Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-06-06

Don't keep irritating digs.
Use care in the cows ration.
Sheep help rid farms or weeds.
Brooder lamps should be cleaned
every day.
Chicks should not be fed until they
are Sc hours old.
Every home should have an abund-
ance of strawberries.
Powder the chicks occasionally dur
ing the first eight weeks.
Experience is of more value than
capital in poultry raising.
The specialist succeeds in any line
of business. while others are failing.
Flowing is at best the hardest
work our farm horses have to per-
| form
An orchard, if you have one. is the
very best place In which you can raise
chicks.
Cornstalks are valuable as a fer
after cutting.
A field of corn after it is few
feet high makes an ideal place to
raise chicks in
A few strips of tile will often turn
a mud hole into the most productive
spot on the farm.
An egg may be fertile and hatch
and still the chick will not live be-
cause of lack of vitality.
In cold weather place from ten to-
thirteen eggs under the hen; in warm
weather from thirteen to fifteen.
The coop for hen and chicks should
be we'll ventilated easy to Clean and
Of sufficient proportions to insure com
tort
Eggs from hens that have made
fair showing in laying this winter will
De more fertile than those that did
| oeavy laying.
It may not pay to keep any very
great surplus of corn in the cribs. yet
It is sometimes mighty comforting to
know that it is there.
Scarcity of stock cattle of all kinds
and high prices asked and offered is
common local condition reported
from the corn belt states.
When moss creeps into the mead
ows and pastures they need to be
broken up and the soil exposed to
the sun and air before reseeding.
Raspberries produce good crops in
the same soil for year. while straw
berries produce their best crops the
first year they come into full bearing.
As rule, the cause of flock being
improbable lies largely with the
| keeper and the care they receive
rather than a superiority of one breed
over another.
BY raising standardized 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.
| Busy hens are not only the best
egg producers, but their eggs show
! the best fertility. In order to keep
them engaged at work strew the floor
| of the pen with hay or straw and
scatter the grain in this.
| One of the safe things to tie 20
on the farm is a good brood SOW
pure-bred. In few years she and
her offspring. il properly cared for,
will put many dollars into the peck
cts of the farmers of the country.
! Hens prefer the morning sun to the
afternoon sun when they cannot have
! both Therefore, arrange to open
window in the east end of the hen
| house when bad weather does not per
! nit of the entire south side being
/ thrown open.
! The last omitted States census shows
/ that there are S07,706 women farmers
, In this country. The numbers has
gained since the census was taken and
promises to increase. Many women
have homesteaded claims in all of the
| western states and have made sue
/ cesses of farming.
| If your supply Of manure is limited
| and Ii is fine in texture better make
application after blowing rather than
! before j. may pay to use part of the
| manure in the hills, especially for
such plants as elephants, tomatoes.
| cucumbers, melons, muskmelons and
= lima heauS Manure used in hilie