The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-01

NlTh FARM
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NEVER use pOOr Seeu.
Plant only potatoes that are sound.
No horse can thrive on musty bran,
oats or corn.
Cooked meat is much better to give
the very young turkeys.
Sweet clover Is a good indicator of
soil that will grow alfalfa.
Weeds reduce the physical condition
of the soil to a poorer state.
With prices at the $40 mark, the
hog has become a respected farm ami
NAL.
Now that the chicks are Matched,
comes the difficult part of raising
them.
Make 1t a rule to caress the colt
after performing well what was re-
CURED of him.
Among the things by which time
can be saved by using larger Ia
chinery the grain drill stands first.
Few annual flowers will grow so
easily and give the wealth of bloom
for SO long a season as the nastur-
tiums.
Buy only the best and never sell
good stock, except when you have a
surplus or when the birds are too
old for profit.
Free range for hogs doe not mean
that they should be allowed to run
in the highways and through the
neighbors fields.
Have you ever tried hen manure
about your flowers? Fine. And for
garden purposes nothing a beat it.
1t is free from weed seeds.
Every Enclosure for the hog should
be perfectly tight, and with the ex-
cellent wire fences that are now man.
ufactured it is an easy matter.
The essentials of a good summer
hog pasture are, first, a good hog
tight fence; next comes a good stand
of grass, clover or other good forage
plants.
While the interest in good roads
seems to be general throughout the
country it is not active because con-
c%entration Of effort is necessary to
secure them.
1t is as impossible to tell by looking
at a cow the amount of milk she will
give in a year as it is to tell the
amount of butter fat present in milk
by looking at it.
You can have pure bred flock of
chickens just as well as not. If you
have not the hens to lay the eggs Sc
cure eggs from a pure breed and
hatch and raise the kind you like best.
Mangels are the most economical
beet to grow for milk production; but
many breeders, in forcing cows for ex-
IRENE records, prefer table beets, be-
| cause the COWS will eat a larger guam
tity.
With some varieties of apples, like
Ben Davis, Bordeaux cannot safely be
used just after the blossoms fall be-
cause of the russeting and disfgure-
ment of the fruit which almost surely
results.
When properly used millet is one of
the most palatable forage crops of the
whole list, and furthermore when one
or two simple precautions are taken
it is as safe as any other kind of hay
or forage.
The period of incubation for pleas
ant eggs does not differ greatly from
that of common fowls, though it is
| slightly longer, 25 as compared with
81 days. The eggs are usually set
under a Cochin bantam hen.
The reason why hogs so eagerly
| devour coal ashes, rotten wood and
such material, is because they do not
have, while in close confinement,
the material their systems require.
At large they root it out Of the
ground.
After all, it is hen fruit that is the
most reliable crop, and it gets too
little attention on the majority of
farms. The time is coming 500 when
eggs and poultry will be n of the
principal sources of income to those
who own small or medium-sized farms.
Plant trees. The little Seeding will
soon become a sturdy giant. We have
iust been reading of a house recently
luilt in Nebraska out of the lumber
sawn from cottonwood trees planted
by the owner on the bare prairie in
1866. Nothing impossible or remark
able about the feat; only another con
crete illustration Of possibilities,
that's all.
The time is not far distant when
this country will be compelled to make
available every form of fertility that
will enrich the soil. The people of In
dia, of China, and of Egypt were long
ago compelled to make use of the fer
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into the rivers, lakes and harbors