The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1913-01-23

Use care in selecting a sire
Turkeys ere always In demand
Pumpkins may be kept all win 81
II desired
Not one COW barn in a hundred as
windows enough.
When you begin to handle the colts,
keep it up every day.
II the hogs squeal, And out why,
Comfortable hogs never squeal
The hog that is kept growing is al
ways finished for market most easily.
The Babcock tester tells definitely
and does not guess the cows worth.
In dairymade butter the individual
tastes Of each customer can be sup.
piled.
Two weeks Of milk and corn meal
feeding will add to the profits Of mar
ket stock.
Feed is an important factor in sue
cessful dairy work but it is not the
only thing.
Cows. sheep, goats and hogs arc
fond Of pumpkins, and, incidentally
man as well.
Plan the feeding Of the brood sows
in such way that they must walk &c
get their feed.
Symmetry of outline, or balancing
of parts, Is a very important point II
| selecting steers.
! When two horses become accustom
ed to working together keep them
working that way.
Every grocer will tell you that there
is demand for good dairy butter fal
beyond the supply
II vegetables are whitening in thu
slightly moist sand.
In handling the milk at home TIL;
conditions and equipment must be o
the best and up to date
The production OF green ducks I!
coming to be a large business. espe
cially in the eastern states.
The feeding value OF the Skim.m
and buttermilk will alone pay for tn
extra work of making butter at home
II sheep are In good. thrifty con
, dition at the start, two months o
good feeding will properly fatten 70
market.
December is a good month to GU
sctons for grating. bury in vel
drained soil on the north side OF
building
Another abbreviated blessing adop,
ed by farmers, along with the horse
less wagon and pillow. is the harbles
fence wire
The richer the soil IN the asparagu
patch the better the crop will be.
rich soil also makes asparagus star
earlier In spring
With the solvent or horseless ca,
rlages there is noted an almost entir
absence of tailless horses in our park
and city driveways.
No use to plant bush fruit In poo
ground. 1t should be plowed deepl,
thoroughly worked up with goo
stable manure before the bushes ar
set out.
Pork making ought TO be profitabl
side line for the dairyman this white
Forty-cent corn, cheap skim milk an
a good hog market is a money maxim
combination.
Pick sire with a good disposition
Never raise IA colt from a NATURAL
vicious tempered mare. Peculiar
ties OF disposition are almost inv,
riably transmitted.
The vices OF feather pulling an
egE-eating are always more commo
in overcrowded focks than In quar-
ters where there il plenty OF spac
for the fowls to exercise
BY keeping variety OF stock O
the farm larger number may b
kept and the best use can be mad
Of all food by giving what is bes
suitable TO each class OF animals.
n possible plan for dry box stall
with dirt floors In which to winte
the colts. n this is impossible kee
the stalls well bedded and clean I
prevent accidents from slipping
An orchard OF young apple trees I
a good deal like an endowment life in
surance policy. For term OF year
II seems to be nothing but paying out
but the rewards are almost sure L
come.
Good timber is still In good demand
in spite OF the largely increased use c
steel and cement in building and IN
authorities are urging people ever