The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-08-29
MIX the cows cle1u.
Every farm needs a silo.

| cows.
II you can raise a sood steer why
raise a poor onef
The pig eating SOW is usually the
result of bad feeding.
| Learn to handle harnes fast. on ana
I, OF, 1t saves SO much time.
The world keeps finding new uses
for corn and corn products.
| A roadside filled with tall weeds Is
a great harboring place for flies.
Get the old hens started for market
as soon as they have laid their litter
out.
The most eloquent friends the silo
has are those men who have FED
silage.
One good thing about the incuba'
tor, 1t never leaves the nest before the
job is done.
A little salt daily for the cows ID
better than the weekly sailing on Sun
day morning
The breeding boar should not only
be good individual. but be backed by
good ancestors
| Sunshine is natures best disinfect-
ant and the pens and houses cannot
have too much OF 1t.
Clover is an exceptionally good
cattle roughage, but at present prices
its use is quite prohibitive.
ROSTERS of all breeds should be
separated from hens when they mott.
1t takes them longer than hens.
Pigs allowed to make their beds on
manure piles soon become scufy ana
affected with a dry hacking cough.
II the heller doesn't show up well
with her first calf and give promise OF
being profitable COW better get rid
of her.
There Is no question but what the
thin blanket keeps the flies of, but
however thin 1t may be it makes the
horse warm.
II one of your hogs gets a grudge
against another, put them In sep
arate pens. They will do better and
grow faster.
II hog dies on the farm, no matter
from what cause, take no chances, but
remove the body a long distance from
the feeding lots and burn 1t.
Removing stumps certainly pays.
They not only occupy space which Is
valuable but they also cause all sorts
of trouble and inconvenience.
In punching, alfalfa should be
handled by hand, as punching with
rake loses many of the leaves. Rain
Is very injurious to the cut hay.
Provide shade and shelter for calves.
Keen salt and fresh water before
them all the time. Dehorn before fly
| time. Halter break every calf while
| young.
moved. another one comes on i'm
mediately But If the first growth re-
mains while the second one starts,
then the second suffers.
When the pigs are taken out OF
the pasture this fall they should not be
turned suddenly into the cornnelds or
fed all the new corn they can eat
Make the change gradually.
When Strawberries are through
fruiting. remove the mulch and give
cultivation If the plants have made
rank growth, NOW off the tops OF
the plants with the mower.
II Is the very poorest sort Of policy
TO store potatoes intended for seed II
basement in which there is a fur
mace as it usually results in a lower
ing Of the vitality of the seed,
To in any way skrimp the food o
n growing animal chicken, pig, lamb
calf or colt. is to invite sure loss. 4
thrifty. growing young animal,
kept thrifty and growing, Is always
| money maker.
, great value In orchard and gardel
, work Such wagons are easily loaded
( The tires are wide and they can b
taken into fields where the ground !
, too soft to use narrow tired wagons
Ducks kept entirely on land mus
o have deep drinking vessels, so the
d can get their heads under wate
r Where shallow vessels or troughs ar
{ used they gum up about the eyes, b.
{ come listless. sit about, lose their al
petite. and eventually die.
s The three sizes of roasting fowls
|. small. medium and large-can best b
n secured by the Wyandottes, Pl.
r mouth Rocks and Brahmas, respe