The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-01-25
Rape is popular with hogs.
Put kerosene on the roosts frequent
ly to keep down chicken lice.

Teach the colt to eat mixture Of
oats, wheat bran and linseed meal
There Is something in the first milk
that the calf needs, and should have.
Remember to treat your COW with
consideration In these days and nights.
| tive system for nourishment is very
great.
A flock of ewes rightly handled
should produce 1875 per cent. OF
| lam bs.
1t is the income from each sheep
] that should determine the value OF
| the flock.
Every progressive keeper separates
| the light-colored honey from the dark
fall honey.
Unless the bird is extremely valu
| eble the ak Is the best remedy for a
sick chicken.
The COW that is allowed to fall off
in her milk flow is seldom made to re-
gain 1t at profit.
Skimp your sheep on good pasture
| and they will skimp you on mutton.
| Works both ways.
Rabbits do great damage to young
! trees during winter, especially when
| snow covers the ground
| The use Of fruit is great help
toward keeping in good health, and
more of it should be grown
| It's a mistake to expect the miracu.
lous or abnormal from your cows. Bet
ter make them work naturally.
| II sows are expected to raise a fall
! litter, it is best to wean the spring
pigs at from to 10 weeks old
When there is good stuff in the feed
| box the heifer soon learns to be a
| good barn COW when night comes.
| Do not try to winter the cows with
| out grain. Wheat bran. corn-meal
and oil-meal will be found valuable
| Sheep are comfort lovers and the
man who neglects to provide them
error
Irregularty in feeding-that is a
good ration one day and poor one
the next. will play havoc with the best
of cows.
Peach trees can be planted any time
| between last and first frost; the
earlier In the winter they are planted
the better.
| A queen bee lives from two to Ave
|
six months, and drones seldom NOR.
than five weeks.
Some breeders claim that six or
seven weeks is long enough for the
pigs to remain with the SOW, but
this. l think, is extreme.
The pig is merely meat-producing
machine and the more he is fed
with good Judgment, of course-the
more meat he will turn over
All living plants have definite needs
every day during their growth. and If
these needs are not supplied fully or
regularly bad results must follow
While the orchard Is coming into
hearing try vegetable growing as a
side line. This makes one of the
surest and best resources of income
II will pay to buy wheat bran to
mix with the barley or corn meal for
feeding cows. Bran and barley meal
half and half makes good meal for
milk
The best roosting.place for young
turkeys is on branches of trees. They
will not suffer from exposure. and
the open life will make them strong
and healthy.
Some mixers handle the teats as II
they were made Of rubber and devoid
Of all feeling; but, strange to say,
there are nerves in the udder which
are very sensitive.
Flaxseed meal. also known Under
the name of linseed and oil meal. IL
one and the same thing II is the res
due left after crushing and pressing
the oil out of flaxseed.
We like to see the cows approach
their master In the yard 10 be
scratched and petted. 1t shows that
they are used to kind treatment and
are not afraid of him.
Marshy places along stream fur.
nish many beetles and shell fish and
If the young ducks are allowed a run
of yard like that the cost Of feeding
them will be greatly reduced.
Sometimes when hcrses feet are
so tender that he Is liable to be lame
after shoeing, thin layer Of calfskin
placed between the hoof and shoe be