The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-09-10

vetch is an annual plant
Clean the troughs, these hot days.
Straw and hay make good nesting
material.
Oversour cream makes butter lose
fits fine aroma.
Cutworms, as a rule. do their great
est damage In the spring.
Improper feeding will soon cause
good strain of hogs 10 run out.
Pasturing the pigs in a 30x30 mud
pen makes no money for the owner,
Lime is best supplied by giving the
fowls access to crushed oyster shells.
A combination OF high roosts and
heavy fowls seldom proves satisfac-
tory.
Separate the young pigs that are to
ing stock.
The time to feed silage is directly
after milking or at least several hours
before milking,
The mares with draft blood are too
coarse to give quality TO the colt no
matter what the sire Is.
DO not allow decayed meat to lie
around where the fowls can get It
or they may die from ptomalne poison.
Fire blight, like hog cholera, Is
caused by an organism Invisible to the
naked eye, but present in the blighted
twlgs.
When given with care, one OF the
best foods for young and growing
chickens. and the laying hens, too, Is
sweet milk.
Sorghum is preferred to corn for
siage in semiard sections because
1t is a surer grower under dry wealth
er conditions
Angora goats have been used with
profit to keen fire lines clear OF In
fiammable vegetation on national for
ests in California.
Let the colt wear its little halter
through the day, bat remove Il at
night TO prevent the possibility OF get
ting its feet caught in IT,,
Sixty million dollars we're lost by
the American farmer last year sim
ply because he did not take steps In
time to prevent the deadly hog chol.
era.
II pullets do not hay before cold
weather, they are apt TO walt until
spring, so the chicks Matched very
late will not Ill next winters egg
basket
Wasps, yellow Jackets and birds
sometimes puncture grapes, and then
but not until then--the bees feast on
the released juices. Paper bags are
great help In growing perfect clus
ters
Never put lid on can OF warm,
fresh mlk--use a cloth cover. If the
milk IS to be separated get 1t through
the machine as soon az posslble-the
quicker the better. Cool the cream I'm
mediately after separating, and II pos
slble, dispose of the warm skim milk
al once.
A mare may become wire cut and
almost worthless on the market, but
she can still redeem herself II she Is
a breeder. Her value for raising colts
II she 10 bred well Is not decreased
The gelding has place on the farm
till he has reached his prime, then
cash him In. II he gets blemished,
all ne is worth is the hard work that
he can do.
Siage IL safe TO feed 10 horses ana
mules only when II IL made from fair
ly mature corn, properly stored In the
silo When II Is properly stored and
Is not allowed to mold. no feed ex-
ceeds It as cheap winter ration It
is most valuable for horses and mules
which are not at heavy work such az
brood mares and WORK horses during
the slack season.
The average hen II provided with a
good place to dust herself will keep
her from the red mites In the chicken
house, which infest her body at night
These are the enemies we need most
to fight against.
Take time TO visit the nearest park
or a neighbor who has been success
full in growing trees, fruits. or flowers
and study the plants and methods OF
growing. II Is not difficult matter
TO have an attractive home yard and
Il adds much TO the pleasure Of living
Ensilage will not do everything. The
PAINTER who does not know how TO
compound the ingredients which make
seryiceable paint, will not get much
trade. The farmer Who does not know
how 20 compound and use feed win