The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1912-05-24

The silo is time saver.
Attend 10 the horses feet
Grow strawberries for home use.
Let the young calves have plenty OF
sunlight.
We cannot longer raise paying az
pie crops unless We spray
Seed grain Of all kinds IS scarce
and high priced again this spring.
The cleanly da!ryman keep the dirt
out OF the milk rather than strains il
cut
Whale oil soap may be used 70 de
stroy lice, scale, insects and mea!y-
bugs.
Glover and grass seed always do
best when they can be started TO early
growth.
Profitable beef production in the fu-
ture means that better gains must
be made.
In a gallon Of 80 per cent cream
there are TWO and one-half pounds OF
butter fat.
When butter refuses 10 gather the
cream may be 100 sour or the temper
allure 100 low.
Lack OF thorough cleansing OF the
separator is one cause Of flavor in
butter being OF.
l, is a good plan 70 give COW a
bucket OF scalded bran as the first
feed after calving.
The shoe should f. the foot. Don't
let the blacksmith cut bars or frogs
TO make the horses foot 81 the shoe.
Field mice been at the young trees?
II the bark Is knawed 10 the wood the
trees may be saved by bridge graft
ing.
Satisfactory results were obtained
last year at the Kansas Agricultural
college from the use OF Kaffir as 81.
lage
Potash. as a constituent OF fertiliz.
ers. exists in a number of forms. but
chiefly as chloride or muriate and as
sulphate.
After starting 10 shed their hair in
spring cows are very sensitive 10 sud-
den cold snaps. That is when stabling
pays at night.
Glover and grass seed may be
grown and a good stand secured, on
oat ground during the last OF April
and the first Of May.
Narrow doors in the sheep barns
ere a mighty poor thing. Broken
down hips and early dropped lambs
are some Of the results.
A colt wants TO be kept eating and
growing and exercising, and anything
but fattening, as long as he has q
time assigned him by nature TO grow.
Any kind of fruit tree will die
when planted in ground that is all
the time saturated with water. The
tile ditch is a necessity in some
places.
Early peas may be followed by Gel
cry or cabbage or potatoes, followed
by late beans or corn, thereby get
ting several crops from the same
ground each year.
A horse must have feet and legs be-
side weight TO be any good at heavy
work. Flat bone in the cannons and
large, round feet should be looked for
in picking horses.
Just now Is the time to get the start
OF the lice and good first move Is to
thoroughly clean out the hen house
then squirt some kerosene around
pretty lively over the walls, roosts.
and nest boxes.
Young mares will sometimes refuse
TO allow their foals to nurse at first.
The mare may be tied In the stall and
the colt helped to milk. As soon as 1t
has sucked each teat the mother will
usually allow II to continue.
A good liniment for all kinds OF
swellings on dairy cows, as well as on
all other farm animals IL made by
mixing equal parts OF turpentine.
sweet oil and spirits OF camphor. APP
ply literally and frequently to the
swollen parts.
II your stable floor Ia Of plank and
In need Of repairing, the laying OF a
thin coat OF cement over the old and
then putting new layer Of planks on
It will serve to make the floor water.