The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-06-13

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Use only dairy cows.
Dock the lambs early.
Don't be slow about sprayins
Chickens devour many insects.
Use caution with cottonseed meal.
Move the brood coops every two or
three days.
It is always best to have system,
and stick to 1t.
Blood tells with sheep as well as
with everything else.
Dock the lambs early. There Is less
shock and no danger.
Presidency is one Of the great
traits of the best dairy COW.
One OF the worst evils in the Or
chard Is the so-called pear blight
A milk house aids very much In the
proper care of milk and milk utensils,
Be sure the hogs, old and young.
have plenty of pure, fresh water to
drink
The best kind of a garden club Is
wire net fence to keep out the
chickens
For orchard spraying three
eights or half-lnch hose Is best. and
in lengths of fifty feet.
The grape Is one OF the surest OF
crops, as after the third year gen.
erous crop may be expected.
Ten acre fruit growers and egg
producers who adhere to modern
methods are making success.
It will not be necessary for any
corn-belt farmer to go many miles to
see what a silo is like next winter.
Don't get the idea that you cannot
obtain satisfactory results from spray
ing Just because your neighbor failed.
The hen house that is whitewashed
inside and has clean widows will be
more heathful and attractive for the
fowls.
The heifer calves from parents OF
long dairy Inheritance are almost sure
to equal or surpass their dams in pro-
ductiveness.
The sudden change from the warm
stable to the highland damp ground,
might prove serious with some of the
heavy mixers.
Successful dairying means that 1T is
vital to steer clear Of dry cows and
Indifferent producers. High priced
feeds brings this home.
Many a case OF chick disease might
be traced to the chilling they so often
get In transferring the hatch from
the incubator to brooder.
The chief value OF the manure
spreader lies in It's ability to put thin
coating over a large area, and thus
produce maximum results.
The building of silo Is not a specu
lation by means Of which you can get
something out of nothing, but 1t Is a
good, sound business proposition
When done spraying each day, run
some clean water through the pump
to wash out the spray mixture and
avoid corrosion Of the working parts
Ducks do not like whole grain but
prefer soft food. When winter APP
proaehes they may be fed twice a day,
at night adding animal meal or cooked
meat
To get a good. select private egg
trade, make It rule to put eggs in
the package that are not only strictly
fresh but which were made from pure.
sweet food.
The person who raises good stock
need have no fear about prices. First
class fowls always bring good prices
no matter how great the surplus OF
ordinary stock is,
II the darymen could come into d.
rect contact with the people who eat
their butter there would be less need
OF discussing the subject OF making a
better grade of butter.
Young trees planted in an old or.
chard very seldom give satisfaction
This ia largely for the reason that
young trees need different care from
old ones, and also because the young
trees will hardly receive as much sun
light as they should because of the
shade they will get from the Older
trees.
When mating to produce table poul
| try, the cock should never be ever
moderately long-legged. unless tn,
hen is unusually shortlogged, for thu