Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-02-24
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Transplanting beets is common.
The flavor and odor of eggs is often
affected by the food.
The Poland Chinas of today are as
good as they ever were
The Duroc-Jersey is not as refined
and compact as the Poland China.
SOIL doubtless has a good deal to do
with the success of the Ponderosa to-
mato.
Keep at least one horse about the
farm that is easily managed by the
women.
There is something about oat straw
that seems almost poison to the skin
of hog.
The quality of the silage may be
materially bettered by using care in
taking it out.
The dandelion has all along been
a hard weed to kill On account of its
perennial nature
A young bull not in service may be
fed silage literally, but sparingly
when in service.
Those who have succeeded in get
ting a good stand of alfalfa are en-
thusiastic over its value.
Fall pigs, or any other hogs for that
matter, should be kept off the man
ure pile during the winter.
All reports show that the demand
for butter, milk and cream continues
TO be greater than the supply.
Any time before growth starts in
the spring will be all right for prun-
ing such hardy trees as the box elder.
The practice of removing manure
from the stable directly to the field is
a good one when it can be carried out.
Potato blight alone is estimated to
100000 every year in the United
States.
In locating your plants be sure that
you understand their habits and are
able to assign them to their places
intelligently
The hen is admitted to be one of the
greatest financial factors in the coun-
try today. and she is also one of the
most overworked
Dairying need not imply abandoning
wheat. but more wheat on less acres.
Both bread and butter should be pro-
duced on the farm.
Plant trees only III ground that has
been under cultivation for at least
two or three years and is in thor
ough state of cultivation.
Unless rotten apples are promptly
removed from the orchard, fruit pests
will have an ideal place in which 10
hibernate during the winter months.
Cows must be Kept cleah anu
healthy. and have pure air to breathe,
and then they will return volume OF
rich nutritious milk in paying quaint
ties.
II is not profitable to treat fowls
suffering from q contagious disease
II Is a better move to at once destroy
III sucb cases or there may be an
epidemic.
T, making flower beds it is not de-
sirabIe to elevate them above the sur
ro,rn5ing level. Raised beds shed
rain and in consequence dry out more
RAPIDLY than level ones.
Outdoor grown tomatoes removed
Prom, the vines in green state "heh
Frost threatens. will take on more
natural color if placed in the dark
.hor when exposed to the hght.
rho only way to raise chickens IN
So numbers in a short space or
+fr,e and have them at the rghI
t,r,a to get the highest prices Tor
-, L RI use incubators and brood
ers.
After the whole system of pork
,rodnction has been adjusted to the
80 modern business-like and sys-
tematic basis, we need not fear an
over-supply. for we are at present
.th;p reaching distance OF our
rnown power of production.
The majority OF dairymen have now
,rned nv experience the practical
Ea,ue of supplying the wants OF the
an,mals such as food, water and
~t,.1tor hut we must also consider the
importance of gratifying their wishes
,snd alternating their distresses'