Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-08

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Blood will tell, and so will the feed
trough.
Read what people who know from
experience say about incrbators.
Large boned but smoothly built mares
bred to a good sized jack of good blood
will produce the best mules.
The fellow who plows a clean
straight furrow is quite likely to be
straight in some other respects.
The farmer who does not sell off the
fertility of his land through the mich
cow seldom signs a note at the bank.
Some people enjoy talking about their
physical ailments a great deal more
than they would enjoy perfect health
A cement walk costs but trife
more than a substantial plank walk of
the same dimensions and will outlast it
many times.
No ensilage should be allowed to
stand in the stable and no hay should
be fed just before milking or dust
will be raised.
You may be sure that il you pack
three grades of fruit in one box or
barrel you will get only the price for
the lowest grade.
There is one advantage in teaching
a horse to walk well. and that is he
Is not injured in the least in any way
for any other gait.
A ration of good wheat bran once
week is fine change for horse. Wet
it up good and he will relish it and it
will act nicely on his bowels
A pretty accurate lineup on the abil-
ity and financial standing of farmer
can be secured by a glimpse at the
kind of fences he has on his place.
To the shambles with the COW that
cannot produce enough to pay for her
keep. Keeping this kind of an animal
is like pouring water into rat hole.
The anonymous letter writer and the
dog poisoner belong to the same cow
ardly company. both engaging in enter
.;rises for which they do not care TO
ASSUME responsibility.
The siio has certainly come to stay.
No better proof of this assertion Is the
fact that Ii, the older dairy districts of
New England many new silos have been
constructed this past season.
Poultry that is confined should be
provided with an abundance Of char
coal. oyster shell and grit. When run
Mig loose the fowls will get these ele-
ments or their equivalents of their own
accord.
There is such thing as being more
nice than wise" and the successful
dairyman will be one who can draw
the line in the right place and accom-
plish the most satisfactory results with
minimum expense.
United States Secretary of Agricul-
ture Wilson charges the farmers of this
country with being soil robbers. The
charge is rather sweeping, but if placed
on trial a good many of them would
have to plead guilty.
New Jersey man who owns twelve
White Leghorn hens. all over five years
of age. says they laid an average of
ten eggs per day during April. He
thinks it is a mistake to kill hens
under three years old.
Being behindhand is more largely
matter of mere habit than necessity,
being much more easily encouraged
than discouraged when once formed
With many it is 20 quite an extent re-
sponsible for the Fact that they never
get ahead in the world.
sachusetts has new law which
makes uniform milk standard Of
1925 per cent total solids and 800 per
cent of which must be butter Fat. This
reduces the butter fat for summer
slightly and increases the winter stand
ard by a fraction.
When dealer buys unsorted apples
he turns them out on the floor of his
warehouse and sets boy at sorting
them. BY this process he sometimes
gains as much as 50 per cent on the
price of the whole lot. Why not do
this at home or in the orchard?
One beauty about a good system Of
thing is the fact that. while it makes
the land through which it runs arabIe
IN wet season, 1t does not dry it out
too much in dry season, as a mellow
condition of soil prevails that tends to
prevent a baking of the surface.
The difference between a poor cow
nnG a good one in dairy is the iif-
ference between success and failure. a
poor COW is estimated by the pounds Of
.icsh she carries--a good one by the
amount OF milk she gives. Cows are
purchased at $40 that are expensive
and others for 500 that are cheap as
their work in the dairy win show.
The children in the home enjoy
balanced ration as well as do the anil
mails in the feed lot or stable. Sucn
ration is pork and beans, boiled poa,-
toes and brown bread poached egg on
toast. good graham bread and Jersey
milk: roast pork. dressing and baked
potatoes and apple sauce roast beef,