Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-05-12

tomatoes should be started early.
Potatoes are highly specialized
crop.
Cows should be kept comfortable at
all times.
Provide scoe succulent feed for
ewes in winter.
Weeds rob the soil of food elements
required by other plants.
Farm philosophers say this is GO
ing to be a very dry year.
The mich COW needs shelter from
the summer storms and heat
pig that is fed grain all his life
usually fails to pay expenses.
Potatoes require considerable nitro
gen and large amount of potash.
The pigs should have a clean, dry
Yard to exercise in during the day.
A cheap and effective way of de-
horning calves is with potash caustic.
By tudicious choice of varieties car
rots may be enjoyed for a long sea-
son.
daiIu rnnnrd nf Jxynrl dana will
cut out many of the wastes of the
farm.
The oat crop as a money maker on
the farm is liable not to receive the
attention it deserves.
The soil on cultivated fields on hilly
Or rolling land will wash less IL
plowed we'll and extra deep.
The gardener should try to grow the
karrot quickly in order to secure ten
der, sweet, uniform specimens.
One of the chief reasons for butter
becoming rancid at an early age Is the
fact that 1t Is not washed thoroughly.
One ton of average fresh manure
contains ten pounds of nitrogen; one
ton of clover hay, 40 pounds of nitro
gen.
Prune the trees in the early spring
If possible, any month of the year II
necessary, but be sure to prune the
trees.
Glover and grass seed may be sown,
and a good stand secured, on oat
ground during the last of April and
the first Of May.
n the buttermilk Is not washed out
It will furnish abundant food for the
bacteria, since they thrive on the
casein in the milk.
With a quiet, steady team a half
grown boy, with sulky plow' can 40
as good work as a man with the Old
Fashioned walking pillow.
There is no professional study that
Leouires closer work than does the de-
Selopment of the corn plant-a com
biration of brain toll and nature.
pigs in the pasture require some
sort of crude shelter TO protect them
from the sun and keep them from
bustering and scalding on hot days.
Growing geese require large guam
titles of grass, which they will obtain
3f allowed their range. and which Will
cpt down the feed bill at least one
half.
The picking of live geese for the
live geese feathers. so called, is prac-
+iced less and less 1t is cruel prac-
.,ce and ought to be entirely abol-
ished.
Tho amount of feed that the pigs
.hould get cannot be definitely ad-
,,Iso5 That must be determined by
she feeder from the appetites of the
assimilate food.
II has been found that the seeds OF
many weeds will retain their vitality
FOR Is to % years. possibly longer.
and not all of the given years seed
grows in any one year.
II IS surprising how few farmers
have cement floors in their stables
end as a rule they do not realize the
sose thew sustain by having the earth
1oor or a leaky, filthy plank floor
Poorly-hatched and poorly-orooded
chicks furnished good grounds in the
MAST for believing that artifcially-
Ia4obad chicks were not as strong
and vigorous as those hatched by the
ban and they we're not. But matters
have greatly changed Of late years
+rbera ere now incubators and brood
ers that are reliable and safe.