Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-06

pigs.
If you cultivate your orchard prop
erly, you will not have to renovate it
so often.
1t costs no more to produce clean
milk or cream than it does to produce
he other kind.
Beauty in form and appearance is
not a safe indication of the value of
SOW as a breeder.
Keep the cows out of the corn fields
on cold or stormy days. 1t is expen-
sive feed they get.
1t is a mistake to breed a SOW too
young; she should be at least months
old, and IL is better.
You should have hotbed and a cold
| frame, so that you can have fresh Tege.
tables in April and May.
Give the seeds and plants plenty OF
room to grow, so that seeding will be
easy and tangling of vines impossible.
Roup starts simply as a cold. Germs
seize upon the infamed parts as good
home and then we get malignant, in
! fectious type.
Look them over carefully, and select
closely; and send to the butcher every
animal that is not up to the standard
Of excellence.
Fowls are valuable only when they
are handled with view to getting the
best there is in them. Once proved,
| fowl is a valuable asset
Nothing looks much better or pref
tier in summer than a well-kept hedge
fence. On the other hand nothing can
become a greater nuisance than one
that has been poorly kept.
Sheep increase so rapidly and ma
| ture at such an early age, and their
| flesh is so wholesome for food, that
on the majority Of farms flock can
readily be made profitable.
Since no use can be made Of sow's
milk it seems unwise to be in a hurry
about weaving pigs when the moth
er's milk supply is still good. The
sucking pig is making its lowest cost
growth.
There is a shortage Of horses and
! THO ~, Iv rauoo6xr foy. This eitII-
alton is for breeders to hold good ones
for high prices and breed the mares
more diligently. The former move is
the safest method.
1t is claimed that one sheep for
each cow can be kept with very lit
tie if any additional expense as the
sheep consumes much that the COW
will refuse. All the same, sheep need
| good nutritious food, and pay for it
In every neighborhood there is at
| least one man who bears the reputa-
| ton of being able to do the most work
| in the least time of all his fellows.
The reason usually lies in the fact
that his machinery is kept in perfect
repair and his methods are strictly up
to-date.
The discussion seems undated be-
tween the advocates of cultivation Of
fruit trees and leaving them in sod.
Those on one side seem to have as
strong arguments as those on the
other. The probability is that for
young trees cultivation is the best, and
for old trees sod is just as good If not
better.
There will be no investment for
good blood on farm where the own
er does not believe in it. One has to
believe before he is convinced that it
is a good thing. The fact that there
are many scrub farmers trying to
/ keep good stock on scrub care is in
creasing the ranks Of skeptics. Good
stock and good care go together.
The weight Of the grain from an
acre of corn is about the same as the
weight of the cured fodder. Forty
bushels of corn should weigh about
long ton, and the weight of the fod-
der will be nearly the same. There
may be variations sometimes, but one
! can estimate very close to the weight
of the cured fodder by arriving at
knowledge of the number of bushels
of corn from each acre.
The average American farmer would
marvel at some of the things eaten by
| foreigners. Laplanders mix earth with
| their bread and Russian peasants use
| rock -four" Some poorer classes of
Hungary actually eat earth. Seaweed
is sometimes used as a food from neces-
| sity. Chinese are said to eat bird
nest SOUP" whatever that is. In Spain
! the snail is a luxury. Americans are
eating many things in the absence Of
pure food laws, that they have no de-
sire to eat.
A large pecan tree in Berrien COun-
/ ty, Ca, has q spread of branches of
| 123 feet. It's trunk at two feet above
| the ground has a circumference of II
feet, and at a height of five feet it
measures 912 feet around. 1t is said
to bear twelve to fifteen barrels Of
nuts annually, and as they are of the
unimproved or common variety they
never sell for less than 10 cents a
pound. and the crop brings from $40 to
| 500. The tree is supposed to be be-
tween sixty and seventy years old.
Measure accurately the length and
/ breadth Of your kitchen garden. 1t
does not pay In dollars and cents, if
you count your time worth as much
as the market gardeners. And this
/ should be enough, for there is great
1 satisfaction in seeing the best results
/ from your own work. The home gar
| den never pays except as you get from
nature what it can give in the best of
/ table delicacies. 1t is on too small a
/ scale A man ought to be ashamed