Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15
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II possible, select your brood sows
when the pigs are 3 or months old
Sunshine, crude carbolic acid and
air-slaked lime win keep the hogpens
sweet.
Fowls that get little charcoal and
few sunfower seeds once or twice a
week will have red combs and bright
plumage
You cannot make a low-headed horse
lock toppy and stylish by refining with
a tight rein, nor Improve the style Of
lofty-headed fellows appearance.
Heaves, frequent coughing and diff
Guilty in breathing in horses, can nearly
always be traced to feeding dry, dusty
hay. Dampen all hay now before feed
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1t is about time for some faker to
bob up with some new variety Of alfal-
! ia with wonderful qualities. A variety
that will do well anywhere and live ON
anything.
1t is estimated that an active man
and active boy can attend to fifteen
cows These ON fifty acres of land near
a good town ought to make for him a
good living.
A dozen good fowls will furnish more
eggs than the average family requires,
and will leave a surplus fer pin money.
TninN what it costs to buy absolutely |
fresL eggs all the year round
The advertiser of breed not only |
laws the foundation for a paying bust |
ness for himself, but helps boom his |
breed and his association, and thereby |
indirectly benefits his brother breeder |
When a farmer sells horse he
must give a guarantee. When the |
same farmer buys nursery stock he has |
to wait until the trees come into bear
ing to see whether he has what he
bought
The woman with a gasoline stove |
and the farmer with gasoline engine |
have all Of a sudden discovered that |
the demand for gasoline by automobiles |
has caused it to slide no a notch or
two in price.
A thorough farmer can get more out |
of the scrub than scrub farmer can.
AS rule that kind of a farmer does
not keep the scrub any longer than he |
can help. A scrub farmer will soon |
make scrub out of a pure-bred ami
NAL.
Hogs shipped into the stock yards
show the result of too much inbreeding |
by careless farmers, who reason that it
does not pay to get new boar each
year while they have one which will |
breed. and they lose enough in a litter
or two to pay for a new sire.
Breeding at random ard repenting |
at leisure has run it's course-at least /
it should have by this time 1t is now |
in order that less time and money be
spent on this, or that or the other |
breed and more attention be paid TO |
the individual animal.
A camel can easily carry weight
of one thousand pounds on its back,
about four times as much as morse
can carry. The camel begins work ut
the age of and is useful for half
century the horse, as a rule, is nearly
played out at the age of TO-
Moving down strawberry tops just
after fruit has been gathered is prac-
ticed on many rich soils to cause the
plants to stool out more vigorously
and to retard runners This is some
times followed by a thin dirt covering
to further encourage stoolins.
An exchange remarks that what is
known in the market as channels skin
Is really obtained sheep skin Innings
The supply of real chamois is very lin
tied, and all there is in the world
would not supply the United States for
a single day" Another decided score
for the sheep!
The free seed delivery has done some
good in the world after all The agri-
cultural department at Washington
brought us sorghum from China, and
kafir corn has been given the semi-arid
country of the Southwest. Macaroni
wheat has been brought from Russia,
and Japanese rice from Japan.
Now come the news that food adult
Grafton is PTacticed in Germany just
as extensively as In this country. That
Is awful after that country refusing our
pork products. 1t is presumed that
Germany wants to do its own adulter-
ating. The number of prosecutions for
adulterating food in Germany have In
creased from 1,400 to 5000 In 1903.
Who'd thought 1t?
More money may be made from or
chards on thin land when the trees are
set close, twenty to twenty-five feet
apart, than when only half that many
are set The trees shade the ground
better. and heat and drought will not
do as much damage as when the great
er part Of the ground is exposed to the
sun to burn up the hunus and dry the
moisture out Of the soil.
When snow is on the ground. rab-
bits have a hard time securing food.
and will eat anything that ,will pre-
v>nt starvation. 1t is then they girdle
trees and do damage which Is not with
in the power Of the farmer to repair.
smearing the trunk with blood or wrap
ping the trees with tarred paper or
mosquito netting two feet from the
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