The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-07-25

Are your neighbours crops looking
better than your own?
Move the farm closer to town b.
means of better roads.
While charcoal is not food, fowl
gain flesh faster during its use.
Progress in dairying Is creates
where there is the most interest.
The only honest way to water mill
Is to give pure water to the COWS.
No part Of the farm work is mort
universally neglected than the garden
Throw your ashes into the poultry
house and watch them enjoy them
selves.
Trouble with weeds has caused
more alfalfa failures than any Other
one thing.
The COW that Is large producer OF
milk must be large consumer OF feed
and water
For grinding purposes alfalfa hay
should be cut when the very first bios
SONS appear
When the horse is In normal condi'
ton he should have all of the water
he will drink.
1t is possible to milk In comfort If
.he stables are kept in clean, SAM
AIRY and light condition.
To the good dairyman 1t Is import
ant that the exact age Of every fowl
on his premises is known.
A profitable farm garden Is con
tlnuous source of satisfaction from
early spring until frost comes.
Alfalfa should be raked and cooked
up the afternoon of the day of cutting
where conditions are favorable.
Indiana produced $26,000,O00 worth
of poultry and eggs in 1903, year Of
the last census-hgures just out.
In the rush, don't forget those odd
corners that are growing up to weeds
and seeding the farm to these pests.
Where milk is set" In pans 1t Is
a good sanitary precaution TO cover
the pans with clean paper after cool
Ing.
A good farm paper Is the very best
machine on the farm, and Will be the
means Of making the most money for
you.
The three essentials for success
full dairy COW are vigor, capacity for
food and welldeveloped organs for
milk production
Corn silage 10 no less valuable for
carrying stockers and feeders through
the winter months than for fattening
and finishing beeves.
The most humane method of dehorn.
ing COW is to do the work with a
little caustlc potash when the horns
are just starting on the calf.
record cow is not only good ad
for the breeder, but 1t Is boost for
the breed as well. to say nothing OF
the country which produced 1t,
When swine are bred for mere fancy
points aud when constitution and sub
stance are lost sight of they cease
to be profitable assimilators OF food.
Good butter IL as good as gold any
where I'm the summer time, and farm
that turns out a gGod supply Of the
Al kind every week is a gold mine.
The white-fcathered broilers Away
have the more attractive appearance,
in market. as the pin feathers do no
show as they do In dark-plumage'
birds
The best roosting place for youni
turkeys Is on branches of trees The
will not suffer from exposure, and tn
| open life will make them strong an
| healthy.
II one begins with the chicks, doe
things with elaboration. never make
sudden and unexpected movement
even the most timid breeds will b,
come tame.
J. A. Ferguson. Missouri station. |
urging farmers to set out forest nGi
series In portion OF their vegetabl
gardens later to Plant waste place
with the seedlings.
Celery grown In beds for family us
should be gradually earthed. II ia
much earth ia thrown to the stalk
when the weather Is hot and sultr,
the stalks will rot
The fruiting Strawberries shoul
have all weeds and grass cut out b
tween plants; take a sharp. mario,
bladed hoe and cut the soil fine wit
out disturbing the roots