The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-05-19

Don't neglect the hens.
Chickens relish green feed.
Never hurry a team when heavily
roaded
Be most careful to give water often
10 the work teams.
It is the height of cruelty to work a
horse with sore breast.
Give the little pigs extra feed by
themselves as soon as possible.
Know the soil and the crops to fit
the soil. Low yields soon bring ruin
h2eai should be mixed dry and crum-
bly,, since 1t causes illness when fed
wet
Saage, like other .succulent feeds,
has a beneficial effect upon the diges-
tive organs.
Watch the sows and feed them so
they will be able to produce all the
mSsk possible.
Snage is the cheapest and best form
in which succulent feed can be pro-
vided for winter use.
Farm ponds should not be built in
the winter or spring. They should be
made In the summer or fall.
Poor policy to feed chicks after they
are big enough for market. Every day
fcosnts bit off your profits.
pat from the dairy In more attrac-
tive manner than ever before.
To a very considerable extent sue
cess or failure with swine growing CEN
ters In the first six weeks of the pigs
aife.
Fowls need grain food, vegetable
food, meat food and grit. and the
daily ration should comprise some of
each
When taking chicks from nest or
Incubator do not put them on ground
that has been ranged by other chicks
that season.
The hen that lays soft-shelled eggs
is not to blame. She needs more
shell-making material. that is all. and
you must supply it.
Tobacco stems spread on the lawn
.er and it proves an excellent mulch
when worked into the soil
Sheep manure Is one of the best
farm manures 1t contains large per
centage of nitrogen and a portion OF
lphosphoric acid and potash.
Because hogs are thin and have
large frames it does not always follow
that they will feed well. Their p5sv.-
0as treatment is an important factor
Do not try to dry the calf by rubbing
it with hay or straw Allow the cow
to dry 1t with her rough, warm tongue.
She likes to do 1t, and it is natures
way
Never feed more than hogs will eat
up freely. Many farmers do not prac-
tise this, but keep a quantity of I'M
eaten food lying about the lot at all
times.
The maintenance of fertility on
sandy soils requires supply of the
mineral elements, phosphorus and po-
tassium and Of organic matter, includ-
ang nitrogen.
Keep a good, deep, dry bed under
the horse while he is in the stable, day
or night on Sundays especially. The
more he lies down the longer his legs
and feet will last.
The efforts to maintain worthless
dogs and thoroughbred sheep In the
same township invariably end In the
elimination of the sheep, and then
nobody wants the dogs.
II COW is not paying a profit, why
keep it! You wouldn't work for moth
ing for any one else, SO why work for
"a worthless COW? Test the cows and
find which are the star boarders.
Modern farming. like modern man.
ufacturing, is on highly competitive
basis. We must keep up with the
times to make profit, and the man
who makes the greatest profit is the
man ahead of the times
1t reduces the labor greatly and i'm
proves the results If each setting hen
has nest and little runway to her
self, where she can get off and exer-
else and eat and drink whenever she
feels like it and go back on the nest
of her own accord, without interior
ence from other hens.
Grain Is a very important crop to
sustain and fatten animals Corn is
the staple in the humid belt, kaf1r, mi
20 and feterita in the arid and semi
arid belt. Plant liberal acreage in
grain.