Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-29

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To have your cows milk long, milk
them clean.
On account of them lying so close
together the shelter for hogs need not
be as tight as for other stock.
A low knee is desirable In horse,
the animal to make long
stride more quickly than when the
knee is set high up.
The first attribute of success in egg
production is healthy stock. No
amount of food viii give a continued
supply of eggs if the hens are not
healthy.
Care and feed are essential factors
in making good stock. 1t will not
aJust grow" like Topsy, but must be
looked after at every stage of the
game
Arrange to put few windows in
that dark barn. But few stables are
well enough lighted. Proper Sanita-
ton demands it, Sunlight is . great
germicide. See that your stable has
plenty of it.
Select carefully the eggs you desire
to hatch from your breeding pens,
reject the abnormally large or pointed
ones, observe which hens are the best
layers and use from them, as such
traits are hereditary
Hens will eat eggs whenever broken
ones are placed within their reach.
1t is natural for them to eat anything
that is good to eat and in proper shape
for them to eat. To stop them from
eating eggs, therefore, is to keep
broken eggs out of their reach.
Interest on note runs night nd
day and never stops until the note il
paid. Give the dairy COW the right
kind of feed, and while you sleep she
will be turning into butter fat worth
four times as much as the feed, and
have it all ready when you get up in
the morning.
No one has actual knowledge OF the
value of fall blowing in garden until
he has tried 1t. When fall plowed the
soil can be prepared early in the spring
and much depends on early vegetables.
Make the garden rich and then plow
it in the fall, and note the beneficial
results next year If you try tits
plan once, you'll stay with it.
1t is often stated that eggs laid in
early spring, while the weather is cool,
have better keeping qualities than eggs
laid during August or even September.
This seems hardly probable, and one
should not hesitate to store the sum
mer eggs for winter use, provided they
are gathered the day they are laid,
then put away In waterglass solution,
and stored in as cool a place as may
be handy.
FRAUDS are still going the rounds.
One of the last seen is an old one
which promises to increase the guam
tity of butter by adding something TO
the milk Those who take time to
think will readily see that butter can
not be added to milk. The amount of
butter fat taken from milk depends
upon the amount it contains. 1t is
to obtain something from
A wind puff on horse is a distcnd-
ed condition of a sack which contains
synovia or joint oil. 1t is caused by
a sprain. A wind gall is liable to
cause serious lameness at any time.
The trouble is durable, however, when
not due to a faulty conformation and
when taken in its incipiency. Treat
ment consists in rest, firing and bis
tering, and shoeing with high heel
shoe.
Elbow grease will not take the place
of brains. 1t requires a blending of
these elements to move things. There
are those who are constantly endeav-
oring to substitute Tluck" or ~hope So
for real elbow grease. One farmer
rented field to a man who used moth
ing but elbow grease in growing Il
crop and he will scarcely grow enough
corn to pay the rent on the ground,
while the adjoining field will yield a
paying crop One used elbow grease
and the other used a combination of
forces.
The scientific man can analyze the
food fhe COW eats. but the COW has to
rely on the taste or palatability.' The
viii feed combination of
feeds such as he has, or will exchange
some of them for that which he does
not have, and he bases his reason on
results rather than analysis.
1t scarcely ever pays to economic
In feed. The animal that has been fed
literally is the first to get to mar
Ixet and win bring the best price.
When failure results, the best thing
to do is to see what was the cause
and remove it Be reasonable about
such things.
Do not store seed corn over the sta
bic where it will gather moisture and
become damaged. Freshly gathered
seed corn should not be store'l in a
warm room; it will either sprout or
mold and may do both. Placing II In
barrels or boxes before dry enough
to store may result in loss. For at
least two weeks it should be hung iii
4 shed where normal conditions exist
for curing and drying. Take no
with your seed corn. Take
elsewhere if need be, but not
with seed com. Save two or three
times as much as needed. Your neigh
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