Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-07-18
Market the cockerels.
There's meat in an egg.
Young trees need fertilizer.

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Bad luck in the garden is usually
the result of some sort of bad man
agement-
Boiling the oats or wheat makes a
good ration and a desirable change
occasionally.
Almost always the COW that gives
the most butter fat does it the most
economically.
The secret of successful stack build
ing is to keep the middle full and
well tramped.
Warming the cream to about Sc de-
grees for winter churning will make
less work of 1t.
Keep the wheelhoe going all
through the month, particularly II
the ground is dry.
1t is a good plan to occasionally
scald the dropping boards and roosts
with boiling water.
No two fruits should touch each
other. The largest and most perfect
fruit should be left.
Holstein breeders can spend their
time more profitable than in arguing
over the color question.
Success in the sheep business de-
ponds as much or more upon the care
taken as upon the sheep.
A hopperful of bran is always sea-
sonable feed and the whole flock
should have access to it.
Be sure you are up with the times
before you say there is no longer any
money in the dairy business.
Repeated groupings of corn have a
tendency to wear the land. Better
rotate and use some grass crop.
Belgium has 1874 head of cattle to
the square mile, Denmark IA, Neither
lands, 1876 and the United States %.
Changing locations of the different
crops in the garden will make them
les liable to disease and insect dam
age.
The foresighted dairyman is not the
kind who is caught these days selling
heifer calves for veal, because prices
are good.
If one has a large flock of sheep
much time will be saved and better
results obtained by the use of the
machine clippers.
A horse that is exhausted and reek-
ing with sweat should never be al
lowed to stand in a draft 10 matter
what the weather may be.
AS soon as the ewes have dropped
their lambs and all danger of fever
and caked udders is past. most liberal
feeding should be practiced.
Do not plant many varieties Of
trees in the apple orchard. The
apple buyers like to ind as many of
one variety as they can together.
1t is possible to change cows from
dry feed to pasture without the cream
cry mans nose detecting the differ
ence, but not many farmers do it.
Palms and other foliage plants can
be kept clean of scale and other in
sects by washing the leaves with
soapy water and rinsing Immediately
thereafter.
For the best pork we must have the
healthiest system, consequently the
system Of feeding that is the most
conductive to perfect health makes
the best pork.
You can iced and care for a good
grade COW so that she will be more
profitable than a full-b1ood half
starved. The man is at the bottom
of his own success.
After corr IS too big to cultivate,
lambs, if turned into the field, will
eat out all the grasses and weeds and
a few OF the lower blades of the corn
before they touch the grain.
A tomato vine trained against chick.
en- fence gauze is very ornamental.
Only two shoots should be allowed to
grow until the vine is three feet high.
The scarlet plum and yellow plum are
better for this culture than the large
fruited kinds. q
Do not forget about the potato
patch and the bugs. Treat the latter
to a dose of paris green. If you do
not do that the chances are that you
will not have the pleasure of digging
this fall. So, if you love to dig po-
tatoes. keep the bugs away now.
Somebody has said that no man can
acquire a fortune of $780, 900, 900 and
do it honesty if he measures methods
by the golden rule. Believe it?
An important point in selecting a
setting hen is to choose one which is
quite tame. Wild hens are apt to
break some of the eggs by becoming
startled from the least noise. Or by
jumping from the nest when ap-
preached. AS a rule the old hens
make better settlers than the pullets
and should have the preference when
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