The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-08-15

Rotation is profitable
BE gentle with the COW.
Be liberal with fly repellant.
good SOW is valuable asset.
The common term "90-day corn is
deceptive one.
The well-ventilated barn is quite as
essential as the warm one.
By means of seed corn selection
the corn crop is moving northward,
Hogs should have clean pastures,
beds and water and a variety of food.
The best time to cut post timber OF
any kind is when the trees are in full
leaf.
Lice are responsible for more loss
among little turkeys than any other
cause.
Avoid a rush by ordering crates,
boxes, barrels, etc, in ample time for
shipping.
The cleaner the feed and feeding
places, the better the quality of the
pork in all.
The greatest elemen. in successful
turkey raising is a long dry season
without any rain.
Turkeys are good for the fields. They
can be driven anywhere you wish from
one field to another.
In transplanting plants from pots to
the open, water them freely the day
before they are re-potted.
In making poultry pay much de-
ponds upon your ability. your expert
ence and your aptitude in the work.
chickens stomach is not made Of
iron, and the same diet day after day
harms them as much as it does hui
mall
Understood pullets are not profit
able There will be some scrubs de.
veloped in the best of strains. Get
rid of them.
Poultry raisers can learn much by
attending the farmers institute meet
ings held in their section of the DIFF
ferent states.
A good grain mixture for chicks is
made up of two parts cracked corn,
two parts wheat, two parts Kafiir and
one part millet.
Keep track o. the chicks that
feather out early. The chances favor
the birds becoming the most profit
able ones to keep.
A tablespoonful of baking soda plac-
cd in the drinking water two or three
times a week Will prevent bowel trou-
BILE in the CHECKERS.
1t is always a good plan to use plen-
ty of seed in planting cucumbers, can
'aloupes, melons, etc, The hills may
be thinned out later
Give the newborn calf a touch of
fly repellant on that spot on the back
where the hair parts. The flies like
to feast right the re.
AS the weather gets warmer be sure
that all brood coops are well ven
tilated at night, So that the air will be
pure and cool within.
Poultry systems requiring close
confinement of the flock and large
amount of persoral attention are out
OF place on general farm.
To get the flock as whole in lay
ing condition in the time required by
the breed or variety the fowls must be
properly grown from chickhood
Twenty acres of corn put into a silo
is said to be worth more than thirty
acres put in the crib. This is quite an
item especially when feed Is so high.
Industrious hens are the kind to
keep, it matters not what the breed.
The lazy hen is Improbable. 1t is
the industrious hrn that lays the eggs.
If any fruits or vegetables are mar
keted, see that they are put up in
clean, neat anG well-graded packages
They will sell quicker and at better
price.
Young and growing animals require
food which will make bone and mus
Gle, rather thar fat. In majority Of
cases, 1t is injurious to heavily load q
young animal with fat, except whe1 it
is to go to the butcher, as its growth
will be checked a;ld the risk of disease
increased.
Those who believe COW should be
treated like a lady never pitched hay
all day and then had to milk a dozen
cows that were as hot as a furnace
and eternally nwitching them in
the face and apparently trying to get
both feet in the pail A little un-
kindness Is excugable, though not ad.
visable.