The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-22

| ures are both necessary in combating
| hog lice.
In order to keep fowls healthy we
must breed for health just as we
would for any other desired quality.
| When the young poults begin to get
their long wing flight feathers, they
require extra care and attention.
For feeding lambs to be used for
breeding purposes preference should
be given to bran, oats and linseed
meal.
A well-ventilated and light and dry
cellar is the best place for the incu-
bator in operation, as it is less sub.
| ject to change of temperature than
any other part of the house.
| For two or three years after plant.
| ing, the ground among ornamental
shrubs should be spaded and the sur.
face cultivated to keep down weeds
and grass and to conserve moisture.
ton of dairy and breeding cattle until
they are tuberculin tested, but permit
as yet unrestricted sale of stock with.
in it's boundaries.
Rape is especially valuable for
breeding ewes in midsummer, when
the pastures begin to fail, as the sue
culent feed keeps up the supply OF
milk for the lambs.
Never overfeed or feed pepper or
other condiments to the hens you ex-
pect to furnish eggs for Matching. If
you do, infertile eggs and weak chicks
will be the result.
] The Wisconsin experiment station
finds lime is deficient in much of the
| grain ration fed to dairy COWS and
hogs. Hogs fed on phosphates and
bone mash, made consistent and profit
able gains.
|
radishes depends largely upon quick
growth under moderately cool condi-
tions. For this reason the soil should
be very fine of texture and fertile to
stimulate the most rapid growth.
A grape vine to bear well must be
cultivated and carefully pruned each
year, cutting back to two, three, or
not more than four canes, and care
fully pinching off surplus young
shoots during the summer
There is something in suiting the
corn to the soil. Trying to suit the
soil to the corn is tough PROPOSE
| ton, as many a man who has tried
corn adapted to bottom soil on thin
ner upland has found to his sorrow.
The poultry products of the United
States are just on par with wheat
and hay The combined value of the
three last year was around two bill
lion dollars, an average of over GIL
millions each.
A mixture of salt, two parts, and
ashes, one part, should be put in the
sailing box at least once each week
The ashes should be rich in charcoal.
The COWS require a great deal of
charcoal and cannot do their best
without it.
Where manure is accumulated in
stables. and lots, and is properly saved,
it goes on the land more evenly, as a
rule, which is an important considera-
ton where a man is endeavoring to
keep up the lands fertility and get as
much out of 1t as possible at the same
time.
The floor and walls of the dairy
barn where the cows are MIXED must
be free from dust and dirt; the COWS
must be brushed and their udders
sponged off with damp cloth pre-.
vious to milking and the mixer him
selw must have clean hands and
clothes.
Always market your butter regu,
larly at current market prices. Give
your customers pure, sweet, fresh
butter and your reputation as good
butter maker will soon be established.
When your butter is held until it is
old and stale 1t is not warted and
your reputation suffers as well as
your pocket.
A foal may be raised on COWS milk
If the latter is sweetened with sugar
or molasses at the rate of two tea
spoonfuls per pint and three table
spoonfuls of lime water are added at
first. Give a cupful every hour at
first and gradually increase amount
and decrease meals to six and then to
four feeds a day.
At the present time open-front
poultry houses are very popular and
are giving very satisfactory results.
Such buildings have part q, the whole
Of the south front covered only by
fine mesh wire netting and open at all
times to the weather. Fowls housed
in these open-front buildings are very
rarely subject to disease and prove
remarkably productive. They are
much less affected by weather
changes than birds confined in the old
fashioned, tightly-closed buildings.
Some persons advocate cutting the
young potted plants loose from the
mother plant as soon IS they take
root, while others allow them to re-