The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-06-25

Leave the chlcks IN the lHcuDa'o'
until SO to As hours old.
Silage is the best roughage for rat
tening any class Of cattle.
The chicks should have grain In the
litter, so they will exercise.
Driving on one rein is usually
caused by a sharp tooth or teeth.
Culing the flock and separating the
weak and sick chicks is important.
The fence line makes a harbor for
weeds, insects and other crop pests.
The practise Of feeding hogs on
forage crops alone. Is not economical.
Much farm machinery wears out
more through exposure than through
use.
Use the coarse folders, straws and
the stalk fields for wintering the breed
ing herd,
When bugs are plenty and hens have
free range the beef scrap may be dis
continued.
Try topworking a few apple or
plum trees. The work IS interesting
but not hard.
BY drainage, many acres OF now
idle land could be brought into profit
able cultivation.
Don't yank the lines and swear at
the team Find the cause of the trou-
BILE and remove IT,.
Quarantine all hogs you buy for at
least three weeks after they are
brought on the farm.
Keep a mixture of wood ashes, char
! COul, salt llllt, ohb NSPPN''N
before the hogs all the time.
The often repeated reminder to give
the young pigs whole oats on raised
platform should not be scorned.
Stop churning when the granulee
are about the size of peas, varying to
wheat and draw off the buttermilk.
When the soil Is loose to a sufficient
Cepth, corn roots penetrate in abun
dance to n depth Of three or four feet
No mistake will be made In CHOOSING
the Senator Dunlap strawberry tC
grow fruit either for home use or mar
ket.
Farm manure Is a perishable prod
uct which must be handled with In
teligence to obtain its maximum
value.
Where manure Is coarse and care
lessly spread part of the ground Is
fortified and part of 1t Is left with
out any.
Never keep a SOW no matter how
good OF well bred she may be II she
will not produce more than five strong
pigs at litter.
Harden the chicks while still II
the incubator by opening the incu
bator door for about one-half inch after
they are well dried.
As pasture, hay or fertilizer, crimson
clover offers itself to farmers at time
when the ordinary summer-growr
crops are not available.
When the spreader Is used, LEST
manure will be needed to cover on,
acre and the value and effectiveness
, Of the manure will be increased
There has too long been an unrea
sonable prejudice against mules, ant
yet they may be made one of the mos
, valuable economic features OF th'
farm,
= Try putting a pinch Of copperas II
! the poultry watering trough once o
, twice a month. Better still, scrub on
the trough ahd spray thoroughly will
a coppyras solution.
.. Compactness being essential to pre-
: mote capillary attraction, 1t is adyisa
, bic to pillow deep as early as possibl
. after the crop Is gathered, thereb
Q giving the land time to settle befor
spring seeding.
: Many flock has been run down b
p forcing methods from chicKhood [
Z maturity and late Matching year afte
y year. Hatch the future breeders earl
r and do not force them at the expens
( OF vigor. Grow size by selection an
breeding,
!, Chickens will eat everything imagir
|. able. no difference how filthy. Fee
X your poultry well Give them goo
D grain and food and you will find thei
d disdaining filthy. strange food. The
u only eat II when turned out to fin
what they can or starve.
d Overcrowdlng the chicks is on
g cauee OF late maturity and under-size