Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-27

1t is all right to pray for daily
bread" but one has to do some hus-
Ting to get both bread and butter.
We are given the injunction to mot
lay up treasures upon the earth" but
the alfalfa and clover growers are lay
ing up treasures in the earth and it is
not unscriptural, either
The owner of a gasoline engine is
hoping that the oil magnate win not
give away any more millions at pres
ent, as he is paying about all he can
afford for gasoline now.
The man who will willfully plow up
the roads to scour his pillow ought to
be made acquainted with the mysteries
of grand jury. Keep the plow creased
and escape the desire 20 violate the
law.
After mature deliberation it is now
thought best to house all farm ma
chinery. 1t is better to have them be-
come antiQrated rather than rust out
long before their days OF usefulnes !,
are at an end.
In catching pigs for any purpose it
will be we'll to catch them by tie hind
legs or by the ears, and they will not
squeal and they are also easily han
died in this manner, a squealing pig
sometimes brings the head of the
house upon the scene in full uniform
and fully equipped for war.
The best farmers in the world, the
Danes, practically use no commercial
fertilizers, but they rely almost Who'll
ly on stable manure Professor Ken
nedy tells us how they save and apply
If. They keep the solid manure in one
vat and the liquid in another, the lat
ter of which is drawn off by building
the cisterns high above the place
where it is to be drawn off. Every
particle of the liquid manure is saved
and applied to the land. The sewage
of lcreameries and bacon factories is
also saved for fertilizing purposes and
applied to the land. We may not be
compelled to do this, but there is
lesson here for us.
The feeding of oils to mich cows at
the Hatch Experiment Station pro.
duced rather interesting results. The
oil had a tendency to in@.ease the
amount of butter fat at first, but after
a short time the per cent of butter fat
fell TO about the usual amount. When
the feeding of the oils was discontin-
ued the per cent of fat fell off, show
ing that the cows had come to depend
on the oils as upon a stimulant, and
it would be some time before the nor
nal proportion of butter fat would re-
turn. The principal conclusion was
that the only profitable way to in
crease the amount of butter fat is
from good food and good care, but the
natural per cent of each COW could not
be changed to any great extent.
Almost every farmer knows that the
closer grain is sOwn, the greater the
proportion of the straw to the grain,
the only exceptions being when condi-
tons are such that the straw is very
short, while grain is large and plump.
This may depend in part upon the sea-
son, but in some cases is due to there
being but little nitrogen in the fer
tilizer to stimulate growth of straw
and plenty of phosphoric acid to in
crease size of grain. The Main Ex-
pertinent Station has ascertained am.
other point by growing one, five and
eight stalks of grain in pots of the
same size, using oats and spring
wheat. They found that the grain
where there were five stalks in a pot
contained but S01a per cent nitrogen
and S5.42 per cent as much nutr-tive
value as those where one stalk grew
alone, while where eight plants We're
in the pot, there was only 70.1 per cent
nitrogen and 1851 per cent nutritive
value as compared with the single
stalk.