The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1913-09-11
Mixed rations are best.
II pays to save the manure.
Keep the eggs in a cool place.
Save the meat scraps for your fowls
Fowls cannot be healthy without ex.
,rcise
Mixed rations are best.

A bit of planning VIII always save
time and muscle.
Proper food and q variety OF il
makes strong. healthy chickens.
AS growing proposition there Is
nothing better than spring pig.
HORSES must be unheaded. have
| spirit and finish and be fast walkers.
srili the effect is quickly seen in the
pigs,
Undue excitement during hot wealth
er often proves fatal to oyerrat
fowls
Cl,,an earth is one or the best alb
sorbants that can be used In the poul.
try house.
The daily farm is highly develop
ed business establishment AMI should
be so operated,
Whitewashinr the nests, inside and
out, IS a good means Of keeping them
free frCm yermin.
1t takes stockman's eye to detect
the first symptoms of falling condi'
tons of his stock
Little chicks need feeding coop
where they can eat in peace away
from the older fowls.
Those who have silos full of sisage
find winter feeding easy and satisfac,
tory to the live stock
A poultryman too careless to keep
the henhouse free from vermip does
not deserve to succeed.
A good feeding creep for chicks may
be made by lacking some coarse mesh
poultry wire over a frame.
A quarter spent for batch of but.
ter paper Is money well invested
where butter is marketed.
Young pigs kept in dry, dusty lots
and fed on corn exclusively will not
make money for their owner.
A quarter buys dairy thermome-
ter and no dairyman can make
better investment OF two bits.
No honest breeder win sell culled
ram to an ignorant farmer. 1t is as
bad as passing counterfeit money.
Milk. cream, and butter are srs-
ceptible to all manner OF faint and
the result is antiminated butter prod.
ucts.
Drought can be largely controlled
by care Of the physical condition OF
the soil and in the preparation of the
seed bed.
Dust sitting hens with pyrethrum
powder twice or three times before
the eggs hatch and there will be no
lice on the chicks.
Poultry and fruits are closely al
lied Both do we'll together and they
readily thrive on the same land with.
out hindering each other.
The sun has a purifying effect on
milk pans and pals. but they should
be covered with light screen cloth SO
The flies cannot chase over them
Any woman who manages well can
find an hour during the day when she
can shut herself in from all outside
Worries and recline, relax and rest
1t is just as necessary to pillow or
otherwise cultivate the peach orchard
when it bears not a peach as 1t Is
when the trees are to DE loaded with
fruit.
Decaying matter OF any kind left ly-
ing around at this time OF the year
may prove very costly bit Of care
lessness to anyone that is raiisng
chickens
II is in favor Of the sneep that it
will yield a profit under conditions SO
unfavorable that other farm animals
undnr tho same conditions will be
Improbable
Ducks can be raised without free
range. In fact they should be kept
away from the hog lots or stock yards,
where the clumsy birds are at the
mercy of the stock
Unless the stock turkeys are large
1t is almost impossible to get the
Young ones to a good weight 1t is
best to purchase the largest and finest
stock obtainab)e 10 breed from.
Wheat is just az capable OF In
creased yields NJ oats and corn. and
those farmers who have combined
science common sense, with their
agriculture, have reaped not ii bush
els but 80 to so bushels per acre for
series OF years.
Breeding stock should be selected
Tor health, strength, vigor and ina
turity first, utility second. and fancy
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