The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-21
Gull your chicken flocks often.

Alfalfa is the best soiling crop
known.
Broom corn is marketed wholly in
the bale.
1t does not pay to be careless with
farm machinery.
There is nothing equal to mothers
milk for a young foal.
The honey bee is necessary in the
polarization of fruit trees.
Whitewash is cheap aid to the
keeping of q sweet and sanitary stable.
This is the time of year when it Is
necessary to keep the cultivator going
overtime.
After cooling, milk should in all
cases be held at the lowest available
temperature
Good ventilation Is absolutely es-
sential, but drafts must be prevented
in the lambing shed.
The best way to get rid of mos.
quitos, like the balance of our troubles.
is not to raise em.
The Guernsey, when 1t comes to
butter fat, holds distinguished place
as record breaker.
The cost of 100 pounds gain in
calves Is about $4.1O, while it is nearly
$3.50 for two-year-olds.
along the same lines as of corn, and
If possible more intensive.
Spray the first time for the special
purpose of filling every blossom on
the tree with the poison used.
Breaking broody hens Is not a hard
task. A little care in the feeding and
housing is all that is required.
The United States produces one
fifth of the wheat and three-fourths
OF all the corn grown in the world.
Do not wait until the broody fever
hen becomes chronic, but discourage
Ter as soon as she shows signs Of It.
All animals produce stronger young
when both sire and dam have a rea-
sonable amount of exercise each day.
Alfalfa is one of the best plants to
furnish green food for chickens, but
ordinarily it soon kills cut If over pas
tured.
Shorn sheep sell at a discount be-
cause the wool cannot be pulled until
1t has a growth of three-quarters of
an inch.
Brush the udder and surrounding
parts just before milking, and wipe
them with a clean damp cloth or
sponge.
Keep small turkey poults out of the
long, wet grass in the morning and see
that they are under cover during
heavy showers.
Butter from fresh and properly
ripened cream not over one day old
keeps better than does butter made
from sweet cream.
An important feature In the sue
cessful management Of the SOW and
litter is to get the little pigs to feed
as early as possible.
Milk that is properly pasteurized
and then kept at low temperature
will keep much longer, as rule, tran
that which is not treated.
It is found that success in dairying
depends as much on the kind Of care
and management bestowed on the
herd, as upon the breed.
When you weed and thin out the
family garden don't forget the poul-
try; they will relish the garden waste
and put 1t to good use.
Plan to raise a fine flock of general
purpose standardized birds this sea-
son. They will yield much more salts
faction and profit than mixed flock
If a man has Jerseys, give them Isle
of Jersey care and feed, for they can
not succeed on scrub fare and fodder.
They were not intended for that pur.
pose.
Cows must be kept clean and
healthy, have pure air to breathe.
and then they will return a volume
of rich, nutritious milk n paying guam
titles.
The COW that wanders over bare
pastures and looks wistfully at grow
ing crops she cannot reach, is not
happy nor contented and wild not pro-
duce well.
BY two or three paintings of sweet
corn two weeks or SO apart, one can
have tender juicy corn on the table
three times as long as one planting
can give them.
Cooked fish makes good summer AMI