Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-01

main part or MS crop VIII ndNe an easy
time harvesting
1t may be wise to encourage the
sheep to eat freely to add little grain
in the form of oats.
The incubator never flies the COOP
and never changes its mind 1t Is on
the job all the time. Not SO the cranky
hen.
We must not lose sight of the fact
that q cow must earn her board for
the entire year before she can begin TO
show profit.
The horse that is "all legs is not
the one you want. Try to get those
that are well set. neither ito long legs
nor too long bodies.
1t is easy to hang up your harness
II you once get into the hiibit Of 1t.
How many farmers do you know that
drop them on the floor?
Prayer may bring rain, but the lively
cultivator and the persistent hoe will
make a dust mulch that win keep the
moisture in the ground
More than 1000 acres of watermelons
were planted last spring between Pen
sacola and River Junction, Fla, dis
lance of only few miles.
u hot IN fflnit during
August or September has much bet
ter chance to survive the winter than
the one that begins in the late fall.
Wood ashes may be applied at the
rate of 25 to 80 bushels to the acre.
One ton of good wood ashes will con-
tain about 40 pounds of phosphoric
acid.
All dairy products are intended for
human food and it is only justice TO
our fellow beings that we do our part
to insure a clean and wholesome article
of diet.
Use well-rotted manur. on the gar
den plot, if you have not done so be-
fore, working 1t well into the surface
or inches of the soil. Do not delay
this matter any longer.
In feeding ensilage it is essential that
the silos be far enough from the stable
to eliminate all danger OF the milk abb
sorbing the odor Of the tnsilage when
IL is thrown out of the silo
1t has been found that fowls with
deep, angular breast bones have to be
fed longer to make them look well,
and they consume considerably more
feed than those having uniform breast
bones
To build and maintain q dairy farm
would seem to be an easy task, yet
there is more in the man than the sur
roundings There are but few first
class dairymen and they have diaries
corresponding.
A good 'front.' counts in business
and a well-dressed, clean and prosper
disappearing farmer can get better
bargain than the man who looks IKE
tramp and shows he has no acquaint-
ance with the bathtub.
Some people who refuse to pay 81
sitting for fertile eggs from pure-blood-
ed stock, and take their chances OF
getting them at the grocery store,
sometimes get eggs that won't hatch
The breeder know why.
A Kansas man recently sold forty
head of Hereford yearling helfers at
S40.7O. They yielded net profit of
500 PEI head They were bought as
weanlings, roughed until last July,
then fed for about ten months on al
falfa and corn.
What W. need in producing good
dairy products is economy, vigilance
and common sense whether the product
is being sold to the city trade. made
into butter on the farm, sold to the
creamery. condensary or the cheese fac
tory.
If the droppings of the fowls are not
in normal condition give a teaspoonful
of soda water (bicarboDate) to each
afflicted bird In making the water use
three heaping teaspoonfuls of soda to a
pint Of water. Follow with 1-grain
quinine pill each night for three nights
In succession.
In keeping track Of the family ex-
penses it is well TO have all items Of
merchandise charged, with payments
monthly or quarterly, or pay cash for
all items as soon as ordered. Where a
mixed system of payment is followed
there are likely to be confusion and
more or less misunderstanding as be-
tween patron and merchant.
While the clearing up Of the patches
IF small trees and brush along the road
sides and fence rows and in the pas
lures may tend to improve the land
scape from the aesthetic point Of view.
IL means the destruction Of just 50
many places Of shelter Cor the bird liz
of the locality. which is an even more
important consideration than the i'm
proving of the landscape.
The grape fruit, which is Of the color
OF a lemon and Of the shape Of an
orange, though considerably larger.
gets its name from the fact that the
fruit as borne on the trees is cIus-
tered much as are grapes on their
stem. This fruit Is MOI at its best until
the second year after picking, VIXEN 1t
is really too ripe fog shipment, which
accounts for the fact that relatively 80
little Of It Is shipped to eastern mar
kets and for the further fact that so
little OF that which is shipped is In
prime condition. being picked from the
trees before Il Is really fit
Training the Colt.