The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-01
Make the quarters comfortable.
Do not allow weeds in the yard.

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doing good.
The more lice you have the less
chicks you will raise.
Unsprayed orchards fail to hold
their leaves late enough.
A spoonful of feed for from a dozen
to twenty chicks is enough at one
time.
The climbing or trailing nasturtiums
can be planted either with or without
support.
Choose the breed of cows you like
and stick to that breed without
change.
with chicks is to feed a lot of soft and
feeds.
A colt should be made acquainted
with the bride bit for some time be-
fore a harness is put on him.
For a person or a horse to learn
new things the first lessons should
be short, with long resting spells be.
tween.
Success in growing chicks, or any
nfhnr nv nrinoal A~0-~ o~r1lx,
upon frequent feeding on small
amounts.
A pint Of crude carbolic acid mixed
with a gallon of kerosene makes an
excellent spray for poultry houses.
and it is cheap.
Colts should be early accustomed to
the noise of carriages, gates and other
moving things that they are likely to
come in contact with.
herd at feeding time. The thriftiest
and fattest always get to the trough
first, and these are the ones to buy.
Keep shade trees in the permanent
pasture in groups rather than scat
tered individual trees. The shade will
be cooler and less ground will be taken
up.
Whatever other Industries a town
may have there is always room for
a good creamery if there is a suf-
ficient number of cows in the adjoin-
ing territory.
There is no danger of the market
being glutted with poultry products
and the person who intelligently in
creases a flock will be on the win
ming side next year.
The dairy cow is a wonderful me-
dunn for the proper disposal of farm
grown crops. She is a complete fac
tory. Her only demand is that you
give her a square DEAL"
A well fenced hog pasture, or sew
eral small ones, is not only an excel
lent place for making hogs do their
best in warm weather, but is also a
good pasture for calves or other small
animals.
1t is immaterial about the size of
the window and also about the kind of
windows for a COW stable. One can
use the kind that best suits his fancy.
The important thing is to get suff-
cient light in the stable.
Soy beans may be planted from
early spring until midsummer. If
wanted for grain, plant at compliant
ing time. For hay, they may be plant
ed later, and if a catch crop is desired,
they may be planted still later.
1t is a very difficult thing to have
the sheep carry its fleece over the
summer season and into the second
year, owing to the tendencies to shed
wool from various influences that an
noy and derange the vigor and general
health of the animal.
Economy in fencing never begins in
the choice of DOR wire. There is
great difference in the value of differ
ent grades. Take some trouble and
pay an extra price to get the best.
The use of lig~ht-gauge wire is often
the most expensive course in the end.
One cause of the idea, which still
prevails to a great extent in the city,
that much of the comb honey is adul-
terated, is the fact that there are per-
haps hundreds of different flowers
which produce honey, no two of which
are of exactly the same flavor, and
varying also in color.
R~aspberries and blackberries should
be cultivated rather shallow between
the rows, with horse and c%ultivator,
and weeds around the plants cut out
with the hoe until July, when a heavy
mulch should be placed between the
rows, of some material that will pre-
vent the evaporation of the moisture.
You can easily destroy the goose
berry worms by busting or spraying
the bushes as soon as they are no
ticed with paris green, made some
what weaker than you would use for
the slug of the potato beetle. Pow
dered %hellebore, which may be OBJ