The pioneer express., 1911-03-17
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Buttermaking is an art.
Fresh fruit is always delicious.
Gapes is caused by small worm in
the windpipe.
Most farm buildings are built too
close to the dwelling.
In preparing a seed bed for sweet
Glover do a thorough Job.
Very little is known about the actual
value of rye as a poultry food.
3 The barn that is banked up will
have fewer draughts over the floor.
Don't leave your valuable farm ma
thinery standing unprotected in the
field.
Oat straw is an excellent rough feed
Tor sheep. Wheat straw is next in
value.
Overcrowding the eve flock during
The winter months is frequent cause
Of severe losses
Very early spraying with Bordeaux
Is the thing for all kinds of fungus rot
and for peach leaf curl.
Fresh, green bone is of itself almost
a complete feed, and may be used as a
special material for egg production.
Farmers should not buy more land
uEtil that which they already have
Is producing to its maximum capacity.
Exercise is of prime importance in
several ways. 1t keeps the pigs MIN.
BILE and in a healthy condition gener-
ally.
/ Before putting the chicks into the
brooder 1t is good plan to sprinkle
them carefully with good insect
powder.
One of the first needs of the pigs is
O comfortable place in which to pass
more than half of the time, sleeping
! and resting.
Breeding stock should be selected
! for health, strength, vigor and matu-
rity first, utility second and fancy
points third.
It is a we'll known fact that properly
managed 20, 40 or 80 acre farm will
return in addition to living, fine
income for the family.
The dairyman having a productive
farm Of $50 to 200 acres can easily
raise six to eight of his best marked
female calves each season.
The annual income from milk and
butter in the United States Is said to
be more than the output of the gold
and the silver mines.
Carrots are fed to horses not so
much for their feeding value, but for
their influence in keeping the digestive
organs in good condition.
It requires ice to handle milk,
cream or butter, so see to it that you
will be fully supplied with this cheap
article for next summers use.
In winter dairy farmers often for.
get that nothing is cheaper and more
beneficial than pure air, sunlight and
a reasonable amount of exercise.
Fowls should always be starved for
at least "a hours before being killed,
SO as to have their crops and intes-
tines thoroughly free from food of any
kind.
There is a steady demand for nuts.
The English walnut, pecan, Spanish,
Japanese and American chestnuts,
butter nuts and shellbarks are the
most profitable.
The difficulties experienced in
spreading poultry manure. on account
of it's sticky consistency, may be OBJ
Waited by mixing with loam, peat or
common stable manure.
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Condiments that stimulate egg pro-
duction are very much like anything
Hbat stimulates human being. After
the immediate results wear of the
bird is In worse shape than before be-
ing fed.
People think that II hens don't lay
In the winter they will in the sum.
mer, but this is mistake, as it has
been found that the, winter layers will
produce as many eggs in the summer
as the non-winter layers.
Az regards rotation Of crops, unless
the western farmer 10 willing to see
his land become. even In the present
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