The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-05-23
Get a separator,

Pigs that show signs Of thumps
should be forced to take exercise.
little vaseine rubbed into cuts or
chapped teats will soon heal them up
Commercial fertilizer, when prop
erly used, will increase the yield OF
crops.
The silo is a time saver when 1t
comes to feeding large number Of
animals
The wheel hoe will save many a
backache and do the work Of three
hand hoes.
Fruit trees should never be planted
on the lawn, as they cannot be profit
ably worked.
If more farmers were tied down by
dairies, fewer of them would be tied
down by debts.
Three-pail feeds a day for the young
| calf are none too many. That is more
| like Natures way.
Wheat bran has just the elements
| In it that sheep and lambs need to
make good growth.
About % pounds of average milk
should furnish enough cream to make
pound of butter
Powdered charcoal in the feed Is
good for bowel trouble and plenty Of
grit has the same effect
The best method of dehorning is to
rub little caustic potash on the Calls
little knobs when a few days old.
After chicks are a week old whole
kaftir makes about as good single
grain as can be fed to make weight.
Wood ashes are valuable to spread
around fruit trees for small fruits and
vegetables; they should not be wasted.
1t Is generally conceded that the
best time to sell chickens Is from the
first of January to the first of Novem-
Der.
No profit in keeping old ewes that
have lost their teeth. Better fatten
them the best you can and get rid
of them quickly.
The garden can and should be made
the most productive and most profit
able plot Of ground on the farm. 1t
should not be overlooked.
The sheep manure as a fertilizer
has no equal and no manure spreader
has ever been invented that Is as sat.
isfactory as the sheep itself
The check rein has no place on the
harness of a man who cares for his
horses, and desires for them COM
fort and freedom when at work.
If your horse is a mule, remem-
Der to speak kindly to him whenever
you fasten the traces. The same rule
applies when he Is only "hoss."
Corn silage and alfalfa make an ex- !
cellcnt ration for dairy cows. and !
good yields of milk have been re-
ported where nothing else was fed.
The old neglected orchard. with its
dead leaves and wormy apples, is a
blot on the face of the earth. Trim,
spray. cultivate and get big returns.
Whatever else may be said about
ways of getting winter eggs. few
warm days at this time OF year seem |
to solve the problem satisfactorily.
Nothing Is so salable in the stock
line just now as a good dairy COW The
raising of purebred milk cows as an
industry should receive more atten-
ton.
The hand separator Is good in the.
DRY, but the majority of farmers do
not keep their cream as they should,
nor deliver it to the creamery often
enough
The reason why so many OF our
beautiful plants and vines are de-
stroyed by bugs is because We are too
the time
II will pay to buy wheat bran to mix
with the barley or corn meal for
feeding cows. Bran and good barley
meal, half and half, makes good meal
for milk
Complete fertilizer is one which con-
tains the three essential fertilizer con-
stituents. |. e., nitrogen, phosphoric
acid and notasb.
One reason why It is well to let the
new calf run with the mother a day
OF two IL because II Is better able to
take the swelling from the udder than
the hand mixer Is
Burn the diseased branches so that |
the other trees will not be contaml-
ated. II will also be advisable to open |
the heads OF peach trees, remove the |
surplus branches and take off the |
water sprouts
DO not fear that the poultry bust