The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-09-03
Dispose of the ROSTERS.
Infertile eggs keep best.
Sheep devour many weeds.


The oftener the cream can be sold
the better will be the quality.
II is a bad practice to let a col
nurse while the mare is heated
An egg Is never In better condition
for setting than on the day 1t Is laid
Growers OF fruit are finding some
thing new every season In the pes
class.
Don't expect to get high-class
/ road horse from a mare with draft
/ blood.
! Hens should not be allowed TO run
with male birds except during the
! Matching season.
/ Don't let the cows use their nerve
force fighting flies. Spray them with
some good fly repellent.
The poutryman's hours are from
early to late Don't let the hot wealth.
er induce you to shirk duty.
Seed forming is a drain which mos,
plants cannot endure except by de
terioration Of the blossoms.
Carelessness has produced more
| failures than disaster. The careful
man nips trouble in the bud.
II Is often a good plan to pinch
back muskmelon and cucumber vines
to make the fruit grow more rapidly
Scatter dry grain among the litter
on the floor OF the poultry houses 30
that the hens will be forced to exer.
else.
Lime Of sulphur busted over rose
bushes or other plants that are be
ginning to mildew will often stop the
trouble.
Chicks Matched off the latter part
OF August or the first Of September
make November fries and next sum
mer's layers.
More turkeys would mean more
spending money for many a farmer s
wife. The turkey crop is getting small
er every year.
Every COW that is purchased for use
in the herd should be bought with the
Idea of using her as breeder as well
as n milk producer.
The young chicks should have fresh
milk only, as sour milk Is suitable only
for the adults, being injurious to all
kinds of young animals.
Where hogs are being fattened In
the summer try soaking shelled corn
In troughs for the hogs. We have fol
lowed this plan with success each
year.
The number OF calves lost last veal
through calf cholera cannot be accu
rateiy stated, but. estimated. It repre-
sents In cold dollars and cents q value
that runs into the millions.
Within the last 80 years Bilage
has come into general use throughout
the United States, especially In those
regions where the dairy industry has
reached It's greatest development.
From now on TIL winter Is goot
time to buy poultry breeding stock
1t can be bought at much lower
price than after next fall sometimes
for only half the winter and sprinl
price Breeders are GLAD to dispos,
OF their surplus breeding stock at low
prices,
While the surplus rooster should be
swatted, and swatted hard, the gooC
one you plan to keep for next years
breeding should have as good care al
you can give him. 1t will be better
for him II from now on you can pu'
him In coop by himself In com
Portable place The male Is half the
flock Treat him We'll
Shade IL cheap and no animal an
preciates II more than poultry, an,
still how many poor birds mus
sweter in the boiling sun these no
days or stand In still hotter ba,
smelling hen house, Four stake
driven into the ground and few OIL
gunny sacks ripped open and tacke
acl oss them affords one OF the yer
best and most airy shades for poultr
that can be provided,
Too many runners in the straw
berry bed mean crowded plants an
disappointing crops next June Gu
out the surplus runners and plant
just an II they were weeds which. Il
this case, they are.
Experts tell us that cattle. hog
! sheep and poultry grow only twent,
Ave days out Of each month becaus
r OF sickness and disease. Think whf
+. this means. Think OF the amount {
5 feed and labor that In wasted abs
J. lutely. Think OF the profit you ca
make by preventing these things.
} For the green cabbage worm us
D dry paris green busted on the cabbag