Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-15
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Shoe your horses for the business
they have TO do.
II you can buy the cow that the
other man doesn't want to sell you are
generally pretty safe.
The ginseng craze seems to have
passed out OF sight in company with
the Belgian hare delusion.
flock of hens in the orchard will
take care of several hundred thousand
bugs in the course OF season.
grade of your fruit. Stencil it on every
box and you will get better price.
Old apple trees that are not doing
any good, but which have sound trunks,
may be brought to usefulness by graft
ing
Narrow-chested horses have not the
endurance that those have with good
broad chests. Don't buy thin-breast-
ed horse
On all dairy farms the great question
in Sc, uring equipment is where to draw
the line between essentials and non
essentials.
The apple crop this year in Western
New York has paid ample dividends on
all time and money that growers have
spent in spraying the orchards.
A book farmer makes many mis-
takes at first, but when he has learned
them he is always able to lay 1t over
his neighbor who never reads books or
farm papers.
"Milk fed poultry are poultry fat
tened for market on a milk and ground
oats diet. This food produces white
desh-just the kind that brings the
fancy prices.
The mule would hardly win in
beauty show and lacks speed, but he
can beat a trotting thoroughbred horse
out of sight when it comes to blowing
corn and cotton.
A good deep hole in an out-of-the
way place is the right place to plant
all the old tin cans, broken bottles
aDd other unburnable rubbish which
makes the premises so unsightly.
In the last analysis one will reap the
largest and most lasting results for
himself in that undertaking in which
he contributes most generously TO the
happiness and well being Of those to
whom he ministers
One of the quickest ways of improv-
ing the soil of farm Is TO put 1t down
to clover, field by field, and pasturing
the hogs on 1t. Cow peas may also h
sown, and when full growth is attained
the hogs may be turned in.
An old fruit grower says that the
pick is the best tool he ever used
around apple trees when the ground
has become too hard. He sinks the
pick s or 10 inches into the soil and
merely prizes the dirt loose, without dis
| turbing the roots at all.
1t is estimated by competent authori-
ties that over As per cent Of the food
products of the better classes in the
! United States consist Of animal prod
ucts IN other words, half OF the
amount spent for food of the average
family goes for meat, eggs and dairy
products This fact suggests why 1t
pays the farmer to raise stock.
Many of the dairy farmers have kept
themselves poor by trying to conduct
rich city farmer who is not at all ~e-
pendent unon his income from his farm
to pay hi5 expenses Of the labor and
equipment necessary to conduct his
farming operations on an elaborate
scale.
Farmers should study to know the
weeds that grow on their farms. One
man says he knows the name OF every
weed in his section of the state. When
he sees a new weed he Immediately
finds out what ii is called and by tax
ing such an interest in weeds he has
his farm practically free of them. The
best methods of eradication is part of
the study OF weeds.
A government bulletin says that ex-
cept In a general way the fertilizer
requirement of soils becomes prob
lem for each farm, or for each class
of farms under like conditions Of soil,
climate and system Of cropping and
fertilization. The indications are that
fertilizers containing relatively more
potash and nitrogen than do those now
In general use would prove more eff
fective.
In the Northern States alfalfa can be
more easily started in the early part
Of August than in April, az when
given the late planting opportunity is
afforded during the preceding months
| TO kill most of the weed seeds that
may be lodged In the soil. The soil
s...ou..i D. put in the best Of filth ard
the seed either drilled in o. dragged
enough 80 that there viii be sufficient
moisture for purposes Of termination.
1t is well to remember that alfalfa.
Ike red clover. does not do well on
low or undrained soils.
with a view to freeing themselves
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