Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-10-31
AGRICULTURAL.

/ agriculture Is an ART tilal must DE
studied, practiced and picked up.
1t is said that there have been more
farm buildings erected in the western
states the present year than during any
season since the war
An Iowa farmer worth $4,000 started
out four years ago to secure revenge
on neighbor. The lawyers have all of
it now, while he has the revenge.
1t is said that bag of hops, as large
as the two fists, placed in a grain bin,
will kill or drive away every grub or
Weevn in the bin. The dead can be
removed by tanning.
Mr.. F. D. BOLTON, OF Stephenson
county, ILL.,, threshed 113 bushels of
spring wheat, from less than four acres
of land, as the product Of four bushels
of wheat sown.
Canadian farmers say six bushels of
peas are equal to ten bushels of corn
for fattening hogs, and that peas will
yield a larger number of bushels per
acre than corn. The pork made from
peas is most excellent.
| One-half of the harvest work in Ellis
county, Kansas, was performed by Rus
sian women. a Russian wife is the
husbands companion and slave. Her
position is removed but one degree from
the Indian squaw.
The produce of scrub COW by a
thoroughbred bull will be halfblood.
This, coupled with thoroughbred bull,
would produce three-quarter blood
The next cross would be seven-eighths.
A correspondent of the Country Gent
Lema1 tersely remarks that the "com
ing farmer" will be the man who sees
IN his land and stock so much capital
that must return a fair interest to him,
besides paying him for his labor and
repairing worn out material.
It is an interesting fact, and one that
points out an intimate similarity be-
tween the laws Of nutrition for animals
and for vegetables, that composition of
milk, the first pabulum of animal life, is
very similar to the composition Of veg
etable seeds.
Probably the largest sale of cattle
ever made IN the Wabash Valley, Indi-
ana, was made by Moses Flowler. w. S.
q J. IL. Vannata, of Lafayette, lately.
The herd numbered $500 head Of fat
steers graded in weight and quality
from 50 623 to 81 % per 100. The sale
amounted to about $4,000.
CHARCOAL, pulverized and mixed with
water, is now highly recommended as an
agent for relieving cattle suffering from
any arrangement of the stomach, such
as bloat or hoven, etc. This should be
remembered. There is no doubt of its
efficacy, if abundance ofconcurrent tes-
timony can be relied upon.
! Score another for the United States.
American agricultural machinery in
France has captured eight out of the
eleven prizes offered by the agricultural
society for exceptional merit, while the
United States agricultural display in the
Exhibition has been awarded diploma
of honor, and the United States Educa-
tional exhibition gold medal.
Pork differs from beef and mutton,
not in flavor only, but in the larger pro-
portion of fat to lean flesh. This is due
both to the nature Of the animal in its
tendency to store up fat, and to the
habit of so feeding and treating it that
! this tendency may be fully developed.
The pig stores up in It's body three times
more of its food than the OK, and by so
much is it more cheaply and quickly
grown and fattened.
A. S. Wilson, an English scientist,has
made an elaborate circulation to show
the marvellous industry of bees. Start
ing with the ascertained fact that 125
heads of clover yield approximately 15,-
432 grains of sugar, and that the pro-
portion of sugar in honey may be
roughly estimated at 70 per cent he
finds that 100000 clover flowers must
be visited by bees to obtain one pound
of honey from that source.
The horses on the Philadelphia rail
ways are not fed with oats, chopped
corn and hay being found to be more
desirable fodder. They fatten more
rapidly on this food, which it is said
gives them greater strength and endur-
ance than other. The cost, too, of corn
is much less than oats. Fifty years ago
the principal food for work horses was
cut straw and bran, mixed and moist
ened, with the addition of corn in the
ear.
The yield of the California vineyards
for 1875 was about 100000 gallons.
That state has vinicultural land enough
to make as much wine as France, Ger
many, Hungary and Spain combined
could produce; and there is no doubt,
among those who have given the sub
ject the closest study, that California
will in some future time out-rank every
other wine-growing region in the world
The foot hills of that state, which are
held at one-tenth the price of land in
France, have vast productive capacity
and seldom fail to produce a good
crop.