The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-29

gether.
An easy way to secure new grape
vines is TO propagate them by layer
ing.
Keep busting the setting hen with
insect powder, before and after she
matches her chicks
The careful man will turn and ex-
anime the udders of all his ewes in
tended for breeding.
Never allow the fowls to drink
from stream into which the poultry
yards and barn yards drain
The man who desires large profits
the best that good management will
produce.
If you have no silo and cannot build
one this year then plant an acre or
more of beets or other roots for win
ter green feed for the dairy cows.
Select dairy breed of cattle whose
product and offspring will bring the
highest possible price in any market,
and you will surely be successful in
dairying.
But sometimes the large gray louise
gets into the head and under the
wings of the chicks, then it is best to
rub these parts with grease of some
kind. Lard and carbolic acid is good.
Developing of new sections in sew
eral of the states of the middle west
for dairy purposes in itself will call
for more extra dairy cows that all the
country can possibly furnish.
A mixed grain ration of corn and
oats, when fed with clover hay, is
more efficient than single grain ra-
ton of corn for producing large gains
in an S4-day feeding period.
Look we'll to supply of autumn
boomers by planting bed or asters..
The aster has an almost endless va
riety of colorings and blooms when
most other flowers are past their sea-
son of beauty.
Glover hay, when fed with mixed
grain ration of corn and oats, is more
efficient for producing gains than tim
othy hay In this test clover hay
produced So per cent. more gains than
timothy.
While box stalls are safer than sim
gle stalls for stabling horses, they
are also more expensive and do not
offer merits not possessed by single
stalls so far as they may influence
the horse in taking on flesh.
1t is not reasonable to expect strong
and healthy chicks from immature,
weak and unhealthy parents. Stand
ard, healthy and vigorous breeding
stock is the foundation of successful
matches.
When being fattened wether lambs
should have some succulent food in
their ration, for the reason that they
will remain healthier and not be
troubled with the common disorder
called stretches and will usually make
a better gain.
You cannot afford to keep poor cows
and the best way to get good ones IS
to raise them yourself. Breed the
COWS YOU have to full-blooded dairy
male If you cannot secure the serv-
ices of one go in with some of your
neighbors and buy one in partnership
With favorable soil and climatic
conditions good crops of rape may be
obtained from broadcast seeding, but
whenever there is any danger of the
surface soil becoming very dry dur
ing the time the seed is terminating
or when land is at all fosl, drilling
will give much better results.
Grapes propagated from layering
come true to name. Hence when you
start new grape plants in this way
choose canes from your best varieties.
Well-rooted young grape plants Will
begin to bear the third year after set
ting in a permanent row and with
good cultivation and general good
care, including proper annual pruning,
they will bear good fruit every year.
increasing in productiveness with age
In resetting plants it Is of perma-
nent Importance to place the roots In
the soil in as natural position as
possible, little deeper than they
grew In the original bed, making the
soil hold them fast, fan shaped and
firm. Holes too deep or holes too
shallow are both Objectionable, the
one being too apt not to be closed at
the bottom, the other forcing the roots
into a matted condition.
The way to reclaim gully or an
unnecessary ditch in field is to fill
it with trash and keep 1t filled. The
trash will hold it from washing any
wider or deeper and will gradually
catch all soil and sediment that
washes into it. BY and by it will be-
come filled with trash and soil and
when the trash decays this soil will.
become the best in the feld-deep.
porous and full of the best available
plant foods.