Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-01-31
FARM AND GARDEN.

/ PoULTRY.-Thc egg basket can only b,
filled now, by giving warm feed and pro
viding a warm, dry house. Clean on
the roosting places every week.
SALT FOR GRAPE VINES. Table salt i
highly recommended by French grape
grower for the vine disease of fungus
growth and rotting handful of sal
around the roots of each vine.
CARE OF SHEEP. Sheep require plen
ty of fresh air. Their warm coats pro
tect them from the cold, and if they
have a dry yard, they are better ou
of doors in fine weather than in a close
shed.
CATCH CROPs.-Thesea are turnips, peas
or buckWheat, sown between the row O.
corn at the last cutivating. Sometimes
this may be done with profit. If the
ground is rich, and weeds would grow
there may as well be something usefu
grown in place of them, and we have
had 500 or 600 bushels of white turnips
per acre, grown in this manner. which
were worth nearly as much as the corn
BREEDS OF HoRsEs.-The horses bred
in Africa, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, Asiatic
Turkey, and in Persia are all of the same
family, constituting the race known as
of Eastern blood, or the Arab horse.
Whether it be known under the name
of the Turkish, Numidian, Barb or
Arab Of Syria matters little these are
mere pretixes, and the name of the
family is the horse of the East. The
other variety above the Mediterranean
is the European horse.
SWAMP Muck AS MANURE.-Farmers
who may wish to avail themselves of
the fertilizing qualities Of the muck of
convenient swamp, will note that such
manure is only advantageous under GER
tain circumstances. If the vegetable
matter is not fully decomposed. or con-
tains much fibrOus material, it is hardly
probable that it would be of much value
as manure on land. On the contrary,
if very fine in texture, and where more
or less animal matter has been washed
among it, much better result would
be promised Much would depend also
on the character of the soil. If already
we'll supplied with vegetable matter, the
effect would be less than on old, worn
land, with vegetable matter all worked
out. Any kind Of swamp muck is use
full in stables, manure yards, or in COM
post heaps, if previously we'll dried, but
is nearly useless if wet.
WHITE CLOVER IN THE PASTURE
Every pasture should contain some
white clover. 1t will afford more feed
at certain times Of the year than any
kind of grass or clover. 1t will not
flourish on damp soils or those that are
very poor. 1t will do very we'll in
partial shade, as a grove or orchard, but
to make the highest excellence it should
be sown where it will have the advant-
age Of full sunlight. 1t is easy to secure
patches of white clover in a pasture by
scattering seed in early spring on bare
places and brushing it in. One pound
Of seed is sufficient to start white clover
in a hundred places in a pasture. The
disposition of this clover is to spread by
means of the branches that run along
the surface of the ground and take root.
Having secured a sod a foot square, it
will soon extend SO as to cover first a
ward, then a rod
FLOATING APIARY. -This project we
believe has never as yet been put in
practice in our own country. The idea
is to have an apiary ON large, fiat
bottomed boat or raft, WHICH is to be
hOated along on some of our large riv-
ers, so as to be constantly in the midst
of the greatest flow of honey almost the
season through. 1t IS well known that
the white clover commences to bloom
first in the extreme south. and then
gradually moves northward if we could
be in the midst of this yield during its
height, for six or eight months, it would