The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-06-02

IucIe Is Ho Saving VI IOOQ ouoCt6Q
by putting alfalfa in silo.
Lime is an essential feature In most
schemes of rebuilding the soil.
Only such eggs as are well formed
should be used for Matching.
Concrete floors IN the barn help a
great deal in saving manure.
Warm soil, next to seed, is the great
essential Of profitable corn crop.
It's better to order the silo now
than two weeks before filing time.
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The size of the incubator should de.
pend largely on the size of ones flock
The good, square walk as a gait for
a farm horse is the most valuable OF
| any.
Eggs from sick or diseased fowls
should never be used for Matching pur.
poses.
Keep the brood SOW just as long as
she will produce large and healthy
litters
Cucumbers grow and mature quick
If soil, cultural conditions and wealth
er are right
The health of the horse depends
to a great extent upon the cleanliness
of his skin
The windmill is one Of the most
have on the farm
1t is more pleasant as well as much
more clearly to milk clean, dry teats
with clean, dry hands
The pig allowed to bury himself in
dust, fills all the air tubes and cavi-
ties Of the lungs with it.
The cold rain that turns into sIeet
and then terminates in a blizzard is
what live stock does not like.
The man who claims he never
makes mistake is either blind with
egotism or a liar-generally both
q hrip 70
is able to sit down to a breakfast
OF buckwheat cakes and sausage.
1t takes four weeks for a duck to
hatch, otherwise the method of hatch
ing is practically the same as for
chicks.
A little care at freshening time may
save the young heifer and add very
greatly to her value during the com
ing year.
fertilizer and this should be put OF.
very early in the spring or any time
during the season.
The silo furnishes cheap and eff.
c1ent means of storing and preserv.
ing feed that would otherwise go to
waste In the fields.
Nests need not necessarily be ex
pensive affairs; any old box or barrel
that Is strong and substantial viii
answer every purpose.
Anybody with one good pig up to q
hundred may feel good this spring. foS
just now there is no more profitable
stock on earth than hogs.
Pregnant brood sows should nevet
be allowed to run in the same yardi
with cattle or horses. Many good SOW,
have been ruined by a kick.
The draft horse can make more
money by his great efficiency at heavy
work than the light horse can by his
greater speed on the road.
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but should have free range and some
times will steal their nests, SO mus
be watched during the laying season
The secret Of making money from
sheep in the corn belt is breeding the
best mutton rams to range-bred ewes
and having the lambs dropped in cold
weather.
1t is a good thing to insist that the
food we buy shall be what it is
labeled, whether We eat it ourselves.
feed it to our stock, or use 1t to fer.
tiliZe our soils.
A brush is great aid in cleaning
milk vessels, especially strainers. II
will get down into all the small cavi.
ties that cannot well be thoroughly
cleaned with anything else.
The hen that wanders through the
orchard, follows the pillow in the near
by truck patch. hangs around the
horse trough, the pig pen and the sta,
bles is the hen that has the glow OF
health and the bloom of vitality about
her. There is a redness in her cont.
that is lacking in that of the closet.
housed hen.
The trouble with the usual method
of planting the home grounds is not