Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-07-16
Choosing Of Apples.


tea and wine and pickles, and yet that
apples are merely apples. Warm and
wilted and polished, they stand in
trays and rows on the stands and we
buy them. Probably half the people
of the big cities buy their apples thus,
Davis, Baldwin, Pennock, anything
that is bright and handsome. l some
times think that city folk in furnace
heated houses can never know what
really good apple is, no matter how
good the grocer and the caterer may
be, says a writer in Country Life in
America. 1t is in the farmhouse with
real cellar-not q basement with
heater and laundry and ash bins-that
one gets apples. You sit in the
wing" beside cracking fireplace or
wood fire in a stove that is built for
service rather than for ornament. The
cellar is under the upright" You go
through the buttery, through the cell
lar door that has cathode in the
lower front corner and with lamp or
lantern in hand you go down the stairs
into subterranean world. The snow
is scurrying around the house corners,
but here is dark and snug retreat, a
retreat such as no city house can have.
There is no smell Of ashes and soap
suds, only the cool. soft odor of the
moist ground and the boxes and bar
rels of apples. From box to box you
go-Northern Spies, Tannan Sweets,
Greetings, Roxbury Russets, Seek-no
furthers, Rambos, Spitzenbergs, Snow
apples, None-such, Swaars, perhaps
belated Kings and Fall Pippins-even
Baldwins are not good enough for this
company-and you take your pick.
Feed for Cows.
The. COW that is generally underfed
lis the COW giving or capable of giving
IA large flow of milk. In many herds
1all the cows are fed the same amount
of feed which is q serious mistake.
When a COW already on liberal feed be-
gins to decline in milk yield, the feed
may be reduced gradually without af-
,,fecting the milk flow. While COW is
! in the early stage of her milking
period, the feed can be gradually in
creased, watching the milk yield to see
how far she responds. To feed to the
best advantage, it is necessary to make
a record of the yield of milk from each
COW. Linseed meal, cottonseed meal
and the best grades of gluten meal
now manufactured, are of about equal
| feeding value for cows, pound for
! pound. Gluten feeds as now sold rank
about midway between this group and
bran in feeding value. Bran and oats
rank close together in feeding value,
the oats probably being a little more
valuable pound for pound. While
there is considerable difference Of
opinion as to the advisability of grind
| ing grain for some farm animals, it is
generally conceded that it pays to
grind for the dairy COW. A great deal
of attention has been given by those
investigating feeding questions to de-
termine how much of the three classes
of food material, protein, carbohy-
drates and fat is needed by animals
under certain conditions. 1t is evil
dent that if it be possible to determine
just how much of each of three classes
of nutrients is needed and it be known
how much various feeding stuffs con-
tain, the problem of what and how
much to feed would be much simpli-
fed
Care Of Chickens in Breeders.
Given a good, easily regulated
brooder and chickens Matched all APP
parently alike, it is still to the mex
perienced, source of establishment
and no little perplexity that within a
few days, there is noticed difference
in growth. AS the days go on
through the first two weeks it is evil
seriously. You can hardly notice any
growth, their wings grow faster than
their tail feathers-a bad symptom. 1t
is then best to separate them into two
classes. Sort out the weakly ones
and place in another brooder, seeing
especially that they are kept dry, have
plenty of grit in their food, are fed
regularly and not too often; four
times day is enough. A very good lit
ter which should cover the floor of
the brooder and be renewed every day,
, is grass seed and fine hay chaff found
under under the hay in the barn. Al
most from the first, the chickens must
be supplied with some animal food. A
good way to obtain it is to turn over
with a spade a small part of the ground
about the breeders each day, bringing
worms to the surface. AS to food,
give wheat screenings once a day, fine
cracked corn once, and for the other
two meals a cake made of corn meal
and wheat middlings in equal quaint
ties mixed with sour milk and little
soda baked for about an hour, when it
crumbles fine and cry.
NOTES.
II is now some 335 years since po-
tatoes were known in Europe: they
were imported into Ireland in the
reign Of Queen Elizabeth by John
Hawkins, who brought them from