Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01

Dairying gives profitable employment
for the whole family every month in
the year.
Opportunity for dairying appears in
the increased demand for pure milk in
the large cities.
Stop worrying over the troubles Of
yesterday and get ready to overcome
those of tomorrow.
Rotation of garden crops is the best
method Of keeping vegetables in health
and freedom from parasites.
If pigs are given all the salt and
charcoal they want there will seldom
be any occasion for ringing.
1t is possible for the breeding SOW
to be too fat, but more farmers make
the mistake of keeping them too poor.
The Babcock test is all right, but
some dairymen need something to test
their ability to properly feed their
calves.
1t takes courage to adopt new meth
DDS of farming in an old fogy neighbor
hood, but success will soon change pub
lie sentiment
Because sheep will make better use
Of a poor pasture than any other stock,
do not try to raise them on one that is
absolutely bare.
Because the hehs are not allowed
free range in the summer months is
no reason why they will not become
infested with life.
Small chicks are great bug eaters.
They will do great deal Of good in
the garden until large enough to
scratch vigorously.
The growing of first-class high-grade
dairy heifers to sell to the best dairy
men affords an opportunity for the
grower to make a good profit.
1t is so easy to neglect the fowls
during the SUMMER months that one
must have a special interest in order
to keep them up to the mark.
If we all stopped for a moments
sound thinking before starting out on q
new enterprise it would save some Of
us the trouble of retracing our steps.
If you are going to sell off the old
fowls, pen them up i'll small coops and
stuff them for a week or two before
you take them to market. 1t will pay,
Summer-laid eggs can be kept for sew
eral weeks by dipping them in water
glass solution. This is a preparation
which is supposed to make the shell air
tight.
Good wool, as we'll as good mutton,
depends largely upon the quality of the
feed. Succulent food makes the best
wool, cleanest, brightest, softest and
strongest.
If alfalfa is sown with a nurse crop,
1t is best not to SOW too much grain,
and If it is the intention to remove the
crop before it natures, it is better to
seed with oats.
Some of the finest apples and peaches
in the world come from Idaho aud Ore
gon. They are entirely free from worms
The growers are extremely vigilant In
fighting insects.
A flock of lively chickens in an or
chard will pick up thousands of in
sects, worms and the eggs that hatch
them. Scatter grain occasionally to en-
courage scratching
Don't let the workday drag out to
fourteen and sixteen hours. Ten hours |
Of field work is enough and will ac-
complish as much in the long run as
q longer day. Try it and see.
Up in Minnesota, where they raise a |
great deal of barley, it is fed to the |
cattle with fairly good results, but |
there is nothing on earth that will put |
fat oil a steers ribs like shelled corn
and alfalfa.
Use sifted coal ashes instead Of plas-
ter for striped squash bug. They are
cheap, easily handled and are not in
furious to tender foliage, though ap-
piled in large quantity when the dew
Is upon it.
The boys may not say much when |
they are forced to work sixteen hours |
a day without a share in the profits, |
but they suddenly run off to the city. |
It shows they have been doing some |
strong thinking
The grape Is the only fruit that pro-
tests against late pruning by bleeding"
Raspberries, blackberTies, gooseberries
and currants can be pruned after they
are In full leaf, or even In bloom, with
out apparent hurt
Maryland farmers are demanding a
law requiring that all cases containing |
cold storage eggs be labeled such, and |
that restaurants, hotels, dining rooms,
etc, be required to hang signs on the !
walls, III order that the. customer may
know what he is gettlng-whether cold
storage eggs, fresh eggs or just eggs.
There is always the opportunity to
sell first-class dairy butter for fancy
prices. Success in this line Of the
dairy business must be brought about
by studying and practicing the most
improved methods that are employed
By the best creameries.
The Vegetable Growers Association /!
Of Lawrence, Tenn, and other associa-