Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-02-17
Plants are made of food.

Carefully kept poultry is a depend.
able source of profit.
Beer cattle do not require as warm
winter quarters as dairy cattle do.
Earthen water-fountains in the poul-
try-yard are better than tin ones.
You cannot rush a hog, and as soon
as you try 1t you will get In a mess.
Choose for wheat, wherever posi-
DE- ground not in that crop last
year.
A little extra attention to the wa
tering of fowls will increase the egg
supply.
The blackberry will succeed on any
soil and with an exposure, provided
the soil is rich.
Egg production is not measured so
much by the quantity as by the quail
fty of the food
What the next harvest will be de-
ponds largely upon study, thought
and planning this winter.
Strain the milk through a clean
flannel cloth, or through two or three
thicknesses of cheese cloth.
The relish with which an animal
eats its feed has much to do with the
effect of that feed on the body.
The season is at hand when an
evergreen windbreak is an everlast-
ing good thing to have around.
Shoats are usually high in price az
soon as grass comes in the spring and
then Is the time to turn them loose.
In order to get the best results in
a system of drainage, the work should
be laid out with a leveling instru-
ment
Apple trees should be trimmed from
two to three feet from the ground
and diseases are not as liable to af-
feet them.
Bred today pullets produce more
eggs, because they are smaller, grow
faster, mature quicker, and therefore
lay earlier.
Sprouted oats are an excellent sub
stitute for green food. All fowls are
fond of them.
The quantity of milk and butter-fat
produced by COWS depends in no small
degree upon the manner in which the
COWS are MIXED.
When a hen lays $50 eggs year
an egg for every other working day
she is going some, and is pretty near
the head of the column.
The silo not only furnishes an eco
nomical storage but it enables the
farmer to handle his crops cheaper
than by any other method.
A weak, badly developed and under
sized pullet will not make a profita-
BILE layer; it is worse than foolish
ness to imagine she ever will.
Trees of some kind can be found
that will grow in almost any kind of
soil If there is sufficient moisture, but
the moisture is very essential.
Our agricultural schools and ex-
pertinent stations have demonstrated
beyond question that grasses thrive
best on reasonably compact soil.
Fattened ewes do not sell on par
with wethers because they carry pro-
portionately a greater percentage OF
offal and a smaller amount of lean
meat.
The disobediert, unmanageable COW
is often made 30 by an attendant
who has no love for or pride in his
work nor affection for the animals in
his charge.
A straw stack makes good shelter
for 2 bunch of hogs, because they are
generally architects enough to build a
house of their own If given plenty OF
straw for material.
While pork can sometimes be made
at a profit when corn is supple
mented with nothing but a concen-
trated food, still 1t is not wise to 'lse
concentrated supplements alone.
When the COWS are standing ur
straight in the stall in the stanchions
their hind feet ought 10 stand just
on the edge of the gutter. This is
necessary in order to keep the cows
clean.
Clean the hen house regularly all
through the winter, If not quite as oft
on as YOU have done during the SUM
NOR at least often enough to KEEP
the floor and perches clean and the