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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-07-18
DAIRY cows DURING SUMMER
Method of Handling Animals on Wash.
ington Farm-Owner Prefers
Fall or Winter Calves.

The following is the method Of
handling dairy COWS In summer on
the dairy farm Of L. H. Blanchard of
Jefferson county. Wash. This dairy
farm has been such a success that it
has received national renown.
The dairy COWS on this farm are
given a small feed of hay early in the
morning. About eight o'clock the
COWS are turned out to pasture. At
noon they are stalled and given feed
Of green forage. Another such feed
is given at $3.50 p. m, and still an
other at 500 p. M, after which they
are turned out to pasture for the
night. The quantity given at each
of these feeding periods is governed
by the amount the cows will clean up.
In feeding soiling crops it is impor-
tant not to put too much feed before
the cows at a time. After they have
while they refuse to eat 1t and call
for fresh material They should be
given only what they will eat before
they have fouled it too much to relish.
When the hay is of the best quail
ity no grain is fed during the soiling
period except when rye is fed, even
to fresh cows, but If the hay Is not
is fed fresh COWS at the morning
feed.
The owner of this farm prefers to
raise fall and winter calves for the
dairy. 1t is more convenient under
his conditions to give them the atten-
ton they need than in the case OF
those born at other seasons. The
calves are allowed to nurse their dams
only once After this they are fed
their mothers milk for two weeks.
The first week they are given two
quarts of milk in the morning. one
quart at noon, and two quarts In the
evening The second week they are
given three quarts twice day. morn
ming and evening. During the next
two weeks the feed of the calf con-
sists of half whole and half skim
milk, with pinch OF fax seed meal
added to 1t, about once at feed. The
quantity Of milk fed during this Pc
riod (the second two weeksl is about
three quarts twice a day
After a calf is a month old 1t is
given four quarts of skim milk twice
a day, with an ounce of fax seed meal
and a handful of mixed corn meal
and ground oats. The calf is taught
to eat this by putting the mixture in
| the milk few times. Then the grain
is fed dry, after the skim milk. Feed
ing this dry material after the skim
milk is finished prevents the calves
from sucking each other when they
are let out of the stanchions in which
they are fed. The quantity Of grain
is gradually increased until at two
months OF age the calf Is receiving
a quart Of the mixture day. About
| this time the feeding of small guam
tity of roots and silage begins and
the calves are given all the hay they
| will eat. Milk is fed until the calves
are six months old, sometimes long
er. They have access to fresh water
at all times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-07-18
BEST WAY TO WORK

DDS after all, and they are now fol-
lowed in greater or less degree in
that vicinity. We were told recently
that the cotton crop of that part of
Troup county has increased some 70
per GEN.. through the use Of better
methods since our work began"
The machinery making company is
establishing headquarters for farm ma
chlnery demonstrations in three of the
southeastern states this year. In Mis-
s1ssippi and Alabama two sixty acre
farms have been established In Geor-
gia an arrangement has been made to
carry on this farm machinery demon
stration work on the Hastings farm of
over 5000 acres at Trimble, Ga,
The company will erect a model
building for the housing or storage of
farm machinery when not in use, en-
couraging in this way the right care
OF machinery and prolonging its active
life. In that building will be assem-
bled every class of implement manu-
featured by the concern that is adapt
ed to use in this section, and these i'm
plements will be in regular use on this
farm open at all times to the inspec-
ton of the public.
II any farmer wishes to see how
machine works, whether 1t will an
swer his purpose or not, he will at
any time have an opportunity of in
specting it in field use before he pur-
chases. All this demonstration work
of various kinds-farm machinery,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-07-18

times, and said that ought to have an
operation. / would not listen to that,
and when a friend of my husband told
him about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound and what it had done
for his wife, I was willing to take it.
Now L look the picture of health and
feel like it, too. I can do my own house.
work, hoe my garden, and milk a cow.
can entertain company and enjoy
them. [ can visit when / choose, and
walk as far as any ordinary woman,
any day in the month. I wish / could
talk toevery sufferingwoman andgirl."
Mrs. DEMA BETHUNE, Sikaston, Mo.
The most successful remedy in this
country for the cure of all forms Of
female complaints is Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.
It is more widely and successfully
used than any other remedy. 1t has
cured thousands OF women who have
been troubled with displacements, in
fammation, liberation, fibroid tumors,
irregularities, periodic pains, backache,
that bearing down feeling, indigestion,
and nervous prostration, after all other
means had failed. Why don't you tryitS
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-07-18
Both Needed In World.

