Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-16

Cherries and plums should be graft |
ed early.
Eggs intended for Matching purposes
Ehould not be put on ice or be chilled.
Among new fruits receiving COM |
mendation is the Akin apple, beauti-
full red apple of excellent quality.
The first meal for the incubator
chick should consist of mixture of |
grains, ground to about the size of a
pinhead. -,.4-~4..f....
While there is little nutriment in APP |
pies, the chicks relish them, and there
Is no reason why they should not eat !
the fruit .zls-.z
Use Prizetaker or any of the large |
globe kinds for the new onion culture |
Sow in flats, hotbed or greenhouse and |
transplant to the open as soon as the |
ground is in good working condition.
For the new potato Noroton Beauty |
1t Is claimed that it is ''the earliest
potato ever grown, being sixteen Jays
earlier than the Old Early Rose, of !
which it Is lineal descendant, and the
best all round potato in existence"
5sas--- s-4--r~-
Bear in mind that the new soil in
oculation by artificial cultures is just
as applicable to garden beans, peas
and sweet potatoes as to field crops.
Some wonderfully good things are al
ready told about its work by thosSHwho
have practiced it.
sgsserssss N--s-@~- ~fs
Dr. A. D. Hopkins. in charge Of the
forest insect Investigations, Depart
ment of Agriculture, in recent lee
ture, said that the average annual loss
from insect work on forest trees and |
their crude and finished products |
amounts to at least $1O0,0O0,OOO.
Clark Standff0rd, a former we'll |
known grocer of Sacramento, Cal. is
preparing to engage in the cultivation |
or rhuDarb on an extensive scale at |
his ranch near Chino Mills, Butte |
County. Five tons of roots have been |
shipped to him, and they will form the |
basis for his enterprise.
A fancier who has done much ex-
perimenting says he has splendid re-
suits from feeding young chicks on |
Johnny cake. His recipe is: Two |
quarts of bran or shorts, two quarts |
of coarse cornmeal, one quart of wheat |
middlings, one handful Of good, pure |
beef scrap, one handful of good chick |
Ell grit; mix with milk bake in slow |
oven, and then feed.
A rather novel theory about the on
lon root maggot is advanced by c. NJ. |
Weed of the New Hampshire Station. |
He finds that the pest is veyy numer-
GUS on the roots of the yellow mustard, |
and that in seasons when the mustard |
is numerous the maggots give the |
onion crop little trouble, but when the |
mustard winter kills, the flies lay the |
eggs of the maggot upon the onion |
plants, thus leading to the tremendous |
damage done certain years.
The potato crop in Germany OF 1904, |
though the smallest since 1897, was of |
excellent quality, the unsound ones
amounting TO only 1.3 per cent of the |
crop, the smallest proportion in many |
years. This crop is of far greater i'm
portance in Germany than in the Unit |
ed States, because of the very large |
consumption for industrial purposes in |
the manufacture of starch and alcohol |
in the former country. The acreage |
in 1904 was nearly three times that in |
the United States in the same period, |
and the total production was four |
times as great. The yield per acre in |
1904 amounted in the United States to |
11O.4 bushels; in Germany, to 1641 |
bushels.
The last experiment station record |
of the Department of Agriculture |
prints a brief synopsis of the bulletin |
on milk fever in cattle and the new air |
treatment, being simply the injection |
of filtered air into the udder. The use
of atmospheric air in the treatment of |
milk fever was first adopted by An |
derson of Skanderborg, but has re-
Gently come into general vogue and has |
given uniformly satisfactory results |
In preventing the development of milk |
fever it is usually recommended that |
means be taken to offset the bad re
suits of the plethoric condition of the |
animal. This may be accomplished by |
keeping COWS on small ratiohs for about |
two weeks before calving or by adj |
ministering large doses of Epson salts |
for two or three days previous to this |
period. The same result may be |
brought about by abundant exercise. |
Recently it has been suggested that |
the occurrence of milk fever may be
prevented by allowing susceptible |
cows to retain most of the milk in |
the der for a period of twenty-four |
hours after calving.
Netch for Forage.
The common vetch makes one of the |
best plants we know of for green for |
age by sowing il in the spring, with |
oats as a support The soil should |
-. &c fOr. ood tbo God l