The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1913-04-10

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Keep the calf growing.
Keep poultry houses clean.
Clean out the feed ,roughs daily.
Sweet clover does we'll on any
soil.
vetch and rye will grow we'll to-
gether.
Foamy butter is sign that the
cream 10 too sour.
Sharpen and repair the garden tools
for next seasons use.
Young peach trees are never as
sturdy as apple trees
The little things on the farm often
represent the best profit.
II takes Just a little bad cream to
spoil the whole batch for butter.
Watch your machinery for loose
bolts and nuts, aud don't forget the
oil can.
Wherever dairy products are work
ed up on the farm the dairy thermom-
eter Is essential
Summer or winter a good dairy
thermometer pays its way wherever
dairy cows are kept
In setting the orchard stick to the
proven varieties. Let some one else
do the experimenting.
To double the amount OF milk per
acre and cut the cost OF milk produc-
ton In two-build a silo.
Build the roosts all one height 1t
savee competition among the hens to
see which can roost the highest.
Two OF the best acreage-saving
money making propositions up TO the
farmers today are silage and alfalfa.
The manager OF one OF the largest
duck farms claims that an expert can
scald and dress a duckling in ten min.
utes
An open shed makes the best place
for the turkeys to roost, but it should
not be so open az to furnish no pro-
lection.
Decay soon spreads in fruit or vege-
tables in the cellar. To be on the safe
side they should be culled over fire.
quently.
The incubator lamp should be filled
and cleaned avery day at noon. This
will give ample time to regulate the
flame by night.
Ventilation is essential to both man
and beast Oftentimes the cattle are
better provided for along this line
than the children.
Pasturing grass too soon or too
hard is an expensive way OF saving
feed; 1t costs several times the
amount OF feed saved.
Butter for market wrapped in pa
per will always get the edge in price,
and the expense is trifling. A quarter
buys big batch OF butter paper.
In your order for nursery stock.
don't fail 10 include few Concord
grape vines. Quality and hardness
considered. you can't beat the Con
cord out here.
by raising standard bred poultry,
one will be able to sell stock and eggs
for breeding purposes and get much
better prices than when selling eggs
and fowls for food only.
BY keeping little tab on the hens
that are laying best. now then set
ting the eggs from these hens In early
bring. one Is pretty sure to develop a
flock OF first-class wiuter layers.
Keeping the cold out OF the stables
by excluding all fresh air is endanger-
ing the health Of stock. Fresh air.
without cold drafts. is what Is desired,
though It Ia some trouble to secure
such conditions
II the cream does not come after
long churning, give 1t thorough
warming. heating II up to more than
the right churning temperature. Then
set 1t away to cool. and when 1t reach
es the right point. try It again.
A little careful feeding about ten
| days before freshening time Is all
| that is necessary to prevent milk fever
| and other udder troubles.
! II the buttcrmaker uses more than
! the right proportion OF salt, thinking
thereby to increase the weight cheap
~. he ~ lowering the quality OF hia
! product aud increasing the weight but
| little. Not more than one ounce to the
pound should BE- used.
Fresh air Is important In successful
| poultry culture To house fowls in a