Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-02-27

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Don't crowd the pigs.
Keep the hen house clean.
Give the chickens green feed.
Treat the bull kindly, but never pet
him.
What the farmer wants from milk
cow is results.
The tanning mill will pay for it.
self in one season.
While over-fat hens may, over-fed
hens will not, lay eggs.
A lazy person has no business mix
ing up with the dairy business.
Keep up your feeding experiments
and note down the results for your
own profit.
What makes a finer breakfast for
laying hens than wheat warmed in
the oven?
Egg production is not measured
so much by the quantity as by the
quality of the food.
AS a general rule, the larger the
number of fowls kept the smaller the
expense in proportion.
The farmer who knows how to raise
> q good draft colt always has a buyer
ready when he wants to sell.
The chickens that get bone meal
and oyster shells in their feed will
have few cases of leg weakness.
The dust heap is very important
where fowls are confined. If free they
may find the dust bath for themselves
Cow testing allows more discrim
ination in feeding, apportioning the
grain according 10 the yield of but
ter fat.
Coal tar cannot be beaten for keep
ing out the peach tree borer, but il
will not kill him once he has become
established.
If you have any arsenic on hand
feed it to rats and mice and not to
your swine. 1t causes temporary bloat
not good flesh.
Hogs should always have a yard O.
their own away from the other stock
for it is always found that returns are
better in the end.
The beginner with sheep will de
we'll to invest little money for g
good sheep book. One lost sheep viii
pay for several books.
Be sure that your horses and colts
are free from worms. A horse af
fiicted with worms is never thrifty
and feed is only wasted.
Any feathers or down on the shanks
or toes of clean legged varieties o.
poultry disqualifies the specimen ant
the bird should be marketed.
1t is the fellow who burns the Ian
tern that saves the early lambs. Be
ing right on the spot on the dot viii
prevent great loss during Landing.
The agitation for laws protecting
sheep from dogs is getting broadly
scattered. From coast to coast the
one drawback to sheep raising is the
dog.
The better the sire you have at thu
head of your herd, the better the of
spring will be and that means the
greater milk checks you will have il
later years.
Do not plant more apple trees un
less you are taking good care of what
you have. A few well cared for give
better returns than many given over
to insects and disease.
The majority of the bad habits II
dairy cows can be traced directly Il
handling, or to abuses in handling
that have been exercised in bringing
up the calf or developing the heifer.
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The people of western cities arr
paying 81 each for hens for eating
so cents and above for fresh eggs no
always fresh; and still they eat more
eggs and chickens than some farmer:
families.
1t is generally conceded that the
tendency to large egg production Il
transmitted by the males, rather thar
the females. II you are breeding fol
"bred-to-lay" strain, carefully keer
this in mind. Buy no males excep
sons of large producers.
We don't think much OF any kline
of ashes on the floor OF the hel
house. The hens are so ant to &c