The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-09-10

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Sheep will clean the farm.
Feed the chickens regularly.
Rats are very fond of chickens.
Heavy pruning young trees delays
fruiting.
Alfalfa should be cut when one
tenth in bloom.
Try petting the cows and see how
quickly they respond.
Orchards should not be set in any
but deep and fertile soils.
The more cultivation given to beets
the better the crop on the average.
Eggs should be collected daily and
should be cooled as quickly as pos
'sible.
Fasten down the tops of the hay
stacks-or better still-cover them. 1t
pays big.
Good water helps to make good
butter. You can't make it with any
thing else
The skunk has some sins chargeable
to his account, but killing field mice is
not among them.
Sunshine will do much for the churn
after you have washed it. but don't ex-
pect 1t to do your part.
Damp mashes are not good for tur-
keys, either young or old. They thrive
best on dry grain ration.
Milk at milking time, not after dark,
either In the morning or at night.
Wind UP the chores by daylight.
Treatment for cowpox consists main
ly in applying some healing agent to
the sores Carbolized vaseline Is good
Keep all windfall apples and plums
Off the ground They often have
insects in them. Feed to the pigs or
burn.
1t is estimated that sheep eat more
than seven times as many varieties of
weeds and grasses as do cattle or
horses.
An egg is composed of over SO per
cent of water. Fifty hens should con-
sumo not less than five quarts of wa
ter daily.
If properly cared for, the manure
from one COW is said to be worth
about SO cents week. 1t doesn't pay
to neglect it.
Too many farmers have not learned
that 1t is all wrong to feed sow on
feed that produces heat instead of
bone and muscle.
1t Is not a profitable business for
the farmer, whether land owner or
renter, to sell the calf for little or
nothing at its birth.
A little care used in gathering seed
will cut down the seed bill the follow
ing spring as well as improve the veg
etables from year to year.
Milk that has bad flavor often &C
h &c d~ox
COW. 1t is more often due to such
influences than to the feed the cows
have had.
When manure is allowed to accumu-
late it should be kept under cover and
if covered with layer OF earth the
loss of plant food will be still further
reduced
Many a horse has been made sick,
and not a few have died, from eating
a little green clover when the body
was too warm or in some other way
out of order.
Cows in full milk require some con-
centrated feed in addition to hay and
silage, as they cannot consume enough
Of these feeds to keep up large flow
Of milk and maintain body weight.
little salt in the mash food for
poultry will assist somewhat; but too
much salt picked up around the place,
or the drinking of salty liquid like
brine, will cause sickness and perhaps
death.
In taking up plants for setting out
they should not be pulled up, but lifted
cut with dibble or case knife. BY
proper handling plants may be taken
up and transplanted on hot, sunshiny
day with scarcely check to their
growth.
Although growing geese will some
times live and even thrive to some
extent on the grass and other food
which they find on free range, they
will do enough better to make Il pay
il they arc given one or two good
leads of grain each day.
Con-clen:iows Student