The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-03-28

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Keep daily dairy record.
Poultry food should be palatable.
tuberculosis OF chickens cannot be
cured.
Chair for food Is worth twice as
much as straw.
The goslings are very hardy and
require no coddling.
Poultry will never do well If infeSt-
ed with lice or mites
You are safe to buy an old sire, but
don't get him very fat.
Winter is the time to plan for i'm
prOVementS about the farm.
The horses should be given at least
one feed of mixed hay once day.
To fatten and fit up farm horse
stock for sale is not a difficult task.
Scatter the manure as you haul it,
don't put into little piles all over the
land
The flower garden is thing OF
beauty and has place on every farm.
stead
Profitable beef production in the fu.
ture means that better gains must
be made
Cows should be in prime condition
at time of freshening. Therefore feed
grain T. necessary.
The first requirements fer success
with fail calves are clean, we'll venti-
lated and sunny pens
The levelness with which horse
walks is one of the best evidences
that his legs work in harmony.
On small scale, vegetable seeds
may he started in small boxes OF flats.
placed under the kitchen stove.
Never breed from a fowl, however
fine, if IT shows a tendency to be kind
to disease germs or has any weak
nesses.
Butter from fresh and properly
ripened cream not over one day old
keeps better than does butter made
from sweet cream
Every poultryman has his favorite
breed and it would be foolish for
him to desert it for some fowl that
he did not care for.
The heifer that is cared for and
handled gently throughout her entire
life will need little breaking in when
it comes tire to milk her.
floor under the roosts and on the drop
ping boards will help to keep the
place healthy and the air pure
At this day and time there are
scores of breeds that are well suited
to the needs of the farmer for both
egg production and for market pur-
poses.
If you did not save enough good
seed for the farm crops, lose no time
in getting enough to plant your craps
Get the best chat can be had, regard
ess of the price.
No branch of husbandry now rur-
sued offers better opportunities for
profits for the amount of money in
rested and the time expended than the
production Of hogs.
1t is not breeding alone that lis go
ing to determine the future useful
ness of the COW, but it must be sup
ported by liberal feeding, daily care
and careful observation
When you buy dairy cows remnn-
Der that if you are buying from a
dairyman who intends to continue IN
business the chances are that ron are
not getting the best that he he's.
Fresh air, sunshine. and exercise
ire the best poultry tonics. But fresh
lir does not mean drafts in the
Houses, nor does sunshine call for
exposure to hot suns during the SUN.
ner.
Sheep, while generally hardy and
obust, are extremely susceptible to
lttacks of disease which, although not
Ilways fatal, wear on the constitution
md ultimately impair the usefulness
# animals afflicted
Is your farm machinery in the dry
lnder shed or is 1t setting In the
ields where you unhitched when the
rop was harvested? The latter kind
# farmers are the ones who helo The
machinery trusts pay their big diin-
lends.
All the stock fed during the winter
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