The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-04-04
Cut out the quack grass.
Have the swine quarter. ~.
Millet Is . great esq producing TODD.
Share the skim milk with tho pouL

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Ducks do not need expensive
houses.
1ncubators are a saving Of bootitb
time and money.
Plenty Of roosting space lie needed
summer and winter.
Never set a thin, lousy hen. She
won't stay her time out.
Chicks should not be fed until they
are at least SO hours old.
Keeping the finger nails cut may
save both milk and modification.
Lately drained gumbo or black clay
loans merely need good farming.
Dom be too sure of your first old
b1ddy that makes a noise like a sitter.
Butter color should be added to the
cream before churning Is commenced. u
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poultry Is close. stuffy roosting quar-.
tiers.
A quart OF cream weighs about RI
pounds, and a quart OF milk 2.l5
pounds.
The period Of time between the
Matching of the chick and its first feed
is critical.
Don't get a big flock Of hens tin
you can manage a small one to good
advantage.
Quack grass is a perennial and the
roots must be cut off under the sur.
face, to kill.
Wheat bran and ,linseed-meal make
the best combination to give to 3.
freshening COW.
Weed out the pimping chicks. ONLY
bright, lively ones should be kent fnr
the home flock.
IN changing feed with the herd. re-
member it is necessary to make The
change gradually.
Winter dairying will never he over.
zone. At least no one has noticed
any indications OF it.
Inc consumer is paying as much
1or 1our quarts of good milk as he is
Tor one pound of butter.
With plenty of moisture in thA 8
ground this promises to be a good y
season for early gardens at least.
The mar who is producing milk
Tor the city trade should have a clear
mind, clean hands and q pure heart
A mixture Of corn chop and bran
Us a splendid feed for the young calf
just as soon as he can be taught to
eat it.
Haphazard methods don't pay and
are always unsatisfactory. The law
tnat like begets like must not be for.
gotten.
Wnen you turn stalks under the
erouna needs to be plowed deeper
man usual-1n most soils a fine ad.
vantage.
Whatever the kind Of brooder tba
lna,n point is to have it thoroughly
under control as to temperature and
ventilation.
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The pure-bred sire, and a dam Of the
same type, of as good blood as it is
possible to get, will usually bring a
desirable colt.
II n has q large flock Of sheen
much time will be saved and better
results obtained by the use Of the
machine clippers.
Many a dairy farmer Ia rohhinp
himself of legitimate profits by Keen.
ing COWS hat give milk only q few
months in the year.
Chickens when taken from the nest
or incubator should be placed on
ground upon which no other chickens
nave ranged that season.
II the sheep are kept on the mast
ures too late, they will eat right
Gown Into the roots, and do more
harm than the grass will do thes.e,
good.
The rich butter fat cows can be-
made more numerous only by careful
oreealng. II you mate rich butter
,at stock only the IMPROVEMENT. viii
mere are l55,846 colonies Of bees.
IN illinois,, valued at $751; 1893. Bees
are owned on 29,741 farms In the
state, or on 11.S per e Of ali II.
ltnois farms.
1t requires none to get mt and