The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-09-19

Flies and hot weather cut down
dairy profits.
Alfalfa pasture and hogs is great
combination.
Rape Is one OF the best crops for
temporary hog pasture.
1t is as easy to teach a colt good
manners as faulty ones.
The quack grass problem is largely
matter of poor drainage.
The separator should never DO al
lowed In the barn or near 1t.
Never raise colts from a vicious
mare. Like often produces like.
The horses should be given at leas.
one feed of mixed hay once a day.
MANY stations are used too much
10 produce a large per cent. OF colts.
Trees should not be planted on a
high slope, for the soil is likely to be
too thin
Neves attempt to keep summer
butter for early fall prices because 1t
will not keep.
The Iorses cannot rest while fight
ing flies Better shade or screen the
barn windows.
II is a mistake to keep young tur-
key hens every year. particularly
those hatched late
DO away with binders on the horse.
Their use is a cruel practice and
cause many eye defects.
See that your brood sows get plenty
Of exercise, so that they may produce
large, healthy filters.
The hens simply cannot. and will
not Oil the egg basket and feed lice
anS mites on their bodies.
The man who is trying to keep hogs
| Without pasture and forage crops is
! fifty years behind the times.
Don't expect an old horse that has
worked all his lifetime to do as much
as he did when he was young.
A man should be kept in the silo,
spreading and packing the corn as
fast as 1t comes from the cutter.
In training mules for use on the
farm Il is best to begin by using them
foi light work during the third year.
Corn silage is just as valuable for
/ carrying over stockers and feeders as
| It 10 for fattening and finishing the
| boeYes.
Sell your wool on rising market.
! Nine times out of ten you will miss it
If you try to keep 1t for something
better
Demand for good, productive farm
property Ia steadily increasing Some
very high prices are paid for well.
improved farms.
! Sheep vii; live and thrive on much
feed that IL of little value for other
stock, but that does not imply that
they can do without.
Frequently put little cayenne pep.
per in the dry mash. 1t will serve to
keep them in condition. A little salt
should also be given.
The sooner manure is spread in the
field the smaller the loss OF fertility
incurred and the smaller the amount
OF labor required to handle It.
The common disk harrow is more
generally used than any other nipple.
ment to cultivate alfalfa, and when
properly adjusted does good work.
Cowpeas have value In crop TO
tation because they serve the double
purpose OF producing crop OF feed
and fertilizing the soil at the same
time.
The great majority OF diseases arc
= due to bad management and housing
including cold, damp and .ll.yenti
lated houses: rich feeding, impure
2 water and lack OF exercise.
: IL requires three months or moro I,
grow broiler, much depending upor
the weight desired the stock and IN,
care, Broilers shrink about half ,
y pound each when dressed.
The beginner who has nice flocl
: OF pullets to winter over will find 4
more profitable to avoid forcing fo,
high-priced winter eggs II such bind,
3 are 10 be used as breeders nex
J. spring,
IL does not pay to doctor a fow
] that is hopelessly iii or suffering from
r contagious disease The latter ar
never permanently cured, and will
transmit their weakness to their on
spring.
s Don't slam the three-days.old cal
y around because he doesn't drln
n readily TO get kick In the ribs 10
something he can't understand IL
biz tough " him.