The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-07-11

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Don't plant corn In weedy ground
1t never pays to hurry a colt at first
Never feed horse when 1t is very
warm.
Move the brood coops as often az
possible
You cannot begin to feed and train
| colt too early.
Lice will find sitting hen II moth.
ng Is done to prevent 1t.
The aim should be to make each
heller better than her dam.
A thermometer for churning time
earns its way summer and winter.
Don't wait for the beetle to appear
IN the early potatoes before you spray
Scours are brought on by feeding
cold milk and In keeping in dirty, wet
pens.
It takes pretty good grit to let some
Did hens go, and yet it is a wise thing
70 do.
The Silver Campine Is not new
breed. but one not generally known In
his country
The eve has been found as econom-
cal as the COW in turning hay and
grain into milk.
Work done for your cows, sheep and
hogs now will show itself next fall In
The returns you get
The SOW that is so clumsy or nerv-
ous that she always kills half her
pigs had better go to market.
A large udder Is not always a sure
sign of good mixer, but more often
than not it is a good indication
Quality in vegetables is the result
Of quick, unchecked growth, and this
means plenty Of water at all times.
It is not difficult proposition to
raise calves when the feeder uses
some precaution in their management.
If you take the young colt with the
mother when at work, put halter
81 1t and hitch 1t to the side of the
mare.
When the lambs are ten days old
here Is no danger in docking them
after that dock them just as soon as
possible.
The printer and butter spade
should be soaked first In hot water
and then in cold water for some time
before they are used.
The horses stomach Is In no condi-
ion to receive food Immediately after
severe labor. hence the necessity of a
short period of rest first.
The calf should be taken from the
cow very soon after birth. 1t learns
TO drink much more easily than If
left several days with the COW.
Unless 1t runs smoothly and does
not vibrate, separator will not do
Its best work. A solid foundation
means long life for the machine.
Dairy farmers wonder how they
ever got along without cream separa-
tors. Five years from now they will
wonder how they ever got along with
out silos.
Stations and mares having small
heart girths or light TANKS are objec-
!ionable from the breeders standpoint.
A horse needs lots Of room for heart
and lungs.
Rape Is a cool weather plant and
does best in northern ATTITUDES. Drill
In " to pounds to the acre as
early In the spring as the danger from
hard freezing Is past
The value Of silage to sheep has
been well enough established for us
to know that In the future ID Is going
10 play an important part In the pro.
1uction of mutton and wool.
II the hogs are lousy get some crude
oil and just as soon as warm weather
comes pour gallon or so Of the oil
IN the holes where they walow.
Grease OF any kind Is death to lice.
Tar paint nor any other application
Of that kind will Kill the peach tree
5orers already in the tree. The sharp
wire is the only remedy then ana the
closest inspection is necessary to find
bis lair.
Farm manure Is valuable. Conserve
The supply that is produced on your
farm. Did you know that the fertiliz.
Ing constituents voided by COW In
the course OF a year are worth, on an
average, s4049, by a horse, $2S.s6.
and by pig, 1894? Thus several
hundred dollars worth of manure is
produced on the average farm every