The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-09-24

Vetch is an annual plant
Clean the troughs, these hot days.
Straw and hay make good nesting
material.
Over-sour cream makes butter lose
| Its fine aroma.
Cutworms, as a rule, do their great
est damage in the spring.
Improper feeding will soon cause a
good strain of hogs to run out.
Pasturing the pigs III 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
be kept as breeders, from the fatten
ing stock
| The time to feed silage is directly
after milking or at least several hours
before milking.
/
The mares with draft blood are toe
coarse to give quality to the colt nc
matter what the sire Is.
Do not allow decayed meat to lie
| around where the fowls can get il
or they may die from ptomaine poison
| Fire blight, like hog cholera, is
caused by an organism invisible to the
naked eye, but present in the blighted
twigs.
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
silage in semi-arid sections because
it is a surer grower under dry wealth.
err conditions.
Angora goats have been used with
| profit to keep fire lines clear OF in
fiammable vegetation on national for
ests in California.
Let the colt wear it's little halter
through the day, but remove it at
night to prevent the possibility OF get
ting It's feet caught in 1t.
| Sixty million dollars were lost by
the American farmer last year sim
ply because he did not take steps in
time to prevent the deadly hog chol
era.
If pullets do not lay before cold
weather, they are apt to wait until
spring, so the chicks Matched very
late will not fill 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-
| tiers.
| Never put q lid on can Of warm
| fresh milk-use cloth cover. IL the
| milk Is to be separated get it through
| the machiAe as soon as possible-the
quicker the better. Cool the cream i'm
| mediately after separating, and il pos
sible, dispose Of the warm skim milk
at once.
| A mare may become wire cut and
almost worthless on the market, but
she can still redeem herself if she is
a breeder. Her value for raising colts,
| f she is bred we'll, is not decreased.
| The gelding has a place on the farm
| till he has reached his prime, then
| cash him I'm. II he gets blemished,
| all he is worth is the hard work that
| he can do.
| Silage is safe to feed to horses and
mules only when it is made from fair
| ~ mature corn, properly stored in the
| silo When it is properly stored and
| Is not allowed to mold, no feed ex'
| ooodc ~ &c q ohonp winter ration TT
| Is most valuable for horses and mulea
which are not at heavy work, such as
brood mares and work horses during
the slack season.
The average hen, If provided with a
good place to dust herself, will keep
down the lice, but this will not protect
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 parl
or a neighbor who has been success
full in growing trees, fruits, or flowers
and study the plants and methods o.
| growing. 1t is not difficult matter
to have an attractive home yard an(
It adds much to the pleasure of living
Ensilage will not do everything. The
painter who does not know how tC
compound the ingredients which make
serviceable paint, will not get much
| trada THE farmer who does not know