Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-08

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Are the lice and mites harvesting
your eggs for you?
One Of the great secrets of hog rails
Ing is to give the pigs a good start
1t is better to pay $50 for two first
class sows than 500 for six scrubs.
Reduce the corn ration for the horses
about one-third or a trife more during
the winter months.
A little fertilizer well placed will
bring better returns than an unlimited
quantity carelessly applied.
Buying cows and selling them as
fast as they stop giving milk never
built up a herd of high-producing
dairy cows
When a farmer sells all the grain and
hay from his farm instead of feeding it,
he Is cutting the underpinning from
under himself.
Well-grown fruit or vegetables, we'll
marketed, bring a profit which the
careless producer never realizes. 1t
pays to do things right.
Once week, from January to Janu-
airy, saturate the roosts and nest boxes,
and once a month spray the entire In
terror Of the building with kerosene.
The draft horse is the one for the
farmer to raise, because 1t can be done
In harmony with the other interests
Of the farm and with the greatest
profit.
tuberculosis in cattle and scab in
sheep is spread from the stock yards
of the large cities by the feeders who
purchase animals from che pens with
out proper investigation.
Rye sowed in a cornfield will afford
good winter pasture for the lambs dur
Ing the fall and early winter months
and again when other grasses are back
ward about starting in the spring.
Every sheep grower should have
hospital flock upon which hes will be-
stow more time and to which he will
add from time to time all of those that
are dropping or are pushed aside from
their feed by the more hardy ones.
The calf from the moment of Its
birth should be kept in a thrifty, grow
Ing condition. Letting an animal down
is great and permanent loss. 1t is
something lost forever, that no amount
of after care or feeding can regain.
| Some idea of the scarcity of timber
may be had from the fact that when
an Illinois farmer cut nineteen-inch
boards out of cottonwood trees on his
farm the fact. was heralded throughout
the state as something quite remark
able
If you intend to hog off, the corn
this fall you will have an ideal feed if
you have planted COW peas with the
corn. 1t is pretty late to SOW them in
the corn after it is laid by, but In
the south they will make growth
enough to help out to q great extent.
TOO much hay will make a horses
coat rough and staring and spoil his
appetite" writes a very good friend
and a good farmer as well, but we diff
| fer with him. The trouble is evidently
in something else, as we do not believe
a horse will eat more clean hay than is
| good for him.
There is no middle course or stand
still period to calf raising. Each day
| the calf is not gaining it is losing. AT
the end of two years proper care and
feeding we will be rewarded with an
animal with healthy appearance, with
a well-developed frame and an abund-
ance Of flesh and fat.
Prevent the soil washing on your
| farm. Many fine fields in some Of the
| western states have been ruined by
| soil washing. Some are washed 50
| badly that they can no longer be
worked with modern farm machinery.
Soils that have a good supply of hui
mus are not subject TO washing, as
they have a greater water-holding ca
pacity.
1t pays to use a good sire. II a man
Is in the dairy business, a sire from a
milking strain should increase the pro- |
duct Of his progeny by 1000 pounds n |
year, yet good many dairymen give
little thought to the sire. If he raises |
cattle for beef, a good beef sire will in
crease the price for his progeny. And |
It costs less in the long run to feed |
| thoroughbred than q scrub.
An enterprising merchant in west |
ern town has fitted uD a rest room for |
the wives Of farmers who drive to |
town and who sometimes have tedious |
waits for the husband to finish his |
business and his street-corner gossip. |
Furnished as it is with rockers and |
tables on which are magazines, fash |
ion books, etc, it is growing in popu-
larity, and is good advertising for the |
merchant. Here is hint for mer- |
chants in other towns.
In 1000 pounds Of cotton-seed cake
there are 90 pounds of dry matter,
which contains 66 pounds of nitrogen,
IS pounds of potash and 81 pounds of
phosphorlc acid. Corn G,O00 pounds)
contains $50 pounds Of dry matter, in
Guiding 10 pounds of nitrogen, 31a
pounds Of potash and pounds Of phos-
phoric acid. A ton Of manure from