The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-07-14

Feed hogs three times a day.
Red clover makes fair grade of en-
silage.
Young chicks are babies-treat
them as such.
Selection is what brings results both
In crops and In animals.
Chicks should not receive feed until
they are thirty-six hours old.
Cowpeas, alfalfa and soy beans can
be successfully made into silage.
A treeless pasture is good neither
for sheep nor any other animal.
Feed corn to the setting hens. 1t
digests slowly and keeps up heat.
Immediately after the pigs are far
rowed allow them to suck the dam.
An egg is never in better condition
for setting than on the day it is laid.
Chicks require about the same food
that full-grown hens do, only less OF
it.
A man who drives over bad road
and is contented with it is a moss
back.
1t is astonishing how the good seed
movement does wake up the boys on
the farm.
Don't SOW seed on poorly prepared
land. 1t means more work and often
poor returns.
1t is far easier to destroy one weed
this year than thousand of it's Off
spring next year.
If chicks are kept growing and free
of lice they are less liable to become
victims of disease.
Oatmeal boiled and made into a
cruel and mixed with milk, is an ex-
cellent feed for calves.
II you want to be really up to date
sweep down the ceilings Of your sta
bles and Whitewash them.
Well-fed hogs possess great resist
ance against disease and are not SO
liable to attacks of worms
A solution Of copper sulphate will
destroy weeds in gravel and cement
walks. Apply with a sprinkler.
Where June grass or dandelion is
troublesome the alfalfa should be cut
while these weed pests are still green.
The water wallOw in some brook
or creek in which crude oil or coal
to lice.
The successful farming communities
are those that pay some attention to
the social side of life as we'll as the
industrial.
Chicks should have access to clean
drinking fountain which should be so
constructed that they cannot get them
selves wet
A too liberal diet of corn will bring
on indigestion and liver troubles con-
ditions that are SO frequently taken
for cholera in chickens.
A piece Of growing corn near the
hen houses is an excellent thing for
the birds to run through. They will
get a lot Of feed from it.
Don't over-tax the mares when they
are sucking a young colt Go easy
with them. Remember they sre doing
double duty. Feed them generously.
The first eggs laid by pullets should
not be set as they are small and will
produce weak, understood chicks. Let
the eggs come to full size before set
ting.
When handling a horse self-control
is essential Don't get out Of patience
and abuse him. Don't expect the
horse to guess at what you want him
to do.
If owners of dairy stock would al
ways remember that the calf of the
present Is to be the COW of the future
the treatment would be different in the
majority of cases.
If rain is imminent while the oats
hay is in the windrow the oats should
be piled up into big shocks-the big
ger the better, for the big ones will
come nearer turning water
In selecting eggs for Matching much
care should be used. Select only nice
brown, wellformed and good-sized
eggs of healthy stock. Keep them Just
cool and incubate them as soon as DOS
sible.
Doubtless buttermilk can be fed to
pigs with great success. but as a gen
eral thing the sweet milk or skinned