The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-02-19

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Keep the hen house dry.
Make the stallion earn his feed.
The clumsy horse suffers from cold.
Use the best breeding stock that
you can afford.
Color in butter is important but
flavor counts for more.
1t will pay for owners to keep indi,
vidual records OF cows even in small
herds.
The young mare has fretted and
fumed. always half length ahead of
the old horse.
Leguminous plants do not thrive In
soils where the accompanying bac-
terra are absent
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Hens that are put out into the cold
and snow are soon chilled out OF tie
egg-laying notion.
The most frequent fault Of old
peach trees is the absence Of fruiting
wood in its lower branches.
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Kerosene Is great remedy In the
poultry pen. 1t may be used as 9
medicine, also as disinfectant.
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Alfalfa is the forage crop that
means much for the development OF
diversified farming and more stock.
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| A horses usefulness Is measured by
its strength and rapidity Of move
ment rather than by size and weight
The man who will grow strictly
fancy asparagus need never want long
for any of the comforts this world at
fords.
| Butter that is washed until It Is dry
and hard usually lacks that quick
fresh taste that Is In butter not so dry
and hard.
One of the greatest mistakes with
beginners Is the tendency to crowd Sc
fowls into a place where there is room
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Inheritance has something to dr.
with persistency in milking, though
care and feed will encourage and es
tablish the habit.
You can find prosperous dairy farm
ers in every locality. There are neigh
bors who don't make the cows pay. II
is in the men. not in the soil.
A few Goals from the wood fire o.
the kitchen put into the houses nov
and then. where the hogs can GRIND
them up to charcoal, help to keep tht
hogs healthy.
Fortunate is the man who has g
big crop of pumpkins. They should
be gathered before frost. and fed tc
the cows. Don't be afraid the seeds
will hurt the cows
No man should forget that the
dairy barn Is the place where human
food that is most susceptible to out
side influences is produced. Have the
barn in good condition.
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Garden beans have been developed
from several species OF wild forms
and all of the common kinds are very
tender to frost and require warn
season and sunny exposure.
One of the methods OF preventine
injury to apple trees from the woolly
aphis is to have the trees grated or
Northern Spy roots, as this variety
seems never to be seriously attacked
The beginner In selecting breedin,
stock should appreciate the advantag,
he will secure In using much care II
the selection Of stock and the sortin,
out of the undesirable ones from tim,
to time.
Black raspberries and dewberriei
are propagated by layering. The tips
of the canes are bent over to tn,
ground and covered with dirt to
depth of about four inches as soon al
the fruiting season is past
A little grooming or brushing will
have q great influence on the appear
ance of the COW. A few minutes
spent in this way will pay large divi
dends In better looks and also in {
greater price of farm stock and better
returns.
After the silo has been we'll flllet
It may be covered over at the to,
with a little well shocked straw Of
hay. AS a matter Of fact, though, tn,
silo can be opened and used the da,
after 1t Is filled. II you have use To-
the feed, don't wait.
| Making the stallion earn his feed b,
moderate work outside the actua