Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-05-10


Good pasture is invaluable in grow
ing pigs successfully.
Cut straw is the best for bedding,
If you save the manure.
II zinc is burned with tbs coal it will
clear the chimney of SCOT.
Are the plow-lays sharp. and all the
tools in first-class shape?
Two filters of pigs year is about
what the best sows will do.
He that abuseth his colts may ex.
pect to be kicked by his horses.
Sifted coal ashes are better than
plaster for the striped squash bug.
Jerking the bit and yelling confuse
a horse and advertise blockhead.
Out-buildings, implanted fences and
rubbish heaps may be hidden behind
vines.
Equal parts Of corn and oats are
hard to excel as grain feed for
sheep.
Provide plenty Of pure water sun.
shine, range and green forage crops
| for sheep.
A flock that gets bone meal and oy-
ster shell will have few cases Of leg
| weakness.
Look out for the yearling colts.
Don't let them get a setback as spring
! approaches.
Sore mouth will sometimes attack
sheep in pens and run through the
entire flock.
During an extra cold spell of
weather add little corn to the sow's
grain ration.
| Small seeds and finely cracked grain
are better feed for the small chick
than wet mashes.
Never breed a nervous, high-strung
SOW that is ready to jump and run
at the drop Of hat.
The fewer sows kept together dur
ing the breeding season and until far
rowing time, the better.
Of all fowls ducks are the easiest
to raise. The eggs are more fertile
than those of any other fowl.
| Cold weather is not much of detri.
ment to chickens, providing it is dry
cold and the atmosphere pure.
The geese should be laying at their
best now, and this is, also, the month
in which turkeys begin to lay.
| For the majority of vegetables, soil
of a sandy nature is best, provided
there is a good sub-soil for drainage.
| If all the implements were cleaned
and painted last fall, great deal of
time will be saved when you must
get busy"
| A good way to disinfect brooder
is to open it wide, take out the hover
and let the sun get at the inside
through the day.
Making the drinking water slightly
red with permanganate of potash has
often been found to prevent the
spreading of roup.
Poultry manure should be partially
dried before storing in order to pre-
vent fermentation setting In. thus
avoiding the escape of the ammonia.
| There Is no better or cheaper way
of growing hogs than to pasture them
on alfalfa. One acre will furnish pas
turage for from ten to twenty hogs
! per season.
| An old horseman says that the chief
cause of collie in horses, or the cause
of the largest per cent of these cases,
Is brought through long abstinence
from water.
| Men Of moderate means should start
| the Improvement of their cattle
| through the purchase of pure bred
| bull and gradually grow into the
| breeding Of pure bred animals.
No one can afford to raise pigs that
refuse to fatten or that are frequently
off feed. In this case the correction
| may often be made before the pigs
are narrowed. 1t Is very apt to lie
with the handling of the brood SOW.
To make alfalfa nay cut in the fore
noon and let it wilt; then rake into
windows. It should be cured in
riDdr0wc and rockc and stacked and