Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-05-31

hliI Out the peacn OOrorS
Don't overfeed the little chicks.
Alfalfa makes an excellent rough
age.
The rent in the clothes will not pay
the rent on the farm.
The Babcock test is just as accu-
rate as the man who uses it.
Don't keep eggs for Matching longer
than ten days or two weeks at most.
Milk at 90 degrees is about the tenn
perature at which it separates best.
| Tf rabbits have gnawed only the
outer bark, wrap the wound with
cloth
Barley and oats, as well as wheat,
are usually improved in quality on
| flax land.
Working the soil when 1t is wet
will make it coarse and lumpy the
whole season.
AS soon as your lettuce is large
enough, feed it to those chickens you
are fattening.
| There is no better way by which
| the corn crop can be used than
through the silo.
You can not make as good silage
| from dry cornstalks as you can from
mature green corn.
| Plant row of the large, tame sun
flowers along the fence for hen feed at
| moulting time next fall.
The strawberry is one OF the small
| fruits which apparently thrive better
| in acid than in alkaline soils.
| The fleece of the ram should be
dense. even in quality, and of strong,
clear, white fiber throughout.
A pure-bred bull Is often a poor
bred bull Pedigree and performance
are not interchangeable words.
It is to the poultryman's interest to
| keen his stock to the best type
healthy and vigorous all the time.
A half days work in the orchard
with the manure spreader will show
up when apples are ripe next sum
mer.
| No profit in keeping old ewes that
have lost their teeth. Better fatten
them the best you can and get rid
of them quickly.
You should know the working quail
ties Of your sows;. watch them from
the time they farrow and see how they
treat the little fellows.
The average cow ought to have four
to six weeks rest each year. A good
time to dry them off is just as they be
gin to make an udder.
Coal oil will soften the old paint
brushes used last year. Place them
| in a can of the oil and wash them
well in warm soapsuds.
Feather pulling may be checked by
dissolving powdered aloes in water
and washing the feathers of the birds
that have been plucked.
To keep up heavy milk flow a COW
must have all the water she can dr1nt
for every 100 pounds of her milk con
tains 81 pounds of water.
Every garden for the home should
have grapes and many market gar
dens could be made more profitable
by growing this splendid fruit.
Many people have the idea that
brown shelled eggs are the richer but
the difference between white ane
brown eggs is only in the color.
The best milking pail is the one sc
constructed that it will reduce to
minimum the amount of dirt falling
into the milk during the process Of
milking.
One of the most general methods
adopted for cooling milk is to place
the cans in vat containing water
which reaches a point slightly above
surface of milk.
Cleanliness in handling, in strainine
and in separating the milk is thing
that cannot be too religiously adhered
to- for prevention is the key word to
quality in all dairy work.
The COW is fertilizer factory, a
butter factory and a skim milk fac
tory; yet many farmers feed her as