Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01

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If boys are required to handle guns,
1t is well that they be taught how. It
is surprising how many men get killed
i in the careless handling of guns.
Pigs may try to become a little too
familiar, but that is a good failing. 1t
is better to have them too tame than
SO wild they cannot be handled.
Every farm should have a small
flock Of sheep on it to keep down the
weeds and turn them into dollars.
Sheep will eat 4S9 different kinds of
weeds.
1t requires as much feed and care
to keep scrubs as frst-class animals,
and as the improved animal will ma
| ture earlier and bring better prices
the scrub cannot necessarily compete
when profit is the object.
| a business must stand or fall on
the merits Of its chief product; the
| by-products may pay more or less, but
| the business is not conducted for the
sake of the by-products. Dairying is
no exception to this rule.
High-priced labor cannot be made to
count on low-priced land. On low
priced land the owner must perform
his own labor At all times it will be
necessary to keep the cost of produc-
ton down as low as possible.
One Of the greatest troubles in feed
ing poor grain is not so much ia the
loss, as compared with good grain, but
In the fact that overheated or musty
grain causes many of the diseases
which ordinarily affects fowls.
E. L. Stewart, owner of an orchard
near Prosser, south of Spokane, sold on
an average of $440 worth of apples
from each acre of his fifty-acre tract.
In one instance he secured between
1000 and 5000 boxes of apples off six
acres.
Occasionally q horse will form a
habit of chewing the ends of the halter
strap and such other parts of the har-
ness as he has access to. Equal parts
of cayenne pepper and fish oil applied
to such straps will cure the worst
strap chewer.
Pigs will begin to eat with the sows
when two or three weeks old. If get
ting plenty of exercise, it will not hurt
them to crack little corn. But the
ideal feed is skim milk and shorts in
the form of thin slop. 1t will make
them grow and not get overfat.
Lambs should be weaned at about
months and put on fresh clover pas
ture Each day some grain should be
given in the trough, to make growth
and overcome the check that might be
caused by weaving. One or two good
quiet ewes left with the flock will keep
the lambs quiet.
The two-row cultivator is here to
stay, and is one of the implements that
hurries UP the cultivation when the
hay Is getting ripe. A field Of corn
that can be cultivated in one day has
the advantage over a field which re-
quires two TO go over it. To the corn
grower this is evident.
Recent reports tell of the great
spread of the San Jose scale This
ruinous pest will sweep away the trees
wherever a community neglects it and
permits it to spread, 1t is possible to
check 1t, and While the checking may
be costly, it is far less costly than is
the destruction of the fruit and other
trees.
Some breeders claim that chickens
from eggs laid earliest in the season are
the most likely to live and thrive after
Matching 1t is claimed that continu-
Gus laying enfeebles the hens system to
such an extent that the later eggs in the
spring filters are not so we'll endowed
with vigor.
Horse breeding is being greatly en-
couraged by the government in Japan
and $4,000 has lately been made
for the establishment of public studs
at various points in the island empire |
and it is proposed to begin at once the !
purchase of 1900 stations to be placed !
In these public depots
Poultry and dairy farming are good |
combination In these days Of improved |
dairy methods when the cream is sep.
arated from the milk Immediately after
being drawn from the COW, the dairy |
farmer has plenty Of skim milk, which |
is an ideal food for poultry, and there
is more money IN feeding It to the hens
than to the hogs.
Pumpkins are good feed for lambs
In the fail, especially when they are |
troubled with paper skin, caused by
worms In the fntestines. They will eat
them If they are sliced or cut and |
sprinkled with salt, but it is better to |
provide fat-bottomed troughs, with |
compartments each being large enough |
to receive the half of a pumpkin cut In
such fashion as to have the pieces lie |
fat, with the inside dppermoSt.
Parasites develop rapidly and should |
never be allowed to exist If possible,
as the sooner the work of stamping |
out the cause of the disease is done, /
the less labor required. Minute fungi |
should be carefully sought and fought
with the spraying mixtures. The spores
increase so rapidly that days delay 1
may result in heavy loss. Each form |
has its own habits, requiring prompt |
and hasty work for its suppression.
Nearly all plant diseases are the re
suit OF fungus growth.
To give horse drench, place a
stout rope in his mouth and around up |
per jas. Back him up IN stall or
corner Throw loose end Of rope over