The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-07-04
Leghorns are natural foragers.

Exercise sweating in horse indi.
| Gates weakness.
The first essential In making good
butter is good cream.
Camphorated oil Is good for caked
udder or other inflammation.
Frequent stirring while cream Is
ripening will make better butter.
| A hog can be starved to eat al
most anything. but 1t is poor economy.
Make very liberal estimates as TO
the number of chickens you are to
save.
This Is the time to begin knocking
out another possible feed shortage next
winter
For the young calf just learning to
eat there Is nothing better than
ground oats.
| Milking with wet hands Is one Of
the most undesirable habits that a
man can form.
Turkeys often get puny and die
when several weeks old, from no 9TH
er cause than lice.
The longer q calf Is allowed to suck
the COW the harder It will be to make
1t drink from a bucket.
It never pays to keep more cattle
than one can be sure to furnish with
| ample feed the year round.
| BY using little patience calf can
| be taught to drink quickly by letting
| 1t suck the finger held IN the milk.
There are many reliable breeders of
Holsteln cattle whose entire herds av-
erage 10000 pounds of milk per year.
If thin SOW has more pigs than
| she can suckle to advantage. take
part of them away and raise them on
bottle.
Anybody can raise an ordinary horse
and sell 1t for an ordinary price. 1t
| takes blood and feed and care to beat
| the average.
The main points to make sure about
| in buying separator are durability,
clean skimming, easy washing, and
| easy running.
Almost any feed that is high in pro-
| tein, such as milk or middlings. and
the like, is good for sows, pigs and
growing hogs.
Don't let the yorng turks out until
dew is off the grass In the morning
| If you want turkeys to sell next
| Thanksgiving.
Why not a concrete vat in the milk
| house this spring? They are reason.
ably cheap. eternally durable, and
highly sanitary
Geese, after they get their feathers.
are rarely, If ever, attacked by in
sects, but this will not hold good in
| regard to goslings.
Put a bell on some Of the cows II
they run in the woods or brush
pasture. 1t will save time and steps
in looking for them.
heifer that has a long milking
period with her first calf Is very apt
to establish the habit Of long periods
| II she Is we'll handled
See that the harness, and especially
| the inside Of the collars where they
| come in contact with living flesh and
blood are smooth and clean.
In the push of farm work the truck
| patches should not be neglected, for
| in these little things lie the farmers
living and his success as farmer.
On every dairy farm there should be
two pasture fields, by feeding of first
one and then the other, the cows have
a succession of rich tender grass and
| clover.
Mix half bushel of dry ashes with
a pint Of carbolic acid, pint of coal
oil, and pint of sulphur. Put some
in the nests and the hens will not be
bothered with lice.
Have surplus of plants Of all ten.
der varieties, like tomatoes, egg plant,
peppers, etc, so that you can risk set.
ting out a few extra early. II you have
plenty you will not miss them should
they be nipped by frost, while if the
weather is favorable you will gain
some In earliness.
II 1t is necessary to conf1ne pigs
In dry lot during the summer thew
should have all the weeds that are
pulled from the garden or cut about
the premises anywhere. They will
eat large quantities and thrive on
them, and 1t is one way to get rid Of
weeds to profit.
Sprays are very poisonous and
should be placed where children can
not get them. Do not make them
stronger than directions state or 1t
will result in damage to blossoms and