Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-10-31

Spread the manure daily.
The horse Is still on the job
Clean up the strawberry bed.
1t takes 80 days to hatch setting
Of goose eggs.
Stop at the top Of the hill and let
your horse get breath.
Give an aiIing animal change Of
diet. An ailing man. also.
Cool the milk as soon as It Is out
Of the COW. This is very important
Prune and burn all the diseased
limbs and fruits clinging to the fruit
trees.
Keeping two cows to do the work
of one is the cause Of many losses In
dairying.
Charcoal In pieces the size of pea
Or burnt cork once week Is good for
all poultry.
One advantage in keeping poultry Is
that they eat much that would other.
wise be wasted.
TIC thrive best the young pigs must
have dry nests and the bedding should
be changed frequently.
The man who fails to profit by his
mistakes is losing one of the best les
sons taught by experience.
Poultry makes good insect destroy
ers for orchards. Have the runs ex-
tend into the orchards when possible.
Don't disappoint your customers.
Keep your promises and don't make
promises unless you know you can
fulfill them.
A good mixture for growing calves
Is five parts rolled oats, three parts
wheat bran, one part corn meal and
one part oil meal.
Sheep manure is one of the. best
farm manures. 1t contains large
percentage OF nitrogen and a portion
of phosphoric acid and potash.
It Is much easier to run a flock of
poultry down than to build 1t up, and
nothing will run down flock of chick
ems quicker than improper feed
ing.
For the production of sanitary milk
the dairyman must have healthy
cows, Q. sanitary barn. clean bedding,
dust-free air, a clean barnyard and
clean cows
An acre OF alfalfa will furnish more
high class protein feed than almost
any other crop that is grown in the
sections where dairying is followed
to the best advantage.
Provide ample roosting places for
the growing young stock. Beware Of
crowding Nothing Is so conducive
to colds as the overheating that
comes of crowded quarters.
There is a good market for all kinds
OF feathers. Pick fowls dry and sort
feathers. the coarse from the fne.
They can easily be preserved until
enough are collected to take to
market
While coarse manure hauled out
and spread in the spring may not
greatly benefit the crop OF that
year 1t is better hauled out at any
time than left to leach and burn
In the barn yard.
Machinery is necessary on the farm
and cheaper than hand labor, and it is
also more efficient in many cases
The farmer must have considerable
money tied up in his machinery and
therefore it is necessary to give it the
very best Of care, both when in use
and when stored.
In selecting the bulls to head the
herd or buying any stock to put in
the herd, ancestry is OF as much Inn
portance as individuality, but both
must be considered 1t is wrong to
take poor individual because OF an
cestry and 1t is also wrong to take a
good individual that does not have any
ancestry.
Raise your own teams and one oc-
casioaally for your neighbor So long
as men use improved implements they
will continue to use gooI teams. And
the best way to have an efficient team
on your own farm Is TO raise colts for
this purpose.
IL your poultry houses are old,
after thoroughly patching them up.
give them a thorough coating of
strong whitewash containing kero-
sene oil and some carbolic acid Give
nest boxes. roosts and dropping
boards their full share OF It,