The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-11-07

"A Done CuLter ID o6S0ntldt.
Protect young fruit trees.
Sell all the superfuous cockerels.
Good fences help make good neigh
bors.
Englishmen eat, on an average. s5
| eggs year.
Study individual tastes In the cows,
and feed accordingly
| Australia raises nearly 10000. 900
acres of wheat a year.
To most farmers the old COW looks
better than she used 10.
Better three good cows any time
than half dozen scrubs.
High feeding, unless the horse IL
used every day Is positive injury.
Keep the sire in service just as
| long as Improvement follows his use.
A little green corn in the stalk 90
casionally will be relished by the
hogs
Regularity In milking hours means
more milk in the pail with the same
| feed.
The fall-plowed land should not be
worked but should be left rough over
winter.
The onion crop in Texas was so
large this year that 1t barely paid ex-
penses.
Better than saving the largest pota-
toes is to save the seed from the most
productive hills.
indicates that it has not received suf-
ficient nitrogen.
! II your garden is too wet at times
remember that fall is good time to
put in the drains.
II alfalfa or clover will not thrive In
your climate or soil it is pretty GER
tain cowpeas will
Hairy or winter vetch may be sown
in the fall, and will be a very useful
early spring forage
Give the wethers extra grain and
send them to market before the pas
ture is dried and short.
| II the pigs are thrifty and doing
well that Is good evidence that they
are being pretty we'll fed.
II you are tired Of making milk on
high priced mill feed why not try al
falfa. clover or cowpeas next year?
Save the wood ashes during the
coming winter and you will have the
best kind of fertilizer for the orchard
Many a new and valuable imple-
ment is left out all winter more
through carelessness than anything
else.
Close housing and bad ventilation in
the COW stable are favorable con-
ditions for starting tuberculosis in
herd.
Good breeding and good feeding are
80 closely related that they must GO
| together, one Is useless without the
other.
II sheep are in good thrifty con-
dition at the start two months of
good feeding will properly fatten for
market.
Why not lay by the returns from
the next few dozen eggs and buy a
bone cutter? 1t will pay for itself in
one winters time.
A horse may be sound In every par
ticular but If he has not level head
he is never a pleasant horse and
rarely a valuable one.
A spool OF copper wire will come in
handy for repairing all sorts OF small
breaks. Even common baling wire
finds hundreds Of uses.
With beef prices soaring, the temp
tation to sell dairy heifer calves for
} veal IL strong, but the foresighted
dairyman does not think of giving In
to It.
= Apples have been found to keeI
better IL we'll colored and ripened
} though not overripe. Picking should
not be delayed till this fruit com
mences to fall.
r Ensilage cannot be destroyed b,
4 fire and is the best feed produced OF
a the farm for the COW In milk. TIL,
dairyman who does not build sill,
is wasting part OF his profits.
a Fodder that is somewhat greer
+ when cut should BE left very light
a tied in the shock for day or two Il
a order that 1t may cure out before BE-
ing tied and bound tightly together.