The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-09-03

Give the hens free range.
Alfalfa should be cultivated.
Shade and pure water should be
provided.
Keep the old sows as long as their
teeth are good.
Keep only as many sheep as you
can take good care Of.
A COW is not losing time while lying
In the shade chewing her cud.
The best price for pork is the early
price. Keep the pigs growing.
1t Is a great mistake not to halter
break the colt while it is sucking.
One of the most valuable lots on
your farm is a lot for the straw pile.
Do not allow rhubarb to send up
seed stalks If 1t is to be used all sea.
son.
Provide a platform for the pigs to
feed on. Keep the platform as clean
as possible.
The COW cannot give you milk and
cream on just enough food to keep
life In her body,
There Is little danger OF draft In
the poultry house If there is only one
opening in the building.
The time to fatten your birds Is far
enough In advance TO make the proc
ess economical Herein lies the profit.
A gentle mother makes gentle
chicks. When the mother hen Is wild
and Eighty, 1t is hard to tame her
young.
Skim milk is more valuable fed to
poultry than to pigs or calves, not on
ly in flesh returns. but as an egg.
producer.
Allowing a calf to run with a good
milk COW looks like a poor proposi-
ton any time. even though the COW Is
nearly dry.
People who fail in the poultry bust
ness are generally those who take 1t
up as a fad and not for the purpose OF
making living.
Colds with poultry often lead to
roup, and when once the roup gets a
good start we are likely to have quite
a task to get rid OF It.
Underworking causes a leaky and
notified butter Of loose texture. But
ter should be cool at time OF working,
II Is a mistake to set out trees more
than two years old Many good or
chardists prefer yearlings but two
yearolds generally produce the best
results.
Get rid OF all the surplus fowls. II
Is more profitable to dispose OF them
now at good figure than TO carry
them through the melting season at a
possible loss.
Most farmers know the vast differ
ence in feeding value between bright
green nicely cured hay and the
bleached out woody stuff some call
hay. The first will keep stock In fine
condition without a particle OF grain.
while the latter will hardly do 30 with
grain.
Chicks will be more nearly free
from disease II the eggs from which
they are Matched are laid In nests
which are perfectly clean II the eggs
are kept clean until they are given
the hen or incubator, and II the incu-
bator or the sitting hen and her nest
are kept clean.
There is some difference In practice
regarding the time 10 begin hand.feed-
ing the calf Some do not allow the
calf TO nurse at all, others let II re-
main with the COW three or four days.
or until the fever Is out OF the udder.
When II Is impossible TO feed the calf
often II IL best TO let IL remain about
two days with the COW. The earlier
the calf 10 taken away the easier Il
will be taught 10 drink milk from a
bucket.
A good grain mash TO make rapid
growth on broilers ID a mixture OF one
bushel each OF wheat middlings, ground
oats and corn meal Moi1ten as need
ed with skim milk or buttermilA. AT,
er four or Ave weeks, increase tho
corn meal.
Nearly every year there is seasof
of short pasture. Everything zoe,
back then. Feed some sorghum o,
sweet corn and 1t will help out won
derfully. See that the stock ha,
enough 10 eat even II you have TO In
crease the dry feed.
When sinking smut" gets int,
your wheat fields, there are just tw,
ways you can take TO get rid OF Il
Either buy new seed from some farm
where they have not had the disease
or treat your own seed by the use o
fosmalin. For most folks the forme