The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-05-07

A slow mixer Is a nuisance In the
dairy, dirty one Is worse.
Get the sows and little pigs out on
the ground as soon as possible.
! Leave the chicks in the incubator
until at least forty-eight hours old.
If we have fowls we want to fatten.
we need ration very heavy in starch.
Ewes that have LANDED and preg-
nant ewes should never be kept In the
| same pen.
More stock can be kept on given
area of land when silage Is the basis
of the ration.
The hen lays larger egg than the
pullet. To keep up the size OF your
stock breed from hens.
Crops can be put in the silo during
weather that could not be utilized in
making hay or curing fodder.
Grind about one-third of the hens
feed for her and she will be more help
full in filling the egg basket.
An acre of corn can be placed IN
OF OF
area can be husked and shredded.
Flax will do well on any good land
provided it has not grown flax until
the land is infested with flax wilt.
There Is less waste in feeding ST.
lage than in feeding fodder. Good ST.
lage properly fed is all consumed.
1t is a mistake to try to force a
COW to make milk out Of food that
does not carry milk making qualities.
Next to grass the most important
thing for live stock on the range ID
water and plenty Of it we'll distrib-
uted
Avoid sloppy feeds for young
chicks; dry, cracked grains are much
safer for a couple of weeks after
Matching.
Keep the floors heavily Uttered so
that the hens will be busy the whole
day. A busy hen is always in the best
of health.
Brood mares are preferable to
horses because the colt often pays the
years keep and furnishes us the years
work without cost.
Turnips may flavor the eggs, so 1t
is best not to feed them if some other
vegetable food is available. Hens like
mangels better, too.
When fattening chickens have q
tendency toward looseness of the
bowels feed middlings, shorts or low
grade -four in the ration.
Calves should be fed in a stanchior
so constructed as to prevent them
from sucking each others ears after
they have drunk their milk.
There are many advantages in hav'
ing fruit trees so labeled that one can
tell the name of the variety and the
date of planting at any time.
The man who raises live stock
should look into the benefit to be. de-
rived from keeping a small dock Of
sheep in addition to his other stock.
Hens are better than pullets for
breeders. Hens lay larger eggs than
bullets and | have noticed that the
chicks Matched are stronger and more
vigorous.
LAYING hens must have bread or
milk; eggs cannot be produced without
heterogeneous material in some shape.
Keep a supply OF bone meal or oyster
shell convenient.
When pigs get too fat from lack OF
exercise and begin to pant and lie
around. get them out on the ground
where they must exercise or they will
die of the thumps.
The dairy utensils must DO care
fully washed and thoroughly scalded.
It ia the only way to keep them clean
and If they are not clean they cannot
produce good quality of milk.
For horse TO endure long contin-
| ned and violent exertion, 1t Is abso-
lutelv necessary that he should have
| arrived at that age when all his pow
ers are fully matured and developed.
Reject a horse which Is straight In
the shoulder and long from the point
NJ the shoulders to the upper part OF
| the forearm. This formation places
the fore legs too much under the horse
and makes him unsafe to ride.
Never breed to an animal that has q
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