The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-10-26

Pure water Is essential
The season for culling the flock is
at hand.
Weeds and Strawberries are incom-
patibles.
Starter for butter may be propa.
gated from day to day.
Do rot be stingy In the use OF
clean straw for bedding
The sheep Is more at home on the
open prairie than among the fences.
Remove the seeds from the pump
kins before feeding them to the cat
tie.
Where butter has not the natural
yellow color. it is well to use colorine
matter.
The best time to cut the tails as
well as castrate is when the lamb Is
week old.
Gull out the hens carefully. and do
not keep more than you have room
and feed for.
Sheep return to the sell 80 per cent.
of fertility of food eaten. Sheep ma.
nure Is valuable
A great deal more money is usually
spent in wintering farm work horses
than is necessary.
Should maggots get in the animals
wounds, kill them by light applica-
ton of chloroform.
Whole grain makes best feed for
sheep. Cleanliness. pure water and
salt are necessity.
Provide the hogs wallow. Nothing
serves this purpose better than
stream of running water.
II the pig is stinted in its food at
any stage Of its life. 1t can never be-
come a perfect pork-producer.
AS new oats come in. give the cows
some Of them each morning and even
Ing cut green as soiling crop.
1t pays to maintain a heavy flow Of
milk. even II expensive feeds must be
given the cows at certain seasons.
Stock beets planted on rich soil IN
drills and we'll cultivated often yield
from twenty to forty tons per acre.
Use clover and alfalfa hay, supple
mented with roots or ensilage for
succulence. II you want an excellent
ration.
Corn that yields well in one locality
will often make an entire failure in
another locality where conditions are
different
Probably the poultry plant on the
average farm Is usually the poorest
equipped and poorest planned depart
ment on It.
Remember when you pillow in the
orchard that the roots are very near
the surface. Three inches Is plenty
deep enough.
Many an animal cold for a high price
because OF its pedigree. should go to
the butchers pen instead of at the
head of a herd.
II ewes udder Is hard or show ten.
dency to garget, use unsalted lard,
give 1t vigorous rubbing and give AMI
NAL good dose OF salts
The nature and conditions OF the
soil in which tomatoes are grown has
much to do with the size OF the crop
and health Of the plants.
Tankage, by-product Of the
slaughter houses. is wholesome
feed for all kinds Of live stock. but
its greatest value is for hogs.
Patches OF roots should be annually
grown for the winter food of swine.
1t will prove valuable aid In pro-
ducing good, fat winter porkers.
AS silo will last many years 1t Ia
not wise to use material in building |
that will soon decay-or is opt to warp
or shrink, and thus throw the silo out
of shape.
Young colts that are put in the stall
and given all the hay they will eat
soon become pot-bellied. their hair
grows longer and harsher and some
OF 4 stands the wrong way.
Usually Ii is not advisable to pas-
ture new seeding. but often weeds can
be destroyed by giving sheep the run
OF the fields for few days without
material injury to the seeding
The turkey Ia a native OF America
and. like the Indian and buffalo In
their wild state. cannot stand ciyiliza-
ton and in their domestic state will
only thrive under certain conditions.
Where there Is an abundance of
good well-cured alfalfa hay. it is al.
most impossible IT, select concen.