Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-06-06

and that kept up till the plants obtain a
good catch and send-off. They will be-
gin to furnish fruit about the middle Or
10th Of August under latitude 80 degrees,
and continue till the frost season. They
may be used after they have attained a
diameter of from three to four inches.
They are generally cooked by slicing
half an inch thick and frying in butter,
or batter. The taste for them, like
that for some other vegetables and
fruits, Is an acquired one, but when ac-
quired holds on the individual with the
greater strength.-Home and Farm.
CARE OF HIGH CONDITIONED Cows
At this season it is timely to warn the
owners of COWS in high condition, or of
heavy mixers, to guard carefully against
plethora and suppression of the natural
secretlons just after calving. Many of
the best cattle in the land, those ON
which the hope of the improvement Of
our herds must mainly rest, are lost to
their owners and to the country for
want of a little care at this critical pc
Rod. If fully developed COW is fleshy,
full of blood, and thriving at the period
of calving, and ifshe passes through the
ordeal easily, with little expenditure Of
effort or of blood, she should be placed
on the harest possible feeding for week
after parturition; and itwere we'll if the
same restriction should be maintained
for five or six days before that act as
well. A very limited supply of hay,
sprinkled Or scalded, may be given dur
ing this period, but all grain and roots
should be withheld. If the cow is al
ready at grass she should be taken up
until six days after caIving. If the
bowels are not already really loose, a
pound of Glauber salts should be given
as soon as the act of parturition has
been accomplished, and the udder
should be stripped clean three times a
day during the next critical week. The
COW should be alike protected from ex-
cessive heat of the sun, by shady cor
ners, and from cold, chilling draughts,
winds, and rains; also from damp bed.
and from close, impure air. By the end
of the first week the danger is virtually
over, and the COW may be gradually
put upon the most nourishing diet, and
the secretion of milk stimulated as far
as may be desired.-Ndtionm Live Stock
Journal
RENEWING GRASS LANbs-I have late
ly received many inquiries on different
subjects, among which is the best way
to renew old sod without breaking it up.
to make good grass grow. This ques-
ton | am not able to answer, for my eX-
perience teaches me to turn it over, and
give thorough good mixing of manure,
compOsted one shovelfull of loan to one
of dung, the whole mixed with salt.
The field is then reseeded with good
orchard grass seed and clover, at the
rate of about twelve pounds Of the
latter, and p or bushels of
the former, to the acre. Let the
land be thoroughly rolled before the
seed is sown, and afterwards narrowed
thoroughly with fine tooth harrow I'M
til it is we'll covered. [ would not adj
wise sowing any grain with it. If for
pasture, it should have Il mixture of
different kinds of grass seed, but if for
moving | do not think it should have
anything except the orchard grass and
clover, as the clover and orchard grass
vii! come in early in June for cutting,
and in the fall will make fine feed to
turn cattle on. A great many persons
will say it is wrong to feed off the after
grass, but my experience is that the
more you feed orchard grass, the more
it will start out and become thick and
matted. The question has been asked
what to do in a case where there is not
the dung OF compost. | certainly say
that have experienced the very best
results from blood guanO made into q
compost and spread on before rain
storm. May 9Th I used 3,400 pounds of
it in this way, and l find where the
blood guano is used on pasture, the cat
tie like it much better, and will eat
much closer where it is put. Isuppose
it is the bone or salts of the blood guano
which it contains. [ can say that any
one using it just at this season, on the
pasture or moving land, will be bounti-
fully repaid for it before fall.-W. Gro
sier, IN Country Gentleman.