Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-10-11
THE FARM.


An old farmer in Maine states that
fifty years ago it took fat steer to pur-
chase barrel of flour. but that a steer
Will now buy four barrels of flour.
The shipments of apples to England
from the United States, for the season
commencing in October last, amounted
to $50, 297 barrels. The prices realized
were 81 % in October to $50 in the
spring, Ofthe quantity shipped, &c.
529 barrels were sent to Liverpool, %
O65 barrels went to London. and 49,
703 barrels were consigned to Glasgow
MEASURING Corn IN BULK-Multiply
the length, width and heigth together
by inches, and divide that product by
3,SSS. This will give the number of
bushels in the crib or wagon-box. For
example, the crib that Is twenty feet
long, four feet wide, and eight feet high,
holds $50 40 bushels And such a crib
IS $40 inches long, IS inches wide and
90 inches high, containing 1,105, 920
inches. Divide that by 3,SSS, and it
will give 2S4 40 bushels. Again, if
your wagon bed is II feet long, , feet
wide, and Is inches deep, multiply 132
inches long, SO inches wide, II inches
deep, together, and it will make S07S4
inches. Divide by 1855, and the bed
will hold 20 70 bushels.
PROTECTING TREES FROM RABBITS
Trees from three TO ten years old,
which farmers value at several dollars
during the fall, are often found to be
ruined in the spring. Blood or manure
applied to the bark in the early winter
will generally protect until the smell is
hold some. An all-winter protection is
better. Some use poplar bark; others
ceder bark. Would not building-papcr be
a good protection? | have seen apple
trees protected by cheap barrels. When
the tree is small both heads are taken
out and the barrel pressed over the tree.
When the trees is larger, Il hoop is
taken from each end, and every hoop is
nailed to every stave; then every hoop
is sawed off between two slaves; you can
thus spring your barrel around the tree.
Then the upper and lower hoops are re-
placed and nailed A barrel thus pre-
pared will protect from hogs, sheep, rab-
bits and the sum- Correspondence Of the
Westaa Rural
Dust FOR ANIMALS IN WINTER-The
almost indispensable necessity of an
ample supply of dust for animals in
winter, is understood by very few stock
growers. All sorts of animals delight in
a dust bath. Chickens who have easy
and continual access to it will never be
troubled with vermin either i'll their
houses or on their bodies. Cattle delight
to stand in a dusty road, scraping it up
with their fore feet and fiinging it all
over their backs. The cheapest and
most effectual cure for lice on cattle is
! to scatter quart of perfectly dry dust
along the spine from the horns to the
tail. In winter, when they cannot get
! it, many animals become covered with
vermin. The writer has a rain-tight
wagon shed, with strips eight inches
wide nailed close to the ground on three
sides, into which half dozen wheel
barrow loads of dust are placed every
! fall. Here the poultry delight to wal
/ low, and roll in the sun. 1t is also kept
and used on all the other stock at stated
; intervals, and no vermin of any sort is
ever seen on any of them. This is at
once the most certain remedy for these
1 pests, while the stock thrives by being
supplied with what they would surely
supply themselves with, but which they
cannot when restrained and tied up III
the yards and stables-Prairie Farmer.