The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-02-19
Keep the pigs clean.
Keep the sheep pen dry.


Start tomatoes in the hotbed.
Do not catch sheep by the wool
Keep the pigs clean and they WIN
be healthy.
A dry pen and dry bed are essen
tial to thrift in pigs.
The best time to select the young
SOW is when she is ready to wean.
Drafts are fatal to hogs, causing
rheumatism, pneumonia and other Ills.
II binders are used. don't let them
be loose 80 as to flap against the
eyes.
Canned summer time" Is the new
name for silage. Sounds like good
thing.
Before any animals can TRANSMIT
better qualities 1t must have those
qualities.
In weaving time ewes should be put
on dryer pasture or fed for two or
| three days.
See that the collars fit snugly, 80
as to admit of the hand being inserted
at the bottom.
| To milk a COW requires time and
patience. The milk should be drawn
slowly and steadily.
A good COW is naturally impatient.
With constant irritation, any COW Will
fail in quantity of milk.
That is a good reason why every
sheep ought to have her own stall and
be fed separately from the rest.
There Is not much gain In breeding
a heifer before she ia eighteen months
old, but there is considerable risk
Which do you prefer, to pay $2,b00
to stallion peddler for $1,000 horse.
or keep the $1,000 in your own pocket!
Some COWS have very tender teats.
and II you want well disposed COW.
be gentle In your treatment towards
her.
The man with five cows and a
cream separator is better off than MIS-
neighbor who has eight cows and no
machine.
The actual cost to keep added to
the service fee of the sire, represents
the amount at which horses you raise
stand you.
Especially in summer, 1t Is not econ
omy to load butter with water, for 1t
will not keep as well nor sell at as
high price.
Chickens OF frying size In June and
July bring almost twice the money
when sold as the same weight brings
in September and October
The seed corn should be stored
where there will be little danger or
frost. This Is especially true I'M
til the ears are entirely dried out
Don't overdo the soft mash plan oil
feeding. All good chickens have giz-
yards which can do n lot OF food
grinding. One soft mash a day Is
probably enough.
When you buy dairy cows you do
not want beef animals. for they are
inclined to lay on flesh instead OF CIV
ing value received for their feed and
care In the bucket.
In the early stages OF bloat In cattle
a mixture Of two ounces OF soda ana
ginger in a quart Of water, can usual
ly be depended upon to cure, GIVE
the mixture In a drench.
|
II Is poor economy to feed the poul-
try on one kind Of grain. 1t Is more
profitable in every way to give vari'
ety. of which corn, wheat and oats
should be the leading feeds.
II there is any protection at all for
the poultry from the high winds, they
should be let out for a few hours at
least. every day, when the weather
10 moi 40 cold as to freeze the combs.
The manure spreader and the silo
are two things that point the farmer
towards better bank account, and
It Is not going to be so very long De-
fore we will add to this the milking
machine.
The only certain way TO find out
what sort of COWS we have Is to test
them. Sometimes the results are very
disappointing and we may wish we
had not done It. but In the end 1t Ia
greatly to our advantage.
To omit the first and second spray
ing from an apple orchard which 10
bearing a partial crop, practically
means the loss OF the crop for that
season. no matter how thoroughly la
ter applications OF poison are made.
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