The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1913-04-24
Pigs fatten on skimmilk,


The average calf is a badly neg
lected animal.
Unless sow is too thin in flesh
do not feed corn.
The yolk of the egg spoils much
quicker than the white.
An exclusive corn ration seldom
brings the best results.
A pig gives the best returns from
dairy products while young.
Sifted coal ashes are not fertilizers
but they are good soil lighteners.
Duck raisers claim that hawk will
never attempt to steal duckling.
IL you positively must hurry your
horses, hurry them up hill, not dow n.
Clean all homegrown seed. and
grade. so only the largest seed can lie
used.
Prepare to keep the young pigs
growing from the hour they enter the
world.
little carelessness may result in
the loss Of part OF or . whole litter
of pigs.
For early lettuce. the common Curly
KIND does the best. Head Lettuce
comes on later
Have those fruit trees and plants
been ordered and the land made ready
to set them out?
Little th.ngs in poultry keeping are
like pieces of lead; they weigh more
than you think they will.
Fine rotted manure from the stables
may be applied with great benefit to
~AS a. oco IL Pi eau 6dTIy.
A CALL brought on by the udder
coming In contact with frosty ground
Is apt to ruin your best COW.
The time to get thing is when 1t
Is there. The time to get the apple
worm Is before he gets inside
Better keep the hens in the house
on cold, rainy days. or they will get
soaked and take rheumatism.
The eggs plant is one Of the least
known garden vegetables, and one
that deserves better being known.
Be sure the sows have plenty of
pure water to drink. aside from the
slop they have. Slop is not drink.
Time to get some fine manure on
the lawn if you want the bluegrass
to grow thick and heavy this summer.
When pigs should be weaned should
be determined as much as how they
are eating and growing as upon their
age.
II from well-nourished dam and
a healthy strain of animals the pigs
rarely need attention at narrowing
time.
Do give the later summer Matched
chicks chance to eat their meals
without being run over by the other
birds.
AS general proposition 1t may be
said that the sow that has pigs before
she is a year old will disappoint her
owner.
Short singletrees, with ends COW
cred with leather or burlap, will not
orchard.
Although there is little data on the
subject, alfalfa silage of good quality
would certainly make an excellent
hog feed.
Plenty of rotted manure on the rhu
barb bed will make the plants ready
or cutting week or two earlier than
otherwise
1t costs a good deal of money to
buy satisfactory team. In most
cases this can be avoided by the
farmer raising his own.
Protein that is grown upon the
farm is often more valuable than that
which is purchased In concentrated
form, and it is also cheaper.
AS soon as the ewes have dropped
their lambs. and all danger of fever
and caked udder is past, most liberal
feeding should be practiced
The tillage, the crops and the in
come from the farm are all more or
ess dependent upon the economical
of the work teams
Strawberries will do better on some
'oils than others, but there is not a
arm in Mail and Breeze land that
,annot be made to grow them.
1t is as idle and useless to expect
good crops from inferior seed as 1t
would be to endeavor to bred thor
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