The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-04-04
Cut out the quack grass.

Ducks do not need expensive
houses.
Incubators are e saving Of both
time and money.
Plenty of roosting space is needed
summer and winter.
Never set thin, lousy hen She
won't stay her time out.
Chicks should not be FED until they
are at least SO hours old.
Keeping the finger nails cut may
save both milk and modification.
Lately drained gumbo or black clay
loans merely need good farming.
Don't be too sure of your first old
biddy that makes a noise like a sitter.
Butter color should be added to the
cream before churning is commenced
One of the prime causes of roup In
poultry is close. stuffy roosting quar-
tiers.
A quart Of cream weighs about 81
pounds, and a quart of milk els
pounds.
The period of time between the
Matching of the chick and its first feed
is critical.
Don't get big flock Of hens till
you can manage a small one to good
Quack grass is a perennial and the
roots must be cut off under the sur
face, to kill.
Wheat bran and linseed-meal make
the best combination to give to a
freshening COW.
Weed out the pimping chicks. Only
bright, lively ones should be kept for
the home flock.
In changing feed with the herd, re.
member it is necessary to make the
change gradually.
Winter dairying will never be over
done. At least no one has noticed
any indications OF It,
The consumer is paying as much
for four quarts of good milk as he is
for one pound of butter.
With plenty of moisture in the
ground this promises to be a good
season for early gardens at least.
A mixture of corn chop and bran
is splendid feed for the young calf
just as soon as he can be taught to
eat 1t.
Haphazard methods don't, pay and
are always unsatisfactory. The law
that like begets like must not be for
gotten.
When you turn stalks under the
ground needs to be plowed deeper
than usual-in most soils fine ad.
vantage.
Whatever the kind of brooder the
main point is to have it thoroughly
under control as to temperature and
ventilation.
The pure-bred sire, and a dam of the
same type, of as good blood as it Is
possible to get. will usually bring a
desirable colt.
4 one has large flock of sheep
mucA time will be saved and better
results obtained by the use of the
machine clippers,
Many a dairy farmer is robbing
himself of legitimate profits by keen.
ing cows that give milk only a few
months in the year.
Chickens when taken from the nest
or incubator should be placed on
ground upon which no other chickens
have ranged that season.
If the sheep are kept on the past
ures too late, they will eat right
down into the roots, and do more
harm than the grass will do them
good.
The rich butter fat cows can be
made more numerous only by careful
breeding. If you mate rich butter
fat stock only the improvement will
be rapid.
There are 155,S46 colonies OF bees
in Illinois, valued at $4S7,73 Bees
are owned on 29,741 farms in the
state, or on lis per cent. of all H.
linois farms.
Every farmer who raises chickens
should have an incubator, as they
are a money-making, time-saving ma
chine and worth many times the price
asked for them.
If cold wet spell comes when ap.
Piles are in bloom, spray with bordeaux
mixture to prevent scab. This flung.
GUS is always most destructive In a