The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-03-26
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Feed out the cane and Kafir.
A well drained garden is an early
one.
Carelessness in handling pigs Is q
bad habit to acquire.
Even on cold days hogs should have
plenty of good fresh air.
Keep the sheep pens clean. Dirt
and foul odors effect sheep quickly.
Health is natural, disease is unnat-
ural; health 10 contagious as well as
disease.
A good three-year wellbred colt Is
worth from $3.50 to 5000. Does he pay
his keep7
1t is mistake to suppose that
good COW Of inferior breeding Is quail
ded to drop good calf.
To make hogs profitable we must
provide plenty of range that we may
keep their yards clean and sanitary.
Where &pwls have been kept in good
condition during summer and fall. the
problem Of winter eggs is generally
solved.
The trap nest and the numbered
leg band enable a breeder to keep an
accurate account of the performances
Of his fowls.
Hogs lose the use of their hind
quarters from need Of laxative food.
A little cotton seed meal fed occasion
ally will remedy this.
There are over 1000 beekeepers in
this country, and product of their
hives last year was enough to fill q
train of cars over 400 miles long.
Cow-peas make excellent hay which,
II properly handled, is equal to alfalfa
In nutritive value, although as a rule
stock do not eat cow-pea hay as read
lily as alfalfa.
Throw an extra lot of hay into the
poultry yards The chickens will
scratch out every clover seed. There
Is no better way to make them work
for their food.
A practical farmer tells the condi-
ton of any soil by treading upon 1t, as
unerringly as a cattle breeder tells
she feeding quality of an animal by
feeling its skin.
Piano boxes make good colony
houses. A yard of netting should be
attached where fowls can have a
grassy run. They should be given a
pile of sand to scratch in.
II is foolish economy to keep using
harness which is worn out. Many IA
tai accidents, both to the horses and
drivers, have occurred because some
thing gave way at the wrong time.
II is Just as well to have a we'll
bred chicken as a well-bred horse or
COW. Any amount of food will not
make mongrel as profitable as q
pure-bred under the same conditions.
Good stock demands good care and
II they do not receive 1t, they are
sure to degenerate. The man who is
inclined to abuse his stock should
stick to the scrub or raise grain ex-
clusively.
On an Illinois farm where corn and
oats have been grown alternately
for 81 years the physical condition
Of the ground is very bad. II washes
easily and runs together as the other
soil near 1t does not.
wheat and oat crops" says Prof.
Andrew Boss, ARE the ones which
bring in the money, and there is no
reason why the farmer should not get
from 20 to 30 bushels an acre with
the proper selection Of seed alone"
II is hard to tell how much freezing
bees can stand, but the better protect
ed they are the less honey they con-
sumo. For 1t is a well-known fact
among beekeepers that the bees use
a great deal of honey as fuel in order
to keep comfortable in winter.
There is good education for the
farm boy in learning how to properly
run and care for the farm tools and
machinery, even II he does not live
on a farm afterwards. 1t is disci-
pline for mind and muscle that will
be valuable in nearly all other voca'
lions.
It is an interesting and very encour
aging thing to note that while the
newer western states are steadily 70
ducing the average yields BY poor
farming, the older states. seeing the
error Of their ways. are steadily In
creasing their average yields By bet