Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-07

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 droop-
ishneSs.
When the hens are laying album
dainty lime should be kept before them
ut all times.
AS rule the greatest failure in the
ice crop is in a failure to get enough
of it put up.
Loose oatmeal is one of the best ma
terials to feed young growing chickens
1t can be fed dry.
Every feed has its OWL excellencies
and is superior to every other feed in
some point or points.
1t is a good plan to keep in box
supply of ground bone where the
fowls can help themselves.
While you have comparative leisure
suppose you give the betterment of
rural schools and country roads some
thought.
A dressing of well-rotted manure
put on the garden now will be found
great help. 1t is difficult to get a
garden too rich.
The man who has a 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 tnermom-
eter went down to zero? If you did,
the pump demands your attention.
The caution must be repeated about
placing eggs where they will absorb
dlsagreeable odors. 1t hastens putre-
faction and lessons their market value.
The champion ear of corn at the
agricultural college at Ames, Iowa. al
the close of the Short Course" term
sold for $11 to commission firm in
Chicago.
800 dairy cow is rarely met. She
is seldom recognized when met. She
Is never for sale when recognized
Poor feed will make a 500 COW loob
like thirty cents.
The United Kingdom now consumes
$5,OO0,000 worth of bananas year.
Three-fourths 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 a practical means
of controlling the disease known as
walnut blight or bacteriosis.
1t is time many of us were getting
out Of the primary grades of agrlcul-
tural knowledge. The drainage and
fertilization are still in the A B G
stage and there have been but a few
who have passed on to the next grade.
The same feed, shelter and care re-
Qulred to winter a poor sheep will
winter a good 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 the early days of irrigation it was
thought that it required six feet of
water to irrigate a crop. Now many
would be glad to get one foot. Accord
ing to a government expert about %
per cent of land is injured by too much
water.
In planning it will be well to plan
for profits as well 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 a
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-
cry that he can hatch chicks in a bee
hive. Upon investigation he found
that the temperature Of his hives was
about that of his incubator Acting
upon this information he placed a sit
ting Of eggs in hive and in nineteen
days took from it some chicks. He