Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-11

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Millet viii increase the milk flow.
Cows must be well fed and well
housed to give you their best.
A COW can be spoiled for milk pro-
duction by feeding too literally of fat
producing food.
Keep the chicks growing all the
time and give them all the liberty you
can Quick maturity means winter
laying hens.
The most profitable growth of any
animal is that made early in life.
When the dry spell comes don't let
the young stock fall off in flesh, for
it is hard to get them started again.
1t is better to pay 50 per dozen for
eggs that you know to be from thor
oughbred fowls than 80 cents a dozen
for scrub eggs that come from your
neighbours hen-house But be sure that
you know your dealer.
Can a farmer afford to buy hay? In
deed, no. All through the middle
West prices are from $40 to so for
timothy, $40 for pea hay and $12 for
oats straw. A farmer might as well
think of buying eggs and butter.
hn 10. otny.y Iar no
apple trees and destroy every nest
found. Some old rags tied to the end
of a pole and soaked with coal oil
make an excellent torch for burning
the nests that are out of reach
The Garden Magazine, of Boston,
whose editor knows all about grass,
says the best way to kill the dandelion
and other weeds is to crowd them out
with grass. Lime and land plaster
will help some, by making the grass
grow better
Emmer, commonly but enormously
called "speltz," is regarded as a fine
crop in the Northwest 1t was intro
duced by German-Russian settlers, al
though the department of agriculture
has since imported a large amount of
this seed. 1t must be sown in the
spring.
The Angora goat boom seems to
have subsidized to a considerable ex-
tent. Angoras are all right for those
who have bushy pasture they want to
clear up, but they are not, nor ever
will be, as profitable as sheep, nor can
they be kept within bounds unless the
fences are so high they cannot get
their forefeet up to the top,
Some Northern farmers have a no.
ton that grass will pot grow in the
South. North Carolina has grown
more hay per acre in the last ten
years than the State of Iowa, yet Iowa
grows q million tons 70. = e e'si huh
aredl th6usand that North Carolina
grows. Grass grows all right in the
South, but the trouble is, farmers
down there keep cotton and tobacco
so close to their eyes that they cannot
see anything else.
Plan to have every acre of the farm
covered with a mulch the coming win
ter. Nothing is better than a mulch
of clover sod, either crimson or red
The first of August is a good time to
sow clover in the middle States. Rye
Is a good second choice. Crimson clov-
n or .4OI I'LL l.
late fall and early spring pasture.
Rye cut when in bloom makes a splen-
did bedding. What is not wanted for
this purpose can be plowed down. We
are more fully persuaded each year of
the value of winter cover crop.
Those great schemes for cO-opera-
ton among farmers are still being
pushed. AS a rule they are advocated
by men who have little standing at
! home, and who could not combine
with their own neighbors. Their prop
OsitiOn is too large 1t is like
starting to build a great house with
out making sure that all the little
joints are tight We have little hope
for those great combinations until
farmers first learn how to combine
with neighbors and friends. The
Grange, or the local farmers club,
may grow into a larger society, but
the big one will not build up the small
er one. Education grows up-not
down.
Australian Breeds of Muttou
COnsul-General Bray at Melbourne,