The manual workman and the brain
worker are equally entitled to consid-
Grafton. Both are needed in the work
Of the world.
Every large community has its ex-
amples of poor business men. poor
preachers, poor lawyers, poor doctors.
poor mechanics, poor clerks-who
have mistaken their vocation in life.
They are poor in their respective call
ings because they are inefficient. Lack
of proper training may be the cause Of
their ineficiency, or there may be an
absolute inaptitude for the particular
business in which they are engaged.
How, then, shall the choice OF a
young man be guided? There Is per
haps one guide, and that is personal
preference. provided it be accompanied
by a determination to work hard and
perseveringly for success.
The work we like to do is the work
we are most likely to do well-aiways
provided we are resolved to do it to
the best of our ability and little bet
ter than anyone else can.
Therein lies the secret of success
doing things well! The young man
who says, IF l must be a bootblack,
l will be the best bootblack in town"
is the young man who is going to sue
coed and who will be happy in his
success.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-07-18
National Demonstration Farms
Are Without Doubt Doing
Practical Good.
SYSTEM AS 1T IS IN GEORGIA
Most Improved Methods Shown, and
the Principle of intensive cultiVa-
ton Made an Object Lesson to
Whole Commu-
nity

Judging by the way demonstration
work is spreading all Americans must
have a strain of the Missouri stock.
Everybody wants to be shown. The
farmers don't always want it at first.
They are apt to think they know all
there Is to be known about their own
job. But they soon learn that the
demonstration can show them trick
or two.
The government has been starting
demonstration farms all over the
country. Now one of the greatest
manufacturers of farm machinery is
taking hand. The idea of the Unit
ed States demonstration work is to
get first a farm worked under gov
eminent methods, the farm being in
charge of paid agent or county dem
onstrator, who works under the direc-
ton of state agent. Last year some
thrifty counties in Georgia were under
this system.
The first farm in each county start
ed becomes known as the government
ity is given as possible, and farmers
are invited to come to that farm,
watch the methods of cultivation, see
the results in the growing crops and
compare these results with their own
crops under the older methods.
Another phase of this work is that
by which the county demonstration in
duces armers throughout the county
to wo' one acre according to SEIZED
ule n ethods, just to try it out. Ev-
cry farm on which the improved meth
DDS specified are used becomes an OBJ
ject lesson to that immediate neigh
borhood.
when our firm established a test
and plant breeding farm in Troup
county, Ca" writes a southern seeds
man in Progress, I'VE had no idea
of making it a demonstration farm.
In carrying on that farm, however,
we used what we knew to be the best
methods, although they ran counter to
the general cotton growing practice
of that section. While the farmers
who watched our first years efforts
did not condemn our methods as bad,
they did express the opinion that we
were taking a heap of unnecessary
trouble"
when our crops turned out about
double the yield an acre that theirs
did they were convinced that there
was something in those better meth
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-07-18

end OF the stall, to keep the COW from
backing out. The stall should be three
feet wide on centers The entire stall,
from A to B (see cut), is seven feet in
length. The gates (Which should all
swing one way), are about four feet
long. The rear posts. If used, should
slant as shown in the cut, to allow the
mixer a little more room. In some
stables these rear posts have been
done away with entirely, the gates
simply being chained or roped to-
gether. AS usually built, the front
rack or panel is made of 2x4 frame
work. with 7-16 rods; and this frame
work is fastened solidly in the man
ger; but the manger and framework
are not attached to the sides of the
stall, but left loose, so as to be ad-
iusted to the length of the cow In
some cases, however, the rack is
hinged at the top and the bottom al
lowed to swing in the manger, SO that
it may be swung toward the front sew
eral inches. This allows the cow a
little more freedom in getting up any
lying down.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-07-18

