Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
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Profit depends as much on the cost
of production as on the selling price.
The good, square walk as gait for
farm horse is the most valuable of
any.
Where the pungent smell of ammonia
is noticed escaping from the manure it
may be taken as an indication of loss.
In nearly all cases the offspring of
immature, undeyeloped animals is in
ferior to that OF mature and full
grown parents.
Cold air will not injure sheep, but
wet coat and cold wind may prove
as dangerous as it would with any
other animal.
Sheep restore to the soil larger
proportion of the elements than they
take from it in grazing than do any
other stock.
Don't be discouraged If mistakes are
made: those who do things make many
of them. but repeating the same mis-
take spells disaster.
Don't hitch the colt to load until he
has been thoroughly accustomed to
drawing light wagon or sleigh, then
hitch to light load at first
In selecting tomatoes for seed, save
the large, smooth fruit on the vines
that produce the earliest; try to save
the fruit with the most meat and the
least seed.
A sure way to make an enemy of
what might have been friend is to re-
count to him the number of times you
have accommodated him in the past,
some time when you happen to be
little "out."
"Plumping" poultry is done by dip
ping the fowls ten seconds in water
nearly or quite boiling hot, and then
Immediately in cold water. Hang in a
cool place until the animal heat is en-
tirely out of the hody.
Never choose a dairy COW because
she Is fat, sleek and beauty.
Beauty is as beauty does" The fat
and sleek dairy COW doesn't do the
handsome thing. The scraggy. bony
COW does. Therefore, she is the real
dairy beauty.
Cultivate black walnut, as the supply
Is fast becoming exhausted, while the
demand for that kind Of wood for fur
niture and other purposes is very great.
Trees Of good size grow in ten to
twelve years, and the lumber COM
mands a very high price.
1t is queer how the seasons can af-
feet the size of some fields in all neigh
borhoods. In the spring a piece of
ground may be thirty acres In measur-
ing the work done per day, but In the
fall the same piece may be only twenty
or twenty-five acres in measuring the
yield per acre.
To preserve the wheels of vehicles
and also to prevent shrinkage of any
of the parts, put some boiling linseed
oil into pan or other vessel and raise
the wheel SO that the rim will pass
through the oil. Revolve the wheel
and let the felloes be well soaked for
about three minutes, and the wheel will
then be more durable
For old orchards the trimming up"
method is perhaps the best Cut off the
bottom limbs to point 3 or 4 feet
from the ground, then cut off the ends
of the most extending branches. Do
not prune too closely. Pruning may
be done any time this winter, or early
spring, but the wounds should be COW
cred at once with paint. An old tree
bleeds freely, and will suffer if there
are a large number of wounds ON it.
Corn and Cob Meal for Cattle.
For a number of years it has been
the policy at the Iowa Experiment Sta
ton and Agricultural College," says
Professor Curtis, ito use corn and cob
meal instead of cornmeal whenever the
conditions are such as to warrant grind
ing at all, and we have never had any
injurious results that could be attrib-
uted to the use of corn and cob meal
when properly ground and fed to cat
tie.
Intensive Culture of Corn.
If an increase of a single grain of
corn on each ear could be made the in
creased total profit to the country
would be S1,62O,O0O. Farmers gener
ally have taken great interest in the In
formation furnished by the agricultural
schools concerning seeds, soils, fertili-
zers and modes Of cultivation. The aim
should be to produce larger ears, more
grains on the ear, more ears on the
stalks and more stalks to the acre.
This means Intensive and scientific cul-