The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1911-05-06

Tho nervous horse should have lee
oats and more bran.
good hen will easily care for from
fifteen to thirty chicks.
This is about the time to plant and
prune, spray, pillow and fertilize.
A little charcoal is fine to give ax
any time of the year for all hogs.
Feeding the hogs at regular hours
is worth trying. They know when It
comes.
To prevent contaglon. sick fowl
should be at once separated from the
others.
Regulate the amount and kind Of
feed in accordance with the condition
of the hog.
Don't put the new bed on sod land.
The white grub is death to straw
berry plants.
/
Clean sand or good country pine
sawdust is excellent to use on floor
of poultry houses.
+ Do not plant beans until all danger
Of frost is passed, as the young plants
are extremely tender.
At Is cents each day-old chicks
are cheaper than eggs for Matching
| at two dollars per sitting
The poultry business large and
small is made successful through at
tention to the small things.
The turkey hen that ranges far
from the barns is likely to steal her
nest a long ways from home.
II there are two toms in, the flock
and they don't agree, shut up one
one day and the other the next
Be sure to have brood coops and
brooders ready and waiting for the
chicks when Matching time comes.
In some places the mutton sheep
are the more profitable, while in other
places 1t pays better to produce wool.
Cleanliness and plenty of fresh air
are great helps in developing the
chicks and keeping them thriving and
propering.
Don't look for fertile eggs IL you
crowd your hens too close. Another
bad thing in the same line Is lack
of exercise.
II you have only ono breed of pure
] blooded birds you will sell many eggs
for Matching and birds for breeding,
at high prices.
A field Of four or five acres will be
large enough to run a flock of 100
sheep for about thirty days and fur
nish some hay besides.
According to a successful dairyman,
the presence of dirt in milk indicates
careless and uncleanly methods In
production and handling
Now that the days are warmer, be
sure to keep the incubator cellar we'll
aired and do not run the machines
with too high lamp flame.
| In transplanting cabbages set the
plants in the ground up to the first
leaf, no matter how long the stem Is,
and press the earth firmly about It.,
II brood hens with chicks are given
good care they will usually begin lay
ing early and continue to lay for sew.
eral weeks before they wean their
brood.
The would-be poultryman should be
careful in his selection Of a farm. for
upon this selection may depend his
success or failure In the pounltry
business.
| For those who have not much time
to devote to the garden there Is no
class Of Towering plants more desira-
BILE than the hardy .perennials and
herbaceous plants.
There is considerable easily earned
money in rearing pigeons. In large
cities $3.50 to $3.75 dozen pair is
paid for them. The demand is always
greater than the supply.
| Farmers who have heavy draft
mares are making q great mistake in
not raising more colts of this class,
and keeping the money at home that
Is now going west for horses.
Obviously thu. remedy for unproduc-
tive eggs Is to use only healthy breed
ing stock and to keep the breeders In
good condition by good food and good
common sense care and management.
II you have piece Of land that
must be planted to corn later than
the last of May, use seed of some
Uood oarlt ynafurfn0 variafv NJ corn