Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-06-06

raise cane fruits on the same lot,
adding couple of stories to the farm.
American Cultivator.
Coarse litter is not advisable for
the floor of pigeon-house. Use either
sand. dry earth, sawdust, or chaff,
putting on just enough to cover the
floor we'll Cleaning about once a
week should keep the floor in tolerable
condition. Most pigeon keepers pre-
fer hopper feeding.
The majority of consumers do not
know that the best table fowls are
the ones with dark legs, with few ex-
ceptions Houdans would not be a
fair exchange for the table for Plym-
outh Rocks, for while the latter have
yellow legs the Houdan is far SUI
perior, but the Plymouth Rock is
more easily reared and is better in
many ways. An Indian game is
worth two Brahmas, so far as quality
of cash is concerned, but the Brahmas
are better layers and harder. The
Langshan, with its dark legs, is a
hardy bird, fine for the market; the
hens are excellent layers and they are
far ahead of some birds with yellows
legs and is worth two Cochins on the
table, but the Cochin is a bird that
lives where the Dorking viii not thrive
So it seems the customers must be
educated. Give them quality and
teach them that the color of the legs
and skin have nothing whatever to do
with the excellence of the fowl for
eating-Mirror and Farmer.
Give horses bucket of water too
with their feed, as men do when they
eat Why not? A horseman says of
this plan in Norway when feeding
horses. that in that country you never
see broken winded horse, and it Is
because horses are allowed to drink
while eating, the same as men do.
He adds: Our horses, let them be as
thirsty as get out must still eat their
dry fodder, their dry hay and oats and
corn, with nothing to wash them
down. But in Norway every horse
has bucket of water beside his man
1t is interesting to see how the Nor
wegian horses relish their water with
their meals. Now they sip little
from the bucket, now they eat a
mouthful, then another sip, then an
other mouthful, just like rational, hui
man beings. You never see broken
winded horse in Norway. and the ma
tives say it is because they serve
water to the animals with their feed
New Hampshire Farmer.
Wheat and hogs, hitherto regarded
by the FARMER Of the Mississippi valley
simply as food products, have as
sumed new commercial Importance.
In brief. wheat and hogs spittle will
produc. rubber. In an article entitled
Rubber made from wheat" William
t. Walsh, writing in reference to this
matter in the Technical World maya
zine for January, says: The import
anse of the discovery can hardly
be overestimated, coming as it does
at time when the world is anxiously
asking from where its future supplies
of rubber are to come In ha.f a
decade, 1t is said. the annual consump.
ton of the elastic material will be a
least $4,000 tons. Even 100000 tons
is regarded by many as conservative
estimate. But, continues the writer.
in the face of the fact that so many
men have failed in their attempts to
produce a similar product how can
We at al certain that the new prod
uct will realize our expectations?
There is usually specific test for the
genuine as against the spurious. In
the case of cereal rubber, the test is
INFLAMMATION. This is a process of
hardening, through the Introduction of
su phur, to enable rubber to resist the
action of heat and solvent chemicals
But three substances, so far as is
known, can stand this process--they
are natural rubber, gutta percha and
the new product known as cereal
rubber.
Prof. S. A. Forbes favors the de-
struction only of the English spar
row, which he brands as the outlaw
bird. He believes that the only eff
ficacious method of destruction is to
destroy the eggs as rapidly as they
are laid. Winter birds we're found
to be more largely useful than the
summer birds. as they destroyed
noxious weeds. while the summer
birds live more largely on insects.
he meadow lark was found to be the
most useful of all birds on the farm;
Or the 23s specimens killed in various
portions of the United States 1t de
We oped that 70 per cent Of their food
was insects and the remainder grub
worms and caterpillars. The meadow
larks upon a square mile are worth
5000 to the farmer. The robins were
found to have eaten IL quarts of
caterpillars TO each "a quarts OF
fruit
Oats are not used as extensively
as wheat for pou try. yet no grain is
superior. There are undesirable por-
tons Of oats. such as chaff. hence I'M
less they are fed more plentifully at
each meal than wheat they viii not