Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-18

broken horses.
The corn grower seldom whines be-
cause the weather is too hot
The lambs should be put in the feed
lots so that they can be sent to mar
ket early
In buying a cow try to buy the COW
that the seller wants to keep. She is
the good COW.
Whenever the swinging motion of
hoe is made as popular as the swinging |
motion of a baseball bat, then boys |
can't be kept from the garden.
Egg shells furnish material for new
shells. Do not feed them, though, I'M
less finely pulverized, for there is dan
ger of teaching the hens to eat eggs.
1t never pays to be next year farm
er, and yet it pays as well as it does
to be last years farmer. Don't put
of any farming for tomorrow that can
be done today.
Sometimes the things we do the best
are not worth doing at all. One of the
hardest things we often do seems most
easy. 1t is in shaking hands with rou-
| bic before we meet 1t.
| Many farmers are thwarting the rat
nuisance by placing concrete founda-
| tons under their cribs and granaries.
The expense is a little more in the be-
ginning but there is saving in the
long run.
Whenever a man does anything that
he knows to be radically wrong he won
ders what he has against himself that
leads him to do such thing. We are
constantly getting into trouble in this
manner.
The heavily padded collar is not the
thing for hot weather 1t Is ali right
in cold weather when heavy drawing is
at hand, but when warm weather comes
there should be different collar ar
rangement.
A Missouri farmer has tried baling
clover hay as he made it, He cuts his
| clover one day and rakes 1t up and
bales it the next and stores it in sheds,
leaving small spaces between the bales
for air. He reports results as satisfac-
tory.
Have you ever tried having summer
collars for horses in summer and winter
collars for winter? 1t is a good plan
and leads to fewer sore shoulders.
| Horses shoulders are not the same
shape or size in winter that they are
in summer.
Some of the very accurate writer's
are given pain because western farm
ern farmers insist on calling it dehorn-
ing. The correct writer says it is
'dishorning" Whatever it is, 1t means
removing the horns, and most farmers
understand what that is.
The chicks should have a varied ra-
| ton as well as the older fowls 1t
helps digestion and undoubtedly they
enjoy the change 1t las been said
that a bill Of fare is as necessary in
the poultry yard as In our own house
hold, for best results, and it certainly
is true.
Separate sheep and cows. They don't
do well together. The cows are par
ticularly sensitive about the places in
the pasture where the sheep have
| trampled the grass down and left their
droppings. Many farmers pasture their
cows and sheep together, but they al
ways do it at a loss.
The dairy ration should be palatable.
| 1t should be nutritious. 1t should be
! digestible, abundant and as inexpen-
siye as possible after the other essen
| tials are secured. But we should never
lose sight of the fact that no ration
is ever good enough or cheap enough
! to coax profit out of a worthless COW.
That dairyman who in addition to all
| his other necessary work pumped by
| hand the daily water supply for his
herd of twenty cows operated his bust
ness at a tremendous economic disad
vantage There Is saving that is
wasteful and economies that are ex-
| pensive.
A man needs all his Sunday school
training TO teach calf to drink. The
inclination of the calf is to do what
he believes to be right. When the
| teacher does as well along the lines of
what he knows to be right he will be
better teacher 1t requires self-con-
troll when a calf gives snort and fills |
ones watch pocket full of milk.
One cannot be too good to ones horse |
when it comes to making stalls. Nat |
urally one would think that the wider |
the stall the more comfortable the /
horse would be. But the wider stall |
may be dangerous after all. The horse |
is more apt to try to roll in a vide |
STALL and is more in danger of getting
fast than he would be In a narrow stall |
A medium width is best.
Grating Wax.
A grating wax used at the Maine |
experiment station is composed Of one !
half pound raw linseed OIL one pound |
beeswax. four pounds resin. Melt to-
gether and pull like candy.
weather Protection for stock.
All kinds of farm stock should be /
protected from storms. even in sum
mer. They should be brought home |
from the fields and put under shelter
until the storm subsidies. This will be |
very little trouble, as they will readily
do so. they requiring but short time |
to understand that they are better off /
by Sc doing.
Salt for Poultry.
Saiz IS as essential for poultry as