Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-12-03
No Winter Sleep.


crawl into his hole for his long win
ter Sleep" a visitor laughingly re-
marked the other day as the years
first snow fluttered past the Old Cap
itol windows.
We laughed, too-at the gentle
mans great error.
1t is unnecessary to list what a
modern farmer has to do during the
winter. 1t is enough, however, to
make lantern a downright necessity.
A good farmer sleeps in the winter,
all right-from 10 p. M to a. m.
Sound Suggestions.
Common sense is embodied in 10
suggestions titled Sure Farm Re-
lief" written by A. H. Tedmon, Ara
pahoe county (Colorado), agriculture
agent, which we happened to run
across recently.
The suggestions are:
1. Milk a few good cows.
2. Fatten one pig for every two
members of the family.
3. Keep at least 200 good hens.
4. Raise a good garden.
5. Plant cash crops showing little
or no surplus.
6. Grow all your own stock feed.
Z. Butcher fat cows and steers;
trade meat with your neighbor.
s. Drive horse until you can af-
ford gasoline.
8. Raise your own living.
10. Get down to earth and do the
best you can today.
BY enumerating the above, we do
not infer that it comprises our view
of ideal farm relief" We do feel,
however, the program contains ideas
that could be used beneficially by most
farmers.
About Chickens.
Don't keep hens! Let hens keep
you!
There is a tendency, now that cold
weather has set i'm, to Over-crowd hen
houses. Guard against this. Crowd
ing breeds disease and results in low
producing flocks.
See, also, that your memories are
well ventilated. Hens, like all crea-
lures, that breathe, need fresh air.
If you notice hen with roup, a
cold or bronchitis, take it out of the
flock Immediately. 1t can contamin-
ate all the birds
Here's the famous five-point chick
Ell ration that is guaranteed to bring
better egg yields: 100 pounds of
ground yellow corn; 100 pounds of
ground oats; 100 pounds of bran; 100
pounds of flour middlings; 100 pounds
of good grade beef scraps; Is pounds
of finely ground steamed bone meal
and five pounds of salt 100 pounds
of ground wheat can be substituted
for middlings. These should be mixed
together and the mash placed in self
feeders.
In addition, two ounces of scratch
feed (corn, wheat and oats) should
be thrown to each hen every day. The
wheat should be fed in the morning,
the corn and oats about 4 p. m. AL
ways feed scratch in deep litter to
make hens exercise.
Such a bill of fare appears expen-
sive but experience has taught that
the return in eggs due to it is much
greater than the extra cost.
Soviet After ShOrthorns?
The United States of Soviet Russia
is dickering for several hundred head
of Minnesota Shorthorn beef cattle,
according to a rumor abroad in the
state.
Raising Lady Nicotine.
Minnesota is not widely known as
a tobacco state. In 1880, however,
grown i'm the state The yield was
1,54O,O35 pounds of the weed"
Minnesota and Wisconsin tobacco,
authorities claim, is the highest quail
ity grown in the United States.
UnwelcOme Newcomer.
A dangerous new resident, recently
discovered in Renville and Rock coun-
ties, is causing the weed and seed
laboratory considerable study.
The unwelcome newcomer is a
member of the weed family and is
known as the California Puncture
Vine. 1t is treacherous plant and
its wiry prongs work into animals
hoofs and ankles with costly results.
1t also punctures auto tires.
The weed grows along the ground
like a tomato plant and produces seeds
from blossoms that develop into five
pods. 1t originated in California. If
you should discover it on your land,
cut it close to the ground before it
blooms
If you find a plant you do not recog-
nize, send it to the weed and seed
division of this department. C. P.
Bull, weed chief, will report to you
gratis on the plant and, if it is a weed,
he will explain how it can be era
dicted
Those who know a pOpd thipo NH I,