The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-07-23

Feed hogs three times a day.
Red clover makes fair grade Of en-
| silage.
Young chicka are babies-treat
them as such.
Selection is what brings results both
| in crops and in animals.
Chicks should not receive feed until
! they are thirty-six hours old.
Cowpeas, alfalfa and soy beans can
be successfully made into silage.
A treeless pasture Is good neither
for sheep nor any other animal.
|
| Feed corn to the setting hens. It
digests slowly and keeps up heat
Immediately after the pigs are far
rowed allow them to suck the dam.
| An egg is never in better condition
for setting than on the day 1t is laid.
| Chicks require about the same food
that full-grown hens do, only less OF
it.
| A man who drives over q bad road
| and is contented with it is moss
back.
It is astonishing how the good seed
| movement does wake up the boys on
the farm.
Don't SOW seed on poorly prepared
land. It means more work and often
poor returns.
1t is far easier to destroy one weed
this year than a thousand of its on
spring next year.
II chicks are. kept growing and free
victims Of dAeease.
Oatmeal boiled and made into q
Cruel and mixed with milk, is an ex'
cellent feed for calves.
If you want to be really up to date
sweep down the ceilings of your sta
bles and whitewash them.
Well-fed hogs possess great resist
ance against disease and are not sc
liable to attacks of worms.
! A solution Of copper sulphate will
destroy weeds In gravel and cement
walks. Apply with sprinkler.
Where June grass or dandelion IL
troublesome the alfalfa should be cut
while these weed pests are still green
The water wallow In some brook
or creek in which crude oil or coal
tar dip is sprinkled also spells rout
to lice.
The successful farming communities
are those that pay some attention tie
the social side of life as well as the
industrial.
Chicks should have access to a clear
; drinking fountain which should be sc
constructed that they cannot get them
selves wet.
"A too liberal diet Of corn will bring
on indigestion and liver troubles-con
ditions that are so frequently taker
for cholera in chickens.
A piece of growing corn near the
hen houses Is an excellent thing fol
the birds to run through. They will
get lot of feed from 1t.
Don't over-tax the mares when they
} are sucking a young colt. Go easy
; with them Remember they are doing
double duty. Feed them generously.
The first eggs laid by pullets should
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produce weak, understood chicks Lei
the eggs come to full size before set
ting.
When handling a horse self-control
is essential. Don't get out of patience
and abuse him. Don't expect the
horse to guess at what you want hin
to do.
If owners Of dairy stock would al
ways remember that the calf Of the
present is to be the COW of the future
the treatment would be different in the
majority Of cases.
II rain is imminent while the oats
hay Is in the windrow the oats should
be piled up into big shocks-the big
ger the better, for the big ones will
come nearer turning water.
In selecting eggs for Matching much
care should be used. Select only nice
brown, wellformed and good-sized
eggs of healthy stock. Keep them just
cool and fncubate them as soon as pos
sible.
Doubtless buttermik can be fed to
pigs with great success, but as a gen