The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-09-10
Guard lambs against ticks.
Give the pigs dry quarters.

No farm family should be without
strawberries.
Baby beeves require two things, good
blood and high feeding
Paint the poultry house outside and
whitewash it often inside
Care should be taken to start the
pigs gradually on green corn.
For young pigs furnish dry bed
where they can get lots of sunshine,
Silage is the main reliance of dairy
farmers in many sections for COW
feed.
One thing should not be forgot.
Send surplus cockerels and old hens
to pot.
Cows like change of pasture, even
though the pasture may not be eaten
of close.
Cherry and plum trees rarely need
much pruning after their tops are once
well formed.
II Is easier to maintain a good flow
OF milk than it is to regain it after
1t is once lost.
A cornfield is a good place for late
Matched chicks; good for the chicks
and the corn, too.
Creamery butter is usually good
when carefully made, but none can ex-
eel good farm products.
The poorly built silo is an abomina.
tion and a snare. Do not stint the la
Dor required in building.
Now is the season to study the
marshes, and the best way of thing
or surface-draining them.
Some of the skim milk and the but
termilk ought to be saved for the
hens. Just what they need.
When the lambs are about four
months old, they will Craze by their
dams, and can safely be weaned.
When chicks are fattening the pres
ence of many pin feathers is an indi-
cation of good results from the feed.
A clean coop and freedom from lice
and mites will assist the chicks to
grow fast and the fowls to mott prop
erly.
It is good plan to nip the new
shoots of black raspberry when Is
inches high. This makes more bushy
plant
The horse is quite like man, in
lily just after coming in from hard
days work.
One part sulphur and two parts salt
is an excellent combination for sheep.
1t should be placed where they can
always get at it.
The farmer will soon find that sue.
cess with poultry depends upon the in,
telligence used, as much as with other
pursuits of his work.
In order to keep up the flow of eggs
in hot weather we must tempt the
hens appetites and consider their com.
forts in every way possible.
Keep little chicks away from the old
fowls, be sure they have plenty Of
pure water as we'll as good feed, and
protect them from the cold.
A set of scales will help you to catch
every robber COW. The trouble is,
we don't think it worth while to know
1t is easier to guess, but lot more
costly.
Let the chickens run on the range,
where they will have plenty of grass
and clover. Turn up the earth for
them to peck and scratch for worms
and grubs.
When cows teats are sore, do not
run the risk of being kicked off the
milk stool and having the bucket of
milk thrown into your face, but use
a healing salve.
Growing pigs need mineral matter,
and for this purpose mixture Of char
coal, wood ashes, pulverized copperas,
ground limestone and ground rock
phosphate is very good.
Where complaint Is made that red
clover will not thrive the chance Is
that the land needs lime. Crushed
limestone, two tons to the acre, or a
ton of slaked lime may be needed as
a sweetener of the soil.
When crops begin to look poor and
there seems to be a. scarcity of feed
the farmer always hangs on to the
good dairy cow and let's the rest Of
his stock go first. The cow is what
helps to bring the profit and tide over
hard times.