The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-05-30
Give the chickens grit.
Kill out the peach borers.
Don't overfeed the little chicks.

The true dairy COW is easily affected
by unfavorable conditions.
Do not make too violent crosses. Sc
lect your breed and stick to 1t.
The Babcock test is just as accu-
rate as the man who uses 1t.
The lime sulphur mixture is a good
remedy for the oyster shell scale.
Don't keep eggs for Matching longer
than ten days or two weeks at most.
Milk at 80 degrees Is about the tenn
perature at which 1t separates best
Oats should form the basis of all
grain mixtures for fattening poultry.
Got the silo fever yet? It's spread
ing over the country IN great shape.
If rabbits have gnawed only the
outer bark, wrap the wound with
cloth.
Barley and oats, as well as wheat,
are usually improved in quality on
flax land.
Working the soil when 1t Is wet
will make 1t coarse and lumpy the
whole season.
AS soon as your lettuce Is large
enough, feed it to those chickens you
are fattening.
There is no better way by which
the corn. crop can be used than
through the silo.
You can not make as good silage
from dry cornstalks as you can from
mature green corn.
The real value of an egg for food
lies inside the shell, and is not indi-
Gated by color of shell.
Plant a row Of the large, tame sun
flowers along the fence for hen feed at
moulting time next fall.
The strawberry is one of the small
fruits which apparently thrive better
In acid than in alkaline soils.
The fleece of the ram should be
dense, even in quality, and of strong,
clear, white fiber throughout.
A pure-bred bull is often a poor
bred bull. Pedigree and performance
are not interchangeable words.
keep his stock to the best type,
healthy and vigorous all the time.
You will appreciate the difference
between low-headed and high-headed
trees when you are picking the crop.
A half days work in the orchard
with the manure spreader will show
up when apples are ripe next sum
mer
You should know the working quail
ties of your sows; watch them from
the time they farrow and see how they
treat the little fellows.
The average COW ought to have four
to six weeks rest each year. A good
time to dry them off is just as they be-
gin to make an udder.
Coal oil will soften the old paint
brushes used last year. Place them
in a can of the oil and wash them
well in warm soapsuds.
Feather pulling may be checked by
dssolving powdered aloes in water
and washing the feathers Of the birds
that have been plucked.
To keep up heavy milk flow COW
must have all the water she can drink
for every 100 pounds Of her milk con-
tains 81 pounds Of water.
Every garden for the home should
have grapes and many market gar
dens could be made more profitable
by growing this splendid fruit.
Many people have the idea that
brown shelled eggs are the richer but
the difference between white and
brown eggs is only A the color
AS the ducklings hatch they should
be put in a warm place, preferably
near the kitchen stove, and kept warm
Jus. as little chicks are managed.
The best milking pail Is the one so
constructed that 1t will reduce TO a
minimum the amount OF dirt falling
into the milk during the process of
milking.
Feed your hens regularly, and when
you have found a set OF rations, prop.