The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-04-16

Have strawberry patch.
Do not overlook the garden.
Repairs cost less than accidents.
Good seed will reproduce its kind.
The cabbage plant needs cool,
moist place.
Don't keep your horses in poorly
ventilated stables.
No amount of washing Will rid over
churned butter of milk
Homemade feeds are more econom-
ical than commercial feeds.
Keep all tools clean and free from
rust, and all edged tools sharp.
Deep fall blowing is the foundation
for an ideal seeded for spring plant
ing
The dairy COW Is naturally of
quiet disposition and should be quietly
handled.
See that the barn rooms are in good
shape for the ewes that are to bear
early lambs.
After caponizing fowls, they should
be fed bone and muscle food to keep
them growing.
If the price Of live stock keeps going
up, especially hogs, there is money in
putting corn into them.
Next to having good seed, properly
prepared seeded is of most I'M
portance in planting a crop.
The value of alfalfa to the dairyman
is due to its high protein content, and
Its beneficial effect upon the soil.
The part of cabbage growing that
makes the expense low is the cheap
ness with which harvesting is done.
You may know what you have got
ten out of your milk since January 1,
but do you know what you put into
It?
1t is quite universally conceded that
oats and field peas are superior to
either oats or barley for soiling pur-
poses.
Stagnant water will make young
chicks i'll about as quickly as any other
bad thing that may be introduced into
their systems.
Many farmers pasture their rye for
six weeks or more in the spring, and
then take all stock from the field and
later cut the stand for grain.
Nearly every farmer does and
should believe in the liberal use Of
oil and grease. These lubricators are
much cheaper than new machinery.
The red mites or lice do not stay
on the fowls during the daytime, but
hide in cracks during the day, sally
ing forth after dark to seek their
prey.
Unless there is considerable meat
In the table scraps that Is fed to the
poultry 1t is wise to buy commercial
beef scraps, for hens must have meat
to lay well.
See II your trees are infested with
oyster shell bark louise. Look over
the trees on the lawn and in the or
chard This is an old pest and should
be looked after.
Success in extensive cultivation de-
ponds a great deal on raising the
proper kind of vegetables; do not try
to sell your customers a poor-looking
or a tasteless vegetable.
1t Is always more profitable to grow
crop that your neighboring truck
gardener Is short on, also always plant
Just enough OF each crop that will al
low you to sell as long as the demand
Is good.
The strawy stalky manure makes an
ideal mulching fertilizer for both
young and old apple trees. A great
many are literally dying from starva.
ton. This coarse manure will con-
serve moisture and fertility.
To keep poultry healthy give plenty
of exercise, good comfortable houses,
a variety Of good wholesome food and
plenty of pure fresh water and fresh
air. Grit, charcoal, shell and freedom
from lice can be added to the list.
Fowls do not thrive during the win
ter unless they have some green feed.
The natural food of domestic fowls ia
that which they pick up on range, and
II suddenly deprived of It, both as to
green vegetable matter and meat in
the form Of bugs and worms, the evil
effect Is quickly seen.
IF you will use your brains in farm
ing you will live longer than IL you