The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-03-09
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Select seed corn early
The COW never tires of silage.
Don't put sick fowl in a coop with
healthy ones.
Scraps from the table will help to
reduce the feed bills.
Old corn is the best feed until the
new gets we'll cured out.
Every corn grower should test ev-
cry ear Of seed corn this year.
In buying a COW the first thing to
10 is 20 look well into the breed
Green-cut bone must not be con
founded with ground bone or bone
meal,
A great deal of interest is being
manifested these days in the small
farm.
Horses, hogs, pigs and calves eat
silage and thrive on Il as well as does
the dairy COW.
The milk from COW in poor run
| down condition IS certain TO be cor
| respondingly poor.
Every orchard ought to be planted
| in checks to admit of clean cultivation
! with the smallest amount Of hoeing.
! On the average farm, fifty hens
bring as big returns as the best cow
In the herd with less feed and care.
| Many times, one hill will produce
six eight.ounce potatoes; which Is
at the rate OF 500 bushels per acre.
Chichen-eating sows are said to be
cured by a tablespoonful Of baking
soda In slop three times a day for a
week
The cream separator, the sio and
| the manure spreader should End
place IA the equipment of every dairy
farm.
The feeding Of clover hay TO poultry
Is a very simple matter and can be
! successfully done by any farmer or
poultryman.
Scales are good thing for man
10 have. They enable him TO know
Just what he has to sell and also
what he buys.
Ewes thar go iHto their winter quar-
ters in an unthrifty and low flesh con.
dition cannot bring good vigorous
lambs in the spring.
There IS often tendency on the
part Of beginners to increase their
herds too rapidly. Better go slowly
and breed only the best
A variety OF crops certainly adds TO
the pleasure Of living. If he can have
on his table the early Strawberries
and the late blackberrias,
Go carefully over your farming
scheme as you worked It last season.
try to discover the weak spots and
set TO work to remedy them.
If you have plenty Of pasture and
milk. that veal calf will make nice
baby beef this fall late, either for mar
ket or for the home meat supply.
It Is estimated that 80 per cent of
The poultry product of the country
come from the farm. and that the
value Of these is close to $300.0O0,00O
yearly
4 few drops Of tincture OF iron in
the drinking water makes an excel
lent spring tonic for the poultry. II
tones UP the system and makes rich.
red blood
While thcre is more or les prcju-
rice against the use or rye as food
for farm animals it forms valuable
addition to oats and barley for live
stock in Germany.
Oat straw contains from three 10
four per cent Of flesh forming princi.
Plies and about II per cent of gum,
sugar and other fatforming matters.
Wheat and barley straw are not quite
so valuable
Get the very best seed you can find
put the crop in good condition. This
season promises to be very favorable
for planting and most farmers will be
| able TO plant much earlier and with a
/ better prepared secdbcd than usual.
/ Much corn is annually injured by ear
\ planted too late. In most sections
\ there win be little excuse for late
planting this year.
Horses should not be compelled 10
wear their winter coats OF hair any
longer than necessary Farmers, as
well az horscmen, should have their
horses clipped as soon as they are ox-
pected to 10 spring work II Is true
the horse sheqs his winter hair but
sometimes the shedding Is not az fast
as II should b. Should the horse be
out Of condition the shedding process
IL naturally slow lie sweats badly
and does no. dry out well at night
Clipping Ii both humane and sensl-