Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-03

sheep scab. Thousands of dollars are
lost yearly to the farmers through its
ravages.
Borrowing money ard borrowing
trouble are two different things in the
beginning, but they are very similar
when it comes to paying. Then it usu
ally amounts to the same thing.
ANY old place never was a good
place for a garden. More gardens are
located there than anywhere else
Should this be the selection the yield
ought to be ANY old kind of yield
The present outlook seems r. prom
Use a practical milking machine. Two
different machines are being given a
thorough test and the reports are very
promising None of these machines are
at present ON the market.
The mortgage is going-to stay or be
removed, according to the efforts put
forth. 1t is going to stay when robber
COWS, loafer hens, unthr,fty hogs, dis
eased sheep and poor seed are kept. The
question is what will be done with the
mortgage?
Hogs can be kept in better trim if
they have a little charcoal to aid their
digestion. A thoroughly charred log
thrown in their pen or yard will an
swer the purpose. 1t is better than
wood ashes, and the danger of choking
is reduced.
A train boy sold an cd farmer some
bananas They did not suit his taste
and he threw them away. When the
boy returned the old farmer asked him
If he had any Ben DaSis apples. He
wanted to eat a few to take the taste
out of his mouth.
For starting early tomato and other
plants in house or hotbed, use sod cut
in three-inch cubes or old tin cans, with
solder melted off, or little paper boxes,
which have only to be wet when placed
In the ground. Transplanting can then
be done easily without checking the
growth.
In the dry, warm sned provided for
the hens in cold or rainy weather keep
both straw and gravel. There will be
no better dust bath for them than fresh
coal ashes. If a box Of this is kept
convenient, the fowls will rid them
selves of vermin and will md necessary
adjuncts to their rations in the cinder
which they pick out.
Nothing is more amusing than TO see
a man backing out of an Individual hog
house with an Infatuated sow as the
assailant. There is a sort Of deXterity
that is unusual to say the least. The
doors of such pens should b. made so
one can enter easily and get out sud
denly in case of an attack. With some
sows it is a good plan to carry with one
a hand hurdle.
1t is the general opinion among hen
men that the hen that hides her nest
Is more successful than the hen that
does not. Should a hen hide her nest
and come off with q large brood of
chicks she is held up rs being all right,
but nothing is said Of the thousands of
hens that hide away and are never
found again. This probably gives rise
to the saying that the hen that hides
her nest Is always successful
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good place to keep accounts and rec |
ords, but it is not the best place |
Notches in sticks have their significance /.
for the time being, but they lack per-
manency and it requires more or less |
memory to keep accounts in this man. 1
ner. The best way to keep accounts IS
to obtain book and keep account OF |
all thing that are liable to slip the |
memory.
The price of clover seed has been |
known TO influence the area sown. Some |
times a failure to get a stand is attrib |
utable to the price when ranging from
IS to $40 per bushel. No failure to get |
a stand ought to attach to climatic con
ditions so long as there is a tendency (
TO economic in the amount Of seed used I,
because of dear seed. One ought to be |
honest enough with himself to point |
out why be made failure
Fellows must be reckoned with by |
the peach grower as one of the troubles /
he will have to fight Its cause is not /,
yet known, and no cure for a true case
Of yellows has yet been found. Grow
ers who have not studied the symptoms I
of this trouble often class all trees with !
a yellow foliage as ''yellows" trees, and /
then say that with proper treatment a I
large number Of yellows trees will re- i
cover. Yellow foliage is only enc symp-
time OF the disease, and the one least /
dependable.
Red raspberry plants should be taken /
from a young. healthy bed. Plants i
from an old bed are less vigorous and (
more liable to be diseased The prop /
er distance between the rows Is seven 1
feet for garden culture. AID eight feet I
for field culture The plants should 4
be set three feet apart with two plants .
In every hill This will assure better
stand and wiil also give cogble the /
crop the second year because they have
double the amount of canes. Always /
choose a rich. heavily MANFRED and /
welI-tilled soil
Where possible to do %, the prepare
tion of the potato ground should begin |