The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-11-28
Keep the garden clean.

Raise the best dairy calves.
The best COWS are never cheap
Get the cows started right for win
| er
A bushel OF seed corn will plant
six to eight acres OF land.
A hog cannot sleep comfortably In
a draft or wind; he catches cold very
easily.
In proportion to his size, hog
needs twice the air space that COW
or horse does.
Frozen alfalfa will kill hog as
! quickly as 1t does a. COW or horse.
It is usually indigestibe.
A bunch OF ripe grapes will hang In
a hive of bees until 1t dries up and
| The bees will not touch It.
Corn meal, meat and potatoes are
| three OF the most valuable ingredients
If the fattening bill OF fare
| There Is only one way OF positively
diagnosing hog cholera. and that Ia by
a post-mortem examination.
After pigs are weaned, one OF the
| most common causes OF runts is the
! feeding OF a straight corn diet
| There are many troubles OF swine
! that are called hog cholera and yet
they have very little resemblance to
| that disease.
The capons when mature will aver
age to weigh between and ~ pounds,
! depending, OF course on the variety OF
fowls caponized.
II hog misses a feed, watch him;
II he misses the second feed, remove
him from the herd and thoroughly dis.
infect where he has been.
Prepare warm dry, but ventilated
quarters for the brood sows, and do
1t now. Cold storms Will be here be-
fore we are ready for them.
Breeding stock should never be
he - tcin nj n
brood SOW, which Is always restless
md chasing about the pasture.
Composted or elldecayed ma
nures serve their best purpose when
applied to the surface OF the garden
and thoroughly dIsked into the soil
Fowls In confinement must have
light feed and plenty OF grit. oyster
shell, and little bone cut green. A
little chopped onion Is fine about
once day.
Corn silage IL an excellent feed
for steers on account OF It's succu-
lence and palatablity, and because
Of its comparative richness in carbo-
hydrates and fat.
Baby beef Is term applied to
steers or heifers from fifteen to TWEEN
ty-two months of age that show suffl.
cient thickness of flesh and quality to
be used as block beef,
Eastern farmers owning rough pas
tslre lands valued at Sl5 to $40 per
acre, are stocking them with sheep
and the mutton industry In that sec
ton Is being rapidly revived.
Hogs that are allowed considerable
amount OF room for exercise, given
plenty of water and good sleeping
quarters In a well-drained area are
not very liable to develop disease.
Besides keeping more and better
animals, more attention should be
paid by farmers to such crops as
restore the fertility OF the soil The
chief among these are clover and
alfalfa.
Lice are frequent causes OF un.
thriftlness with fall pigs. Whenever
nits or lice are seen the pigs should
be dipped at ten-day intervals or else
given one coating OF crude oil applied
with broom.
No time should be lost In fattening
the light shearers and dlsposing OF
them to the best advantage The
longer sheep IL kept that will not
/ clip quantity OF clean bright wool
! above the average the poorer the
! owner will be.
Oats is one OF the best dairy feeds
which we have. Bran Is also very
| good dairy feet Cottonseed meal is
also high in protein. Glover hay.
which we can raiso directly on our
! farm. is very good.
There Ia a great deal said about the
necessity OF mating hens with cock
erols and cocks with pullets. The
best authorities and most practical
poultry raisers generally agree that
It makes little difference az to how
the mating 10 done,
Some farmers seem TO imagine that
Just because a sheep has fleece to
protect 1t that shelter from cold and
storms Is not necessary, but they
should know that sheep are more sus
ceptlble TO cold and dampness than
any other animal on the farm.