The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1912-08-02


Peas enrich the soil.
Soy beans make good silage.
More dairy products are wanted.
Give the COW nothing but fresh wa
ter.
Cleanliness is one of the essentials
In poultry work.
Are your neighbours crops looking
better than your own?
Move the farm closer to town by
means Of better roads.
While charcoal Is not q food, fowls
gain flesh faster during Its use.
Progress In dairying is greatest
where there Is the most interest.
The only honest way to water milk
is to give pure water to the cows.
No part Of the farm work ID more
universally neglected than the garden.
Throw your ashes into the poultry
house and watch them enjoy them
selves.
Trouble with weeds has caused
more alfalfa failures than any other
n thing.
The COW that Is a large producer OF
milk must be a large consumer of feed
and water.
For grinding purposes alfalfa hay
should be cut when the very first bios
SONS appear.
When the horse Is in normal condi-
he will drink.
II Is possible to milk In comfort II
the stables are kept In O clean, sani-
tary and light condition.
To the good dairyman II Is import
ant that the exact age Of every fowl
on his premises il known.
A profitable farm garden Is a con-
tinuous source Of satisfaction from
early spring until frost comes.
Alfalfa should be raked and cooked
up the afternoon of the day OF cutting
where conditions are favorable.
Indiana produced $26, 600, 200 worth
OF poultry and eggs in 1909. year OF
the last census-fgures Just out.
In the rush. don't forget those odd
that are growing up to weeds
and seeding the farm to these pests.
Where milk Is set" in pans 1t is
a good sanitary precaution to "
the pans with clean paper after cool
ing.
A good farm paper Is the very best
machine on the farm, and will be the
means Of making the most money for
you.
The three essentials for q success
ful dairy COW are vigor. capacity for
food and welldeveloped organs for
milk production.
Corn silage 10 no less valuable for
carrying stockers and feeders through
the winter months than for fattening
and finishing beeves.
The most humane method OF dehorn-
ing q cow In to do the work with a
little caustic potash when the horns
are just starting on the calf.
A record COW Is not only q good ad
for the breeder. but II 10 a boost for
the breed as well. 70 say nothing OF
the country which produced It.
When swine are bred for mere fancy
points and when constitution and sub
stance are lost sight OF they cease
TO be profitable assimilators Of food.
: Good butter Is as good as gold any
where in the summer time. and a farm
that turns out q good supply OF the
Al kind every week IL a gold mine.
J. A. Ferguson. Missouri station, 10
urging farmers to set out forest nur-
series in q portion Of their vegetable
gardens-later to plant waste places
with the seedlings.
Chickens need fresh water several
times during the day. They need feed
ing regularly four Or ave times q day.
Just q little ut a time. II you give
them q lot of feed. they do not know
when to stop eating. and eat too
much.
Never feed lettuce to the chicks
unless your garden II fenced in or
you are prepared 70 give them all
they want. The taste acquired may
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