The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-06-04

The dryer butter is made the better
1t will keep.
In buying reject horse with big
coarse head.
Don't forget that sheep like plenty
OF salt all the time.
Tag the sheep when you shear. 1t
looks bad to neglect this.
Sunlight plays an important factor
in the brooding Of chicks.
Leg weakness is not uncommon
among early Matched chicks.
One never realizes the value of his
timber until his wood-lot is gone.
poor process of manufacture will
spoil the product from the finest
cream.
The thrift and condition of the
mother largely determines what the
pig will be.
The best types Of swine have
evolved from the experience of breed
ers and packers.
The stomach of a horse will not
contain more than three or four gal
Ions OF food at one time.
Nothing can take the place OF hot
water, not warm but boiling, in cleans
Ing the dairy utensils.
Keeping the shifting winds off the
pigs in their nests is shutting the
profits inside the hog house.
A dust bath in the sunniest part of
the hen house is hens delight. 1t
rs also great louise destroyer.
One Of the greatest mistakes a
dairyman can make is to sell bull
when he is mature and at his best.
1t is a mighty good plan to have a
Savings bank book to study when
We have fit of the blues coming on.
A yearling tree is preferred by manv
to older trees. They are thought to
be safer to transplant than two-year-
old trees
Don't feed your chicks wet. sloppy
food. 1t is not natures way. And the
best Is the cheapest when it comes to
question of food.
The COW which is contented will not
need an iron yoke or crotch OF
cottonwood limb to keep her from 60
ing through the fence.
Oil the harness, wagons and imple
ments. The oil Of patience on troubled
waters that are likely to come during
spring work will help. Try 1t.
No entirely effective method OF con-
trolling the onion maggot has as yet
been discovered, according to the
Massachusetts experiment station.
A period of rest for the COW be-
fore freshening will usually produce
a larger flow of milk than where the |
animal is MIXED close up to calvng. |
II your animals will not pay the |
cost Of producing them and good |
profit beside, then the business is |
going backward and you are losing |
money.
Some cows will not give down I'M
less they are fed while they are be-
ing MIXED. That is bad habit.
Avoid 1t by feeding before or after
milking.
Bugs and worms are the natural
food of the hen, and the more Of them
In the hen dietary the better for the
hen and the better for the summer
egg basket.
The days Of action are with us now.
If we have planned during the winter
and read up on work, we will find the
seasons work will be more easily done
and with better results than ever be-
fore.
Little chicks need green food as
much as fowls and tender shoots OF
grass, cabbage, or anything OF that
kind may be cut up in short lengths
and will be relished by the young.
sters
The farmer who attempts to initiate
the big chicken farms by keeping his
hens closed up Is making a mistake
Let them have the run of the fields
near the house. the orchards, the feed
ing pens, the barn lots. particularly
tie latter. All these places are
swarming with insect life in summer.
The agricultural value OF fertilizers
bears no strict relation to their CON-
mercial value, one is determined by
the soil, crop and climatic conditions,
the other by the market and trade
conditions only.
Producing market cream, or rather
selling butter-fat, is very attractive