Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-13

The true type of dairy COW is that
which furnishes the most and best
of any commercial products at the low
est cost
If dairy COW is properly fed and
cared for she will do her best, but she
will never do all that she is capable of
without good care
Do not undertake to keep too many
hens at time. A few well cared for
Is better than large number left to
look out for themselves.
Get rid of the surplus horses that are
not growing into money. There is no
advantage In keeping enough extra
horses to eat all that useful ones earn.
1t is rather poor economy to cram
80 cents worth of drugs down the
throat of a sick chicken that would not
be worth over a quarter, if it were
well.
1t is the hungry hog that is always
looking for a break in the fence. 1t Is
the chicken eating sow that should new
er be bred. Her kind will not pay for
| the raising.
| Some people seem to regard it a
| pleasant surgical operation to "eat
| their heads off, and they feel it is not
| expensive to keep stock that will do
| that same thing.
Regularity costs no more than irreg-
| ularity and it means much in the
management of stock. Stock have no
timepiece, but it wonderful how they
can tell when feeding time is at hand.
The alfalfa business Is yet in its IA
fancy. There seems to be so many
things that one can learn about 1t.
This can be learned best by trying a
small acreage, though it is too late
to SOW this year.
Without exercise, it Is inn oaSiGle for
the muscles of young horses 10 degSioa,
hence the necessity of a good SIZED field
for them to run in. If yon WC@d hI''
horses with endurance, give tn colts
chance to develop their muscles.
Good sense and docility as we'll as
lack of sense and treachery are mat
ters of transmission by inheritance.
This is true of ailments, habits Of
action, disposition and all those things
which go to make good or bad horse.
The present do haying machinery
has taken a great deal of sweat out OF
the business. In looking at some or
the machinery manufactured for this
purpose 1t almost makes one feel that
it would be a pleasure to- have haying
the whole year round.
A cavalry authority in Belgium esti-
mates that there are more than 5000
900 horses in the world. There are -
100000 in Russia, while Germany and
Austria Hungary each has more than
the British isles, where 1T is reeiSoned
there are about 100000
1t is usually the hired help that
watch the clock that complain most
of bad luck, hard times and lack OF APP
probation on the part Of their: EN-
pIoyers The kind who don't watch
the clock have little time to complain,
and even less inclination to do so.
Farmers and gardeners in the vfcrn-
fty of Bennington, Vt, are sustaining
large losses as the result of the inroads
of Belgian hares, which are the off
spring of pairs of these animals which |
were turned loose when this craze sub |
sided some three or four years ago.
In securing a good supply OF eggs the |
Unborn tendency of heavy laying is an !
important point. 1t is a tendency |
which goes in certain strains the same |
as in certain families of cattle, and |
without it no amount of slzillful care |
and feeding will produce the best re-
suits.
The largest individual wool clip ever
grown on the American continent was
shipped from Billings, Mont. 60 Bos-
ton firm. The clip weighed 100000 |
pounds, and forty-four cars were re-
quired to carry it. The owner refused
an offer of "a cents a pound for the
wool.
Let the farmer who wants good colts
select the best grade mares and breed
them annually to one good type of
horse. OF course, the quality of the
dam always has more or less influence
upon the progeny, but no matter how
good or how poor the mother, the best
sire obtainable is none too good.
Indiana has a fertilizer law which is
aimed tn protect the farmers and gar
deners within her borders. 1t provides
that fertilizers offered for sale shall not
only bear the inspection label Of the |
state chemist, bpt shall give the per-
centages of the ingredients which they /
contain. so that the purchaser may tell
at a glance what he Is buying.
From observations made with a num-
her Of hens it was found that in every /
instance the eggs were moved every |
day and did not remain in the same /
part Of the nest more than three days.
The thorough manner In which the hen
turns the eggs may well furnish US
clew to the most natural treatment Of
the eggs when under the artificial con
ditions of the incubator.
There is one thing in favor Of the /
compressed air system Of water works
not always to be found in the gravity /
system. One can control the pressure
and can elevate the water TO be used \
in any part Of the house and the boiler
and pipes can be located in frost /
proof place in the cellar. There should /
be more complete systems OF water