Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-07-04
Mixed Food for Poultry.

Mixed food, such as warm mass, is
| not always proper, but many use
that method for feeding because it
permits them, to allow, in con-
venient form, foods that cannot well
be given in any other manner; for
instance, take linseed meal or mid
dlings. There is no way to feed those
substances to fowls except by moisten-
ing them, when a sticky mass results,
which is anything but palatable to
the fowls. If such food was fed in
large quantities there would be a
possibility of crop-bound. To make
the mass better re1ished, bran and
coarse corn meal are added, which
allows it to crumble and lessen the
adhesiveness. Of course, the mix
ture of several substances is more
digestible than the first two mentioned.
The fact is we'll known to all poultry
men, not that some of them are I'M
aware of the digestibility of the mass,
but because they cannot induce hens
to consume the sticky substance. Now,
if finely cut clover, hay or cooked
turnips are added to the mixture, the
materials will be even more divided
and the digestibility increased while
the benefits will be more Immediate
Farmers Voice.
Heaves in Horses.
When a horse has heaves it may be
kept at moderate work without in
jury, so long as it it not fed dry food.
Glover hay, unless it has been wet
down, is especially Objectionable, as
it contains a great deal of dust which
poisons the delicate passages to the
throat and lungs. Horses with heaves
can do hard work. but must not be
driven fast, though so long as they
are fed with moistened food, they
will scarcely ever show the effect of
| the heaves.-Ex.
Tomato Experience
1t has been my practice in former
i years to trellis my tomato vines by
means of wires stretched between
end posts and lath fastened to the
wires at each plant I thought my
! fruit was earlier and less subjected
to rot than by any other method I
had ever tried; but this season I
! discovered a simple and more easy
one besides much less expensive
with just as good results. I mulched
the plants we'll with grass so that the
vines could not touch the ground
| trimmed off some of the branches so
! that the fruit could have sunlight and
let them grow their own sweet way.
had but very few decayed tomatoes
and they were just as early as any
| have ever grown, the dry weather
| did not affect them as much as some
which I did not mulch, and when the
| freezing weather came most of the
fruit was ripened and picked.-B. w.
in National Stockman and Farmer.
Tickle the Earth With a Hoe.
The gardner will always find album
dant success if he will not neglect
this tickling Of the soil with a hoe
or cultivator. It is wonderful what
tillage will bring out Of the soil.
Most men must till to keep down
weeds They do not realize that the
benefits of this work are far above
any mere weed killing.
By persistent cultivation we get the
soil loose and mellow, porous and
! light, so air can enter and roots
freely branch and distribute them
selves throughout the entire mass of
earth within their reach. Further
more, tillage is breaking-up process,
particles of rock and organic matter
,
able for the nutrition of crops.
Then there is the immeasureable
effect of shallow, surface cultivation
in forming mulch upon the surface
Of the ground, a thin layer Of loose,