The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-06-30
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Never use poor seed.


rats or corn.
Cooked meat is much better to give
he very young turkeys.
Sweet clover Is a good indicator OF
oil that will grow alfalfa.
Weeds reduce the physical condition
II the soil to poorer state.
With prices at the $40 mark, the
log has become respected farm ami
nal.
Now that the chicks are Matched,
omes the difficult part of raising
hem.
Make II a rule to caress the colt
Ifter performing well what was re-
luired of him.
Among the things by which time
,an be saved by using larger ma
,hinery the grain drill stands first.
Few annual flowers will grow so
Easily and give the wealth of bloom
or so long season as the nastur-
.iums.
Buy only the best and never sell
Eood stock, except when you have r
surplus or when the birds are too
Sd for profit.
Free range for hogs does not mean
hat they should be allowed TO run
n the highways and through the
leighbors fields.
Have you ever tried hen manure
about your flowers? Fine And for
garden purposes nothing can beat It.
{ is free from weed seeds
Every Enclosure for the hog should
DC perfectly tight. and with the ex
aellent wire fences that are now man
Iiactured it is an easy matter.
The essentials of good summer
log pasture are. first. a good hog
light fence; next comes a good stand
If grass. clover or other good forage
plants.
While the interest in good roads
teens to be general throughout the
country it is not active because con-
'entration of effort is necessary to
secure them.
1t Is as impossible to tell by looking
It a COW the amount of milk she will
give in a year as it is to tell the
amount of butter fat present in milk
oy looking at IT.
You can have pure bred flock 81
chickens Just as we'll as not. If you
lave not the hens to lay the eggs Sc
cure eggs from a pure breed and
latch and raise the kind you like best
Mangels are the most economical
beet to grow for milk production; but
many breeders. in forcing cows for ex
rene records, prefer table beets, be-
cause the COWS will eat a larger guam
tity.
With some varieties OF apples, like
Ben Davis, Bordeaux cannot safely be
used just after the blossoms fall be-
cause OF the russeting and disfigure-
nent of the fruit which almost surely
results.
When properly used millet Is one OF
the most palatable forage crops of the
whole list and furthermore when one
Or two simple precautions are taken
ii IS as safe as any other kind OF hay
Or forage.
The period OF incubation for pleas
ant eggs does not differ greatly from
hat of common fowls, though It Is
slightly longer 25 as compared with
y days The eggs are usually set
lnder q Cochin bantam hen.
The reason why hogs so eagerly
devour coal ashes rotten wood and
such material Is because they do not
have, while In close confinement.
the material their systems require
At large they root It out Of the
ground.
After all. It is hen fruit that Is the
most reliable crop. and It gets too
little attention on the majority OF
farms. The time IA coming soon when
eggs and poultry will be one OF the
principal sources Of income to those
who own small or medium-sIzed farms.
Plant trees The little Seeding will
soon become sturdy giant. We have
lust been reading of house recently
built in Nebraska out OF the lumber
GAVIN from cottonwood trees planted
by the owner on the bare prairie in
1896 Nothing impossible or remark
able abou; The feat: only another con
crete illustration of possibilities
that's all,
The time is not far distant when
this country will be compelled to make
available every form OF fertility that
will enrich the soil. The people Of In
nia. of China, and Of Egypt were long
ugo compelled to make use OF the fer.
tility which in this country is thrown
into the rivers, lakes and harbors
through town and city sewers. II
those eastern people had not made