The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1913-02-20

Horses will be high for at least an
other year.
Much of the milk sold in cities is
two and three days cd.
Weeds are Just as subject to disease
as are cultivated plants.
The flesh of very young animals fire.
quently lacks favor and is watery.
So far as can be done, select the
largest and best sows for breeders
Farmers should be thinking about
getting seed for next seasons plant
ing.
To have horses of endurance give
the colts a chance to develop their
muscles.
King and Niunetonka Ironclad rasp-
berries are good red varieties for gen
eral planting
Soil infections are the hardest to
control and crop rotation alone can
accomplish it,
The time is past when the prosper.
Gus farmer can afford to ignore the
value of straw.
Three feeds OF milk day for the
new calf are better than the same
amount in two feeds.
Feed the chicken ilock on pure and
wholesome food and provide pure wa
ter in clean utensils.
The best trees will not stand neg
lect, while the poor trees will respond
readily to good treatment,
Observe with care and note as a
first point that COW should have a
large and ample-siZed body.
An old animal properly fattened and
in good health would be preferable to
a Young one in poor condition.
The Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes
Rhode Island Reds and Orpingtons are
recommended for milk feeding.
Remove the male birds from the
dock Immediately after the breeding
season and market no fertile eggs.
If your sweet corn seed is mixed
with field corn, better feed 1t to the
chickens and buy new next spring
Feed only as much cabbage as the
chickens will eat up Immediately;
wilted, half rotten cabbage Is harmful
For quick fattenng Of poultry moth
ing beats q mash OF cornmeal and
milk. fed warm about three times a
day.
Pullets, commencing to lay. produce
small eggs at first and old hens at the
moultng time are prone to do like
wise.
For the amount of money invested
in the poultry business. 1t pays a
larger profit than any other farm spe-
cialty.
Care Of the hogs does not mean
feeding alone, but giving them at
tention necessary to keep them in
good health.
Good looking fruit on top OF the
basket will get you new customers.
but only honest quality lower down
will keep them.
A small flock Of vigorous sheep on
the farm If given good care cannot
help but yield good returns for the
money invested.
The size Of the udder isn't always
a sure indication OF the cows milk
giving capacity. The quality is OF
more Importance.
Cut the branches close to the larg.
er ones or main trunk. and cover the
fresh wound with white lead and oil
to keep out the air.
A profitable crop cannot be grown
on land deficient In humus, which is
the same thing as rotted sod or rotted
manure. with fertilizer alone.
The yards and sleeping quarters
must be kept dry and clean, as i'm.
pure air and dampness are two things
that sheep cannot endure.
In a commercial orchard OF two
hundred trees 1t Is better to have
forty trees, each of five varieties,
than FIVE trees each OF forty varieties.
All the diseases which afflict poultry
are those OF domestication, caused
largely by unnatural environment and
carelessness on the part of the owners.
A large proportion OF the vegetable
proteins derived from beans. peas, lin.
seed meal, clover, alfalfa, appear to be
complete and are capable OF making
growth.
The feeder who takes advantage of
the peculiar adaptability of cottonseed
meal In balancing rations composed OF
homegrown grains gets good returns
from his feeding operations.