The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1913-01-16

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Keep the sows warm.
The busy hen lays best.
Keep the boar by, himself
Maintain regularity in all things.
Green bone is very rich in phos-
plate of lime.
Chickens will not stand crowding,
they are too warm blooded.
Nothing is more desirable in horse
flesh than tractability and gentleness.
When the days are long, some peo-
pie have just that much more time to
kill.
IL the market value of feed is I'M
satisfactory, sell it to the cows and
shoats.
Sheep, If given half chance, and
If of good healthy stock are sure to
pay their way.
Keep off the surplus fat by feeding
muscle-prodrcing foods and giving
plenty of exercise.
Remember that the wood ashes are
the best kind of fertilizer for the or.
ohard, lawn or garden.
Skim milk from the right kind OF
separator has left in it only half OF
] per cent. of butter fat.
Beg, borrow or buy all the wood
ashes you can to use in the garden;
work it well into the soil.
Celery delights in low, rich. heavy.
moist soil and is usually grown upon
the same land year after year.
Save every bit of the hen manure.
Keep 1t dry and put it on some crop
next spring. Worth its weight in gold.
hetp Il CloSt "dtSh oNNi ZIG oNSh
ling colts A blemish or an injury
now may ruin the value of the future
horse.
Cows will not give better milk than
the feed you place before them. They
can't. Give only the best and the pur-
est food.
Experienced onion gro yers do not
ing onions on raw or new land as a
first crop.
The man who dubbed the hog a
"mortga q litter" vas posted; he
knew something Of the possibilities of
the animal.
A small flock of vigorous sheep on
the farm, If given good care, cannot
help but yield good returns for the
money invested.
The land that was plowed In the
fall for next years garden will work
up better than that that must be
plowed in the spring.
A mixture of corn and oats--two
working ration. Cracked corn is pre-
ferable to finely ground
Breeding ewes and store sheep will
winter well on good, bright wheat
straw and stubble grasses and half
pound of corn given to each daily.
Draft horses continue to be the lead
ing market animals best on the farm.
best in the market and one OF the
prosperous live stock propositions for
1913.
A feeder may have his bin full Of
grain. but unless he has suffic
roughage to balance up the ration he
will be shy on his profit at the end of
the season,
Frequent cultivation OF the garden
reduces the damage done by cut
worms. Cultivation exposes the
worms to the sun, which is often
fatal to them.
Keep over few of the best ewes
of your own breeding each year, even
though they are not so good as you
might buy. 1t will make your flock
more uniform all the time.
A successful way that turkeys can
be grown Is to hatch them under
hens Chicken hens preferred) and
brood them with turkey hens that
are two or more years of age.
The cellar needs little thought
these days. Ventilate we'll at night
and sh 1t the doors and windows dur
ing the daytime. You can keep the
cool night air il and the warmer air
out.
One way to supply forage is to
save all forage from the corn field by
cutting the tops Of the stalks off just
above the ears. or course this should
be done before the fodder becomes
quite dry.
The value OF sklmmilk as food
for young and growing pigs has long
been recognized and several expert
ment stations have made comparative
tests with other feeds obtaining quite
similar results.
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