The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1913-08-07

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Gull out the old hens.
Store pumpkins in the field.
Rotation OF crops is advantageous.
Not all COW keepers are dairy farm
| erS.
Study the individual cows and do
| not feed all alike
Fine cabbages follow beans, but do
not grow well after potatoes.
Lice, filth and draughty and over
| crowded houses cause a majority oil
poultry ills.
Keeping stock helps materially to
market the bulky products OF the farm
adyantageously
When short OF room, train squash
vines on trellises or wire fence; they
are good climbers.
Many failures from spraying result
from working when the temperature
is below 40 degrees
a daily rubbing with a stiff brush
makes the COWS take kindly to you.
Helps them shed, too
You can tell laying hen as far as
you can see her. Her comb is always
bright and healthy looking.
\ good COW is better than two poor
ones-yes, better than three that can't
more than pay for their feed
1t is always a good plan to give
feed of laxative nature on the first
sign of udder trouble in cows
Three pounds of cornmeal to the
gallon OF sliimmilk is about the right
proportion 10 push pigs along.
Clean up one part of the stable.
The chances are that you won't be
content to leave the rest dirty.
1t is poor economy 10 put off feeding
supplemental feeds until everything
green in the pasture is consumed.
Carrots will grow we'll in soil en-
riched with the cleanings from the
henery without any other manure.
When not diluted with water butter
milk has practically the same food
value for pigs and chickens as skim
milk.
Many good farm has been paid for
by the cows. Many more might be
if farmers lived mp to their priyi,
leges.
The more motor and railroad en-
gines there are the more work there
is for the horse to do 10 keep them
going
The state of New York boasts of
more than 100000 cows. Wisconsin is
a close second while Iowa is third, with
100000
1t often pays to grade strawberries
very carefully. A customer pleased
and satisfied means a steady market
for the produce
Kindness, cleanliness. good feeding
and blood-that spells successful dairy
farming. One without the others
availeth not much.
In selecting COWS, all signs may fail,
but the I'abcock test is absolutely re.
liable. 1t will tell you whether the
cows are good or not.
'ruit trees, as general rule, do not
appreciate light, sandy soils. Make
sure that the site for the new or.
chard can be easily drained.
Collect the eggs regularly at least
cree, better twice, Il day in moderate
weather and more frequently in very
warm and very cold weather
II is time we developed a class Of
young farmers capable of handling
some OF the problems that are driving
older farmers from the best farms in
the country
Move the chicken coops, at least,
every other day, for the filthy drop
pings that accumulate will poison the
blood Of the young chicks, causing a
host OF diseases.
The walls and fittings OF cow sheds
and stables should receive a coat of
| fresh limewash at least once a year.
and the floors soaked with a solution
or sulphate of copper, FIVE pounds to
ten gallons Of water
BE careful how you introduce new
! plants into YOUR garden. even though
they come under the guise Of friend
ship. The loved morning glory be
comes one Of the worst weeds in the
| sandy soil OF the west If a ulan,