Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04
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The best farm friend is bank roll.
Men who expect the best often get
the worst
Oil meal is good for the cows. 1t
will prove a pay ration.
A Bind pig gets very little sympa-
tn from the other hogs
Milk is easily contaminated, and
hence is most prolific medium OF con-
veying disease,
Raise colts. but don't try to do IT
with poor, rundown, over-worked
mares. Strong colts cannot be gotten
in this way.
Good grooming. good bedding and
good feed will make the good cow
more profitable Don't fool your time
away on the poor cow
Be sure that you get a standard
grade OF cement and that 1t is mixed
in proper proportions with the other
materials if you want to get good re-
suits.
AS compared with the old pan meth
cd Of raising cream, the separator is
as far ahead of the old method as the
thresher is ahead OF the cid fail
method of threshing grain.
Are you carelessly letting the liquid
manure go TO waste? IT is the most
valuable part of the manure. Save 1t
either by tight cutters running to
cistern, or use plenty OF absorbents TO
soak 1t up.
Yes, it is some trouble and expense
raising dairy cows, but see what you
have after you have raised them. II
you have saved those from your best
COWS mated to pure-bred bull. That
is the wav to build up dairy herd.
If troubled with lumpy or stringy
milk. try this treatment: First give
thorough purge, say a pound or
Glauber's salts. When II has ceased
to act, give half an ounce Of inter and
20 drops of aconite twice a day for two
days, or longer II not cured.
The time to wash out the buttermilk
from butter is when 1t has reached the
granular stage Good butter comes not
by any chance. but from good feed,
properly separating the cream and
careful churning. The cream should
always be churned when ready.
Over In Germany they have mech
anism for catching and destroying but
terfiies which damage their fir woods.
The contrivance consists of a power
light which attracts the pests, and a
large revolving fan which draws them
into chamber where they are bruised
and killed.
Buying hand separator is quite
different from buying almost any 9TH
er piece of machinery used on the
farm 1t pays to get good one and
give it a thorough trial before accept
ing it. A poor machine is not only
short lived but loses money every day
for the owner.
In Australia all the butter making
is done on the cooperative system.
Farmers no longer make butter on The
farms. Australian butter ranks with
the best in the world. and the dairy
business has brought prosperity to the
farmers who lost nearly all they had
In the brought Of 1902.
A Pennsylvania dairyman who has
kept a record says 1t takes 100 quarts
of milk to produce calf that viii
weigh 100 pounds at four weeks HIS
record of feeding 80 calves showed
1900 quarts Of milk. and for
which he received $4S1, or four cents
per quart, and the calves did the milk
Ing. He says the calves must be good
ones-not little, runty Jerseys.
So long as stock and feeding steers
can be bought in the large market
places cheaper than they can be picked
up around home, the farmers VIII raise
fewer each year. AS soon as they do
this they pave the way for small mar
gins on feeding cattle. Small margins
have already arrived and that is why
the she stuff at the farm sales Is picked
up 80 quickly.
Cows seldom kick unless there is
some reason for 1t, 1t may be a sore,
or It may be long finger nails Pos
sibIy some previous injury or pain
makes the COW so afraid and nervous
that she cannot resist the inclination
to kick any more than man could re-
sist striking another who he thought
was going 10 inJure him. Kicking can
frequently be c:iFed by finding what
the cause Is and removing II.
Up comes another individual who
claims that he knows Of more dis
a greeable Job than hauling wheat
straw over a frozen road on windy
day Here It is. Yoke up a pair OF
steers on a hot spring day when the
xnats are In their liveliest mood and
70 into a field where the weeds and
brush are about waist deep and try
10 break them 50 that the weeds and
brush will all burn OF clean.
The apple tree needs care like other
fruit trees. II 1t Is going to do well.
The old idea that once planted IT
should be able to care for Itself and
bring forth an abundance Of fruit can
no longer be maintained. since such
method is neither economical nor
Fruit trees Of whatever