Better no colt than one from a
three-dollar sire.
The best churn for home use is a
small barrel churn-
Dairy farming makes better farms,
better homes, better citizens.
Summer or winter, II does not pay
10 let the milk flow run short.
The words Holstein and Holstein-
Friesian designate the same breed.
When cows are on good pasture
they do not require very much grain
Churu the cream as soon as 1t is
rfpe. Do not let 1t stand for another
day.
It is better to feed after the cows
go on pasture than it is to stop 100
early.
Millet is a fairly good feed for dairy
cows. but there are other crops much
better.
The fun.blooded dairy COW will
never become profitable IN the hands
OF a scrub owner.
Cows are creatures OF habit largely
and should have regular care, always
he MIXED at the same hour morning
and night and by the same mixer II
possible.
The cream pot should have its con
tents stirred every day at least, and
every time any cream is added. This
iusures an even ripening and better
quality of butter.
Good milk and cream can only be
nroduced when the cow is fed a lib
ersI supply Of clean and nutritious
feeds.
When preparing butter for market
always bear in mind that an attractive
packase win more quickly win a
buyer.
The dairyman who keeps more than
half dozen cows and expects to In.
crease his herd. can AFFORD to own a
good dairy bull.
When hungry COWS are turned on a
clover pasture that is moist there Is
grave danger Of the closer csuaing
The animals 70 hloat
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-07-18
ATTENTION TO BULLS FEET
Who're Animal Is Rather Closely Con-
fined His Feet viii Need Con-
siderable Trimming.

The feet of bull demand more or
less attention, especially II he is rath-
or closely confined and getting lib
eral supply of grain. The feet should
be trimmed SO that the animal always
has the proper use of the same. Some
bulls are as easily handled as a gen.
tie horse, and their feet can be
trimmed without the slightest diff
Guilty However, this Is rather the ex-
ception than the rule. The most sat
isfactory way is to put the animal in
stocks and raise it off its feet Then.
by strappMg the foot to be trimmed,
solid to a beam, so that the sole will
be facing upward, the operation can
be executed with pincers and chisel
in a few minutes. Care should be
taken to avoid cutting too deep or
into the sensitive part or the foot. as
this would be very likely to cause
bleeding and lameness.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-07-18
FOR WOMEN WORKERS

could run a small house together and
substitute for the oppression of lone
Illness a cheerful. congenial environ
ment. There would be a common din
ing room and kitchen, of course, but
each should have her own room sacred
to herself and if each one helped, in a
small way, to keep the house tidy one
servant would suffice for the general
homework and cooking
Houses offer more rooms and loft
Ter ones at the prices than flats, and a
cooperative house on the lines sug-
gested would probably afford the in
mates far greater comfort than they
could obtain by living in rooms in the
ordinary way.
All expense should be carefully gone
over beforehand
If the scheme were successful, home
life, instead of solitude, would be the
welcome result.-Exchange
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-07-18
Is in Reality a Fine Seed-Ameri-
can Grown Is Best.

The vanilla plant is the only or
child of any industrial value. AS or
chids go, the plant is not unattractive,
for the foliage is much greener and
more enduring than in the case OF
most of the species. 1t is q climber,
and when the leaves are fresh 1t
brightens a small tree trunk wonder
fully. The vanilla planfolia, to give it
its full name, is terrestrial para
site It climbs from the ground, but
once established, has feeding stations
on the bark all along the line. The
leaves-long, very smooth and light
green--are alternate, and at the axil
Of each is a sucker few inches in
length that fastens itself securely to
the tree, lying fat against the bark.
The blossoms are inconspicuous.
1t is the resultant pods that are the
vanilla CT the industrial world They
are slim PODS six to eight inches long,
and, when dried for the markss, are
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-07-18
PlTIFUL SIGHT WITH ECZEMA

