Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-03-06
AGRICULTURAL,

labor and strength of muscle.
CoMFoRTABLE stables save fodder.
well housed the cattle don't require sc
much hay to keep UP the vital heat.
A New YORK firm has in operation q
hog-scraping machine which does the
labor of twelve men, and is capable Of
scraping $500 hogs day.
The first volume of the Clydesdale
horse book, published in England, con-
tains the pedigrees of 1,044 horses
foaled before January l, 1875, and a
history of the breed.
The urine of all animals. especially
those that are highly fed, is more valu-
able as manure than the solid excre-
ments, and should be carefully saved
by suitable absorbents.
TURKOMAN horses are said to be I'M
surpassable for endurance, and thus,
although not handsome, are coming
into high favor for military purposes.
They are mainly of Arabian blood.
TWENTY-FIVE American thorough
breds are now in training in England,
Tor the events of the coming season, of
which Mr.. P Lorillard has nine, Col
Sanford nine, and the Duke of Hamil-
| ton seven.
RED clover hay safely housed and
we'll cured is the best article for sheep.
With a supply of this, and an OCCASION
al sprinkling of corn, sheep will keep as
fat and as we'll as on good pasture.
SANDY loans are best ADAPTED to
graln-growing, as a general rule, while
grass. either as meadow or pasture,
tiourishes we'll on clayey soils. This
should be regarded III making selec-
tons.
CLUB root in the cabbage family is
produced by the fungus. The only
known method of avoiding it is to de-
stroy all diseased plants when setting
them, and to plant only on soil that has
not been occupied by cabbage or tur-
nlps two years previously.
A BARREL of plaster should be kept
in handy place in every stable and
manure cellar. Where this is used
constantly there will be freedom from
the usual strong odor of stables and fer
mentlng manure, and a saving of val
liable material which would otherwise
escape.
A SILVER cup is awarded yearly to
the individual who sells the greatest
amount of live stock in money value,
in Wellingborough market, England,
from December to December. The |
winner for 1873 was Mr.. J. L. Wright, |
whose yearly sales were over $4,000.
A WATERPROOF leather boot, is quite
as uncomfortable tight as rubber, for
some persons. A little meats foot oil
only little-applled occasionally in
time of need, repels wet for the present
and still leaves the leather soft and |
pleasantly porous for ordinary dry
weather uses.
The DIFFERENCE BETWEEN COOP AND
BAD CoWs.-In the last number of the
Monthly Bulletin, published under the
auspices of the American Jersey Cattle
Club, is an account Of the yield of a |
dairy of grade and thoroughbred Jer-
sey COWS in Maine, which goes to prove
all that we have said regarding their ex-
cellence for butter. The owner of the |
herd is Mr.. g. M. Gowell, of Bowdoin,
and he remarks that they entered upon
their years work with very lettle or no
rest, some of them not having been dry
for years. Their average product
for old and young &C VS. was 500
pounds during the year. No attempt
was made to feed high, but the aim was
simply to furnish them a good and
supply of food; to keep
them warm IN the winter, and, in fact,
comfortable all the year round. Now
the fact that in the address
of Mr.. Garder, the president of the Min
nesota Dairymen's Association, the
statement was made that the average
yield of Minnesota COWS was only 81
pounds year, it is easy to estimate the
loss such dairy stock is to the
state. Were it not for their increase, it
is evident that no matter what the price
of hay and grain, they must be con-
tinual source of loss to their owners.
Ten cents per pound Mr.. Gardner esti-
mates the average price of their butter,
Or a total for each COW of SIS. 10 a year.
Just about what the shrewd butter
makers of the Iowa creameries, who
get % and 80 cents pound for their
product, get from their COWS IN a single
month. The American Jersey Cattle
Club are doing a noble work in their
efforts to disseminate the jersey stock
IN its purity, and next week we shall
speak more particularly of their field
and their labor.
CLYDEsDALE AND PERCHERON HORSES
ARE THEY WHAT WE Want ?-Are {
5he Clydesdale and Percheron horses ]
he best and most useful for business of {
Ill kinds In this country? There has j
been great mania in this country for &
hose kinds of horses. Experience and
sense have demonstrated that |
he most valuable horse is the one that |
n form, size, action, constitution and t
is best suited for the greatest I
lumner of uses. The Clydesdale or {
Percheron, with ton of weight on t
yreat beefy legs, with round bones, have '
been in much demand. Farmers have 6
wanted them to drew tons of produce {
It load, but time will prove that such '
egs on hard roads remain free from {
yens and blemishes for short periods s
)nly, and soon show indications of fail /
Ire in their limbs. Their unusual and T
excessive weight of body enables them r
o draw large loads, but their gait is :
low. They are wholly unfit for the
addle or for pleasure or business driv- 4
n.y. anu dTS Sulteu dIOue W Tie uTdy III C
arge villages or cities, where the loads L
re heavy and trips short. You can see a
It any fair in the west these mountains V
# horse-fesh on exhibition, that never n
lid labor enough to pay for feed of Il
ats, hop and jump about as though a
hey would tear the world to pieces; but
ust put them to snug work for one or "
wo hours and their pluck and vim are ''
Il taken out OF them, and they will n