The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-01-08
Low-down wagon. are not good

Low-down wagonA are not good
A poor hen makes poor mother.
Paint the ladders and store them
under cover.
A run in the pasture IL q fine rem
edy for an ailing horse.
Cultivate the strawberry bed a. long
the soil remains unfrozen.
Cement is replacing lumber in many
forms of farm construction.
Salt should be kept in the managers.
II is purifier and a nild tonic.
Truly speaking. the turkey is the
only true American bird we have.
Get around to new hen house this
fall II you can. It will pay you to do 1t.
No owner Of work animals can af-
ford to let their shoulders get sore.
When soft-shelled eggs are laid you
are feeding ration too rich in pro-
TEN.
The hog having . clean place 10
wallow 10 rarely troubled with lice or
mango.
he old-timers of the range are rap
idly thinning. but we still have quito
few left
Good, substantial shelter not only
adds comfort to the sheep. but money
to the purse.
Hard wood ashes are valuable to
spread around the grape vines and in
the strawberry patch.
In Norway and Iceland fish meat IL
used as a cattle food. Such q diet
gives the milk fishy taste.
In marketing. eggs should be grad
ed before they are offered for sale.
Put them in boxes according to size
and color.
Because hogs utilize grain products
SO efficiently and economically. the
mistake Of feeding grain exclusively
Is too often made.
The subsistence ration Is an expen-
sive one; plenty Of wholesome food
Is necessary to farm animals well-be-
ing and good service.
Many farmers never attribute the
failure of their orchards to produce
good fruit to lack of plant food in the
soil but just let their trees drift along
until they die.
Where there Is still plenty of native
burr oak timber growing the farmers
do not know what the fence post
problem is, but the prairie farmer Is
not SO fortunate.
The greatest menace to hog raising
has always been disease. but now the
Missouri experiment station has found
a real cure for cholera there will be
little loss in the business.
The feeding of late corn fodder to
dairy cows should be continued Just
as long as the corn is at all green. It
is splendid supplementary feed with
the short autumn pasture grass.
Warping of timber is caused by the
themselves to the moisture within
the wood and In the atmosphere"
based upon the external conditions.
A New York man who has an or
chard of 1000 trees planted 20 feet
apart each way, plants currant bushes
five feet apart each way except In
every other space running in the long
est way of the field.
When one has purchased bull of
the conformation and breeding de-
sired the main idea will be to SO use
and care for him that he will be
sure breeder and will reproduce In his
offspring the desirable characteristics
possessed by himself.
The difference between aged sows
and gifts seems to be that SOW two
years old or more is fully matured and
easily kept In good flesh. usually far
rowing much larger pigs than gilt
She Is q much better sucker and
gives so much more milk that the pigs
get better start earlier In life and
thus grow very rapidly. making gains
younger in life.
Good sanitation Is more and more
coming into practice in modern dairy
ing Build sanitary barn II you can.
and II you cannot. then remodel the
COW stalls and make them as COM
Portable and sanitary as possible.
Floors that can be kept dry and clean.
and walls. and ceilings that do not