The Ely miner., 1911-06-30
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Overfeeding must be avoided.
Keep weeds out of strawberries.
Farm teams should have extra care.
Horses should not be checked up
when at work.
Wild mustard causes but little trou-
BILE in the corn belt.
Ensilage materially reduces the cost
Of raising and fattening cattle.
Sometimes old strawberry beds will
pay to keep for another fruiting.
Ordinarily the best animal food for
hens at this time Of year is cut green
bone.
For the women who love plants
there is nothing so pleasant as indoor
gardening.
A sanitary stable is absolutely
necessary for q uniform quality of
good butter.
1t costs less to raise strawberries
in new bed, and they are Of better
size and flavor.
A man who cannot succeed with a
scrub flock will hardly make success
with pure bred herd.
Dairy farmers should not raise or
buy timothy hay for cows. Glover or
alfalfa is much better az milk pro-
ducer.
With the majority of farmers the
pasture provides the sole summer feed
for all the animals except the work
horses.
A patch Of rutabagas or an acre Of
pumpkins will make the cows remem-
Der you with increased yields next fall
and winter.
The temperature of the cream when
in the churn should range from 50 to
sc degrees, and it should be churned
for 80 to 40 minutes.
The sheep that shears ten pounds
or over, an animal of good size and
strong back, with proper attention
will make money for its owner.
The great advantage of the cream
separator over the various systems of
cream-raising is that thick or thin
cream. as desired, may be obtained.
Homegrown seeds, pure, free from
weeds and found by local experience
to afford satisfactory yields, are gen.
orally to be preferred over all others.
Summer selection should be kept
up until the fowls are fully grown.
Dispose of every little runt that shows
up, because they are not worth keep
ing.
Get the horseradish into the ground
Just as soon as possible. Plant the
roots two or three inches deep with
the thick end up. The soil must be
very rich.
All infertile eggs have value
While it Is unlawful to sell these eggs
we find that when well boiled and
mixed with cornmeal they make ex.
cellent food for chicks.
To give the hen heat and energy,
We use carbonaceous matter (carbo-
hydrates-starches). The two must
be mixed. Fats, to a more or less ex-
tent, can be found in every article
of food.
A gallon tin fruit can with holes
made a half inch from the open end
and inverted over an inch deep pie
pan makes an ideal drinking fountain.
Use the scrub brush on the pan once
in awhile, too.
When corn is several inches high,
put in the sulky cultivator set to
mellow the ground fully five inches
deep when corn is small and shall
low; when stalks are half grown and
roots spread across the rows.
The Pekin 1ryF is very hardy, a
good layer and fattens quickly. The
ducklings, If we'll cared for should be
ready for market in ten weeks. They
should be killed before the pen feath-
ers begin to grow.
Poultry has the added advantage in
the rotation of not actually requiring
the exclusive use of the soil, as is the
case with all other crops. Grow your
crops, corn or hoe crop, and the chick
ems may occupy the same land, and
both corn and chickens will be better
for It.
Pigs are necessary part of the
farm dairy just as they are of the
farm feed lot. Whether you are feed
ing for beef or milk the pig may be
depended upon to make a nice little |
bunch Of money on the side. And |
as in the case Of other farm animals. |
the pig is a money-making machine
which does its work according to quail i
ity.