The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-07-11
Cherries require very little pruning.

! Inc COW ana the SOW mahe 6oou
farm team.
| Drive a colt the first time with a
fast walking horse.
| The hens will relish feed of scald.
ed oats at any time.
Pull radishes Just as soon as they
are big enough to bite.
Study to be quiet" is fine thing
In handling a team anywhere
Chan from the hay NOW floor
makes the best litter for chicks.
Too sudden a change of diet for the
young calf Is bound to start trouble.
way to town bespeak careful dairy
man.
There Ia every indication that grass
fat beef will bring a good price this
summer.
When the calf is two weeks old
some skim-milk may be added to the
usual feeding.
A horse that Is watered two or
| three times a day is apt to drink too
much at one time.
Fine corn meal for the skim-milk
calf is a good substitute for the more
expensive oilmeal
Clean the mud from the horses
limbs during seeding operations. and
prevent scratches and fever.
After turkey chicks are six weeks
old they must be allowed to range
else they will be sadly stunted In
growth.
It is mistake 10 try to fatten the
brood sow She should not be kept
with the hogs that are being prepared
for market
While 1t requires one sort OF edit
cation to make a good riding or driv-
ing horse, 1t requires another to make
cart horse
Hens that roost In damp, close
house are apt to give out in the leg
Joints with trouble somewhat akin
to rheumatism.
II Is easy to notice the effect of
grass on the milk, but, with the COWS
that have silage, the change will be
less perceptible.
Fruit trees planted in the hog pas.
ture will supply shade and abundance
of food In the fall when the trees
come into bearing.
Better dairying should be the aim
Of every dairy farmer. 1t is only as
he strives for better things that he
can approach his ideal.
The man who makes success at
dairying or any other line of work
starts with the right aim and never
changes or loses sight of 1t.
Tests at experiment stations have
shown that 90 per cent of the cream
is saved by the use OF separator as
compared with hand Swimming.
There is no problem that 10 Of
greater importance today than con-
servation of soil fertility. The dairy
COW, the hog and the hen help solve it. |
Good care consists In doing every
thing from milking and caring for the |
COWS to marketing the butter or cream
as If your whole life success depended |
upon it.
Mix plaster OF Paris and turpentine,
mould In the shape of eggs, and put |
one In each nest to kill lice and |
mites. DO not use with eggs that are
Matching
There are % silos within short |
distance Of this farm Many farmers
have been closely pressed in order to
find feed for their stock but none of
the slo owners were.
A city chicken man has found a
good way to break broody hen He |
puts an alarm clock In the nest and |
when the clock goes Off that hen goes
off too--and never comes back.
The cost of hauling over cur coun-
try roads is now about 23 cents per
ton per mile In European countries
the cost is below 10 cents. Our bad
roads are an expensive proposition.
Shallow cultivation Of corn is most
in favor with the experiment stations
but much seems to depend upon ell
matte conditions. In dry climates you
can safely cultivate deeper-three to
four inches.
How often and what sort of swill
should be fed to sows and pigs? Is
dishwater worthy Of a place In the
barrel? What procedure Is necessary
Ia caring for the swill barrel to make
1t healthful and odorless?"
The fact that most of the CONNER
cial orchardists now run to low-head-
ed trees is pretty good evidence that
they are the best, because men who
grow fruit for money seldom take any