The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-01-07
sows need plenty Of salt

Will anything turn the appetite of Z
crow?
Any good seed corn you save with
be in demand next spring.
There is work in plenty all the
while on the average farm.
If you think the creamery isn't
treating you right, get tester.
| Few men curry their cows daily,
but those who do say that it pays.
1t is a mistake to feed the pigs
sour milk when they are learning to
eat.
There are no aggravating corn
/ stalks in the manure when silage is
red.
When properly taken care of, early
lambs are more profitable than late
| ones.
1t is a mistake to fail to feed pigs
their growth.
BY setting few trees each year II
is not much of task to replace the
old ones that die.
Train up vine in the way it should
go and you will have grapes next year
and all the years thereafter.
Be sure that every narrowing pen
has good fender to prevent the SOW
from lying on and crushing the pigs.
The method of feeding and kind and
quality of the food determines the
flavor and nutritive value of the egg
If the pigs are inclined to get too fat
put them out on the ground or in lar.
ger quarters and encourage them to
activity
Skim milk occupies conspicuouA
position among the various feeding
stuffs, especially for young and grow:
| ing animals.
The up-to-date beekeeper no longe,
leaves his colonies outdoors all winter
without adequate packing, as it spells
disaster to do SO.
AS soon as the bare wood on a wa
gon, sled, hayrack or any of the farm
tools begins to show, it pays to paint
them quickly, and even more than it
does to paint buildings,
Why do things on the farm in the
same way as your father did without
knowing why? Something more is
wanted than mere mechanical per
Torrance of ones duty.
One of the best ways to quiet ,
vicious bull when he is being led il
to blindfold him, and if he has shown
the least disposition to be nasty ht
should never be trusted again.
The lamb gets it's start in life from
it's mother. She must be a good
liberal mixer or the lamb will fail to
make the proper growth and develop
ment to make it profitable to the high.
est degree.
Out on the Pacific coast grain sells
by the hundred pounds; wheat oats,
all small grain go by that standard
of measure. 1t is the simplest, best
way. The pounds in bushel vary in
the different states.
When the hedge has attained q
height of five feet, it should be about
three feet wide at its base or at the
surface of the ground, and all prun.
ing should be directed with view to
securing this form.
Cool cream Immediately by settins
it in cold or ice water, and never al
low foul odors around places where
milk or cream is kept. Keep a cloth
cover over milk and cream SO that
dirt or sediment will not drop into it
If you have had an incubator this
past season, and did not obtain salts.
factory results with it, carefully re-
view your whole seasons work and
experience with it, and by so doing
learn the cause of your several fail.
ures
A pigeon grower reports a heav,
loss of birds from impaction Of the
crop caused by feeding oats to the
birds. Pigeons, like young chicks.
have very small crops, and have not
the power of working of these bulls
when they once get them in the crop.
Although the present bright outlook
for grain growing and comparatively
high prices paid for it has doubtless
given the stock business percept
able setback in some Of our newer
/ stock Socti0nS wo do MT haI3a.,~ A..