The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-07-13
Dogs and sheep don't mix.

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Dogs and sheep don't mix.
Keep your chiefs on dry ground.
Fodder corn should not be neg
| iscted.
Roots should always be a part of the
r,tions of dairy COWS
A wet yard is an abomnation in the
! sight OF well-bred hen.
Use the shepherds crook as little
ms possible at or before lambing.
The pigs should have clean, pure
water always at hand. day and night.
| Providing a man knows his business
| the brood mare is the most profitable
farm worker.
Baby beef is not more common be-
cause stock raisers generally are not
| stock breeders.
From the dairy standpoint, the best
time in the year for COW to fTeshen
| Is the month OF September.
| Just one setting OF thoroughbred
! eggs may be the means Of working a
revolution In your poultry business.
II neifcr is to make the best dairy
COW, she should freshen when she Is
/ from two years to thirty months old.
Newly Matched ducklings can be
! brooded without heat in a box coop at
this season, and II well fed will grow
rapidly.
The scalper shovel Is best for
! corn cultivation. as the deep running
old.style shovel Injuries the feeding
| roots.
Dairy butter should be packed in
! fve-pound jars and ten and twenty
| pound tubs to sell to the best ad-
vantage
| If a eve aborts, remove her at once
| from the lambing shed; burn all litter.
! bedding. etc. and thoroughly disin-
| feet the pen.
| No extensive grower of potatoes can
1 afford to do without breeding patch
| from which to secure seed stock for
his own planting
Orchard grass should be cut Just as
soon as the blossoms fall and crimson
clover when about two-thirds Of the
blossoms turn brown.
All sprays after the Arst should be
very fine and so applied as to lightly
cover the entire surface Of the fruit
and foliage with the liquid
The subject OF cutting back young
trees when planting Is an old one,
much has been said and written.
II IS commonly believed that a warm
horse should not be given water to
drink, which Is correct If the animal
Is TO be allowed all that he will drink.
Some turkey growers who cater to
special hotel and club house demands,
seek to improve the favor of the flesh
by Introducing wild blood into their
flocks
The l,40O.pound mule is becoming
popular draft animal. He is tough,
eats less than a horse of tho same
weight, and II sound will sci! for $500
or better
Alfalfa sOwn in the fall Is almost In
variably helped by disklng the follow
ing spring, with the disks set quite
straight. 80 as not to cut the crowns.
but to split them.
Corn and corn meal are carbona.
! ceous matter. similar In composition
/ to that Of cream. and there Is no feed
that calf likes so well as shelled
corn or corn meal
Potatoes should be either put over
an inch and three-quarters screen or
7 tAI nnt To hnu p,,th t,,.x
under an inch and three-quarters In
| the stock sent to market
The best way to teach young pigs
to eat Is to provide run or creep"
into an adjoining pen. to which the
SOW cannot obtain access, or to feed
! them while she Is turned out to get
some exercise
Examine tho udder OF each eve and
where necessary cut away all locks OF
wool, 30 that the lamb may have free
and unobstructed access TO the teats ,
| otherwise tho lamb Is liable to suck
and swallow somo wool, which forms
llllb u Dhll III 'ut oAolhd'i, tNfllludlly
causing death'when the lamb is three
or four weeks old.
Let our farmers now take note OF
the superior results which follow the
sowing OF what on land which was for
a season or two previously occupied by
a cultivated crop. The wheat gets the
benefit OF that cultivation practically
10 the same extent as the preceding
crop, In the diminutlon OF weeds and OF
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