Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-11-07
AGRICULTURAL.

" AoilS6, I)dISillpo d4C 81 NSis COlAA-
mon horse food.
An orchard and vineyard of ten
acres, lying a short distance north of
Stockton. CAL, was recently sold for
$500 an acre.
Owing to the famine in China a
large demand for breadstuffs from the
Pacific slope has been developed, and
ali the steamers from San Francisco for
China go out fully loadedwith flour.
Modoc county, Cal, boasts timothy
% feet Ia height, with heads Z inches
IN length; oats over feet in height, and
thick as they can stand; and club wheat
that will yield from fifty to sixty bush
els.
A superior grating wax may be made
by mixing one pint linseed oil, six
| pounds rOsin, and one pound beeswax.
The oil will admit of a much greater
proportion of rosin than where tallow
/ is used.
| There are in Ireland 581 1868 small
! farmers, being 30 more than in 1876.
! Of these 81, 90 hold not above 1 acre,
,637 not above acres, 1897 not
above 10 acres, 73, 024 not above 80
acres, 22,14I not above 200 acres, and
/ J, 51S above 500 acres.
Manure applied 10 anything now will
work wonders. FURNISHES the means
and lets the plant know beforehand,
that business is gong to be brisk next
season
Here's big farm, if floating para
graph is to believed: A farm sixty
miles long and ten wide, in one tract,
mostly fenced, is that of Miller & Lux,
cattle mOnopolists of California. They
nave $4,000 head Of stock, Own 700 900
acres of choice land, and are rated as
worth $15,000000
Mr.. Josiah Hopes, writing of ''Hide-
bound Trees" says: Like every other
gardening one ration, this, too. is liable
to be overdOne, bat slight cut. merely
through the outer layer of bark, when
the tree is suffering, will bring relief,
and so far as [ have observed, does no
evil"
On stiff clays, barley may yield a
greater produce, but it is of co2rser
quality. On light chalky soils, it is
skinned, rich in color, and, though
llSIlG III weight, Wei ddtpL6u IOI Hldlt-
ing. On loomy lands and sandy marls.
it assumes a greater plumpress, yet,
still retains its mailing quality.
One great leak On the farm Is found
in the way stock is kept. Some try to
stop the leak by seeing how small a
quantity of food will sustain life, and
often succeed by having their stock al
most entirely leak away; whilst their
neighbor who feeds bOunteously does
not have this leak tC contend With, but
generally has a profit to apply to the
J stoppage of other leaks.
To keep sweet potatoes, take com
mon sand and have it perfectly dry;
J then dig the potatoes before the vines
are frosted, or as soon thereafter as pos
sible; have the potatoes perfectly dry
and then take boxes or barrels and put
in layer of sand, then layer of pota-
toes, and so on until the barrel is full
t Then place in dry place where they
: will not freeze.
"RURAL, Jr.," says: eve have
, learned by experience that early gath
| cred winter apples keep the best. AS
5 soon as fruit has attained its full size
7 we advise that it be picked. In Central
[ Illinois this will occur by the last Of
the present month; j. further north a
} few days earlier. A few days neglect
5 Of this important duty may cause the
l premature ripening Of the crop"
A WRITER in an exchange says: Elk
perience gained thepast season goes tC
show that liberal manuring is the mos
t economical. We can see in the pas
harvest where So 90 worth more fertil
t izer per acre would have given twice
that value of grain. There can be
Y no doubt that artificial manuring
|, must become part Of our settled prac
tice in the future, and making few
careful experiments will give valuable
experience as to the use of these fertil
: izers.
! A weed may properly be defined tC
be "a plant out of place" A beautiful
rose in the middle of a cornfeld, where
it has no business atall, but on the con
trary, is In the way, and interferes with
the proper culture Of the grain, woulC
be a weed. The writer knows of a vine
= yard ofseyeral acres now overgrown witt
asparagus seedlings, which have sprouteC
from seeds droppedby birds. These are
, of course, most excellent in their place
but where they are now are nothing
more nor less than weeds.
AS an illustration of the rapidity
with which sheep husbandry is advanc
ing in Texas, Sheep Hllsbandry IN tn
South says that in 1866 San Antonio re
ceived but 100000 pounds of wool
which was sent through Galveston
In 1877 she received 100000 pounds
; The wool of Nueces and the neigh
> boring counties is shipped from Corpus
: Christi. In 1866 there were shipped
only 100000 pounds. This year there
will be shipped 6.500,000.
Mr.. Cheever, of the NelO England Far
neer, very justly says that " the question
whether butter made from milk that il
closed in tight cans as soon as drawn, il
E every way equal to that made from
| milk which is exposed to the open air
is, we believe, still an undecided one
Much would depend upon the purity
Of the milk when brought to the milk
room. and also upon the purity of the
, air in which it is set. We never drank
sWeeter or better milk than that which
: had been submerged in Cooley cans
| within ten minutes after being drawn
from the COW"
!, - The Hashery.
5 Full of interest-A long note over
4 dine