The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-03-24
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A hot bed IL handy.
Birds destroy weed seeds.
The beet root is about one-eighth
Nearly one-fifth Of the area OF
France is forest land.
This is the best time Of year for
culling out the poor cows.
The person to run the incubator is
the first condition Of success.
Agriculture in Germany supports
about 100000 of the population.
In one month caterpillar will eat
six thousand times its own weight in
food.
Newly laid eggs need never become
shopworn. They're in too good de.
mand.
Don't buy seeds just because they
are cheap and come in highly colored
packages.
Sheep seem to be able to subsist on
the poorest land of South Americas
tarthest extremity
Under no circumstances should the
beginner think that amy old eggs
will do to learn on.
Pea vine hay, If properly sowed,
makes a most excellent forage for
sheep and stock cattle.
After the third month the calf will
begin to want extra water, and some
may be mixed with the milk.
The object should be to feed for
large and continuous milk flow. This
means both summer and winter.
II all the Implements were cleaned
and painted last fall, a great deal of
time will be saved when you must
"get busy"
Pigs should have slop three times a
day, all they will clean up. and a lit
tie corn morning and night, also given
on clean floor.
About testing seeds, in most cases
your experiment station will gladly
test sample Of your seeds If you will
send It to them.
Those who treat their horses kind
ly can work the brood mares up to
the very day they foal their colts
without harming them.
Hens or chickens can never do
their best when confined in yards 80
small that a sufficient amount Of
green food cannot be grown.
Prominent breeders of geese claim
that there is at least 100 per cent
profit In them; more than twice as
much as there is in raising hogs.
Waste milk is now being profitablv
used IN Irish dairies, where 1t used to
be nuisance, but is now made into
q fertilizer resembling bone ashes in
value.
Turkey eggs may be Matched in an
incubator very nicely, but unless you
have number Of hens it is hard tn
get enough fresh eggs to I'LL a ma
chine.
While the principal food OF the
goose is grass, and needs hardly any.
thing else during spring and summer.
still it will eat any of the farmers
grains.
Profitable "side-lines" for the cream.
Dry man are eggs and ice cream. to
say nothing Of buttermilk, the sweet
cream trade. casein. hogs and other
lines Of profit
You can test the terminating power
Of your seed after you buy It. which
while 1t insures your not using II II f.
ls Enthusiastically. does not save Won
the expense. @
Be careful to remove all the flow.
ers a. soon as they begin to fade
Leaves that show any decay should be
cut and burned. They are apt to en-.
courage disease and malignant IA.
sects.
With automobiles coEaing into com.
mon use. the prices Of horses rose
from IN average Of 1864 each in
1908 to Sl0s.1s q head 81 1909. "a
numbers the horses Of the United
States Increased from 1o.lso, 900 g.
11.040. 900 u. d. .7,.s, as al
Tho bro0der should b laree. hav.
INC not isss than nine square feet &
moor space. The work. demanded q
. broodsr = not exactins 8 vith n
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