Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-15

Rape makes fine hog feed. They do
not bloat on it as sheep do.
Sow a little more clover and divide it
up into hog pastures. 1t will pay big.
1t is q good scheme to use kerosene
literally about the interior of the place
the entire year.
A dairy COW shut up in a dark stable
and fed on highly concentrated food
quickly burns out.
Better to plant little in the gar
den and plant we'll than to half plant
a great quantity of stuff.
The community where the good dairy
COW is In the majority is the cothmu-
nifty which is marked by contentment
and prosperity.
Pie Is good, but nobody wants 1t three
times day, and nothing else. No
more does a hog want corn month in
and month out without change.
The feeding out of the odds and ends
Of fodder before the cold and wet fall
weather ruins 1t Is important and
means the saving Of a snug sum every
year.
Feed the COW all the hay or other
roughness she will eat, even If she is
running on good pasture. Her appetite
tells her better what she needs than
you can tell.
There are about twenty-five kinds of
nut-bearing trees in the United States
The consumption of nuts is increasing
rapidly, the demand evidently growing
much faster than the home supply is
increased
Some genius of figures estimates that
the corn crop Of Missouri for 1907
would fill 100000 farm wagons,
which, If hitched close together, would
make a chain that would reach around
the world.
All good sheep feeders have good
racks and feed boxes or troughs. A
flock may live If fed on ground, but
nothing less than keen hunger will
prompt so delicate an animal to take its
feed from the wet and filth Of q yard
The tax commissioners of some west
ern states are now try ug to find out
whether they can tax land which was
previously entirely worthless, but
which through the expenditure of large
sums Of money for irrigation has been
brought to ie~ge fertility.
In spite of the fact that Professor
Milton Whitney says that there is
enough land east of the Missouri river
to sustain the population for the next
fifty years, Texas drainage system is
expected to reclaim 100000 acres
which lie along the coast.
The first butterfly farm was estab-
| lished about ten years ago by William
Watkins, a famous English entomol-
ogist, at Eastbourne, England. There
are now many similar farms in France
and other countries. The object of
| these farms Is to rear silk worms.
AT the University of Illinois nearly
100 students were last year enrolled
in the course of elementary bird study.
| The object Of this work is to prevent
the needless destruction of birds and to
teach farmer boys how to protect those
which are useful to them.
The Holstein breeders in their re-
cent national meeting appointed
| committee to secure a federal law for
the inspection of cattle for tubercu-
losis and to do away with inspection
by the states There is no question
that such a law would prove advan-
tageOuS
A Kansas City man who went to a
neighboring poultry farm to buy a trio
picked out three good-looking birds and
rendered a $50 bill in payment, expect
ing about $40 in change. He almost
tainted when he was Informed that the |
price of the rooster and two hens was
$3.50.
Unless the stock is fed an amount |
over and above that which Is needed |
for body maintenance there will be no |
gain. A thousand-pound steer has |
been found by experiment to require |
daily 10 pounds of timothy hay, II |
pounds of clover hay and seven pounds |
Of corn meal just to keep on an even |
keel More must be fed If there Is to |
be any gain.
If a neighbor asks us to do an err |
rand or two while In town why be |
grumpy? We may want to ask favor
ourselves next day or next week. And, |
by the way, some men have a knack of |
doing a troublesome act for q neighbOr |
In such q manner as to create the i'm |
preston that 1t is the one thing that |
gives him great pleasure. That is a |
fine gift and we cannot cultivate it too |
much.
1t seems at the present time that |
the graduates Of the state agricultur |
al schools OF the country are finding |
no, trouble In getting located. The
young man who knows the science of |
good farming and how to apply it |
commands $50 to 500 a month, with
his board and lodging, and lives cas-
lily, comfortably and wholesOmely. The
farmer, who can do so, should give /
his sons the education that will thus
lift them to the heights Of their occu-
patton. Young men trained so that
they can command such financial re-
turns for their services to others can
use their scientific training to still
greater profit for themselves. The sci
entlfc farmer, who is worth 500 or
$50 month TO another man, is worth
$500 to $500 to himself if he apply
science to his own soil.