Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-09-05

Use a disinfectant in the stalls. 1t
will make them sweet and clean and
help to keep flies and mosquitoes
away from the horses.
Every qoultryman should have
small glass medicine dropper such as
may be bought from any druggist, for
making local applications to the eyes,
nose aid throat Of the fowl.
Collect trillium bulbs If you must,
but you ought to buy them. You will
find a lot of interesting western tril-
liums in the bulb catalogues. Mark
plants of marshmallow for transplant
ing
Visit good collection of phlox. Sc
lect what you like and make note Of
the Nightmares so that you won't buy
them from the catalogue next spring
and fill your garden with magenta
horrors.
In the past few months five spans
Of draft horses have been sold in Chi
cage at $1,000 a span. Not pedigreed
stock for breeding purposes, mind you,
but just common drafts such as any
farmer might raise, but few do.
With lambs over the IS mark,
shortage of 100000 head of sheep
with us, and substantial falling off
in most other sheep raising countries,
should give the most skeptical sheep
men at least five years confidence
in the industry Sheep Breeder.
Mutton legs can be cured and
smoked just as pork hams are, and
they are found to be one of the very
best kinds of meat when prepared in
that way. Those who usually object
to mutton when fresh cannot find any
reason for complaint in smoked NUT
ton leg.
Those who desire to learn much
about those fell equine diseases CLAN
ders and farcy should send to the
Secretary of Agriculture, Washington,
d. c., for circular No. rs of the Blu
reau of Animal Industry. The text
is from the pen of Doctor Rush Ship,
pen Huidekoper.
Oregon growers association are
uniting in plan to prevent overstock-
Ing any markets to which their fruits
are shipped. One firm will be selected
in each market to look after the fruits
from the different shipping points, and
this firm will be sent only such fruit
as can be disposed of proftably.
Kerosene emulsion, an excellent
wash for nest boxes, Ioosts and even
as wash on walls and ceiling, is
made as follows: Kerosene, one gal
lon; water, one gallon; soap, one
pound. The soap is dissolved in boil
ing water. While warm pour kero-
sene in and mix thoroughly for five
minutes.
Pillow up the land you intend to SOW
with winter grain such as wheat or
rye. If this is done it turns up all the
roots Of rank grass, thistles, daisies,
wild carrots or whatever there is that
will injure the crop you intend to
put in the field. 1t also gives you
clear field of hay the next year, after
you seed it with grass seed.
Hot weather is the time to make
cheap pork; then every farmer should
have plenty of clover, grass or alfalfa
pasture, some skinned milk and if
he chooses summer squash and other
things to go with the grain, and bal
ance the ration, thus keeping the pigs
in good health. Summer-made pork
is always cheaper than the winter
article
Onions have become a great crop
for market in Texas. The crop the
last spring was very large and seemed
to sell at good prices. Farm and
Ranch tells about one train of thirty
six carloads that passed through San
Antonio They sold for more than
$500 a carload. A May issue of that
paper stated that the early crop would
be more than 1000 carloads.
Flies are one Of the most pestifer-
Gus things the housekeeper has to CON
tend with IL her dairy work, if she
does the work as many do in summer,
out of doors. They can be avoided by
putting up a frame of suitable size
and covering It with wire gauZe. A
screened-in section Of the cellar is a
good place to keep the milk and but
ter vessels, If one does the dairy work
in the cellar.
Plant some rhubarb; everybody plant
some. This old, reliable garden prod
uct is one that cOmmends itself to all
who appreciate a good thing. Rhubarb
possesses more desirable features than
any other vegetable. 1t is less trou-
BILE to grow, is one of the most whole
some, has a delightful favor and is
one of the earliest to come in the
spring. Plant some and you will be
glad you did for years to come.
A Louisiana man thinks garlic will
cure chickens of gapcs He says: Il
see many cruel ways of getting rid
of the gapes in chickens, such as run
ming something down the windpipe,
etc, which 1 have tried. If garlic is
chopped up fine and fed to chickens
IF they won't eat it alone, mix it in
their feed) it will rid chicks of the
cape worms. do not doubt that tine
ture of asafetida will produce the
same effect, though l have not tried it.
Bacon hogs are slowly growing into
favor, because a demand has oeen
built up for bacon of that sort. The
demand for fat hogs has been a
natural development of several gener
atoms of raising hogs on corn. 1t paid
to raise hogs on corn and consequent
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