometimes pays to put up board roof
to protect cattle from the hot sun in
July and August, but summer feeding
on large scale is not generally adj
visable at all where there is no ma
tural shade in the field.
Unless the cockerels are to be re-
tanned for breeding purposes, 1t is adj
visable to kill them off as soon as
they are sufficiently large, thus clear
ing the ground and giving more space
to the pullets to grow. When cock
erels are allowed to run together.
growth is considerably retarded, be.
sides which the flesh loses good deal