"a few days after birth we noticed
an infiamed spot on our baby's hip
which soon began spreading until
baby was completely covered even in
his eyes, ears and scalp. For eight
weeks he was bandaged from head to
foot. He could not have a stitch of
clothing on. Our regular physician
pronounced it chronic eczema. He is
very able physician and ranks with
the best in this locality, nevertheless,
the disease began spreading until
baby was completely covered. He
was losing flesh SO rapidly that we be-
came alarmed and decided to try Cuti-
cura Soap and Ointment.
Not until commenced using Cuti-
cura Soap and Ointment could we tell
what he looked like, as we dared not
wash him, and l had been putting one
application after another on him. On
removing the scale from his head the
hair came off, and left him entirely
bald, but since we have been using
Cuticura Soap and Ointment he has
as much hair as ever. Four weeks
after we began to use the Cuticura
Soap and Ointment he was entirely
cured. l don't believe anyone could
have eczema worse than our baby.
Before we used the Cuticura Rem
edies we could hardly look at him, he
was such pitiful sight. He would
fuss until | would treat him, they
seemed to relieve him so much Cuti-
cura Soap and Ointment stand by
themselves and the result they quick
ly and surely bring is their own rec
ommendation." (Signed) Mrs. T. B.
Rosser Mill Hall, Pa, Feb. 20, 1911.
Although Cuticura Soap and Oint-
ment are sold by druggists and deal
ers everywhere, a sample of each,
with 32-page book, will be mailed free
on application to "Cuticura," Dept.
29 K, Boston.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-07-18
COOPERATIVE HOUSEKEEPING IS
A GOOD SCHEME.
Would Do Away With Loneliness That
Is Dismal Feature of Modern
Business Life.

Many a business girl knows the
pangs of loneliness Her home often
consists of bed sitting room in a
cherries neighborhood and she is de-
barred from the pleasure of having a
meal in this home Of hers with a fell
low creature.
She gives herself a hurried break
fast, her dinner only consists of a
light lunch, and returns home to cup
of tea and some cake or something of
that kind.
This lonely life is led by scores of
working girls who have little oppOrtu-
nifty of making friends and cannot af-
ford to spend evenings out.
Their case is a hard one, and so,
too, is that of the woman placed in
similar though somewhat better cir
cumstances living in rooms in cheer
les neighborhood, maybe. but still liv-
ing alone and feeling the lack Of COM
partnership.
How nice it would be if three or four
of such women, of kindred tastes,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-07-18
EMPLOYERS RECOGNIZE NECES
sITY OF PERIOD OF REST.
Hiqh Official Of United States Steel
Corporation Is Leader in Move
ment of Vital Import.

I'm coming out openly and vigorous
" for a six-day working schedule for
the men in che trade and putting the
Issue squareiy before his fellow iron
and steel makers of the country" w.
B. Dickson, first vice-president of the
United States Steel corporation, has
made far-reaching contribution to In
dustrial craftsmanship in this coun-
try" says the Survey.
At the first annual meeting Of the
American Ircn and Steel Institute, he
said: LAS you are aware, the United
States Steel corporation has recently
taken SINE advanced steps in matters
vitality affecting the relations between
our various companies and their en-
ployees, namely, the reduction Of sew
en-day labor to a minimum, the estab-
lishment of a system of accident and
accidental death relief, and the es-
tablishment Of a pension system,
I'm considering the first named, /. g.,
the question of a seven-day week, we
were, of course, met at the outset by
the difficulty of adjusting q six-day
week to the operations which are
necessarily continuous, and which are
generally so recognized even by the
most radical opponents of the seven
day week. This refers particularly to
such departments as the blast fur
naces. The corporation has not yet
been able to devise practical work
ing system by which the men employ
ed at these continuous operations can
be given one day off in seven, and the
purpose of this paper is to invite the
cooperation of other companies oper-
eting blast furnaces with view to de-
vising some workable plan.
1T is my own deliberate judgment,
sitter a period of almost 80 years
continuous connection with the indus
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-07-18
Germany's Answer to Hard Problem.


Germany, the first in many ideas
of reform, has endeaYored to solve the
servant girl question in a way which
at once places the work on a higher
basis. 1t has determined to give to
the work of the workers In the house
the same dignity accorded the work
ers in the factories and mills by hold
ing a mass meeting under municipal
auspices, where the questions of mis-
tress and maid were discussed and a
formal agreement to serve as a gen.
eral basis for the relations between
the employer and employee" was
drawn.
The state will endeavor to solve
or make less veXing' all the questions
upor which the disturbances in the
household hinge.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-07-18
A creduIous man was the census

