The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-06-03
Give spring pigs good pasture.
Gapes is disease found only among
your chicks. 81


deau the middle to last of June.
Every man who raises hogs should
provide good pasture for them.
With alfalfa hay the summer pas
ture conditions are most nearly real
lied.
Hogs should not be allowed access
to a stream where there is cholera on
farms above. 2
, A road drag used occasionally after
rains on the farm roads will help to
keep them in good condition.
Missouri has fed goats numerously
during the past year and those who
| handled them made money.
| Some claim cape worms can never
| be gotten rid of once soil is infested
with them, but this is not always true.
Horses and mules are now barred
from crossing the state line of Kansas
until they have certificate of good
health.
| The middleman gets a jolt in the
statement that American beef is now
selling in London cheaper than 1t Is
in New York.
No sow can bring litter of thrifty,
well developed pigs unless she is fed
liberal quantities of the right kinds
of food during pregnancy.
There are very few gardens in the
rural sections that are provided with
asparagus, which is as easily grown as
weeds when once established.
Be sure to mulch the newly planted
trees. The hot, dry days will come
and these cost the lives of many young
fruit trees that are not so protected.
Much of the danger that comes to
the pigs at birth will be eliminated if
the sows are kind and tractable, allow
ing all necessary help at narrowing
time.
Colonies of so chicks do very well,
but colonies of % will do better
still, for it does not pay to crowd
young chicks any more than 1t does
to crowo- old fowls.
The best remedy to cure bloating
in cattle is to give one ounce aromatic
spirits of ammonia at dose every
half hour in pint of cold water I'M
til the animal is relieved.
Horses and cattle do not suffer
from tape-worm nearly SO often as
sheep. Sulphur is not a good vermi-
eide and it has little effect in destroy
ing or expelling tape-worm.
| Every calf fed to eighteen or twenty
months of age (of beef bred) will
bring the farmer $50 to $50. and will
consume much feed that otherwise
would not be of much profit.
Different rams will cost varying
prices, but the returns they each will
give are to be wholly the guide in
order that you will purchase the ram
which will give the largest net money
returns.
When the silo is filled thorough
wetting down and tramping of the top
will prevent the entrance of air, and
will save more of the top layer from
spelling than would be the case If this
| is not done.
A hen should be fed some grain
that she doesn't have to scratch for.
Although exercise is necessary to
keep her in good health, she needs
time to rest and dust herself in the
middle of the day.
Lettuce can be put to good advan-
a large supply of quickly available
plant food It's culture demands the
most liberal feeding to realize the best
results. The heads must be large as
well as early to secure the best
prices.
Chicken hawks, weasels, rats and
other marauders often prey upon the
small chickens and all efforts to cap
ture them in traps prove unavailing,
where a good gun will often be of
more assistance in Kidding the farm
| Of their donrodatiOnS
Where one has thoroughly well
drained land and once gets a good
(! tatch of alfalfa it makes a most ex-
eellent pasture, but 1t costs some
money in getting a stand and also
large run, as alfalfa under the most
favorable circumstances will not adj
/! poit of close pasturing.
The conditions, which man creates,
causing loss of humus, are brought
about by continued cropping without
supplying anything to form humus
and by improper cultivation which
permits a rapid evaporation of the
soil moisture and an excessive AGRA
ton of the soil and oxidation of the
vegetable matter found in it.
There is no stock raised on the
American farm today that is paying
as big dividends on the capital invest
ed as draft horses. From weanilg
time to maturity the draft horse In
ready money and the demand Is asz
| so urpant that the SR,Atf s>At1 fhs
price. Never in the history 81 the