The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-08-06
Be regular in milking.
Raise your own horses

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Keep hogs away from other stock.
Encourage the birds to stay with
you.
Stake the trees blown crooked by
the winter winds.
Breeding from immature stock al
ways lessons stamina.
Most state experiment stations will
test seeds for termination free of cost.
Skim-milk with ground corn and a
little bright hay will make calves
hump.
The army worm Is clumsy cater
pillar and has trouble In climbing up
q straight wall.
Get your rye, or whatever catch
crop you use, started as soon after
harvest as you can.
The best fertilizers cannot exert
their full effect on soils that are too
wet, too hard or too porous.
The condition of the soil depends
largely upon the amount of decaying
vegetable matter 1t contains.
1t costs q little more to fence the
hog lot with woven wire fence, but It
Is the thing to do. Get the best.
In transplanting your trees set them
the same depth, or trifie deeper than
they stood in the nursery row.
Green beans and peas may be had
all through the summer and fall Il
seed is. sown at different intervals.
Thick-neck onions are usually seen
during such seasons as have wet
weather at the usual time of ripening.
A clean coop and freedom from lice
and mites will assist the chicks to
grow fast and the fowls to mott prop,
erly.
Orville Scott of Bealsville, Pa, owns
a duck which she declares laid two
eggs day, something never known
before.
Full grown green tomatoes may be
kept about two months by wrapping
them in paper and storing them in
cool place.
Sweet potatoes should be laid by
before the vines cross the rows, other
wise there will be backbreaking Job
Of turning them.
Nothing ia more delicious than
dish Of plump, red strawberries, fresh
from the vines, served with rich
cream and sugar.
Some of the shrewdest bankers In
the country note their clients credit
by their ability to turn off good
bunch OF hogs each year. e
If there is typhoid In the neighbor-
hood, fix up the fly screens. Flies are
known to carry disease more than
half mile on their filthy feet.
Skm-milk calves, although thin
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sold as baby beef IL well fed until
sixteen or eighteen months of age.
Each pig should be looked after in
dividually; general look will not do;
each animal has it's individual needs,
and these needs should be studied.
It Is always the hen that lays the
most eggs that produces the most
chicks. In breeders high fertility is
more to be desired than high produc-
ton.
Pole beans and peas should be
staked and the ground around them
loosened with hoe. Draw the loos-
ened earth toward the rows, killing
them up.
A garden of one-third to one-half
acre should be large enough to supply
the average family with all the vege-
tables required and with some small
fruit as WELL
Gardeners use 400 and as high as
800 pounds of fertilizer to the acre.
It is applied in small quantities and
at different stages Of growth and not
all at one time.
A few boxes fitted up for bird nests
or houses and places in trees where
cats cannot get at them often helps to
keep very desirable feathered neigh
bors in the neighborhood.
To prevent scratches, dry the
horses fetlocks and heels when he
comes in, especially in winter; and
rub on a little glycerine or vaseline
before he goes out in snow or mud.
In all the leading milk producing
farms of the Eastern states, great at.
tention is now given to the Importance
of having the stables scrupulously
clean and the COWS kept In comfort.
tt Is found by actual test to be profit