Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-14

turn under all the manure you can get.
Top dress lawns with fine compost
or scrapings of barnyard. Tie straw
around the rose bushes.
It is claimed that the original sheep
was black There was probably one
white" sheep in every flock.
A Wisconsin farmer turned his
wormy sheep into a tobacco field and
let them trim" the suckers. That
ended the worms.
If you have a roothouse or damp
barn cellar, you can set the celery up
right on the floor, so that the roots
win keep moist and the tops dry.
They say there is not great deal
of difference between the stomach of
the hog and that of man. At any rate,
charcoal is found to be useful in as
sisting the work of both.
Green corn stalk and all, is a good
starter for the fattening hogs, but it
must not be their entire ration. A
little dry feed, as old corn or barley,
is Indispensable in keeping up their
strength and regulating their bowels.
When one habitually allows other
things to interfere with his work with
his poultry, Irregularities become ,
numerous that his poultry keeping is
likely to be remarkable chiefly by long
periods of unproductiveness and al
most constant losses.
Don't leave any old grass or other
mulch around the bases of trees for
field mice to nest in. They will eat
the bark from the tree close to the
ground if it is a hard winter. After
the first hard freeze, raise a little
mound of earth around the stem for
protection against mice.
The man who likes hogs well enough
to like to stand and see them eat, is
almost certain to be a successful hog
raiser Such person becomes ac-
quainted with the individual hogs and
their feed. Be interested in your hogs
if you would make them profitable.
North of Virginia, celery for winter
use should be stored before December.
Dig up the plants, roots and all, and
stand them close together in mar
row trench, the tops level with the
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a little earth. AS the weather gets
colder, put on more earth and some
manure.
An Indiana hen stole her nest in an
abandoned wheat stack, and every
fowl that strolled by the nest laid an
egg in it. When the old hen marched
proudly up to the farmhouse with her
family, she was followed by two jul
venile turkeys, five chicks, an infant
guinea and two ducklings, and seemed
reasonably proud of the variety she
had achieved.
A 100-acre hog pasture man gave the
following as his summer method of
caring for swine: Through the sum-
mer-May, June, July and August
feed but once a day, after the sun has
gone down; that is, if you have a nice
large pasture. After shutdown your
chickens have gone to roost and your
hogs get the corn. They SLEEP all night.
Get up the next morning and go out
in the pasture and eat grass with the
cattle.
In some sections it is the custom to
wrap tender vines and shrubs in straw
There is no decided objection to this
if the top is left open so that a circu-
lation of air will pass over the shrub.
and if one is sure no mice Will get in
near the bottom to gnaw the tender
shoots. The plan of laying over the
partially tender vine and covering it
with soil is also adopted in some sec
TONS but a vine so tender as to re-
qdire this treatment ought not to be
planted.
The Danish authority on tuberculo-
sis, Prof. Bang, lately expressed the
opinion to a company of visiting Eng
fish farmers that the, tuberculin test,
while not infallible, was trustworthy
in over ninety per cent of the cases
tested. The main point in his system
of preventing the spread of the dis
ease was complete separation of all
infected animals as shown by the test,
and the separation of the calves in a
day or two if FROM infected cows and
feeding these calves on pasteurized
milk. In this way the disease could |
be weeded out in the second genera
ton. He insisted that there was no
need of destroying the meat OF tuber
culous animals, as there was no risk
after cooking.
EnsiIage Good for Feeding.
Prof. Whitcomb says: The health
fulness of silage for sheep is mat