Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-28

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Fowls which feather and mature
early are good egg producers; are good
settlers and mothers and usually at
tractive in appearance.
Grinding the food for fowls is not
necessary unless for the purpose of
feeding a mixture or variety that can
not conveniently be given in any other
manner.
1t is claimed that seeds left in their
seed covers till wanted for planting
terminate much more certainly than
those from which the hulls have been
| removed.
Money invested in a railroad ticket
to attend a poultry show is a paying
investment. The exhibitors are always
on hand to explain and answer ques-
lions. and much can be learned from
them
An Austrian has invented 4 safety
line for runaway horses. 1t is so con-
structed that it presses two small roll
efs against the horses windpipe and
shuts off his wind" and he has to
stop.
The farmers in Kansas are alive to
the benefits of alfalfa and it is rec
ognized as being great agricultural
product when managed properly.
Growing alfalfa is great industry in
that State.
No better time can be found to dis
cuss the system of drainage than now
Many farmer has wrestled with the
problem through wet fields until he
has resolved to do some draining 9th
ers have had experience and profit by
that experience.
An Iowa mathematician has fig
ured that corn yielding thirty bushels
per acre will cost thirty cents per
bushel; yield of thirty-five bushels,
twenty-five cents; forty bushels, eigh-
teen cents; fifty bushels, fifteen cents;
sixty bushels, thirteen cents.
1t is in favor of sheep that they
will yield profit under conditions
so unfavorable that other farm ami
mails, under the same conditions. will
not be profitable: yet they will yield
as good pay as any farm animals for
the most favorable conditions.
In the fall season, when selecting
the stock for keeping for the winter,
always keep the largest, most active
and youngest chickens. If you have
noticed any hen that is an especially
good layer keep her and set as many
of her eggs as possible, especially If
egg production is an item.
A farm would be unworthy of that
| name without a well selected flock OF
chickens, but do not keep poultry
purely from sentiment. 1t is a paying
business, but an expensive hobby.
Know which of the birds it will pay
to keep and which it will pay to rid
yourself of.
The useful bacilli are on the in
| CIcdSt. -NOb lOllS Slltc We llCll lIldI
il is necessary to have a certain kind
of bacillus in the soil for the profitable
| growth Of alfalfa, and now comes the
| intelligence that a number of them
| gathered together and formed them
selves into a non-eXplosive lamp.
| The rank and file of the farmers are
| not engaged in farming for pleasure
| or pastime. This belongs to the veal
thy and the urbanite who may be ex.
| plotting some pet hobby. The general
farmer pursues agriculture for a live
| lihood and devotes his resources to
getting the most from the work per-
| formed on his holdings.
For many years we have beer told
that snow is poor mans manure.
| We know that there is nitrogen in
snow and that the soil is more or less
benefited by it, but when one has to
dig through snow to gate four times
a week, taking away six feet at a
time, he becomes skeptical about the
chemical analysis of this particular
kind of fertilizer.
In soma parts of Michigan the farm
| ers' club spirit is so well established
among farmers that when the meeting
| day comes around a whole neighbor-
hood will get together and spend the
entire day at some neighbours home.
They have a program. take their lunch.
eat, visit, walk out over the farm of
] the host, look at his stock and see
| his buildings. and one has no idea of
| the influence it has on such farmers
The man who does not read and
think does his work by the hardest
| plan. 1t is the education of head and
hand that gives us the best results.
/ Don't point to a man who has made 4
success by hard labor, for he is no cri-
| terion. There is no knowing how much
such a man could have done had he
educational advantages and could
have used his head along with his
| hands.
| There is a vast difference in balky
horses Some of them are incurable
and others will do fairly well under
the most favorable circumstances.
There are such things as balky driy-
ers and these are as plentiful as balky
horses A man ought TO reason. some
thing the horse cannot do. Horses are
frequently whipped when they are
] frightened or at a time when they
should not be whipped and they are
made balky. Some will baIk when
hitehed to a wagon that viii work all
right to pillow.
There are different remedies for the
| cure OF disease and ailments to which
poultry are subject. 1t is matter of
importance that not only the remedy,
but also the proper manner of apply
ing be clearly stated. Fowls are
caused much suffering and annoyance