The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-04-02
Give the fowls q variety

Get ready for garden seeds
Warm cream should never be mixed
with cold
Vegetable and flower seeds should
be purchased soon.
To ripen the cream properly, =
starter should be used
All crops have a tendency to deter
iorate If the seed is carelessly Sc
lected.
Good young apple trees come high,
but the poor ones are dearer than any
other kind
1t is far easier to destroy one weed
this year than a thousand of its OFF
spring next year.
, Improper ventilation makes more
henhouses cold and damp than rain
and zero weather
In the market, tomatoes are known
as toms" cantaloupes as "cants," and
cucumbers as "cukes."
The horse should be hitched up &C.
casionally and put to some work, II
only for an hour or two.
Keep the grit, shell and charcoal
boxes filed, also fill the water foun-
tains twice a day in winter.
Agriculture is taught in all Hun
sarian schools and seven colleges
maintain experiment stations.
Do not let the sheep drink from a
trough half full of ice. Give water
regularly and keep the trough clean.
The California citrus crop Is estl-
mated at $4,000 cars, lemons being
placed at 1850 cars, and oranges at
26,2S5 cars.
You can save your wife much labor
and anxiety by planting upon your
place home supply OF small and
large fruits.
All eggs intended for Matching pur-
poses whether under hens or in in
cubators, shouls be as fresh as posi-
BILE when set.
Do not plant many varieties of APP
pies A few well-chosen trees we'll
cared for, are more satisfactory than
many only half cared for.
Where feather-eating is practiced
try giving the fowls sulphur, one tea
spoonful in the soft feed of every
three fowls, two times a week.
For breeding purposes hens are gen.
orally preferred to pullets because
they are fully matured and possess
stored up vitality after their annual
mott.
When trees have been barked by
mice or rabbits, but not so badly that
the life of the tree is endangered
paint the wounds to protect them from
from decay.
Sometimes hens will not eat dry
alfalfa leaves readily; in such cases
try steaming the leaves by pouring
hot water over them and letting them
stand for a time.
The planting CT trees on the village
lot or the farm adds to the salable
value of that lot or farm many times
more than the cost of the trees and
the labor of planting them.
The first spraying for the cooling
moth must be completed before the
calyx Of each blossom has closed. After
that time the thoroughness of the ap-
plication is made very much more diff
ficut.
Grit should be supplied to chickens
at all times, as it aids digestion. Lime
in some form must be supplied to the
laying hen, to keep up her supply,
which. is so heavily drawn upon dur
ing production.
Fall-plowed land which is allowed
to remain rough over winter stores
more Of the winter rains and snow
than unplowed or smooth land. Ere
quent summer cultivation holds the
moisture for the crops during drought
A fruit called DURHAM, grown in the
Philippines, on tree resembling the
elm is as large as cocoanut, has
shiny shell and contains a creamy
pulp which combines some Of the flaw
ors of a delicious custard with those
Of a fine cheese. American soldiers
have dubbed the fruit vegetable linn
berger cheese"
The value of the 1913 crops is twice
as great as that Of 1899; more than
$1,000, 100000 over 1909, and sub
stantially greater than 1912. OF all
the crops, however, it is estimated
that 50 per cent will remain on farms
where they were produced, and that
20 per cent of the animal production
will remain. On that basis the cash
income is estimated by the depart
ment of agriculture at s5,S47 100000.
There Is no rule for watering plants;