The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-05-15
Keep ahead Of weeds.

Geese are money makers.
Bran is excellent for layers.
Shelter the manure spreader.
Careful feeding prevents scours.
Potatoes are only fair feed for
COWS.
Clean cultivation in the orchard is
necessary.
Corn sllage and alfalfa hay make
a balanced ration.
The COW that is a good producer
must be fed literally.
Don't make the garden too small
Tor the hand-wheel hoe
AllSali water has very little effect up
on the flavor of butter
The best way TO kill out weeds is
never to let em come UP.
Two-fifths of the worlds 100 million
swine are in the United States.
The milk giving quality can be de-
veloped only when 1t is inherited
There is much more to blowing
than sitting up and holding the lines.
Similarity Of breeding stock pro-
duces offspring OF much greater value.
Give the stock plenty OF salt, and be
sure they drink an abundance of wa
ter.
The most expensive help on some
farms is the dog sent to round up the
cows.
The vegetable and fruit garden can
be made the most profitable acre on
the farm.
Success in dairy farming depends as
much on the man as upon any natural
condition.
In planting a new orchard It IS far
better to use too much space than to
crowd the trees.
Sunshine. pure air and clean sur
will do much to make the
dairy barn more attractive.
II you must use manure in the newly
planted orchard better put It on top
Of the ground-neyer in the hole with
the tree.
Calves should have the milk warm
from the separator, and the pigs |
should have their share sweet and in !
the same way.
Not much use treating seed pota- /
toes for scab II they are to be planted |
In the same ground where the crop
was scabby last year.
Many OF the good dairymen started /
with Shorthorn and dual purpose
COWS. AS soon as they began to study,
however, they changed.
Two eyes to the piece is the right
way to cut seed potatoes, but have
he piece large enough so as to give
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The common disk harrow found
Upon every farm in the northwest is
me OF the most valuable OF all the
Implements used by the farmer
I'm setting out trees the holes should
lot be dug too far in advance The
ooner the tree is set after digging the
iole the better the start 1t will make.
Enlarge the early orchard for early
ruita II is rather difficult to have
urplus of early and late fruits. The
middle season is more easily over
tockod.
The black raspberry thrlves best on
and that lies well for natural drain
ge. II can not be grown on land that
) naturally of wet and therefore
old nature.
Milking is one OF the most impor- {
ant tasks on the farm and should be l
D considered. Il can scarcely be
allied a side issue when so much
rofit depends upon IL. I
The sllo has now become almost a {
ecessity on the farm, II profits are s
,oked for. There are many farms
n which It is not yet found, but the
umber of these is decreasing. [
Poor butter is the curse Of the farm r
airy. It is better economy to sell b
ie butter-fat or the whole-milk than
try to manufacture the product al
ONE II you have not The equipment 4
idh which to turn ont 3 high quality. z
his equipment is available and IL eau !
'rtainiy be secured or there should /