Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-31

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Chickens can be made to grow fast
er by feeding often.
FURNISH as great a variety of diet
as possible and feed as much as the
fowls viii eat.
DO not hatch bantams until late in
the summer if you would have them
beautiful and diminutive.
There should be constant and per
slstent culling of the flock, always
keeping the best at home.
Inc farther you are from market.
me greater is The need of condensing
products by feeding grain and stores
to animals.
careful selection is one of the most
important points in stock raising of
All kinds, and is important to the
sheep raisers.
During the winter plenty of bedding
Is necessary in order to have the stock
comfortable and save the manure to
the best advantage.
Carelessness in the little details nee
essary to good management will soon
snow in the condition, healt and pro-
uucuveness of the fowls.
A heeee should possess the property
OF uniformity. This refers to covering.
density and quality. A good fleece
should be as nearly uniform in all parts
as practicable.
Sheep are valuable for cleaning old
pastures and fields, not only because
they eat most varieties of weeds, but
the seeds are digested so thoroughly
that they do not terminate.
Leave apples in cool places until
danger of very cold weather. as they
will not freeze as readily as potatoes.
Caobages and turnips will also with
stand a very low temperature without
injury.
Polled cattle and those that have
been dehorned are not subject to "hol-
low horn, but they are subject to hol-
low stomach or they may even be ex-
posed to the ravages of the wolf in
the tail"
1t always pays to look for a hard
winter. If one is ready for a hard
winter and it does not come he will
be agreeably disappointed, but should
he be unprepared and it comes he will
be most woefully surprised
The old cry that the silo is fit only
for the newspaper or pencil farmer is
fast going and will soon be gone. If
some of the slow coach dairymen do
not soon plan for a silo their more
progressive neighbors will outstrip
them.
Where and how is the crea N sepa-
rator kept? In the State of Mime
sofa it is crime to keep the separator
in the stable or barn. That is proper
law, and most people are inclined to
believe that there should be no need
for such law, but there is.
The man who owns good dual pur-
pose COW flatters himself that he has
good COW and that he is doing well,
and perha0s he is. But lie is not doing
his best until he makes a success by
reaching the highest degree of one or
the other branch of the cows useful
ness.
Careful experiments show that the
honey bee is quite as essential for the
perfect pollination of our fruits as
the humble bee is in the clover fields.
In Germany the humble bee is pro-
tected by legal enactments. With us
every nest is destroyed at once after
its discovery.
Wheat that is damp when threshed
will shrink more than that which is
dry. The shrinkage will be from one
to five cents per bushel in price. In
holding grain of any kind it will al
ways be we'll to take into consldera-
ton the shrinkage that is sure to take
place.
An Oklahoma farmer reports that he
has been able to rid his place of the
boil weevil by growing one crop of COW
peas. This weevil will not eat the
nd oil cta Nxrhf Ia
one crop was being raised. If this
practice could be made general it
might be solution of this veXed prob
lem.
The use of dwarf peas and beans
as a cultivated crop in orchards and
then turning under the vines after
picking the pods is recommended. The
orchard has the benefit of continuous
cultivation at the proper season; the
plants when plowed under enrich the
soil and the picked product pays the
bills.
When an Eastern writer wishes 10
confuse people about yield of corn he
mentions the measurement in so many
bushels of ears which signifies nothing
in the way of measurement. In the
South it is "bar'fs" of corn. In the
corn belt whenever a man speaks OF
bushels of corn he means one busheI
OF shelled corn.
A fruit grower who believes in thin
ming fruit, and practices what he be
heves, removed one-half of the croI
of an extremely heavy setting OF
Keifer pears and allowed it 10 so L
waste on the ground. The portion thai
matured was fine and sold at higl
prices. In the growers opinion the
yield was larger than if all fruit haG
remained on the tree.
Every year we have men who try tC
farm more land than they can attend