The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-07-30

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Silos are becoming more popular.
A change of pasture makes healthy
sheep.
Pigs love sweet corn and it induces
rapid growth.
Give the hens and chickens plenty
of fresh, cool water.
Handle eggs with care; one egg
spoiled is several cents gone.
Go easy with the work horses. Put
them to hard work gradually.
All animals crave salt and must
have 1t to keep in good health.
: Cows in pasture will relish little
hay, fodder or other dry forage.
Plant potatoes in soil that is free
from organisms that cause disease.
1t is a wise cow that knows her
own calf; but she does all the same.
A small flock of sheep on every
farm will much more than pay its
way.
Improved machinery and other con-
veniences help make farm life worth
while.
Proper care of eggs, butter and milk
in hot weather means both health and
profit.
If you can help it, never disturb a
hen when she is laying. That is her
busy day.
1t is not wise to turn the sheep in
pasture and leave them indefinitely,
as some do.
Glover should be cut for the silo at
about the same stage of development
as it is cut for hay.
Heavy sires and small dams have
given us large number of horses that
are out of proportion.
Where eve is permitted to suckle
her lamb till very late in the season
she will be slow breeder.
When a COW produces half ton of
butter per year, as some do, she has
right to be called factory.
Some cows are notional and in order
to get them to do their best we must
humor their whims and notions.
1t pays to grade all small fruit It
demoralizes prices to have small bad
cherries mixed in with large ones.
The well-fed litter of pigs must Lave
an opportunity to exercise or else
thumps are liable to claim the plump
est pig.
A close watch should be had to keep
the lambs growing rapidly, and this
can only be done by feeding the ewes
skilfully.
See that your hog yards and pas
lures are tightly fenced. The roam
ing hog makes slow gains and lots
of trouble.
Cut out the bushes by the roadside.
They harbor insects in summer and
snow drifts in winter. Burn them and
get the land into grass.
Caustic potash is the best proven
tive of growth of horns on calves. 1t
should be applied as soon as the but
ton-like horns can be felt.
To succeed with COWS the masters
hand must be at the helm. He should
be right with the COWS and know that
they get the right care and feed.
No pullet will pay profit the first
year unless she natures naturally, so
it does not pay to waste time coddling
weaklings and degenerates of a utility
flock.
Where it is possible to choose be-
tween sour milk and sweet milk as a
pig feed, always take the sweet milk
and then regulate the quantity con-
sumed.
Eggs are cheaper at this time of
year, but on the farm where the hens
run out it does not cost so much to
produce them and the profit on them
is worth having.
1t pays to thin fruit where the trees
are loaded. The best way is by hand
picking. Where trees are putting out
too rank q growth Of young fruit,
prune 1t back this month.
Do not forget that in the compost
ton of an egg there is a great proper
ton of water, and the laying hen can
not produce eggs unless she has all
the water she wants, and at the time
she wants it.