Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-21

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the best in your dock.
Feed ground oil cake to fowls twice
a week; it viii often promote laying
when other foods fail to give good re
suits
While a pig should be literally fed
it should not be 50 overfed but that it
Will always be ready for its feed at
the appointed time.
The production of lambs for market,
especially on farms convenient 10 mar
ket. if conducted with Intelligence,
cannot fail to be profitable
a horse that is well broken becomes
useful and is sought by all who may
be acquainted with his abilities The
auto tlat is well broken is lit only for
the junk shop.
1t has been. recently discovered that
people IKE longer in cities than in
the country. This probably explains
why so many farmers move to the city
when they retire.
A farmer in Wisconsin brought suit
against a seed deaie. because he sold
him bird rape seed instead of the
dwarf Essex variety, and that the
crop developed a lot of noxious weeds
that greatly damaged his farm.
The best swine breeders nowadays |
use some Of the many kinds of germi-
cides freely about their houses and |
yards These disinfect and destroy
germs. BY diluting them many kinds
can be taken internally, which frees
the hogs from worms.
In the mixture of blood in breeding
live stock it will not mix like mixing |
paints We mix certain cOlors together |
and get the same result every time |
with no variation. Sometimes when a |
white Shorthorn bull is bred to a Gal
loway COW blue gray is produced and !
sometimes not
When the temperature gets down to |
zero, all seed corn that has not been |
thoroughly dried out will be injured. |
This Is as true as life. and no one |
should attempt to excuse himself for |
not making IL close examination and |
test of the seed corn. Some of our |
best corn growers keep their seed in /
a dry cellar.
We are approaching a system of in
tensive farming Some extensive |
farm operations work all right, but we
are fast approaching a time when we |
will need TO be more intense in our |
work. The extensive snout and legs |
of the razorback have given way to |
the abbreviated noses and legs of i'm |
proved breeds.
Forty years ago much of the stock |
for distance of hundred or more |
miles was driven to the market in
stead of by freight. 1t was profitable
then, and We're it not for the shrink, !
it might be so now Some of the |
shippers have to divide with the trans. |
portation companies and the producer |
pays the freight" after all
Doctor Sven Hedin. a famous tray |
eler, tells US that Thibet sheep are
used as transport animals. One day |
he met caravan of 200 sheep laden |
with corn, of which he says: 1T was |
q pleasure to see how orderly was |
their march and how easy they We're
10 manage; no slope was too steep for
them, though they bore quite heavy |
loads"
The use of peat for fuel is making |
progress in Sweden in competition |
with imported coal. Deposits in that |
country are of enormous extent. The |
finished peat is heavy and firm, with |
small percentage of ash. Deliveries |
to the State railways during the year
will probably amount TO about three |
thousand tons. The price is $3.11 per |
ton in large lots.
One of the unsolved mysteries of the |
creamery test is that a 4 per cent COW
does not always test per cent \ |
cow is said to never test above her |
maximum percentage of butter fat, |
but she will frequently fall below it |
and the patron thinks the creamery
man is stealing from him. There are |
disturbances which come up that will |
cause this trouble and there seems to |
be no accounting for it.
Mr.. Hoard the Wisconsin dairyman,
says COW will throw off $13 worth of
ammonia in single year and it pays
to keep and hold it for use on the soil
He saves it by sprinkling his stables
| daily. and as much ofte0er as neces
sary, with land plaster, which absorbs
and holds it until it is placed On the
land He says he made poor farm TO
yield an increase of 90 per cent in
seven years. This pays.
| Has it ever occurred to you that you
cannot make your own burdens lighter
( by burdening your friends with Your
| own troubles? 1t cannot be done; it
has been tried repeatedly If your
pillow does not scour viii your neigh
| Dor be any the wiser or VIII you be
benefited any By transmitting the
trouble to him? He win ask You why
you did not take proper care of the
/ piow and then your troubles will be
more
The latest production Of Luther
! Burbank. the well-kn0wn California
botanist, is the spineless cactus, which
is claimed to contain about half as
much nutriment as alfalfa and that
| the yield of forage per acre Is greater.
/ This peculiar cactus was obtained 10y
a series OF crosses and careful selec-
ton. The advantage Of plant Of this
I kind is like that of others of IT'S fam
| lily. 1t can he grown iu a region too
| dry for ordinary crops. Its success \
would mean prosperity for the desert
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