Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-19

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Sows with long bodies generally
prove. To- be. the best breeders.
Molasses as part Of the feed ration
for the horse has proved its value.
Keep tab on the markets and watch
your chance to sell your crops at the
best price.
Oats make an ideal food for the
brood sow. 1t will pay to keep her
well fed up.
Hay sustains the working horse best,
but little grass now and then is an
excellent regulator.
A small flock Of sheep on every farm
should be the slogan of the organized
farmers throughout the country.
More failures in hog breeding prob
ably come from lack of good yards
and fences than from any other cause.
There are fewer greater money max
ing industries in this country than
mutton raising when properly man
aged.
Roots as part of the ration for the
sheep in the winter time are quite es-
sential If you would take them through
In good condition.
The average farmer should breed the
draft horse. Heavy draft horses are
born with an inclination to walk and
work. 1t is Inherited.
Notice how uneasy the horse is when
the. curry comb is being used on the
legs. Most horses are very sensitive
there. Try an old cloth to rub the
dirt off.
Corn cribbed early means saving
in the amount, since the longer it re-
mains In the field the more goes TO
waste in weathering and the depreda-
tons of animals. New corn, however,
even when apparently ripe and solid,
contains much water, and If the corn
crib is not we'll ventilated 1t Is likely
to spoil
A Virginia farmer makes consider
able money each year by selling to
Northern people hams and bacon cured
in the old-fashioned way, with molas-
ses and black pepper, and smoked over
a fire from hickory chips He sells be-
tween 300 and 400 pigs each year, at
an average price Of 80 cents per pound
for the cured meats.
The calf is often a fine market for
milk. One Pennsylvania dairyman re-
ports that he kept a record Of eighty
calves, which consumed 10000 quarts
of milk for which he received S4S1, or
over cents per quart, and the calves
did the milking. He estimates that 1t
takes 146 quarts Of milk to make a
calf four weeks old, which will weigh
100 pounds, If they have Holstein
blood.
If sexes are equal, guinea fowls will
pair They generally lay between 10
o'clock a. m. and o'clock p. m. The
young are delicate and tender until full
feathered. The cock bird cares for the
young just the same as does the k.n,
guarding them during the day and COW
ering them at night. The male is larger
than the female, is more aggressive
and has a different call, sounding like
Tick, tick" The noise of the hen is
similar to Come back, come back
Do you know how to load your wag-
on to get the lightest draft? Most peo-
pie think it pulls easier when the
weight is put well forward, but this Is
not the case when the hind wheels are
the higher. On the ordinary wagon
where front wheels are the smaller,
place the heaviest on the hind wheels.
Where the wheels are of equal size dis
tribute the load equally over the wag-
on. A high wheel sinks into tie ground
less than a small one and a wide tire
less than narrow one.
Goat Meat for Mutton.
George f. Thompson of the bureau
Of animal industry says considerable
number, but not many thousands of
cross-bred Angoras find their way to
stock centers, such as Chicago. Kansas
City, Omaha, Buffalo and New York,
and are sold there to the packing
houses, If In good condition. They are
purchased at a price slightly under
that paid for sheep, and are disposed
Of in the carcass. and sometimes In
canned form. as sheep mutton.