The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-10-03
Caponizing is profitable.

Caponizing Is profitable.
Range for the chicks is best.
Sheep must have some shelter.
Keep the horse manger clean.
Separate the pullets and cocker
els.
Good feed. good care, good breed.
good stock.
Some cows are better bred than
their owners
Do not put the colts in a pasture
fenced by barbed wire.
Do you have lot of young roost.
ers? Sell them FOR frys.
It's mighty easy matter to over
crowd the chick coops now.
1t may be wise to protect the colts
rom the flies during the day.
Hill culture produces earlier straw
berries than matted row culture.
Unless a man has great love for
n horse he should not handle colts.
A sheep or calf staked in the
'front.' yard is splendid lawn mower.
Warm skim milk for feeding pur
poses soon pays the cost of farm
separator.
Most of the fly dopes are fairly good
but for results they have to be ap'
piled every day.
Sheep have just as important a
place upon the average farm a. any
other live stock.
Drink is all right for the hogs. but
they need some grain and vegetables
to go with their milk.
There Is plenty of farm talk In the
air, but it Is farm work that counts
In the bank balance.
A good plan is to make the lots
long and narrow and SOW them 10 ras
ture, blowing up alternately.
Remember, chick coops are very
apt to become foul and unhealthy
while the weather is so sultry.
1t will only take about half as much
grain and other feed to raise a litter
OF pigs If they be given pasture.
There are about dozen different
breeds Of dairy cattle and the best OF
them all Is the kind that suits you
best.
Roughness cannot be made to en-
tirely take the place of grain, but a
heavy crop of roughness is not to be
despised
The best Favored butter Is obtained
by ripening or souring cream until
from 5 to 6 per cent. of acid has been
developed.
Ground limestone IL preferable to
mer cost considerably more than one
ton Of the latter.
There are very few farms on which
additional labor expended In prepar
ing the seed bed would not YIELD
handsome returns.
A wide range and frequent ex
change OF pasture will reduce the
ravages Of the stomach worm. thai
fearful enemy of the sheep.
An enterprising farmer living neai
a town OF 5000 or more can sell every
pound Of his butter at full retail prices
or little above the year round.
The man who Is trying to raise hog.
without pasture and forage crops IL
like a puppy chasing his tall. He gets
plenty of exercise, but nothing else.
Sore shoulders on horse are moth
ing less than shameful. and no mar
should consider himself wor ny who
permits them to appear upon his worh
animals.
II horses are inclined to nab al
each other between the stalls. put ur
some tight wire as partition. They
can see through this all right and
still not reach each other.
An old meadow Ia the worst place
for strawberries--too many whit,
grubs. II may take three years oil
thorough culture to get rid of the
grubs. A drove OF active piga will dc
1t In one season.
1t IL rarely profitable or advisable
TO treat fowl which gives evidenc,
Of being seriously Ill. Better use tn,
axe unless the bird IL most valuable
Generally speaking. drugs affect fowl,
the same as they do us. and may b,
given accordingly.
Poultry feathers OF all kinds have
a value. White chicken feathers have
a higher value than other kinds anc
the same is true of ducks and geese
Few poultry raisers figure In the In