Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-06-21
FARM and IFS STOCK.

One gardener says that if the weeds
bother the asparagus bed, salt enoughto
kill the weeds can be sprinkled over the
bed without doing any harm to the
asparagus.
Try to keep the feed boxes and man
gers clean, especially during the warm
weather. With a horse or COW slobber-
ing over the food that remains in the
box it cannot help becoming a filthy,
dirty mess and the summer heat will
make it worse than ever
To kill Canada thistles or burtlocl
take spade and cut off the plant q
couple OF inches below the crown. Some
farmers kill them by cutting them Off at
the crown and then put OH a handful OF
salt or a little Kerosene With IL common
oil can, but these methods are somewhat
elahora tp for Il man WHO has Il large
field 90 over. 1hHrp is 10 n7n t;..1ing
10 Kill them by emitting item OF ut tine
top of the gro,ili That Will Only make
them healthier
For threshing peas or beans the best
thing that can be used is q threshing
machine with all concaves removed and
boards made to fit in their places. Then
by raising the concave bed SO it nearly
touches the teeth of the cylinder good
job of threshing may be done without
running the risk Of doing q part Job OF
grinding LII machine fixed up in this
way peas or beans may be taken out OF
the pods in Il hurry. The way Of doing
it has another advantage over dong the
work with the lower concayes in, be-
cause it does not break up the straw SO
bad. Pea or bean straw run through a
threshing machine when fixed in the or
binary way is little better than chaff
after it comes cut and looks very much
like dirt
Hoard's dairyman has the report OF
COW 81 years of age with good healthy
calf The COW lives in Georgia
Why do not the farmers families use
more che ese. There is far more food i'll
a pound of cheese than in a pound OF
beef, and it can usually be bought as
cheap or very nearly as cheap.
Get rid Of all COWS with running sores
on the uddtr. They are unfit for use
even if their udder should heal up for it
is very unlikely that the disease will en-
tirely be eradicated.
Keep all excitement ont of the stable
at milking time or amy other time when
the COWS are in. A good COW cannot
stand excitement at all without shrink
ing on her milk or the amount of Butter
fat in the milk
Now that the cows are out on pasture
go little slow with the butter color.
Butter that has SO much color in it that
it is red is more than butter without any
color in it at all, Many COWS when on
pasture will make butter that will be
high colored to not need any
color added to tilt. Carrots fed in the
winter time will add to the color.
Chickens are another farm product
that takes away very little fertility for
the value of the product.
Artificial heat will never make the
young chickens grow like the warm rays
of the sun and the chickens sh Juld be so
situated that it will be possible for them
to get out in the sun on warm days.
Remember that grit is as necessary for
fowls as teeth are for other animals.
Also remember that little chickens shonld
have little grit mixed in their feed as
they are likely to neglect this part OF
their diet ii it is not given to them in
that way.