The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1912-09-06

GapeS can Do CuTou.
Clean out the sheep fold.
Market the useless ROSTERS.
Plant some trees in the pasture.
Try keeping a few sheep on the
tarm.
81, on the milk stool-don't pound
he COW with 1t.
Hot. close weather brings lots OF
icc to the dirty pen.
Improved breeds OF hogs are i'm
proving the hogs profit.
Are there any dead heads In your
dairy? If SO weed them out.
6rst-class trade at first-class prices.
Shorts are a more economical feed
kor sows and growing pigs than for
COWS.
A boy and dog make a poor combi-
nation to bring the cows home from
pasture.
In spraying. drenching ia not de-
sired; stop spraying Just before drip
ping begins.
He who attends to the repair OF ma
~chinery before using II saves both
time and money.
When a dairyman learns to use the
Babcock test he Is started on the way
Go his economic salvation.
Frequent cultivation the remainder
OF the summer will ft the strawberry
bed for its Eext years work.
The best dairyman Is clean, not
because he has TO be. but because IL
n second nature for him TO be.
When the calf gets old enough to
turn out to grass be sure and continue
feeding n ration of grain or milk.
As the marketing season advances
the patrons OF cooperative elevator
companies congratulate themselves.
The dairy cow has n capacity for
n great amount OF feed and unless this
iced Is provided she cannot do her
best.
Milk may be tested for butterfat nj
different temperatures. 1t il we'll TO
have 1t between so and 80 degrees
Fahrenheit.
y Is hard to see where those pigs
mat are growing up In q dry pen are
gong to make very much profit for
their owner.
u a hog dies on the farm, no matter
ron what cause. take no chances. but
remove the body n long distance from
The feeding lots and burn II.
Never use crates or boxes more
man once. Neat. clean boxes sell
n'St even though the fruit may not
De up to the standard In every way.
II you are careless or neglectful OF
spraying and get poor results this sea-
son don't say that spraying doesn't
pay 1t does pay-and pays big inter
est.
u Is always safest to take no
finances with q bull, no matter how
good his reputation beforehand. II Is
% often the gentle" animals that
cause accidents.
q great many farmers do not real
me mat grass supplies a feed entirely
sluerent from corn and that II is a
DAD practice to change entirely and
suddenly from n to the other.
100 many forget to speak kindly to
,neir horse. hence never have a kind
norse' Get the affection Of your
Morse and you have taken q most
Important step toward getting his best
services.
me grower who will sort his apples
m mo TWO or more grades. packed well.
~, get more money for his fruit than
re one who throws all kinds together
d barrel and places q layer Of the
'es' ones on top.
me best time to kill weeds Of any
!. Is when they are small. Never
weeds 60 to seed. Stop the foun.
c,o" OF the trouble by planting only
I'm seed. A good tanning mill will
the problem Of clean seed.
.omatoes should be canned In their
s. Juices. The u. 8. department Of
~ Ieuiure considers that the addition
water or Of extra juices IL an adul-
c,nuon. and II Il makes commercial
,er,es observe this rule how much
ere ere ought II be observed In private