The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-02-22

anu sharp.
1t is not good for cows to lie on the
bare. cold ground.
The fresher the eggs the better they
will be for Matching.
The silo lends itself admirably to
efforts at intensive farming.
Keep the young calves growing
Give them little grain every day.
Extra banking around the base out.
side will make the hen house warmer
Whitewash is a good thing to spread
around the COW barn-horse barn, too
Plenty of hay. oats and fresh air
relieves the horse of that skinny feel
Ing.
Reject all damaged feed 1t will
pay you in good milk and excellent
butter
Ground limestone will prove to be
beneficial to an alfalfa field if the soil
Is sour.
The gospel Of clean milk Is not a
strainer gospel. but gospel OF pre-
vention.
Currants and gooseberries need
very little If any, protection through
the winter.
1t is important, before trying to
prune, to know where and how the
fruit is borne.
The White Leghorn Is the breed
kept on 80 per cent of the egg farms
Of the country.
1t is not good plan to dehorn a
COW while in milk flow. Better wait
until she is dry.
The warmer the milk the quicker
the bacteria multiply, and the quicker
the milk will sour.
Cows should have all the roughage
they will clean up well in addition to
their silage allowance.
Fall pigs often do not eat enough In
the winter-time unless special pains
are taken to make the feed palata BILE
A broad patch of sunlight on the in
side Of the house costs little but pays
big. Not too late yet to put in some
glass.
1t is impossible to milk a COW that
has a cake of manure on her thigh
without getting some of the filth into
the milk pail.
The quality of butter produced by
dairyman depends very largely upon
the treatment of the cream previous
to churning.
Filthy conditions in the COW stable
and in the milk house are perhaps the
most common sources Of bad flavors
In milk or cream.
Corn silage may be fed out of
doors, in hunks, in the stall, or, in
fact, any place where animals can eat
It without waste.
Grain In the litter in the morning,
mashes at noon. and another heavy
grain feed at night make a good feed
program on a cold day.
pure-bred animal is the finest pos
sible machine for making beef or
pork or milk, but like other machines,
It needs both fuel and care.
Remember, the cream has to be at
least 2 degrees warmer on cold days
II the butter is to come promptly. Get
It at about 81 and you will have 1t
right.
1t is a good plan to get all sorghum
hay and fodder fed up soon, especially
If they are out of doors. Freezing and
thawing when wet Injuries this kind of
feed badly.
Turkeys more than any other poul.
try seem TO require fresh air. They
will roost In trees during snow
storm and not seem to mind 1t a bit.
To be up In the front ranks In egg
production, hens must have in their
animal food, green food, grit and fresh
water
The percentage of fat which a cows
milk win yield depends upon her In
dividual'tv and the breed, but II de-
ponds more on the former than the
latter.
The greatest progress is made In
dairying when the keenest interest Is
taken by the dairy farmer. The COW
testing associations are one of the
factors that help.
Noon is a good time TO supply the
stock with some green stuff, such as
cabbage or roots of any kind. The
latter can be cut in half. and then hens
will pick them 10 pieces.