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

The best egg producers are not al.
ways the best market fowls.
He that abuseth his colts may ex.
pect to be kicked by his horses.
The silo has come to stay as a per.
manent form of farm equipment.
Glover hay is about three times as
valuable as corn fodder or shredded
fodder.
Oats and timothy hay have long
been considered standard feeds for
the horse.
1t is still a question whether or not
pasteurization of milk is beneficial in
every respect.
Well drained yards and pens will
help to keep the hogs more thrifty
and profitable.
The covered barnyard is rapidly
coming into favor as commodity tc
the farmer and daiTyman.
Sweep up every particle of silage
in the chute and alleyway and give il
to the cows at every feeding.
Cold weather is not much of a de-
triment to chickens, providing 1t is
dry cold and the atmosphere pure.
When opening your silo bear in
mind that whenever you change feed
the change should be made gradually
A new poultry roost is made of per
forated iron tubing which has been
soak d in solution deadly to insect
life.
Young geese are not to be picked
the first year, unless you sell them
dressed. a very difficult thing for the
novice to do.
Spraying has come to be one of the
unacceptable tasks of the agriculturist
whatever his particular line of pro
ductiye enterprise.
A well-bred animal costs very little
more TO purchase. and generally less
to feed, than bad one, while the prog,
eny is always salable
Scarcity Of stock cattle of all kinds
and high prices asked and offered is
a common local condition reported
from the corn belt states.
The meadows look good for pasture
in the fall and early apring but the
man who keeps his cattle off OF them
always gets better crops of hay.
The dust collected from numerous
vacuum cleaners has proven to be a
valuable fertilizer, and its sale has
become regular business in Paris.
The novice when selecting a ram Of
the Downs or other hornless breeds Of
sheep should be very careful not to
select one with stubs-miniature
horns.
1t is not the little, fat, chubby fe-
males which should be retained as
breeding animals, for they almost al
ways prove disappointing at farrow
ing time.
Try finishing some of your poultry
this fall before marketing. If it pays
to convert corn into six-cent pork, it
may pay better to convert some OF it
into twelve-cent poultry.
Wool substance Is what the wool
grower is looking for, provided It is
not made up of too coarse fibers,
which is not usually the case Dens-
ity and fine fibers are usually asso-
ciated.
BE sure to have your boar-pen fence
boar proof, for the more times he
breaks out the more difficult 1t will
be to control him thereafter. Heavy
woven wire fencing will hold him Sc
curely.
The temperature of cream for
churning should be 81 to 60 degrees.
We also churn about one-half hour
When butter comes before half an
hour it indicates too high temperature
of cream
Fowls cured of roup must not be
used as breeders, however well they
look. They will do for market. or for
market eggs. but never breed from
them as they will transmit the disease
to their offspring.
TWO pastures are better than one
because while the hogs are feedin.
in one field the other will be recov.
ering, and later furnish much moro
attractive feed than II both pasturas
arc used as one.
Fall and winter is the great harvest
time Tor butterfat. To be sure II costs
a little more to produce It at this
time but the price is 80 much bettey
that there is no question as to the
ACCESSIBILITY of the winter COW.
There seems to be an idea tina, anu
one can make a success of farm,ng
The failures In other business ,rr,
70 the farm AND start chicken ranch
or dairy farm' This back to the
soil call is all right In it's wav bu,