The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1913-01-02
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The warm and busy hen is the best
winter layer.
Use few words with horse, BUT
have them understood.
1t is as easy to teach a colt good
manners as faulty ones
Desirable eggs are said to weigh
about "a ounces to the dozen.
II hens develop the feather-pulling
habit send them to market at once.
Dairying is q cash business. The
good COW pays for her board every
day.
Alfalfa will grow on nearly all good,
well-drained soils, but best on rich,
sandy loan.
The first big need of the majority Of
the older corn belt soils is limestone
and legumes.
| 1t is better and more profitable to
have a herd Of five good cows than
ten that are inferior
The green food problem in winter
isn't much of problem if there is any
| alfalfa hay on the place.
Muddy and unclean stable yards are
always sources of loss because OF
their insantary condition.
There are but few horses that can
not be made gentle and quiet by the
proper kind of treatment.
The kind OF feed which the COWS
eat often has an effect upon the fla
vor of milk and its products.
The farmer who makes an effort to
| fill the corn crib and smokehouse
each year generally succeeds.
Swedish turnips grow well in the
amount o. feed for the winter
The best stock pea for grazing in
| the field is the black. Everlasting,
Red and Red Ripper are also good.
The farmer who is not raising le-
gumes has his eyes closed to some Of
the biggest opportunities in farming.
The sand vetch is smaller and more
| recumbent than the common vetch.
and has been tested but little in this
| country.
Hens. when they cease laying, fat
ten very easily and a fat hen is
! thrifty candidate for all kinds of poul-
! try diseases.
Penning chickens is the best way
to get fine flock. for it means that
you are getting eggs from the best
hens you have.
A hog fed on corn alone from the
4
time it is weaned from the sow I'M
pays for his keep.
The COWS like the siiage in the win.
ter just as we'll as they do the grass
in the summer and 1t is good at any
season of the year.
Stout livable chiefs are obtained
only from sturdy parents. and pullets
that have been forced for winter eggs
are hardly il that class.
Don't blame anyone but yourself
if your farm won't grow legumes.
They will grow for the man who
knows how to make them.
1t is poor economy TO feed spoiled
food to the poultry. They may con-
tract disease or become poisoned.
Burn all decomposed food stuff at
once.
The day has forever passed when
the progressive dairyman allows his
cows to be brought, running or ex-
cited. into the barn, by a dog or boy
with whip
Sheep in the summer are gross
feeders, rapidly cleaning the land of
brush and weeds, but in the barn and
In the feed lot they are extremely
dainty in their eating.
The best family horses. as a rule.
are raised and trained on the farm.
Their dispositions are then thor
oughly understood and it is known
how far they can be trusted.
II pays to whitewash. ventlate and
properly light the stables; to brush
and curry COWS; to use clean and
well-covered utensils, to cool milk
quickly and to lave a cool place for
the milk.
The fruit farmer can always find
something to do, either in the orchard
or around the buildings. This bust
| ness like any other Is ruined by too
much loating, Keep the loose ends
well in hand for the best results
It often is your fault that hens
get to eating eggs; but after they do
contract the habit, lay the AK at the
root of the tree-in other words. stop
the business, short off Then change
your bill of fare. Something lacking
in the feed you have been giving
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