Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-15

Tobacco refuse or any kind Is rich
in potash and valuable for orchard use.
A tree will seldom live If It is set
when the bark is shriveled from dry
roots.
A mixture OF wheat bran, oats and
corn will give better results when fed
TO the breeding ewes than either wheat
or corn when fed alone.
Milk Is 81 per cent water without
any help from the pump, hence the
COW must have a bountiful supply Of
good water In order to produce a lib
-eral flow.
The frst garden vegetable comes
L-su ne asparagus bed. 1T cannot
.ccme where there Is no bed unless one
buys it. The city man buys 1t, but
there is no reason for farmers buying
such things
One Of the best ways to dispose OF
old strawstacks is to haul them in wet
and muddy feed lots to be tramped
down in the mud and to catch and abb
serb all the liquid manure Of such
places. Just little labor ami it will
do TIE resi-.
Shorts and niddlings in water or
milk are excellent, and make quick
gains in hogs, especially young ones.
There is not much In favor of grinding
feed, but this makes a better slOp.
Whole oats should be used for young
shoats and bulIed and ground oats for
old stock.
A corn planter is like an incubator;
gently managed. The manager should
be equipped with knowledge of what he
wants and then should see that the ma
chine responds to his efforts. A poor
stand Is often obtained because a poor
planter is called into use. il planter
that can not be made to do good work
is dear at any price.
Besides the enormous output of po-
tatoes to the markets of the world,
Greeley, Colo, has within the last few
months used up over 100000 pounds
of potatoes in her starch factories
These were mostly small or otherwise
understandable potatoes and would
have been pretty nearly dead loss had
they not thus been utilized. A starch
factory at great potato growing points
is a great help, principally in this way
Sell the poor cows and buy only
those you know to be good. Farmers
lose more money by buying fresh cows
than any other way. They cannot
Judge of the average CAPACITY or dis
position OF the animal until 1t has been
tested and disease may be brought Into
the herd unknowingly. When success
with a herd rests upon the breed and
the 1.rmer patiently waits until he
has secured cows of his own breeding,
success will be much easier,
John Winthrop IS usually held re-
sp0nslble for the introduction Of the
apple into the New World. But as a
matter of fact, when Winthrop an
,chored off Cape Ann the recluse Black
stone already had apple trees growing
about his cabin at Shawmut Neck.
Some Of the best of our American APP
pies were brought over by the Hugue-
nots, Who settled in Flushing, l.. l., in
1860. ana planted there among others,
the pOmme royale, or spice apple.
Flax Much in Demand.
There is a great demand for flax all
over the world, and a great effort is be-
ing made to induce Americans to cul-
tivate IT.
4 New HOrSeradiSh.
The latest novelty from Japan is a
new horseradish which is of delicate
shade Of green and mild flavor as com
pared with the ordinary kind grown
in this country. In Japan the vegetable
is Il favorite condiment with fish. The
two-year-old roots are used and the
fresh leaves are also made into Il kind
sOf sauce.
Experiment with IIIinois Soils.
The giSt of four years experimental
work in growing wheat and corn in the
Illinois soils adapted to these crops has
just been published by the experiment
station of that state. The sources of
supply of nitrogen, potassium and phos-
phorus for the soils of this region are
described and summarized for which it
appears that the cultivation of these
crops can be done at profit only in
case of application of commercial phos-
phates.
Depth TO Plant.
The depth of planting seeds should
be governed by the character of the
soil II light and dry then the seeds
should be planted deep and covered so
as to leave the plants when they come
up at least two inches below the sur
rounding level, and at the first time of
hoeing the ground should be leveled
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