A credulous man was the census
enumerator.
When Brawney, the blacksmith, de-
clared he was sixty, he believed him,
despite the blacksmith's robust ap-
pearance, for robust blacksmiths sell
dom show their age.
When Susan, the spinster, declared
she was twenty-three, he believed her
also. despite her crowmarks and grey
ing hairs, for spinsters do not care
10 show their age, either.
But when Isaac, the idiot, wrote the
figures 100 under the heading Father,
IL living" the census enumerator
rubbed his nose doubfully, and
thought this was little too much.
"You don't mean to say" he ex-
claimed, that your father is really
one hundred and twenty years old?'
mo. O. course e aint!" retorted
Isaac complacently. But e would "a
been II ivin'.-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-07-18
Coming Bio Industry.

1T will not be long before the as.
bestos slate or shingle business, which
is just commencing to be felt, will
push its way more and more to the
front Indeed, it is not too much to
say that the time is not far distant
when when fully rs per cent. of all
asbestos produced in the world will
be used in the manufacture of ashes
tos slate and shingles. The asbestos
slate business is only four years old,
but during that short space of time
the demand for this article has in
creased to such an extent that fac
tories for this purpose are being es-
tablished all over the world"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-07-18
Mndifiad Milk

Modified milk. so called, is a COM
bination of milk, cream and sugar,
varied or modified to suit each par
ticular case. 1t is prepared especially
for bottle-fed babies. 1t is mixed in
accordance with physicians prescrip-
tions to meet each Individual case.
some requiring more cream, some less
cream and more sugar. OF course the
foundation is supposed to be fine,
pure milk II commands fancy prices
among the city families and ranges
from 20 to 30 cents per quart. deliv-
cred usually in small packages, fire.
ouently in refrigerator cases.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-07-18

Keep only cows that have the abil-
ity and capacity to turn feed into
profit and then study the feeding
question and make up a balanced "a
ton for your cows. II you feed those
COWS a full balanced ration they will
make you profit and make fields
better. and II you selected your land
lord with intelligence you will stay
on his farm to benefit from the In
creased fertility Of the fields Buy
some feed rich in protein to feed with
the feeds named.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-07-18
HOW VANILLA PLANT GROWS

Of rich deep reddish brown. These
are called vanilla beans, but without
warrant. They contain no bean; the
seed in them is as fine as dust. These
seeds are the black specs that are
usually found in the finest grade of
vanilla ice cream; the best chefs in
the world over preferring 10 GRIND
thu bean -ather than use the ex-
tract. Vanilla is found growing wild
in the Bahamas. West Indies and Cen
trail America. In Madagascar and
some Of the neighboring islands it has
been introduced, and now forms an
important article of export. But
American vanilla liz the best.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-07-18
WORK ONLY SIX DAYS

try, the early part of which was pass
ed in manual labor in the mills, that
the present conditions, which necessi-
tate the employment of the same indi-
vidual workman II hours a day for
seven days a week, are a reproach to
our great industry and should not in
this enlightened age be longer toll
Grated"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-07-18
cow STALL is COMFORTABLE
Distinguishing Feature of 5idwell
Type Is Movable Manager and
Rack-Chain Across Rear.

tBy GEORGE p. CIRCUIT. Minnesota Uni
versity Farm.)
The Bidwelr' style of stall affords
the greatest degree of comfort to the
COW. The distinguishing features of
this stall are the movable manger and
rack, whereby the length Of the stand
to suit the individual COW, and the
fastening for the COW, which consists
OF a rope or chain across the rear
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-07-18
A Catastrophe.

A cat was being chased along the
roof of a New York building. 1t lost
it's balance and fell on boy who was
standing on a balcony on the second
floor. The startled boy fell in his
turn, landing on a baby carriage, for
tunately empty, which another boy
was wheeling in the street. The first
boy dislocated his wrist; the cat was
ly}1Jod
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-07-18
Answering the Dean.

The man who Thackeray calls 'the
greatest wit of all time"-Dean Swift
of St Patrick's cathedral. Dublin
was as ready to take as to make a re-
tort
why don't you doff your hat to
me?" he asked small boy who was
coaxing along an obstreperous goat.
81 WILL" said the lad. IF your honor
will hold the goats horns!" an an.
swer which delighted the dean
Youths Companion