Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-03-20

Pack Matching eggs carefully.
Japan is encouraging the fruit grow
ing industry.
Herbs are in demand at hotels and
restaurants for dressing.
Get the hotbed sash and frames
ready. 1t will soon be time to use
them.
Cabbage is comparatively easy to
grow, and produces an enormous acre
tonnage.
Don't wait until you are ready to
set the incubator TO see that it is in
good condition.
Norway spruce, Scotch and Austrian
pine, planted about Is feet apart, make
excellent wind breaks.
blanket while you are chatting with
d uIeHu III Cn6 post once.
Plant sunfowers along the edges of
the poultry yards for shade in sum-
mer and feed in fall and winter.
A scrub hen is not worth much, but
she is as good as any for the man who
will not give his flock good care.
The decay Of manure or any organic
matter is due entirely to the action of
bacteria and other low forms of plant
life
Spraying, or the lack of it, is the
failure in the management of large
orchard.
The bud moth which works in the
swelling buds and destroys them can
be controlled by an early spray of ar.
senate of lead.
Nothing pays on farm better
than kindness, and the lack of 1t is a
constant though invisible, drain on
the pocketbook
For early matches it is best to give
not more than eleven eggs to a hen, or
exposed and chilled.
Keep all plants clean, to avoid
trouble with the red spider and other
pests. Spray or sprinkle the foliage
once a week if possible.
Never compel hogs to sleep in straw
stacks, manure piles or any place
where they will come out steaming
and sneezing in the morning.
Too much water in the soil makes
it impossible for the bacteria to carry
on the work they find to do and such
soils are unproductive of agricultural
crops.
Too many men do not realize the
Importance of careful and correct
pruning. Find an expert orchardist
and work with him to gain the proper
experience.
No other farm animal requires Sc
much kindness as the dairy COW. Han
ding the heifer in roughshod man
ner is an excellent way to make an
unruly, nervous COW.
There never was a time in the his
tory Of agriculture when the subject
aroused as much interest as 1t does
at the present time. 1t gets into the
blood and will not down.
The earth" cellar or outside cellar
usually gives better conditions for the
storing of vegetables than does the
house cellar. Such cellars are easily
built of cement. and last forever
The appearance of the grape root
worm in any vineyard should be the
signal for the owner to be up and in
arms against the invader, as no other
insect has done as much damage to
grapes.
1t is of course possible to keep
drilled corn free of foreign grass in
the rows but hundred-mile drive any
summer will not find more of such
fields than one may count on the fin
gers of one hand.
The barnyard and the hogyard
should be we'll drained and if posi-
BILE they should be paved with some
good material that will keep the stock |
out of the mud. One of the best barn |
yards / ever saw was paved with con-
crete and carefully drained to cis- |
tern so that all OF the liquid manure
was saved.
Threshed oats are fine for fowls, II |
fed intelligently. They will some |
times produce crop-bound, If fed too |
freely when first fed. Almost any dry |
bulky rations will produce crop-bound |
when fed in large quantity However, |