Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-23

Be ready to jump right in and make
the best use of every fine day.
In Missouri the tendency seems to
be toward more thorough cultiv&tl ton
in orchards.
Give the hens a chance to pick up
shell-producing material Let them
have access to charcoal, crushed bones,
etc
Currying the cow with the milking
stool has become questionable on the
farms of our most intelligent dairy
men.
Give the poultry the run of the or
chard occasionally. They will pick up
much fruit that would otherwise be
wasted.
Peaches have grown good crops
with me twenty-One years out of TWEEN
ty-three,' says a fancy County GIo)
farmer
If The chick is backward in break
ing through the egg shell, help it along
Sometimes the shell is too hard for the
tender little beaks
For the York Imperial as a cold
storage apple the point is made that
well-colored apples stand storage bet
ter than those picked sooner.
II the mother and her chicks can be
permitted to run at large. do not wOr-
ry them with too much grain food
Make them scratch. They need the
exercise.
1t is doubtful if any person can state
the actual average cost of an egg, but
1t is an easy matter to learn if the
production of eggs is equivalent to the
value of food given.
G. +. Hale OF the Michigan Horti-
cultural Society prefers plums on
peach roots, thinking he can fight the
borers better than cut plum sprouts
that come up from the roots.
To balance corn something that con-
tains more mineral and heterogeneous
matter must be fed. Hens. especially
ceous matter compared with what they
need in winter
The dairy COW was the standby of
the pioneer. She went with him INTO
the wilderness and there harvested
the green grass and turned it into de-
hcious food for her owner and his
family
II poultry raisers will study the gen
eral question of the classes of food
elements they can frequently substi-
tute one for the other, according as
they have this or that article at hand
and according to the price of the vari-
GUS articles in their nearest markets
Dairy cows should be provided with
an open shed to which they may go at
any time during the year The cold
rains of March and April are more
trying than the more severe weather
of winter. The constitution Of the
dairy COW is not always particularly
strong, and she should be looked after
carefully.-American Agriculturist
In Maine the most active warfare
against the BrOwn-tail moth is carried
on in York County, where about one
hundred thousand nests have been de-
stroyed. Some work has been done
also in Rockland, Camden and Cum
berland Counties. Commissioner Gill
man reports that the people in general
are much interested in the matter and
wei aware of the need of prompt and
active measures
About two weeks before the time
} Cor clearing off the old fowls more
fattening ration should be fed The
meat or beef scraps should be doubled,
and the grain food should be almost
wholly cracked or whole corn. Of
course, they should not be allowed to
range much. \ fowl that Is running
ct large cannot get into really good
eating condition.-Inland Poultry
Journal.
The natural variation in the test Of
cows milk and of herd milk is some
thing that is difficult for any one to
understand. Careful observations made
by testing the milk daily from single
q cows and from herds have shown that
4 there may be a difference from dav
n to day of as much as l per cent fat
Il in the milk even when the milk has
y not been tempered with by skimming
IT or by adding water thereto.-Profes-
sor Harrington.
An Eastern cooperative creamery
reports a successful year with receipts
,F,.F e
in excess Of the previous year, while
in June and July butter was two eel
below the price of 1908. The price is
now thirty-two cents. the highest for
many years. From $40. 1853 pounds of
cream the factory made POI 800 pounds
q of butter, ana paid an average price
4 for butter fat of 26 LIP cents per
pound. The average cost of making
was 3.4T cents. Other income included
STOP for cream and Sl.124 for butter
q milk. Besides the excellent price paid
by patrons there is Il dividend on
stock of six per cent and the balance
N carried over in the treasury is $4,uo0.
in Matching chickens. Mr.. Hare of
the Ontario Experiment station adj
vises the placing of nests ON the earth.
so that the moisture of the egg can be
retained. 1t is necessary to have fresh
air constantly supplied the eggs during
Matching. and also moist. warm air
about the eggs when the chickens are
breaking the shells. To minimize trou-
bic i'm Matching chickens it was recon-
mended that several sitting hens be
commenced at the same time in one
room. and that they be fed and
watered together. When a reliable in
cubator was employed for Matching a
large number OF chickens, more salts