Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-10-24

Apple trees like any soil
In breeding heller use pure bred
sire
Poultry keeping is no pathway of
ease.
Never carry poultry with their heads
hanging downward.
Remember the great law of breed
ing-that like begets like"
To get the maximum profit keep
chicks growing right into market
A pound OF mutton can be produced
at less cost than any other kind Of
meat
The fungicidal value oY >lime-sulphur
Is increased by the addition of arse
nate of lead.
The best dairy cows will give the
best returns if handled quietly and
treated gently.
Be sure to market all the poor spe
cimens in your flock before they in
crease the feed bills.
There are some cattle that are no
better in the dairy barn than are the
weeds in the corn field.
Do not feed all of the separated
milk to the pigs. The chickens viii
return a good profit for some of It,
The best pastures are made up OF
blue grass, timothy and orchard grass,
clover.
Good sheep require good care to
maintain their excellence. Poor sheep
are always burden upon the rest of
the flock.
OF the serious parasitic diseases az
fecting sheep, stomach worms prob
ably cause the heaviest losses to
sheep raisers.
More than in any other branch OF
farming, success in poultry raising de-
ponds on regularly and faithfully do
ing the little things.
Dairying brings its best returns
when it is made systematic line OF
work, not merely an incidental to the
ether farm activities.
Screened coal ashes are good
thing for all poultry. A quantity
should be accessible at all times in
a box sheltered from rain.
In catering to the trade where fruit
is marketed try to put yourself in the
position of the buyer and then furnish
the quality of fruit the trade wants.
A chicken with a properly developed
frame, well formed bones, and good
muscles will take on fat readily when
the times comes for such develop.
ment.
Use 2 liberal amount Of slaked
lime on all old runs or yards before
spading or blowing them up. 1t nay
save you serious trouble and losses,
later on.
Success in intensive cultivation de-
ponds a great deal on raising the
proper kind of vegetables; do rot try
to sell your customers poor-lookjng
or tasteless vegetable.
AS a result of the fight of the de-
partment of agriculture for 'purer
milk, thousands Of farmers have in
PRODUCED new and sanitary methods of
producing and shipping milk.
1t is economy Of time and labor to
wash milking utensils as soon as pos
sible after using. If you can't wash
them right away, rinse them with cold
water and you will save time in wash
ing.
1t is always more profitable to grow
a crop that your neighboring truck
gardener is short on, also always plant
Just enough of each crop that win
allow you to sell as long as the de-
mand is good.
When you dig the potatoes save the
small ones for the hens. They are
very fond of them when boiled and
mixed with little bran. A mess of
them fed once in a while makes va
riety for them and Is treat
Fertility may be restored to worn
out land by saving all animal manures
and putting them onto the land; by
making use OF all crop residues, that
is, putting back into the soil every
thing not used for feed; by turning
under green manuring and catch
crops.
Why should we annually spend
thousands of dollars searching for
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