The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-02-20
Keep the pigs clean.

SOW is when she is ready to wean.
Drafts are fatal to hogs, causing
rheumatism, pneumonia and other ills.
If binders are used. don't let them
be loose SO as to flap against the
eyes.
Canned summer time" is the new
name for silage. Sounds like good
thing.
Before any animals can transmit
better qualities it must have those
qualities.
In weaving time ewes should be put
on dryer pasture or fed for two or
three days.
See that the collars fit snugly, so
as to admit of the hand being inserted
at the bottom.
To milk a COW requires tins and
patience. The milk should be drawn
slowly and steadily.
A good COW is naturally impatient
With constant irritation. any COW will
fail in quantity of milk.
That Is a good reason why every
sheep ought to have her own stall and
be fed separately from the rest.
There is not much gain in breeding
a heifer before she IS eighteen months
old, but there is considerable risk.
Which do you prefer, to pay $1,000
to a stallion peddler for a $1,000 horse,
or keep the $1,000 in your own pocket?
Some COWS have very tender teats,
and if you want a well disposed COW,
be gentle in your treatment towards
her.
The man with five COWS and
cream separator is better off than his
neighbor who has eight cows and no
machine.
The actual cost to keep added to
the service fee Of the sire, represents
the amount at which horses you raise
stand you.
Especially In summer, it is not econ
omy to load butter with water, for IL
will not keep as well nor sell at as
high a price.
Chickens Of frying size in June and
July bring almost twice the money
when sold as the same weight brings
in September and October.
The seed corn should be stored
where there will be little danger OF
frost. This is especially true un-
til the ears are entirely dried out
Don't overdo the soft mash plan OF
feeding. All good chickens have g1z-
yards which can do a lot of food
grinding. One soft mash a day Is
probably enough.
When you buy dairy COWS you 90
not want beef animals, for they are
inclined to lay on flesh instead OF CIV
ing value received for their feed ana
care in the bucket.
In the early stages of bloat in cattle
a mixture of two ounces OF soda ana
ginger in a quart of water, can usual
Iv be depended upon to cure. Give
the mixture in drench.
IT is poor economy to feed the poul-
trv on one kind of grain. 1t is more
profitable in every way to give varl-
etv. Of which corn, wheat and oats
should be the leading feeds.
If there is any protection at all TOT
the poultry from the high Winds they
should be let out for a few hours at
least. every day, when the weather
Is not so cold as to freeze the COMBS
The manure spreader and the sfio
are two things that point the farmer
towards a better bank account, ana
It js not going to be so very long De-
fore we will add to this the milking
machine.
The only certain way to find out
what sort of COWS we have Is to test
them. Sometimes the results are very
disappointing and we may wish we
had not done it, but in the end 1t Is
greatly to our advantage.
To omit the first and second spray
ing from an apple orchard which Is
bearing partial crop, practically
means the loss Of the crop for that
season. no matter how thoroughly Ia
ter applications Of poison are made.
Pear blight is an infectious disease
which affects pears, apples and
ouinees. 1t Is caused by a bacterium.
an organism which is similar in habit
IN typhoid fever, and can be con-
trolled only by cutting out the al
fected branches.
The pure bred bull has done a great
deal to improve the dairy herds of the
middle west. All states, or at least
the principal ones, are reporting an
increased dairy production and the
,.oe,,1+c NAV he traced to better COWS,