Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-02-20
Keep the pigs clean.

Keep the pigs clean
Keep the sheep pen dry.
Start tomatoes in the hotbed.
Do not catch sheep by the wool
Keep the pigs clean and they win
be healthy.
A dry pen and dry bed are essen
tial to thrift in pigs.
The best time to select the young
SOW is when she is ready to wean-
Drafts are fatal to hogs, causing
rheumatism, pneumonia and other ills.
II binders are used don't let them
be loose so as to flap against the
eyes.
Canned summer time" is the new
name for silage. Sounds like a good
thing.
Before any animals can transmit
better qualities 1t must have those
qualities.
In weaving time ewes should be put
ON dryer pasture or fed for two or
three days.
See that the collars fit snugly, so
as to admit of the hand being inserted
at the bottom.
To milk cow requires time and
patience. The milk should be drawn
slowly and steadily.
A good COW is naturally impatient.
With constant irritation, any COW Will
fail in quantity of milk.
That is a good reason why every
sheep ought to have her own stall and
be fed separately from the rest.
There is not much gain in breeding
a heifer before she is eighteen months
ole, but there is considerable risk
Which do you prefer, to pay $4,000
to a stallion peddler for $1,000 horse,
or keep the $1,000 in your own pocket?
Some COWS have very tender teats,
and if YOU want we'll disposed COW,
be gentle in your treatment towards
her.
The man with five cows and
cream separator is better off than his
neighbor who has eight cows and no
machine.
The actual cost to keep added to
the service fee of the sire, represents
the amount at which horses you raise
stand you.
Especially In summer 1t Is not econ
omy to load butter with water, for IL
will not keep as well nor sell at as
high a price
Chickens of frying size in June and
July bring almost twice the money
when sold as the same weight brings
In September and October.
The seed corn should be stored
where there will be little danger OF
frost. This is especially true un7
til the ears are entirely dried out
Don't overdo the soft mash plan OF
feeding. All good chickens have g1sr
yards which can do lot OF 1000
grinding. One soft mash a day Is
probably enough.
When you buy dairy cows you do
not want beef animals, for they are
inclined to lay on flesh instead or CIV
ing value received for their feee ana
care In the bucket.
Tn the early stages of bloat in cattle
a mixture Of two ounces of SODA ana
ginger In a quart of water, can usuai-
" be depended upon to cure Give
the mixture in a drench.
It is poor economy to feed the pour
try on one kind of grain. 1t is more
profitable in every way to give Varl-
ety. of which corn, wheat and oats
sbouId be the leading feeds.
Tf there is any protection at all LOT
the poultry from the high Winds, they
should be let out for few hours at
least. every day, when the weather
is not so cold as to freeze the COMPS.
The manure spreader ard the silo
are two things that point the farmer
towards a better bank account, and
it is not going to be so very long be-
fore we will add to this the milking
machine.
The only certain way to find out
what sort of cows we have is to test
them. Sometimes the results are very
disappointing and we may wish we
had not done it, but in the end 1t is
greatly to our advantage.