Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18

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The aggregate value of honey and
beeswax in 1900 was S6,665,0O0.
Skim milk and linseed meal will
substitute whole milk for calves
The Italian bee works better and is
more easily handled than the black
one.
The cows should have a months
vacation and during August is a good
time to let them lay off.
Corn and clover hay make a ration
that is hard to beat, and that is
cheap one to produce in nearly every
part of the country.
Don't blame the nurseryman if your
trees don't grow, unless you have done
your part in planting them and have
kept on doing your part by cultlvat-
ing them.
Under Iowa conditions it is gener-
/ ally considered that dairy COW to be
fairly profitable should yield about 300
pounds OF butter fat, during the lacta-
| ton period.
A new idea to destroy the dreaded
borers is to place large fat stones,
| tarred ON the under side, close to the
base of the tree. The tar works into
the earth and kills the borer-
If you have horse to sell, make
him fat-'fat as a hog" This may
not make the horse any stronger or in
any way better, but it will make him
sell better and at higher price.
The quantity of lime required in
bordeaux mixture varies considerably
with the quality of the rock from
which it is made. For this reason it
is advisable to test each lot of the
bordeaux mixture after it is made up
Every bit of poor butter sold by the
farmer is bought up, worked over and
renovated and sold at the highest
price. Why don't you make good but
ter in the first place and get 80 cents
a pound for it instead of 10 or y
cents?
Some COWS give large flows of milk
Immediately after calving but do not
keep it up very long and often go dry
in five or six months and produce
comparatively little butter fat; while
others give only medium fow of
milk when fresh, but keep it up for
ten months and produce over 800
pounds of butter a year.
1t would pay any farmer to make a
practice of going through that part of
his corn from which he intends to Sc
lect his seed corn and cut the tassel
off from every stalk that has set an
ear The tassel should be cut off be-
fore they blossom. 1t IS the barren
stalks that keep the average corn crop
% per cent below what it should be.
Better stock and more of it is what
you hear most about when you visit
the South. People in that section are
awakening to the necessity existing ,
for a better grade of stock. Breed
ers throughout the country should in
~Eestigate the opportunities of the
South and see what could be done
along the line of finding market Tor
a good share of their surplus. 1t will
prove profitable venture to the
breeder who gets in on the ground
floor.
There is a very strong demand for
choice stock in both table poultry and
eggs. A little preparation, on the
part of the farmer, would add thou
sands of dollars to the value Of the |
stock marketed This would give him |
a handsome return on the capital in |
vested The demand is so great for |
good poultry that it must and will be |
met If the farmer is not interested |
in supplying this demand business
men will soon class chickens and eggs
for market as one of the coming in
dustries of the country. Can the |
farmer allow it to pass to other hands? |
A successful poultry keeper once |
received a letter from a man who |
thought he would like to learn how to |
run a farm. This man wrote: Il
could do the light work and the heavy |
thinking for you" The answer that
went back by the next mail was:
"There is no light work on this farm,
and | am capable of doing the heavy |
thinking myself The suggestion
from this man will illustrate the way |
some people regard farming. They |
have an idea that a farmer needs |
some on to think for him, and that
this thinking" can be done by an out
slider who never did farm work. How
absurd such thing would be in con-
nection with any other branch of bhsi-
ness-and good farming requires more
planning and hard thinking than any
other trade. AS for this hunt for
Eight work" why cannot people see
that only the hardest and most pains
taking toll fits a man to really think
hard?
Seed Better Than Soil.
A great many farmers seem to think
that just as good results can be OBJ
tanned by using soil from an old al
falfa field on uninoculated ground as
from inoculated seed by government |
cultures. The misleading statement
has been published that 100 pounds of |
soil will inoculate an acre Of ground.
This is o mistake, and the farmer
who tries i viii not only lose his la
hn,. mt his crnn rrhn n ..ric11ltn,raI d.