The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-09-08
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Destroy the weeds.
The sire is half of the flock.
No butcher should tease you into
selling your best lambs.
Gilt-edged butter will line your
pocketbook with gilt-edged coins.
The best method of weed destruc-
ton comes through rotation of crops.
Slow, steady churning will get more
fat out of the milk than rapid churn.
ing.
Fowls in confinement have a ten
'dency when moulting to pick feathers
off each other.
After pigs are six weeks old there
is no better feed for them than skim
milk and shorts.
Why not screens on every door and
window of the COW stables and par
i+icuarly where the young calves are
kept?
Diseased wood on a tree can never
Ibe made good again. Cut it off and
allow another shoot to grow in its
place.
The best remedy for pear and APP
pie blight is to cut out and burn
every affected twig as soon as they
are seen.
Undoubtedly one cause Of much
trouble with milk in summer is al
lowing cows to have access to foul,
stagnant water.
No farmer should use a wagon with.
out good springs, and especially are
they valuable in hauling live stock
and perishablc vegetables and fruits.
Many small pigs are stunted in
their early growth because they can
not hold their own against their
larger and more quarrelsome broth
ers.
The best skim milk is that which Is
fresh from the separator and still
warm. Experiments show that it is
Snly one-fourth as expensive TO raise a
calf on skim milk as whole milk.
Bran. oats and oil meal fed in. equal
parts by weight make a better ration
anl is more satisfactory TO supply the
needs of growth and development for
breeding purposes, than most anything
else.
At the present time the world S
championship for the production of
i held by the Holstein-Friesian COW,
'Coantha fourth's Johanna with to-
tai of 99S26 pounds of fat
All wounds on trees are the better
for being painted, tarred or covered
water Then the bark covers over
the wound little by little, and no rot
ting Of the inner wood takes place.
The condition of the ewes at breed
ing time has a marked influence upon
the succeeding crop of lambs. If the
ewes are improving in flesh and in
a vigorous condition, the chances are
bright for a choice lot of strong
lambs.
The cockerels which are to be
marketed should, of course, be fed
a more fattening ration than the pull
lets, and those which are to be used
.as breeders should be kept from the
.pullets until about six weeks before
the eggs are wanted tor Matching
A good hand separator takes most
of the valuable butter fat out of the
milk; indeed, a perfect machine should
take practically all of the butter fat
from the milk; but it leaves most of
the protein. which is the most vau-
able food element in the skinned
milk.
The best time to water plants Is
late in the evening. Stir the soil
thoroughly and draw away from
around the stem of the plants. pour
on the water needed, let settle and
then draw the earth back again: in
this way the moisture will be re-
tanned better.
In selecting breeding stock it is
highly important that the reputation
of the breeder from whom the pur-
chases are made, is well and favor.
ably known. a man who Is noted for
square and honest dealing; and this
be made by the breeder himself.
Forest Henry, one Of the farmers
institute workers in Minnesota, and a
successful farmer. says that his ex
periences teaches that the time "a
wean the colt, even If not more than
three months old is before going into
the harvest field with the mare. He
teaches his colts TO drink skim milk
and to eat oats with the mare before
weaving.
II there ever were time when GA,
straw is worth saving it will be this