The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-03-24

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A portable engine IL handy.
Great Britain imports 10000. 900 ap.
pies year. Il
Australia raises nearly 10000. ooe
acres Of wheat q year.
The yield Of the tomato II mate
rally increased by proper training. f
For vegetables always use rotted
manure from granted cattle o.
horses.
Shopworn eggs always must be sold
at reduced prices. If they can DO sold
at all. ;r
II air slaked lime be used in earth
in which plants are potted It viii keep
worms away.
The calf need not be kept rolling fat,
but It should be kept thrifty CROWNS
from start to finish.
Sow clover seed twice to be sure Il
will take, and don't forget the alsiks
along with the red. .+...
Grade your seed oats with q good
tanning mill or grain grader and SOW
only plump. heavy grains.
Many times one hill will produce
SIX 8-ounce potatoes; which is at .
rate Of $40 bushels per acre.
Milk cooled in temperature Of 35h
degrees may be kept several days at
any temperature under So degrees.
| The neglect of your incubator at q
critical time will result in a poor
hatch with the best of attention and
care.
Incubators improve morals, elimi-
mating the heated temper too often
produced by the sitting hens pecui.
iarities.
To grow crisp early vegetables the
soil must be deep, thoroughly pulver-
lied and we'll filed with rotted stable
manure.
From the feed the hen must get
lime for the shell. oils and mineral
matter for the yolk and albumen for
the white.
Every can Of milk entering lot Of
cheese or butter should be properly
cooled If the make is to be of high
standard.
Give the birds clean nests and
roosting places, study their Nkines
and needs and the egg yield should
be increased.
Though but small nation, switzer
land makes 100.0o0,0o0 pounds of
honey year, so well is its fora adapt
ed to bee culture
| To be certain about your seeds buy
them only from reliable scotsman,
who puts his name and his reputation
behind his product
To destroy the hatchability Of eggs
without injuring the market value din
In five per cent solution of water
glass; this Is satisfactory.
Don't keep the incubator doors
open very long at a time, while the
machine is Matching, If the room tenn.
perature is below 20 degrees.
| All seem to agree that It is best to
get the manure onto the land daily
while 1t is fresh, but all of us cannot
do this because Of other work.
A single union Of male and female
turkey fertilizes all the eggs q hen
will lay for the season, hence one
gobbler will suffice for 20 or more
hens.
The most costly portion of an esx
is the white or albumen. This Ia de.
| rived from the protein in the nitro.
genous matter Of grains and animal
foods.
Profitable farming and gardening
calls for more thought put into the
business, but it also calls for consid
cradle labor, and that given at the
right time.
While it is necessary to feed the
breeding ducks literally, yet at the
same time feed so as to keep them
hungry, in order to keep them active
and healthy.
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The largest olive orchard in the
world is situated at sylmar, near Loe
Angeles. CAL. where there are 10000
bearing trees. yielding fifty pounds 81
fruit to the tire @ 81. eigg.
In blowing it is well to remember
that a deep. rich soil should have : y
deem n1Owjnp y,rov}d3n~ a. 4. 80.