Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-06-30

Importance.
Cattle on pasture can be fed grain
and made ready for market early in
| the summer
Wheat and oats in equal parts
ground together are excellent for
chicks of any age.
AS soon as the corn is up, or even
| before, go over the field with a weed
er or smoothing harrow.
Flaxseed may be broadcasted, but
is generally drilled at the rate of from
two to three pecks to the acre.
A small amount of animal food ID
required by all poultry. especially dur
ing the time of egg production.
Try to see that the chicks are not
| fed until at least 4S hours DID, then
give water first. feed afterwards
Failures in the sheep business, in
nine cases out of ten, may be traced
to overconfidence and "plunging."
The farmer who makes milk pro-
duction his business is a dairyman.
and he needs the best of dairy cows.
If one has pigs that have to be kept
in a yard all summer, sweet corn Is
the best green feed he can grow for
| them.
Barley and kafir corn are both good
poultry feed, but not essential when
one has plenty of the above mentioned
grains.
| Dairymen doing a small business
connected with farming cannot live up
to the standard without increasing the
| cost of milk.
The temperature in a brooder the
first week should be 95 degrees, Sec
! ond week 90 degrees and the third
week IS degrees is enough.
| Corn silage and alfalfa make an ex-
cellent ration for dairy cows and good
yields of milk have been reported
where nothing else was fed.
| Go over the young apple trees and
cut off every water sprout with sharp
knife close to the trunk. Do it early
| will hos
| It is the early vegetable that brings
the big price and the man who sticks
| to his hot bed and makes good use
of it always gets to market first.
| There are several crops which may
be planted for late summer pasture
which will furnish fresh, succulent
green feed for all seasons of the year.
Two or three days after potatoes
are planted go over the field with
harrow. and continue this until the
plants are several inches above the
| ground
AS soon as the potatoes are planted
and up sufficiently to cultivate. 1t Is
becoming customary, and necessary
| to spray with some poison solution to
| kill the bugs.
The fruiting strawberries should
have all weeds and grass cut out be-
tween plants: take sharp, narrow
bladed hoe and cut the soil fine with
out disturbing the roots.
The poultry yard should be all
cleared away and tidied up in June,
and all coops and racks no longer IN
use securely stored away in some shed
where they will be kept dry until next
! season.
| One can spread ashes, lime, land
plaster, phlverized lime rock, etc.,
etc, with the manure spreader by
! first putting a layer OF litter In the
bottom of the spreader and the fine
material on top.
A remarkable thing about alfalfa
is it's perennial youth. When one
growth is removed another one comes
on Immediately to take its place, and
SO continually as long as moisture
and temperature conditions are "a
vorable.
Grow your tomatoes on trellisee
this year and see If you do not have
better crops than ever before. Trel-
Uses should be set in the ground
about IS inches deep when the plants
are set out and the vines trained from
! the start.
When one stops to consider the stu
| pendous fact that Philadelphia. Chi
| cago and New York consume 100000
cases of eggs annually, some idea
may be obtained OF the number re
| CURED to feed Uncle Sans rapidly
increasing family all over the country