The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-05-21

Keep up the fences,
Watch brood sows closely.
Have salt handy for the cows.
The hog louise mutiplies very rap
idly.
Salt is cheap Give the cows al
they care for.
1t is easier to select the seed thar
ITO grade the grain.
Love for animals finds qualification
In their daily care.
Do not keep a COW that tests below
three per cent in butter fat
Don't feed the SOW for day after
she farrows But give her drink.
The eve flock requires especial at
tention during the Landing season.
A woodlot provides fairly ideal con
ditions for the rearing Of small chicks.
To make profit in dalrying, get
good cows and give them the best OF
care.
There is more money in good
mixer than any other man on the
farm.
Flowing when the soil is not In
proper condition is a waste Of time
and horsefesh.
The same properties that make milk
a good food for calves make 1t good
for growing chicks.
Keep the hog pens clean and dry
even if you have to floor them with
cinders and cement
The salt in butter will remain in
grains, not being dissolved, II the but.
ter is worked very dry.
Ii Is a mistake to try to force COW
to make milk out OF food that does
not carry milk making qualities.
There Is no way to distinguish fer.
tile eggs from those that are not be
fore placing them in the incubator.
Cow testing aids better and more
intelligent feeding. The most careful
man is the one who gets the best re-
turns.
Don't have much bedding in the
nest at narrowing time Many pig
gets lost in the bedding and Is lain on
by the SOW.
Coarse bone Is not necessarily
ponds on what the hog ate when that
bone was growing.
In the generality OF cases helferf
with their first calf do not show AZ
high a test of butter fat as they d.
at a more mature age
The gasoline engine Is the idea
power to run the separator because
n can be depended upon TO maintain
.. Uniform rate az gDppl
A broody hen, If left to her own de
vices, will frequently select her nest
FAY her eggs in It and bring OF
good hatch Of healthy chickens
Corn, tho last OF the great cereal!
TO be discovered, is now grown owe
greater area OF the earths surfac,
than any other grain except wheat.
Where the eggs are intended 70,
Matching there should be no forcing O
egg production, but the hens should b.
given ample runs and fed for yigor anC
fertility.
il Is wise to remember that what
ever makes the hen more comfortabl,
and more contented helps to produc,
the good hatch which all poultry keep
ers desire.
A study OF the kind OF butter Ike,
pest IN ones market Is quite essentIa
10 high prices-as much so as knowl
edge Of the principles underlying goot
butter making.
Some feeders say that sheep thriy,
better by being fed on tho ground I'm
we do not believe It II is certa,nI,
wasteful method. Il Ia better husi
nesf to feed in the racks In the staI,s
By keeping up the practise OF LAT
Matching and the use Of such rowls a
breeders from year TO year you VII
decrease the size Of the fowls lowe
fertility and In the long run injure eg
production. The latehatched chic
may be all right for tho showroom
but 1t is. as rule. poor propositio
for the egg basket
II Is a great mistake 70 feed IN
young bull the same ri.nons that ar
fed 10 the other cattle He shout
have at all times strengthening BIT
not fattening foods, and II connne,
very little corn should be fed