Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-06

Uneven. sailing and working makes
streaky butter.
Keep the farm separator clean, in-
side and outside.
All animals. when fed heavily re-
d-1ire a change of food, and this Is es-
pecially true in the case Of sheep.
1t don't pay to keep cows for side
issue. Get the best and make dairy
ing a business just like any branch of
| farm work.
/. Is important to remember that the
richness of the food given stock has
much to do with the value of the ma
nure made from them.
Handles off old dish pans will make
good door pulls on screen doors aud
places where needed. These should be
put away and saved until they can be
brought into use.
One advantage in using smooth plan
ed boards for the poultry house, is
that it is a much easier task to keep
down lice and in keeping clean, While
the cost is very little more.
Free exercise for hogs develops mus
Gle and frame and adds to the value OF
the pork. Lack of exercise Is the great
est of all breed-diseasers in the case OF
all kinds of animals, including man
himself.
1t is estimated that the $4,000 head
of sheep in Whitman county, Washing
ton, will shear an average clip of
twelve pounds. The lamb crop must
be considered good, since it is caleu-
lated that the average increase will
be 100 per cent.
The season for tomatoes can be
heightened several weeks by pulling
up thrifty vines before killed By frost
and hanging them in the cellar. The
fruit will continue to ripen much bet
ter ana will keep longer than if picked
and laid away to ripen.
The successful dairy farmer to-day
Is business mana manufacturer
who is producing a commodity In uni
versal demand He is not in the bust
ness for his health, but for profit
above his living Therefore, careful
study of the marketing of his 1airy
products is a necessity with him.
The man who fails to rig enough
sideboards to his wagon to hold what
corn can be husked in a hale day is
wasting time that is more valuable
than that of the bankers. 1t is all
right to have plenty of batbords, for
they are continually squirting one to do
his best in trying to Gil the wagon
box.
If some farmers would only talk
clover instead of politics they'd be
much better off. Some farmers pro
fess to know all about politics WHO
have not learned the first principles Of
the beneficial element of clover. A
politician is always looking after his
fences-his political fences. Quit pol
itics and grow clover.
Just at this time, while some of the
old stock is still on hand, and the sur
plus of the young stock not yet dis
posed of, with capons, pullets and old
hens all ready for their daily mash, or
mashes, we need plenty of feed
troughs, if we wish to protect the birds
from unduly crowding one another and
possibly preventing the weaker ones
from getting their share.
The old-fashioned 'razor-back" hog,
which ran wild and fed chiefly on
acorns, made the sweetest of all pork
and the most toothsome of breakfast
bacon. The trouble was the leanness
oe the carcass generally and the waste
in bone. The thoroughbred hog rene
dies these defects and, of course, by
greater bulk and fattening qualities is
far more valuable for market purposes
than his uncivilized ancestor.
One Of New Yorll's big department
stores has gone into the hen business.
Nearly a whole floor is devoted to
poultry and poultry appliances. Elk
>perts are to teach those interested how
to care for chickens, and if you wish,
chicks will be Matched for you while
you wait Fifty broods are to be
Matched every day. so the proprietors
claim. The idea is to increase the in
terest in poultry raising and thus make
sales for appliances, eggs, etc.
Apples should never be picked when
wet. They should never be stored
when warm Should be ripened in a
dark, cool place. All should be sorted
into grades and labeled accordingly
Two neighbors took apples to market.
Both had the Wealthy variety. One
Of them sorted his apples and took
nothing but the best, and the other
took them as he gathered them The
first sold his at a satisfactory price,
while the other could make no sale IN
a glutted market
One reason why some spring seci-
ing fails is that blowing sometimes
makes the soil too loose and robs 1t Of
moisture, and then it brings TO the
surface material that Is not friendly to
tiny roots of young grass and clover.
1t needs surface soil that has been cx-
posed to air and sun, and where or
ganic material has become well rot
ted. The disc win sometimes At land
better for seeding than blowing 1t
leaves the soil solid, except at the sur
face. moisture is held, and the surface
can be made fine and compact.
In comparing farm with cYty life
It is well to state that where enc can
be successful and obtain enjoyment,
there is where he ought - reside.
Some enjoy the farm AID others the
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