The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-05-16

Let the young calves have plenty OF
sunlight.
We cannot longer raise paying ap-
pie crops unless we spray.
SEED grain of all kinds is scarce
and high priced again this spring.
Tho cleanly dairyman keep the dirt
out OF the milk rather than strains ii
out.
stroy lice, scale, insects and mealy
bugs.
Clover and grass seed always dc
best when they can be started to early
growth.
Profitable beef production in the flu
ture means that better gains must
be made.
In a gallon Of 80 per cent. cream
there are two and one-half pounds OF
butter fat
When butter refuses to gather" the
cream may be too sour or the temper
Azure too low.
Lack of thorough cleansing of the
separator is one cause of flavor in
butter being off.
1t is a good plan to give a COW a
bucket of scalded bran as the first
iced after calving.
The man who said 1t is all bosh to
curry cows was either lazy or crazy
Get out your curry comb
The shoe should fit TIE foot. Don't
let the blacksmith cut bars or frogs
to make the horses foot fit the shoe.
Field mice been at the young trees?
IF the bark is knawed to the wood the
trees may be saved By bridge graft.
Ing.
Satisfactory results were obtained
last year at the Kansas Agricultural
college from the use of Kafiir as 81
lage.
Potash, as constituent of fertiliz
ers, exists in a number of forms, but
chiefly as chloride or muriate and as
sulphate.
After starting to shed their hair in
spring cows are very sensitive to sud
den cold snaps. That is when stabling
pays at night.
Glover and grass seed may be
grown and good stand secured, on
Dat ground during the last of April
and the first of May.
Narrow doors in the sheep barns
are a mighty poor thing. Broken
down hips and early dropped lambs
are some of the results.
A colt wants to be kept eating and
growing and exercising, and anything
but fattening, as long as he has a
time assigned him by nature to grow
Any kind of fruit tree will die
when planted in ground that is all
the time saturated with water The
tile ditch is q necessity in some
places.
Early peas may be followed by eel
cry or cabbage or potatoes, followed
by late beans or corn, thereby get
ting several crops from the same
ground each year.
A horse must have feet and legs be-
side weight to be any good at heavy
work. Flat bone in the cannons and
large, round feet should be looked for
In picking borses.
Just now /. the time to get the start
of the lice and good first move is to
thoroughly clean out the hen house
then squirt some kerosene around
pretty lively over the walls, roosts
and nest boxes.
Young mares will sometimes refuse
to allow their foals to nurse at first
The mare may be tied in the stall and
the colt helped to milk AS soon as 1t
has sucked each teat the mother will
usually allow 1t to continue.
It Is a great mistake to breed a
stallion Sometimes the animals have
the legs of a draft horse and the body
OF roadster. We have seen these
freaks with heads OF draft horse
and bodies of light roadster.
In selecting a walking pillow turn
It upside down and examine the frog
the first thing you do. The frog Is
the foundation of the entire pillow, the
moldboard, share ard Landslide all
being bolted to the frog. Some frogs
are cast iron and others are forged
It should be we'll made, OF ample size
and made to fit.
There are no more profitable ami.
mails on the farm than pigs and
sheep. and years of experience and
close observation have convinced
many that pigs will do more toward
raising a mortgage or lifting man
from dependence to independence
than many an acre sown with wheat
mr. oaIc mr. corn