The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-09-10
Collect eggs often.
Silage is good for horses.

There is always demand for tur.
keys.
Look out for the cream. Don't let
it get too sour.
Be friendly with the bull but make
him keep his distance
The best place for the pig, is the
pasture; keep them there
Calves may be fed silage as soon as
they are old enough to eat It,
Turkeys will be in good demand this
fall What have you to offer?
Feed corn to the setting hens 1t
digests slowly and keeps up heat.
A flock OF sheep run over the stub
BILE turns weeds and waste into profits.
should be cooled as quickly as posi-
/ bic.
When chickens are kept In the yard
throughout the year, green food Is nee
essary.
There is profit In raising mules, but
! the right kind OF mares must be Sc
lected for that.
Never forget that poultry requires
| grit and lime for digesting food and
forming egg shells
Practical poultry for practical poul-
trymen A scrub poultryman will pin
his faith to scrub fowls.
The packing of peaches Is one OF
the most important steps in the sue
cessful handling Of the crop.
! The very first symptoms OF kicking
should lead us TO dispose OF the animal
that does it. Life Is precious.
II Is the poorest Of management, be
sides being cruel, to shut hens and
chicks away from ample green runs
Once or twice year a wagon load
of small gravel should be hauled from
Of tho fnW1a VTnrk
| over.
! It Is waste OF time and money to
! breed colts unless the inheritance on
both the sires and the dams side
will blend.
The successful intensive poultry
! farms started small, aimed well, aud
that 10 why they can do big business
| on a small area.
| 1t pays to feed cows on grain, and
| silage II you have 1t, when pastures
! get short, even though it does seem
to cost considerable.
! When the wild mustard patch gets
! ripe save The seeds to mix In the
mash for the laying hens next winter;
it Is a safe stimulant.
Give pigs a good run, and gradually
increase. the amount Of protein food
as IT Ia bone and muscle that you are
building up il the youngsters.
Dispose OF the ROSTERS as soon as
the eggs needed for Matching are OBJ
tained, The eggs keep better and thu
hens will lay just as many OF them
Before and after the SOW farrows
she should be fed very light or the
pigs will not be able to take all the
milk. or II they do. they will become
sick.
Keep all windfall apples and plums
Off the ground They often have
dropped because they are diseased or
have insects In them Feed to the
pigs or burn.
The United States obtains PRACTICAL
ly all It's potash salts from Germany
IT'S nitrate Of soda from Chile: its
bone dust, chiefly from Europe, Can
ada and India; and its miscellaneous
fertilizers, mostly from Canada, Ger
many Belgium and the United King
dom.
Instead OF wasting the straw stack
by running II into some spot where II
will be out OF the way, or burning It.
stack II well for an emergency feed
In case you run short Of roughage
Then, II makes fine bedding, and thus
IL put into proper condition for being
returned to the soil as n fertilizer of
great value
II Is necessary TO apply special pre-
cautionary measures In dairy practice
to insure the production OF clean and
sanitary milk during the hot summer
months. 1t is during this time that
the various damage producing bacteria
do their deadliest work and when the
mllkman must be on his guard. A
few simple rules OF sense and santa,
tion carefully executed VIII produce
excellent results.
The normal temperature OF hen
Ia higher than that OF human being
and II she has enough fresh air &c