Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-08-30


Give all farm animals pure water.
Stunted calves don't make good
cows.
II you can raise good steer why
raise a poor one?
The pig eating SOW is usually the
result of bad feeding.
Learn to handle harness fast, on and
OF, 1t saves 80 much time.
The world keeps finding new uses
for corn and corn products.
A roadside filled with tall weeds Is
great harboring place for flies.
Handling and petting the heller calf
Will mean gentle COW after awhile
Get the old hens started for market
as soon as they have laid their litter
out.
The most eloquent friends the silo
has are those men who have fed
silsge.
One good thing about the incuba-
tor, it never leaves the nest before the
job is done.
A little salt daily for the cows Is
better than the weekly sailing on Sun
day morning.
The breeding boar should not only
be good individual, but be backed by
good ancestors.
Sunshine is natures best disinfect-
ant and the pens and houses cannot
have too much Of it.
Glover Is an exceptionally good
cattle roughage, but at present prices
its use Is quite prohibitive.
BOOSTERS of all breeds should be
separated from hens when they mott.
It takes them longer than hens.
Pigs allowed to make their beds on
manure piles soon become scuffy and
affected with a dry hacking cough.
If the heifer doesn't show up we'll
with her first calf and give promise OF
being profitable cow better get rid
Of hers
There is no question but what the
thin blanket keeps the flies off, but
however thin 1t may be it makes the
horse warm.
II one Of your hogs gets grudge
against another, put them in sep
arate pens. They will do better and
grow faster.
Removing stumps certainly pays.
They not only occupy space which Is
valuable but they also cause all sorts
of trouble and inconvenience.
In punching, alfalfa should be
handled by hand, as punching with
rake loses many of the leaves. Rair
is very injurious to the cut hay.
Provide shade and shelter for calves.
Keep salt and fresh water before
them all the time. Dehorn before fly
time. Halter break every calf while
young.
There are two crops which cannot
as a rule be grown in the same par
ish, sheep and dogs. Sheep are most
profitable but dogs are the favorite
with too many farmers.
When one growth of alfalfa Is re-
moved, another one comes on i'm
mediately. But If the first growth re-
mains while the second one starts.
then the second suffers.
When the pigs are taken out OF
the pasture this fall they should not be
turned suddenly into the cornf1elds or
fed all the new corn they can eat
Make the change gradually.
When strawberries are through
fruiting. remove the mulch and give
cultivation If the plants have made
a rank growth, NOW off the tops of
the plants with the mower.
It Is the very poorest sort OF policy
to store potatoes intended for seed In
a basement in which there is fur
mace as 1t usually results In a lower
ing Of the vitality Of the seed.
To In any way skrimp the food Of
a growing animal, chicken, pig, lamb,
calf or colt, is to invite sure loss. A
thrifty, growing young animal, IT,.
kept thrifty and growing, is always q
money maker.
Never introduce a new bird into the
regular yard until 1t has been duly
quarantined Keep 1t alone for week
and note it's condition, appetite, etc.
Disease is often introduced into q
flock by carelessness In this matter.