Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-27


If you have hired man who Ii fond
Of milking, tie to him. He is & rare
jewel, indeed
Don't keep milk in the barn. Build
q dairy house at a distance Of several
rods. If possible.
Decide how much space you can give
to the things that require lots Of room
corn, potatoes, cabbage and vines of
the cucumber family.
If horse coughs it is probably due
to dusty hay. The cleanest hay should
be given the horses. Other kinds Of
stock will do well on dusty hay.
All breeds of sheep are by choice
scavengers, but when expected to sub
slst entirely on scavenger's fare they
return only scavenger's profits.
Skimmilk is more valuable than
most people think. 1t only takes 1927
pounds to equal a pound of cornmeal
in feeding value for growing pigs.
Give the colts plenty of exercise
Don't keep them tied up In the barn
all winter long. They can stand
bit Of fresh air and little frolic every
day.
Nothing dignifies a man quite so
much Us the ownership Of a piece of
land. If you are a renter, get hold of
some of Mother Earth as soon as you
can.
Some people would be better off if
they were to refrain from making new
resolutions All that will be necessary
for them to do will be to mend some
of the old ones.
One pound of corn meal is equal in
feeding value to 3.27 pounds Of skim
milk when fed to growing pigs. There
is really more value in skim milk than
we give credit for.
These days when the fire is burning
warm it will be a good plan to see Il
the insurance policy is ali right, and it
might be a good plan to see that
ladder is convenient.
Do you give your horses salt regu-
larly or occasionally? They should
have it where they can get it at any
time. If you think it makes no differ
ence, try eating without salt yourself
for month.
Keep a fowls head and feet warm
and you have provided well for its
comfort in that line. In other words,
II the floor is dry, the roof made to
keep out wind and frost, the sides well
battened, tEen the fowls will keep
warm.
There are two kinds of profitable
farming. One is to grow and sell
profitable crops and by so doing i'm
poverish the soil, and the other is to
grow equally as good crops and con-
duct the operations so as to keep the
fertility of the soil up.
medicine to fowls that with some
liquids a drop is larger than some
others. Sixty drops Of water make a
teaspoonful or 2 dram; laudanum and
all other tincttres and alcohols have
100 drops to a fluid dram
Hogs are % to 80 cents hundred
higher than a year ago, and don't
seem likely to be much if any lower
As things look now, pork will be
made at less cost this year than last;
so, on the whole, the hog business
shouldn't give growers the blues.
Extra clevises, singletrees, double
trees, bolts, etc, should be provided now
when there is comparative leisure.
When one gets busy and finds he could
rig another team if he only had a few
more clevises or singletrees, and does
not have them, is the one way to insure
disappointment and loss.
The short courses at our agricultural
colleges afford a splendid opportunity
for the busy farm boy to gather some
information along his line. The boy
who wants to get information will
find it there. The boy who is not
looking for it could not find it if it
were at the end Of his nose.
Glass gives more warmth to hotbeds !
than any other covering, but for plants
that are somewhat hardy, a light
frame covering of oiled muslin Is as
good and is cheaper. 1t can be prepar-
ed by stretching the muslin and satur-
ating both sides with boiled linseed
oil, spread evenly with paint brush.
Congressman as a rule do not pay
much attention to the lobbyist. There
is(a lobby to which any citizen of the
United States can belong and his in
fuence will be respected. A stamp on
a letter will make you a member Of
that lobby and your member will
show you respect if you tell him what
you want.
The time to care for poultry is all
the time. Thorough care and daily at
tention are the essentials in any bust
ness, and the poultry business is no
exception. Wideawake and successful |
poultry raisers know this. A duty that |
you owe to yourself and to your pocket
book is to entertain a little more en-
thusiasm.
Many persons seem to think anything |
good enough for a hog and not very
much Of It But it is not. 1t is poGf |
way to make pork. by compelling them
TO make their own living. The only |
way pigs should be required to make !
their living is by gathering the alfalfa,
clover or other green stuff they eat In
a weli-coyered pasture and a good feed
of grain along with it all.