The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-01-04

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! II Is well to assume when chickens
are dying that the disease is conta
gious.
| When pigs are given bad quarters
they can't be expected to return good
dollars.
Just now the heavy steer is much
sought after article in the live stock
markets.
All breeders and brood coops should
| be thoroughly cleaned and put away
| for the winter.
The prosperous and most successful
| farmer is comfortable only when his
stock is comfortable.
! A rainy day is good time to repair
and oil up the extra harnesses used
during the harvest season.
Observe with care and note as a
| iirst point that the COW should have
large and ample-sized body.
Good roads are the reward Of com
mon sense applied to the local man.
agement Of town or county affairs
A sheep grower can scarcely make
a graver mistake than that of grow
ing sheep without regard to their
| feeces
In dairying there Is NO excuse for
the man who goes at II Sindly and
blames luck and the weather for his
failure.
Only well bred stock that is well
fed and well taken care of can make
money on land worth 800 or more
an acre.
Farmers with heavy steady work
now generally try TO secure drafty
horses even when farm work is the
sole object.
The strainer never was made that
would take foul matter out of milk
None ever will be. You have got to
keep it out.
|, all the chickens and full-grown
ners run together. the stronger chick
eng will get most of the feed and keep
the others poor.
It is self-robbery to take dairy
COW through the winter when she
gives milk only five or six months out
of the whole year.
If the cows pedigree TALES with
| the milk pail. then 1t Is consistent.
aid good foundation, or a poor one
| as the case may be.
Fancy points may be of no advan-
cage to the farmer, but pure-bred
| fowls will naturally possess just as
great utility as the scrub.
care should be taken to have the
ground below properly drained anu
| the foundation well constructed.
Selection Is absolutely necessary in
order to breed and build up a good
dairy herd. One must Gull closely here
as we'll as In all other lines OF work
Many good, careful farmers find It
practical to hog off some Of their
| corn. 1t will pay you to look into
this question, If you have not already
| done so.
All the diseases which afIlict our
poultry are those of domestication
caused largely by unnatura, environ.
ment and carelessness on the part OF
the owners
Many Of the details in butter maxi
ing can only be locked after by ex.
perience. Much of it must be learned
by doing the work No one can begin
where the other fellow left Off
BE careful about feeding beet tops
to the cattle. Heavy feeding of this
material Is somewhat dangerous as ~
tends to purge animals. Feed In lin.
tied quantities and with other feeds
The fall. as soon as the leaves are
cut by frost, is the best time to make
new plantations of rhubarb and horse
radish. The ground for both of these
plants must be deep, mellow and rich
Never allow breeding swine to 70.
low steers or dairy cattle for this J.,
a sure method of developing tubercut
| osis in swine. This disease seldom
originates with swine, but is easily
| contracted by them
Don't burn the straw piles. II the
straw cannot be used for feed or bed
ding, scatter several feet deep in the
yards, where it will rot and be con
verted into manure. II you have
more straw that you have use for,
1t is evidence that your farm is un
derstocked with live stock; hence in
need of all available manure.
Incomplete milking net only robs
the dairyman Of the richest portion or
the mills--the "strippings i.
damages the COW, tending TO lessen
her daily production and to shorten
the period of lactation. It takes n lit
tie more time TO draw the last pint