Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-11-20


most profitable. After hen is 3 years
old she becomes Improbable for an egg
producer, and Is rather tough for table
use.
Little pigs of the same size feed bet
ter together than when large and small
are mixed in pen or yard. Separate
follow.
There is such a thing as being q
can more real gentlemen be found. 1t
is easy to be gentleman If ones blood
Is right.
A wheat drill with fertilizer carries
with it a suggestion that should be
talking to its owner to keep up the
fertility of the SOIL Winter wheat fol-
fertility.
Did you ever stop to think that if all
men were sharp there would be no sale
for gold bricks? If all men could sue
cessfully launch some scheme there
would be no biters, no schemers and no
| get-rich-quick schemes.
Red raspberry plants should be taken
from young, healthy bed. Plants
from an old bed are vigorous and more
liable to be diseased. The proper dis
lance between the rows is seven feet
| for garden culture and eight feet for
| field culture.
Orcharding and hog breeding are
now the joint order of the day among
progressive fruit growers in the
southwest. The two industries COM
bine most tremendously. Cross fences
and feed patches are needed, however,
to insure absolute control.
A number of small portable poultry
houses are handy on poultry plant,
as they can be used to place brooders
in in the early spring, and later can
be utilized for growing stock, breeding
hens or laying hens, and can be moved
| to different points on the farm.
What the hen on the farm needs is
| the proper assortment of grain, plenty
of green food and full proportion of
meal and grit. If this is provided and
they are properly housed and made to
exercise you will have hens in winter
when it pays well to have them.
If the farmer has growing a bearing
peach, plum or other fruit tree whose
name Is not known 1t should be iden-
clature of the State Horticultural soci-
ETY. In order that the owner may pur-
chase other trees like the one now Civ
ing satisfaction.
The man who keeps his horses
scared of him" all the time is wonder
ing why they do not come up to him
when he is in the far side of the pas
ture trying to catch them. He is heard
to say, IF l ever catch you I'll give
you a sound thrashing," and that prob
ably explains why he can't catch them.
In storing potatoes one should not
bruise them, as they rot worse when
they have become bruised. Many are
under the impression that they can be
handled like coal. OF course some
times one feels pressed for help and
time and they are handled more rough
~ than there is any necessity for do
Ing.
An experiment with young pigs at
the Connecticut experiment station,
showed that they did much better on
milk with 31a per cent fat than on
milk having more than per cent. The
best results were secured with skim
milk. Many good farmers have raised
fine calves on a diet almost exclusively
of skimmilk.
Hog cholera is not phantom to be
brushed away with hope that 1t will
not reach your herd OF swine. 1t is
just a question as to whether the germ
Is introduced or not. When one has
done all he can along precautionary
lines, he will probably get caught after
all, but the careful man generally
comes out ahead.
Fertilizers pay better on fruits than
on corn or cotton, but they should not
contain too much nitrogen else wood
growth is too much stimulted. Phos-
plate and potash are the best fruit
g. by,f nnffnpcaaH mani nj
trate of soda or stable manure may
be used if 1t appears that the tree, It
self is not growing fast enough.
Many Of the sons of toll OK the pres
ent generation do not know the first
principles of binding grain by hand
They came on the stage OF action since
the introduction Of the self-binder and
have never acquired the art 1t is
amusing to see some of the grown-up
sons trying to bind an occasional bun
die that happened to be thrown off I'M
bound.
Raising tomatoes in large quantities
requires large quantities of fertility in
the soil. If 1t is possible to secure
barnyard manure In large quantities,
1t might be spread upon the ground
and turned under In the early spring,
and II would supply in large l.art the
necessary fertilizing ingredients men
toned above. Some tomato growers
use guano, sprinkling about one hand
ful In each hill before the plants are
set out.
A bulletin from the department OF
agriculture relates the habits and life
history Of the codlIng- moth and adj
7ises spraying with paris green and
scheeie's green. one pound; lime, three