The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-06-01
Nlr FARM
MMM.., III

Nearly every one can grow phlox.
Good, clean runs are a delight to
the hens.
A good cow Is seldom sold, except
at high price.
Are you troubled with crows about
your chicken yards?
Feed very little soft feed and you
will raise more chicks.
Glover can be grown moro cheaply
than timothy or fodder corn.
Bran and meat meal help to supply
the young sows with muscle and bone
Calls mouth daily she will soon learn
to eat
Parsley Is next to lettuce in winter
marketing-both profltable-when well
, grown.
One of the most important problems
OF the farmer is to feed his animals
economically.
Borrowing tools, and sending them
home dull or rusty, doesn't make the
other fellow grin.
Young as we'll as old orchards should
be plowed in the fall, and thoroughly
narrowed in the spring.
Celery seed should be sown in a
shallow drill and covered with just a
light sprinkling Of fine earth.
Don't cultivate the potatoes when
out in bloom, or coming out. unless
you want lot of stunted little tubers
II there are signs Of worms In your
hogs, feed concentrated lye, one-half
teaspoonful to each animal we'll mixed
in slop or soft feed
If sweet butter is to be made which
will command the highest market
price, cleanliness must begin In the
stable where the milking is done.
Go ~ver the young apple trees and
cut off every water sprout with a
sharp knife close to the trunk Do
it early and they will heal this season.
The proper time to set out fruit
and deciduous trees is the latter part
of October and the latter part of
March or first part of April, in the
spring.
1t is estimated that Colorado farm
ers last year received $75O0,000 for
their sugar beet crop, an increase Of
$1,O00,00O over the product of the
previous year.
In the opinion of many eastern
feeders, best development Of livestock
cannot be had without the use of
roots o" silage to supply succulent
feed during winter.
String a stout wire overhead in the
cow barn and hang the lantern to this
while milking and feeding. 1t can be
slid along from place to place and ID
safe handled this way.
In setting one fruit tree, or many.
the ground should be deeply plowed,
thoroughly narrowed and the rows
for the trees run out with the two
horse plow. Run the plow twice In
each row.
eve without milk makes a poor
mother. Feed II necessary to get the
milk flow, and you'll find the invest
ment good one. Roots of any kind,
alfalfa hay, or small grain feed will
work wonders.
A stout wire netting fence fastened
to stout posts set two and one-half
feet deep in the ground and eight feet
apart makes the best hog fence; have
board at bottom and one at top to
keep the wire tight.
Might as well give the trees plenty
OF room at the start because If you
don't they will have to be cut out
later. Thirty feet apart is the right
distance for apple trees, although 40
feet would not do any harm.
Every farmer knows that the grain
clover and grass, top-dressed with a
have stout straw, long heads Of plump
clear-skinEed wheat. the clover will be
more luxuriant, and the corn stalks
stouter and the ears larger. and the
grain sound and ripe early.
When a gilt farrows in spring her
young should be pushed on, and she
should visit the boar as quickly as pos
sible after her litter have been weaned
IN order that her second lot of young
ones may have grown well forward be
fore the arrival OF cold weather, which
is the cause OF many failures with the
second litter OF the year
The big commission handlers can.
die all their eggs before letting them
out. II is the only way to keep good
with their customers. One bad egg
In four.dozen case may mean the
loss OF their best customers. The
producer should do the same II he