Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-26

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AS rule, a horse broad in the fore
head Will be intelligent and kind.
To have horses of endurance, give
the colts a chance to develop their
muscles
sheen are very efficient aids in max
ing clean pastures by keeping down
many kinds of weeds
If a fockmaster attempt to winter
his sheep without shelter enough to
keep them dry, he viii not get good
fleece.
The daily ration for a good COW is
thirty pounds of corn silage, ten pounds
Of hay, three pounds of corn meal, five
pounds of bran.
Get rid of the surplus horses that
are not growing into money. There is
no advantage in keeping enough extra
horses to eat all that the useful ones
earn.
Damp floors are almost sure to give
poultry roup or some other disease.
Coal oil sprayed or injected into the
nostrils and throat will usually cure
them.
A pound of good butter would swap
even to-day with bushel of corn. The
former contains no fertility, while the
fertility in the latter is worth about
fifteen cents. Each man can draw his
own conclusions.
The lousy hog, the NANCY hog, the
abused hog, the hog that has had TO
subsist on rotten swill and other de-
cayed matter, the hog that has been
compelled to revel in filth, is the one
that makes ideal breeding ground for
disease germs.
To shout angrily at a horse is to
brighten him, and to frighten him is
10 make him less sure of himself and
his master. To lose his confidence is
to make him less useful, and since use
fulness is almost all horses are kept
for. one can see how big a mistake it
IS to shout at a horse.
Green corn of itself can't cause hog
cholera any more than it car bring on
smallpox. But enough of it can leave
the hog so that it has no disease re-
sisting power. The first germ such
hog picks up finds we'll prepared
ground and goes on multiplying, and
the hog becomes a regular incubator of
trouble.
Ten acres of small fruits will often
make man more truly prosperous
than ten times as much land In wheat
or corn. He may not be worth as much
In actual capital invested, but he will
sc getting a larger net income, and do
sng it with less severe toll. The small
farm we'll titled, whether it be in fruit,
dairy or vegetables, is almost always
the most satisfactory. The principal
capital needed to start such a farm
is a level head and knowledge of the
business.
To keep celery well take it up roots
and all just before the ground freezes
hard. and pack it in shallow boxes
with the roots in dirt and the tops
standing up as they would in the gar
den. Pack dirt solid around the roots
and keep it moist. Don't let dirt or
water get on the tops. 1t Will keep on
growing right there in the cellar, and
will bleach up nicely. Of course,
where it is grown in large lots it Is
trenched in outdoors, protected from
hard freezing.
A good way to get the corn stalks off
the field for spring seeding is to let
the stock Craze them down. Our stock
has the range of the cornfeld all win
ter and when spring comes there is
nothing but stubs of stalks left. We
have often watched the COWS and young
stock walk out to the field from a rick
OF clover OF good eat straw. The food
value of bleached stalks of course is
not of much consequence however, the
OLD COW likes the change and, besides,
it is good exercise for her TO spend an
hour or so in this way every day.
Purchasing Nursery stock.
1t is best to purchase trees that have
been grown in the State or in nearby
States, the nearer your home the bet
ter. In this way we may avoid the
danger of importing diseases that do