Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-25
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

HORSE manure should never be piled,
as it will heat and become worthless.
WE can learn much from books, but
! farmers can learn more from each other.
WITH stock, farm of broad acres can
be managed to profit, but in grain it is not
always the largest farm that produces the
most profit. 1t is not the most acres, but
the best titled and wisest management
that win
THE West has many advantages over
the East in making of butter and cheese.
One cent per pound viii pay the freight,
| which is doubly over balanced by cheap
land, cheap feeding, good pastures, pure
| water, pure air and healthier stock.
FLAxsEED PoULTICE of flax.
seed meal sufficient quantity, and pour
on it, little by little, enough cold water 10
make of suitable thickness. Then heat
| the entire mass. A small piece of lard is
sometimes added to keep it from adher-
ing to the part.
COOP farmers have asserted that grain
can be harvested as cheaply with the old
hand-cradles as by using the common
reaping machines. The demand of the
| times is for machine which will cut,
| rake, bind and Understanding short OF
that will not do.
TEE comb is the hens pulse. If that
be strong and bright, of good color and
| full of blood, shaking with every quick
| movement of the bird in the combed va
rieties, the bird is in normal health and
in a laying condition. When the rim of
the comb and wattles have purplish
tinge, the bird is not well.
YEAST PoULTICE.-Mix pound of
| linseed meal or oatmeal into half a pint
| of yeast. Then heat the mixture over 2
gentle fire, stirring carefully to keep
| from burning. When it becomes warmed
through, it can be spread on linen like
any other poUltice. Yeast poultices are
often ordered by physicians when there
| is a fGatid discharge from liberation,
which it is supposed to correct.
HANGING BASKETS Watering is the
essential thing to insure beautiful hang
| ing basket. The soil may be right, the
drainage good, and the plants properly
| planted; but neglect in watering will soon
spoil all the labor. They should never
be allowed to get too dry; neither should
| they be constantly wet. Experience is
the only sure guide. Wire baskets, filled
| with moss, require the most attention, and
need occasionally to be wholly immersed
| in water, so as to wet them through AL
baskets may be sprinkled every day; and
at least once a month, plants with large
foliage should be gently washed with q
soft sponge. 1t is a good rule to let the
basket occasionally get rather dry, then
to give them a thorough soaking; this
aerates the soil, and gives greater vigcr tc
| the plants. If the position in the window
is too hot ana sunny, a newspaper thrown
over the plants will benefit them, es-
pecially before they get well established
If we could be sure of proper caution in
its use, where the plants appear to have
exhausted the soil, we would advise one
or two waterings with liquid manure,
quite weak; but so many failures have
been made that it is rather unsafe to dab
BILE with ammonia, guano, and other fer
tilizers. 1t is only where the plants are
we'll established and growing vigorously
that fertilizers should be given; to at.
tempt to force them into growth is sure tc
result in failure. Occasionally go over
and pick off all dead and decaying leaves
and destroy any insects which may be
disfiguring the nts.-Gdrdeners Maya
! zine.