Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-03-03

Water is as important as food and
should be supplied clean and fresh.
When fowls are permitted to roost
in foul, damp houses it causes dro0p-
ishneSs
When the hens are laying album
dantly lime should be kept before them
at all times.
Loose oatmeal is one of the best ma
terials to feed young growing chickens.
1t can be fed dry.
1t is good plan to keep in a box
supply of ground bone where the
fowls can help themselves.
A dressing of well-rotted manure
put on the garden now will be found
great help. 1t is difficult to get
garden too rich.
The man who has sure feeling
that his seed corn is all right may be
justified, but there are some who are
hugging delusion.
Did you forget to let the water
down in the pump when the thermom
eter went down to zero? If you did,
the pump demands your attention.
The caution must be repeated about
VII ~,
disa greeable odors. 1t hastens putre-
faction and lessons their market value.
The champion ear of corn at the
agricultural college at Ames, Iowa. at
the close of the "Short Course" term
sold for 81 to a commission firm in
Chicago.
A 500 dairy cow is rarely met. She
Is seldom recognized when met She
Is never for sale when recognized.
Poor feed will make q 500 cow look
like thirty cents.
The United Kingdom now consumes
$5,0O0,0OO worth Of bananas year.
Threefourths Of the supply comes
from the Canary islands and the bal
ance from the West Indies.
The Walnut Growers association Of
southern California has offered an
award Of $4,000 for practical means
of controlling the disease known as
walnut blight or bacteriosis.
10 {tr7on mo Of ynrn
out of the primary grades Of agricul-
tural knowledge. The drainage and
fertilization are still in the A B G
stage and there have been but few
who have passed On to the next grade.
The same feed, shelter and care re-
quired to winter poor sheep will
winter a coed one. The difference in
the yield of wool or mutton between
poor and good sheep is usually the
difference of profit or loss in keeping
sheep.
In planning it will be we'll to plan
for profits as we'll as yield. The yield
is not all, but it is a good deal. One
will need to seek weak places in the
fields and replenish with loads of
manure, and then he will need to read.
study, observe and practice.
A broiler is a chicken of two pounds
or under. A spring chicken weighs
from two to four pounds. A stewing
or roasting fowl weighs four or more
pounds. Broilers are also known as
"barbecues" and frying chickens -
Boyer in American Poultry Journal.
In mixing feeds for stock one can
not always depend ON the arithmetical
calculation as to nutritious elements.
Palatability must also be taken into
consideration The best mess for
COW may be prepared and If she does
not eat and enjoy it, poor results will
follow. The, COW gets good results
from bluegrass because it is palatable
as we'll as nutritious.
An Ohio man has made the discov-
ery that he can hatch chicks in bee
hive. Upon investigation he found
that tile temperature of his hives was
about that of his incubator. Acting
upon this information he placed IL sit
ting of eggs in a hive and in nineteen
DAYS took from it some chicks. He
saws a chaff hive is necessary. Stretch
q niece of cheese cloth above the bees
o1d lay tho eggs on this cloth Place