Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-08-14


This can be partially overcome by feed.
Wood ashes is an excellent fertilizer
for young fruit trees. 1t contains large
per cent of potash, which is the essen
tial plant food most largely used by
fruit.
The best preacher is he who practices
what he breaches. The best teacher Is
he who knows what he teaches. The
best farmer is he who practices what
he knows.
A certain "would-be agriculturlst'
heard Of the egg plant and he bought
a number of them. He says he is going
to raise a lot of feed for his hens, and
believes that it is the thing for egg pro-
duction.
An "auto hog" ran over Leghorn
chicken belonging to California WON
an. She collected So "at the point of
a blacksnake whip" There's a new
woman for you. She did just what she
ought to have done.
To obtain strong, stocky plants, IN
hotbeds, they should be transplanted
when two or three weeks old, and once
again, later, into a cold frame. In this
way the best and earliest cabbage and
tomatoes can be had.
. In cultivating large fields heavy
teams will not only keep up in better
condition, but, actually require less
grain feed than the smaller class of
horses that have to work on their nerve
day by day to do thelwork.
In arbitrating troubles between your
self and neighbor it is satisfaction to
know that If you get nothing by the
arbitration, you have saved some court
costs. You probably have also saved
the friendship of your neighbor.
An ideal table fowl is long in the
body, wide in the back, full in the
breast, and plump over the keel, meaty
all over. An authority says, taking its
legs as a center, there must be more
body in front of the legs than behind.
The shape is a parallelogram.
For the first three weeks of its life
the pig should be fed exclusively
through its dam, and the dam ought to
be fed with that in view. No one ought
to expect a pig to eat and digest corn
while at a tender age. The pig needs
food that will produce blood, bone and
muscle,
When planting trees and shrubs on
the lawn for permanent growth, keep
In mind the habit of the trees. Make
the tops smaller than the roots of trees
that are transplanted. Remove all
broken roots when the trees are set.
Cut broken parts OFF with sharp
knife
A good many hours per year can be
saved by the use of snaps on harness
wherever needed. In putting snaps in
the brest straps they should be put in
so as not to catch in the neckyoke ring
when unhitching. Some use a roller
snap in the brest strap, and time Is
saved by it.
The reason why mornings pilk
should not be poured warm into the
nights milk is that the nights milk
contains great numbers of germs when
are just waiting for a little warmth in
order to develop and multiply. The i1ss
Of these germs the milk contains the
longer it viii keep.
Horse raising viii be deficient in
profit in exact ratio to the number of
81 900 draft stations that from $500
to $1,000 are paid for. While horse
raisers are ready to give stallion grit
ers the bulk Of their profits they should
not expect to be entirely satisfied with
their end Of the business.
Little danger exists of making the
soil too rich for a vegetable garden, for
although a total of ninety Eight loads
of manure We're applied to half acre
during five years, none of the vege
tables at any time suffere. In point of
productiYeness by reason of too ram
pant a vegetable growth.
@ Skim milk is an exceedingly valuable
feed for growing calves. 1t must al
ways be fed sweet and must be as
warm as the mothers milk, about 9S
degrees. Four quarts fed twice a day
Is Sufficient for the first month. Add
a oeaspoonful of oilmeal to each feed.
calves have oats or shorts and hay.
No more wasteful plan exists TO win
/ ter pigs or hogs Of any kind excepting
brood sows than to feed simply 10
make them hold their own Success
fuI pork production means good, well
bred hogs. good pasture IN summer.
good sheds, good feeding accommoda-
aons II winter, good feed, good water
and good care. The hog stands ready
to do the rest
winter wheat and RE plants have
al the tenacity Of life that can be
found in a single plant II one does
not believe this, let him try to XIII out
volunteer wheat or rye where lie de-
sires to plant corn, and be viii be con
vinced. All known tools disconcert II
somewhat. but 1t soon conforms to the
new order Of growth. and Is found in
thrifty coalition about the time the