The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-03-14

Never buy a sick hog.
Plow the garden deeply.
Teach the calf to eat grain.
Watch out for rotting apples and
potatoes.
Hogs can stand cold, dry weather
without injury.
DO not tie your cattle up by the
neck to feed them.
No eve should be bred until she
has reached maturity.
A poorly nourished, stunted 2-year-
old FLY should not be bred.
There are many reasons why farm.
ers should keep more sheep.
Each season a grass-lot should be
in some sections farmers are recon-
n!ending sowing alsike with timothy.
On every farm poultry should not
only have place, but prominent
place.
Replowing fall plowed land again in
the spring seems useless expense and
bother.
1t is common but erroneous opin-
ion that beets are especially hard on
the land.
Let the colt have shelter from
storm, but let him have access to pas.
ture also.
1t is as an egg producer that the
Indian Runner duck has gained the
most fame.
When rape is pastured down, 1t will
often spring up again after being
given a rest
An economical use Of roughage
about the farm is greatly in favor of
winter dairying.
Feeding all of the cows in the same
way is treating them unfairly and
cheating yourself.
The best time to dehorn an animal
Is when it is only few days old, by
using caustic potash
It is we'll worth while to exert ev-
cry energy possible to keep your pres
ent supply Of live stock.
In breaking the colt, remember that
1t is an easy matter to overload and
ruin him by causing him to balk.
One Of the secrets in raising any
kind of live stock Is to keep the
young animal growing from the start.
The time to change the calf from
whole milk to skimmilk will depend
largely upon the development of the
calf.
You may feed all the food your hens
can possibly use, but if you are short
OF grit, the results will not be salts
factory.
Bacteria do not thrive in the cold
but in heat only. If you keep your
milk below 40 degrees the bacteria
will have small chance
In case some cockerels need to be
eaten or sold on a fancy market, ii
pays to put them in a crate and fat
ten them for two weeks
Be sure to have some disinfectant
TO use on the young colts naval when
he arrives. A half minute at this
time may save the colt later.
August hatched pullets kept over
for breeding until the second spring
make splendid breeding birds if they
have been well fed and not stunted
IT other cures for caked udder or
similar infammatory troubles have
failed, try letting the calf run with
the COW for a while next freshening
time
For fattening chickens buttermilk has
a feeding value Of above so cents a
hundred pounds. This is consider
ably in advance of its value for feed
ing hogs.
Cows should never be fed more
roughage. especially when it is of good
quality, than they will consume with
relish and come to the next fodder.
ing with keen appetites.
The boar pigs should be separated
from the SOW pigs as soon as they are
weaned, and it Is usually an easy mat
ter to arrange your lots of hogs so
that the young boars will not be near
the sows.
Glover or alfalfa as a roughage for
swine will furnish bulk to the ration
as well as will corn-silage and, further
more, will furnish considerable pro-
TEN, consequently are better than the
cornsilage.