The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1913-01-31
By1NAl.ann Pitt

Build q silo.
Keep the calves dry.
Hens are mortgage lifters.
Good ground 10 needed for apples.
The well-drained garden ia an early
one.
Farm tests are worth more than
al the theories.
Sugar beets are a most valuable ad.
dition to the pig ration.
The back-to-the-land movement Is
bound to attract many failures to the
farm.
A hopperful Of bran, handy at all
times, helps to balance the winter
ration.
Cream "a to % per cent richness
Yields about 3 pounds OF butter to
the gallon.
The first time Che ground IL frozen
hard enough. cover the berry patch
With straw.
When any other income on the farm
has stopped. you Ear still depend on
the cream check.
Other things being equal, the larg.
est yields OF milk usually represent
the largest profits.
Better make two churnings than
have the churn too full. Half full
should be the limit.
Don't put the manure spreader in
the shed. This Is just the kind OF
weather when Il works best.
IL is possible for the hens to lay
when shedding their feathers, but
not when growing the new crop.
II pays to take plenty OF time to In.
vestigate the standing Of nurseries be-
fore placing orders for seed or trees.
Raspberry tips, from young, vigor.
Gus plants. should always be selected
In preference to those OF any other
kind.
No plant or tree Is 1T for setting
out unless IL has made a normal,
healthy growth. Neither extreme Is
desirable.
Good looking fruit on top OF the bas-
het VIII get you new customers, but
only honest quality lower down will
keep them.
In the commercial orchard OF 200
trees II Is better to have 40 trees.
each OF Ave varieties. than Ave trees
Of 40 varieties.
Trees and small fruits generally like
applications of ashes and bone dust.
by fertilizing literally. good crops
may be assured.
One OF the best ways of managing
raspberries is to set In rows six
ieet apart, and the plants two feet
apart In the rows.
A COW that will give milk right up
TO the time Of coming fresh again,
and not dry up on her wi accord, Is
a persistent mixer.
Entirely destroy those old rusty
cans and pals or else use them for
some other purpose than holding
sweet milk and cream.
In grading up a dairy herd remem-
Der that the characteristics OF the sire
and his dam are very apt to be repro.
duced In the female offspring.
1t seems a pity &c feed high-priced
corn to scrub hogs these days, when
d prime full-bred animal will take on
one-fourth more flesh Mt the same
cost.
IL the young orchard contains
srass or weeds you may be sure thar
the mice win cause great damage un-
less the trunks Of the trt s are wen
protected.
Good timber is still In good demand,
IN spite of the largely Increased use OF
steel and cement In building n the
authorities are urging people every
where to plant more trees.
The repulsive looking scaly legs IN
chickens can be improved In appear.
ance q whole lot by rubbing them a.
intervals OF q few days with a saw
made OF equal parts Of lard. suipnu
and kerosene.
II is not pleasant to be kept awane
on cold nights by the Mapping OF Dose
boards or doors on the cutbuiidinss.
A pound OF nails and . couple OF dozen
screws and a half days time wiz
make everything SNUG and usn,
The winter--just the kind OF . Io0
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