Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-19

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A small amount of sulphur fed to the
poultry during the winter will keep the
blood In condition.
Keeping the skin Of the work horses
clean enables them to sweat freely, and
this Is essential for their health.
The mare that is sucking a colt is
doing q double duty and should not
be required to perform as much hard
labor as the other horses
Give the pigs a fair start in life by
feeding the SOW upon milk-producing
rations. There is nothing much better
than skim milk mixed with shorts.
Bulldogs and six shooters are on
about a par when it comes to finding
a place for them in the home. Both
are nasty, ugly propositions and as
general thing prove to be loaded"
A great deal of hay Is sent to mar
ket that is full of weeds. Such hay
brings the lowest price, and also in
dicates that the farmers who ship 1t
are not only careless, but also ignorant
of the true methods of farming.
The wood lot. whether Of artificial
or natural planting, is best handled
by a careful and judicious thinning
which thus gives the remaining trees
more room for growth as well as AN
increased supply Of light and moisture.
Were 1t not for the operation OF
law of natural selection and an elimi-
nation of the fruit Of weaker vitality,
apple trees would be broken to the
ground could they furnish nourishment
sufficient to bring all the fruit that
sets to maturity.
Where the garden is plowed without
being MANFRED and not rich enough to
produce a good crop Of vegetables next
season it is best to cover the, plo9ged
ground with a coat of manure in the
fall and work it in with disk and cul-
tivator in the spring.
In the building of the silo 1t Is we'll
to see to 1t that the structure is well
braced with n view to wind resist
ance, as one located near the home of
the writer was blown down lately dur
ing the progress Of heavy thunder
and wind storm.
Too mucn wood is usually left to
grapevines. The old vines need to be
pulled from the trellis and all of the
old vines trimmed away except three
or four shoots eighteen inches to two
feet long, owing to the age and
strength of the shoot.
Cows should be so fed that their
milk flow will not vary much during
the year. This is a possibility which
some dairymen accomplish. Cows often
decrease steadily in their milk flow.
This should not be. Too much dry feed
and not enough succulent ration is
given.
Statistics say that in the State of
Indiana the percentage of loss annually
from disease in swine herds is twice as
great as In other classes of farm ami
mails. The records further show that
these losses reach an average figure Oh
S2.5OO.0O0. while the total in ore single
year was estimated to have been near
ly S5,Oo0,oOo.
Discussing the German method of
planting potatoes, with ample distance
and with eyes under, so mat the stems
may grow widely apart, foreign grow
.er asserts that it not only saves the
seeds. but produces more and better
crops. Often a dozen tubers are used
where only one would be enough, but
It is difficult to make some new garden
ers believe it.
The SOW that will fetch a litter of
seventeen pigs is usually found on
farms which have a dairy, silo, clio
yer meadows and raise eighty bushels
Of corn to the acre, being the product
OF a somewhat prosperous and leisurely
eype OF agriculture which does not make
II necessary for the SOW to raise lit
ter OF pigs before she Is year old.
rfiict IF iS NOT
wise policy to buy trees for planting
that have been grown on river or
creek bottom land, The great depth
and richness of soil there always pro-
duce coarse growth of wood and long
taproots. which must be cut off in re
planting. The tree never fully recov-
ers from the effects of this. This is
especially true Of trees intended for
planting on high land,
Where II is possible to do so there is
no way Of keeping the growth Of grass
down along the tree rows in the or
chsrd that excels a heavy mulching
with coarse manure or straight oat
straw. This mulch will not only serve
To check ana praCtlCdilS PISNSHt tHS
growth of the grass, but will keep the
ground i'm a moist condition favorable
to the growth OF the trees. While mice
and rabbits might find harbor in the
straw during the winter months, dam
age from them can be guarded against
by wrapping the trees with wire screen
or wooden shields
IrrISatinE sweet Corn.
One farmer in Winchester, Mass,
who grows ten acres OF sweet corn.
plants his corn five feet apart. He irri-
gates the corn With water pumped by
one Of those pumps which deliver 100