Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-07-24


Soy-beans gather nitrogen.
Water the horse before feeding.
Keep hogs away from other stock.
Encourage the birds to stay with
you.
Stake the trees blown crooked by
the winter winds.
Breeding from Immature stock al
ways lessons stamina
Most state experiment stations will
test seeds for termination free of cost.
Skirn-milk with ground corn and a
little bright hay will make calves
hump.
The army worm is a clumsy cater
pillar and has trouble in climbing up
O. straight wall.
Get your rye, or whatever catch
crop you use. started as soon after
harvest as you can.
The best fertilizers cannot exert
their full effect on soils that are too
wet, too hard or too porous.
Tho condition +l1 rok1 g1-1~l~
largely upon the amount of decaying
vegetable matter 1t contains.
1t costs little more to fence the
hog lot with woven wire fence, but IL
Is the thing to do. Get the best.
In transplanting your trees set them
the same depth, or trifle deeper than
they stood in the nursery row.
Green beans and peas may be had
all through the summer and fall IL
seed is sown at different intervals.
Thick-neck onions are usually seen
during such seasons as have wet
weather at the usual time OF ripening.
A clean coop and freedom from lice
and mites will assist the chicks to
grow fast and the fowls to mott prop
erly.
Orville Scott Of Bealsville, Pa, owns
duck which she declares laid two
eggs day, something never known
before.
Full grown green tomatoes may be
kept about two months by wrapping
them in paper and storing them In a
cool place.
Sweet potatoes should be Laid by.
before the vines cross the rows, other
wise there will be a back-breaking Job
Of turning them.
Nothing Is more delicious than a
dish of plump, red strawberries. fresh
from the vines, served with rich
cream and sugar.
Some OF the shrewdest bankers in
the country note their clients credit
by their ability to turn off a good
bunch of hogs each year.
If there is typhoid in the neighbor-
hood, fix up the fly screens. Flies are
known to carry disease more than
half mile on their filthy feet.
Skim-milk calves, although thin
ner at weaving time, are sometimes
sold as baby beef IL we.l fed until
sixteen or eighteen months of age.
Each pig should be looked after in.
dividually; a general look will not do;
each animal has its individual needs.
and these needs should be studied.
1t is always the hen that lays the
most eggs that produces the most
chicks. In breeders high fertility is
more to be desired than high produc-
ton.
Pole beans and peas should be
staked and the ground around them
loosened with hoe. Draw the loos-
ened earth toward the rows, killing
them up.
A garden of one-third to one-half |
acre should be large enough to supply |
the average family with all the vege- |
tables required and with some small |
fruit as well.
Gardeners use 400 and as high as |
500 pounds of fertilizer to the acre. |
1t is applied In small quantities and |
at different stages OF growth and not |
all at one time.
A few boxes fitted up for bird nests |
or houses and places in trees where /
cats cannot get at them often helps to
keep very desirable feathered neigh |
bors in the neighborhood.
To prevent scratches, dry the /
horses Yefl0eka and heels when h0