The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-10-24

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will remain for the next two years
A piece Of alum in the drinking wa
ter will prevent throat and lung dis
eases.
Your horse may intend to please
you. but does not understand your
wishes.
Get on friendly terms with those
little pigs. Study them. Kindness
counts.
Own sheep for the good Of your
bank account and for the destruction
of weeds.
Corn and alfalfa make a combina-
ton that cannot be equaled on the
dairy farm.
Whenever hogs are confined to one
feeding place q feeding floor should
be provided.
A lump OF sugar or bite OF apple
will do more In the training OF colt
! than whip.
Farming on q business basis elm.
mates small mules just as 1t displaces
small horses.
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will stand weaving better. and also
winter better.
Many practical hog raisers are now
using artificial wallows. built OF either
cement or lumber.
good plan. followed by many poul-
trymen Is to mark the early moulters
for breeding stock.
For aphis on sweet peas, use insect
powder or tobacco dust. applying
with small bellows.
Five or six pounds Of corn are usu'
pork in dry-lot feeding.
II pigs are well fed they will usual
ly wean themselves at the proper
time, without any trouble.
The key to the bee business Is pee
forage and the best bee forage known
at present is sweet clover.
II man cannot feed hogs as well
as they should be fed, he ought to
sell them to a man that will.
Sheep are a persistent agency OF
Improvement to the soil OF the
farms on which they are kept
The levelness with which horse
walks is one of the best evidences
that his legs work In harmony.
| To thoroughly clean milk utensils
| they first should be rinsed with cold
water to remove all particles Of milk.
Gather up the dead branches and
| burn them, as they are apt to harbor
| bark beetles, one of the worst orchard
pests.
Move the colony houses and brood
coops on fresh ground every day
or two. and the chicks will grow
faster.
| A chicken takes naturally to having
feed handed 1t, but the turkey Is al
most selfsupporting until cold
weather
Turkeys always find a ready sale
and are almost clear profit. There Is
always demand. The market is
never glutted,
The little chicks do best on corn
bread made of sour milk, soda and
cracked corn. They should be fed on
something clean.
The eggs from the matured hen VIII
hatch better and produce stronger
chicks than the eggs OF pullets. They
are usually larger, too
Unlike other poultry, the turkey
never has been thoroughly domesti
Gated but has remained practically
wild bird In its requirements.
The meat OF yarded poultry is al
wavs more tender than that o
fowls having free range, due to thu
extreme muscular development o
the latter.
Never let young chickens perch un
al their breast bone can endure th'
strain. az crooked breast bone de
oreases a fowls market value. as vel
as breeding value.
A Weld OF IL tons OF silage ma!
easily be obtained from one acre o
corn Allowing 80 pounds OF silage al
daily ration, one acre OF corn vii
furnish four cows with silage for 2o'
days.
New England dairymen find 1t prof
table to feed grain to dairy cows evel
when they are on June pasture. Can
not we afford some corn fodder 10
our western cows now that pasture
> are drying up.
, Chickens should have good swee
3 feed 10 make good eggs, the same a
{ a cow should have sweet grains Z
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