The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1913-08-21
Get new milk pail.
Chicks relish skimmilk.
Comfortable hens are layers.
Balky drivers make balky horses.
Encourage turkeys to roost a

See that the dairy cows get all the
salt they need these days.
it Is not the quantity OF food that
brings results. but the quality
i, Alfalfa hay is about the best rough
age that can be given the COW.
! Let the colt have shelter from storm.
but let him have access to pasture.
also.
| Too much scientific work in the heh
business is failure. Just use common
sense.
| Give the ewes daily exercise and
fresh air, but do not expose them to
| storms.
| Overcrowding Is one of the worst
and most frequent mistakes made by
poultrymen.
Selling too young and feeding too
long are the two wrong ends of the
! hog business.
| Trees that are making a rapid
growth of wood do not generally
bear much fruit.
Ducklings grow twice as rapidly as
chickens, and so require more food for
the first few weeks
The Hollanders have evolved the
great milk breeds by working with
! and not against nature.
Eggs ought to weigh a pound and
a half to the dozen or ffty-five pounds
net to the thirty dozen eggs.
Where possible, a little grazing at
night will help the cows keep up the
milk flow at this time of year.
The hens should be allowed any
kind of food that is needed as an in
centive to greater egg production.
It's more feed" than It is breed"
but without the latter as foundation
the former becomes wasteful exercise.
A liberal amount Of forage crops
will never come amiss, II not needed
for so'ling purposes they are good for
hay.
A COW must furnish $50 pounds OF
butter fat before she has paid her
bills. After that, what she gives IL
profit.
A good grain mixture for chicks is
two parts cracked corn, two parts
cracked wheat. two parts kafir and one
part millet.
Experiments have shown that the
greatest gains in fattenng are made
by young stock when two to four
months old.
II is poor policy to change tie
quarters Of hens or pullets while lay
ing for it usually checks or stops
egg production.
All clover is rich in protein or mus
Gle forming food and it is one of the
best kind of foods for growing pigs
and for brood sows
Western darymen are finding out
that cowpeas are almost equal to clo-
yer or alfalfa as a dairy ration and
are much surer crop
Diversified farming Is the safest,
different soils require different crops,
and upon all farms rotation is essen
tial to profitable production
One of the latest inventions for
aerating milk Is the air pump. It
would seem that this Is sure to find a
valuable place in dairy work.
One point in favor Of green man
uring is that it distributes the fer.
tility through the soil more evenly
than can be done in any other way.
After maturity an animal gains
in fat only and so makes less gain
in proportion to the food consumed
and consequently less profit to the
feeder.
Alfalfa not only furnishes protein
or flesh making material. which is def
cient in corn but It tends to Offset the
heavy character OF ration consistiny
OF corn alone
Hog raisers differ as to which Is the
best breed but, az an experienced
breeder said recently. 1t makes little
difference provided we have good
foundation to start with.
Peck baskets of the climax type are
very attractive and popular Oh some
markets When the market becomes
glutted with tomatoes packed in large
baskets 1t is especially advantageous
to use peck baskets.
When you hang a lantern up in the
barn, fasten It so that it cannot be
knocked down. Sometimes we put
them where they will fall IL we by ac-
cident rise and hit them with our
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