Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-12-01
Feeding Cows for Milk.


| dueing most milk--it being weighed regularly
! each day find clover Northern red makes
very much more in quantity, and of better
/ quality, too Changing back 70 timothy and
other grasses,it Is certain that cows decrease
IN the number of pounds. They are fed reg
ularly upon each kind Of grass about three
| hours each day. Green corn fodder of the
| southern kinds, saved for the purpose of feed
| ing, does not produce as much milk as either
OF the other kinds of feed mentioned Now
| as milk Is becoming so valuable for cheese
and butter, farmers will aim to produce the
best breeds of COWS which give the lsryest
number OF pounds Of rlilk, and the hest
| quallty too What kinds of roots and GRASS
es green or dried, will make most milk viii
DC questions more thoroughly discussed
! among farmers, as the v.ie of cheese "a
greater through the cheese-factory system
II milk Is to be adulterated for gain of anv
! KIND, let 1t be through the feed, which seems
to be the only honest way Cor. Bosto,t
Ci}tivator
SORGHUM SEED FLoUR-Grain and flour
| having become scarce among the rebels, they
have devised a new source of supply, which
is thus described by the Savannah Republican
We have sample of sorghum flour, made
of the seed of Chinese cane, which may be
seen at our Office. The planter who sends it
" to i''lNA 44t bOllIiiS tillS HOUR, nor
had he taken off the hull of the seed before
| grinding; the consequence is, that the -four
| has pInkish color. Those who have made
| trial of this excellent -four represent it as an
| admirable substitute for buckwheat. Made
into hoe-cake 1t Is very savory bread. 1t
is likely to come into very general use, if
prepared like wheat flour, by boiling The
| price at which it can be offered in market
| may be assumed at fifteen or twenty dollars
| per sack But as an acre of sorghum Yields
| from thirty to fifty bushels ten dollars would
be remunerating price. The production of
this graln the present year, in Georgia, must
amount to five millions Of bushels. We have
this great supply of food to fall back upon in
the event of deficiency of the cereals wheat
| and maize. The season for buekwheat cakes
comes in month, with frost Let the lovers
of this bread try the sorghum flour. 1t is
| represented as being very similar to buck
wheat when prepared as the latter is. As
substitute for coffee, no parched grain vegeta-
bic ordinarily used for that purpose is at all
equal to sorghum seed. And what is still
| more valuable to know, in the present search
| ty of sugar, small quantity of the strip boil
ed with ground seed makes the coffee substi-
tute very pleasant and palatable.
SYMPTOMS OF HIP JOINT LAMENEss IN THE
HoRsE.-A horse having hip joint lameness
presents the following symptoms When
standing, the affected limb is quite pendu-
lous, resting only slightly on the toe, the
weight of the body being supported by the
sound limb, the stihe being prominent and
slightly pointed outwards. When the horse
is forced to walk or trot, the quarter of the
affected limb, sinks or drops at every step;
he goes lightly on the toe, and it is almost
impossible to draw the leg forward, but he is
said to carry the limb in consequence of
great pain and goes on three legs. There
fore the most prominent symptoms of this
form OF lameness are, great pain, pendulouS
appearance of the limb turning outwards of
| the sthe, and depression of the quarter, all
| of which continue more or less during the
| progress Of the lameness. There is generally
| little or no swelling, and nothing particular
| to be perceived in the appearance of the af
| fected limb. In process of time, however,
! the muscles waste and the whole quarter be
comes much attenuated In treating q case
of this character we usually recommend rest
apply counter irritation and sometimes insert
| a seton. In the early stage, however, when
| the lameness is OF very acute character, we
| lubricate the parts with liniment, composed
| Of Sulphuric Ether and Olive oil.
Corn VS.. PoRK-" How much corn will it
| take to make hundred pounds of pork ."
l asked this question last night at a town
| meeting There dnzon good farmers
present, but not one of them could answer.
The Deacon said he could tell NE one thing:
to feed merchantable grain to pigs would not
pay. You could get more for the grain than
you could get for the pork | told him that
the manure must be taken into consideration.
He thought that at the present time the labor
of attending on the pigs was fully equal to
the manure But if labor is high, manure is
oils Try, To ,yyyi+ ,,,I,o -
cost.
In Mr.. Laws experiment it took about
seven bushels of corn, ground and moistened
with water, to produce one hundred pounds
Of pork-or rather Of increase in the weight
Of igs. But as the pigs are worth more per
pound when fat than when lean, we may safe
iy call the increase in live weight equal to so
much pork. Pork is now worth Sl5 per hun
dred pounds, and with corn at $3.50 per bush
ell, the seven bushels of corn would be worth
5000. This would leave profit of S4.5
on each hundred pounds Of pork Or in other
words, we should get over g for the corn be-
sides the manure.-GeneSee Farmer.
KEEPING WINTER EAPPLEs.-A correspon-
dent from Ohio communicates the following:
" 4 neighbor Of mine, one year ago, packed
eight barrels of winter apples with dry saw
dust, and left them headed up, exposed to all
The result was, they were taken out in the
spring sound, and had retained their flavor
better than if buried in the ground, or kept
in cellar Query-could not grapes be kept
in the same way? The same enterprisng
neighbor "a Maine Yankee) preserves his
cabbage through the winter by packing
among refuse or leaves, head downward, in
boxes, each layer of heads with the stems
cut off near the head, and covered with loose
leaves OF cabbage. Freezing will not injure
them when thus covered. "-Ana. Inst Farm
erS CI,tJ.
PRESCRIPTION FOR THE CURE (?) OF Docs AD-
DIcTED TO KILLING SHEEP.-Take Of beef
steak, sixteen ounces; strychnia, four scru-
pies
Directions-Divide the beefsteak, or cit
Bit" into sixteen pieces; take a sharp pen
knife and make small incision into each one
of them; into the orifce thus made, insert
one-sixteenth of the above quantity OF strych-
MIA, (Which will amount to five grains,) drop
a few Of these medicated "tit bits on the
outside Of the sheep pen as near the tracks Of
the Bow WOW" as possible. a dog with
five grains of strychna in his stomach was
never know to NEEDLE with mutton, or ever
again disturb the sIumbers Of any one by viz
tue of dog melody.
THE PRESIDENTS LAST sToRY.-The following
is related as ''the Presidents last story" In
disnissing a party of three hungry place
seekers wro lad often wearied him, and final
" exhausted his patience, Mr.. Lincoln said
they reminded him Of the schoolmaster, who