Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25

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The summer butter should be wash
ed in water at 80 degrees.
! Hens in windy weather and with
out shelter will not lay and soon be
come "roupy.'
When you prune the blackberry
vines, cut off the tops when they are
about two feet high.
Give the growing fruit plenty of
sun and air. 1t needs it for coloring
and perfection in shape.
The milk which loses its quantity
cannot be fully restored until the cow
has had her next calf
Chickens should be reared upon
fresh ground every year 20 insure sue
cess, and coops Often shifted.
Milking should not be hastily done
The stripping is thu most important
part and should be done thoroughly.
If coat is soiled in the mud, curry
and clean thoroughly before milking.
This will keep the milk clean and
the pores of the cows skin open.
No wire should ever be left around
the body of a tree. If it is desirable
to fasten a tag on some young tree
| fasten it to an insignificant twig.
Every decent farm paper in the
| country has printed so much about the
Importance of testing seed that there
is no excuse for anybody planting dead
ones
Timothy hard on the soil? Yes, and
so is any other crop, unless some of
the elements it takes out are put back.
Timothy properly managed is a good
crop for most farmers to raise.
The claims of the stock food max
ers are largely without foundation.
There is nothing in most of them that
cannot be bought in the shape of bran,
middlings and oil meal at very much
| lower prices than the so-called stock
| food is sold for
On some farms all kinds of poultry
are fed together, old and young, and
geese, ducks, turkeys and chickens.
There are always domineering individ-
uals in barnyards, hence it will be an
advantage to separate the older from
the younger stock when feeding
Weeds are soil robbers and should
not be allowed to gain foothold. The
best time to kill them is before they
have gained a good hold on the soil A
weak seed just sprouted dies if it is
even moved, while a weed we'll start
ed often grows right along if every
root but one is turned out.
| Sweet skim milk is generally esti-
mated to be worth 20 cents per 100
pounds, but we know good stockmen
who claim they value it as being worth
bushel of corn per 100 pounds. The
value depends on how it is fed to a
great extent. Fed in a slop by mixing
bran and middlings with it, is prob
! ably as good a way as any.
! For the main crop of tomatoes
| small, stOcky, quickly grown plants
are best for transplanting in garden
or field, but for extra early potted
plants that are almost ready to bud
may be used. These should be trans
| planted without removing much of
| the earth from the roots. By this
method it is possible to have ripe to-
matoes by July 1.
The Delaine is a pure bred Merino
sheep, the result of Improvement by
careful selection, breeding and feed
ing with definite ideal constantly
in the minds Of its breeders writes r.
Wood in Breeders Gazette. The chief
characteristic difference between the
American MerinO, or Spanish Merino,
as it was formerly called and the De
lame is the entire absence of folds
or wrinkles either on the neck or
body of the latter, a longer staple of
wool and a lighter weight of fleece.
AS distinguished from the Rambouil-
let, the latter is a larger and more
rangy sheep than the Delaine, while
the fleece is generally denser, but not
as oily nor quite as fine nor as long
as the Delaine. All these breeds are
merely families of the one great
breed, Merino.