Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-05-01
AGRICULTURAL.

elementary ScnOOlS. 1Qere are al
present $4,000 of these schools, each of
which has a garden attached to it, and
Is under the care of a master capable
of imparting knowledge Of the prin-
clpIes of horticulture.
Mr.. MCAFEE. superintendent of the
university of Wisconsin experimental
farm. informs US that for three years
past he has grown lima beans without
poles or stakes, by persistent pinching
back, after they reach the desired
height-about that of common bunch
beans. He is confident the crop is very
perceptibly earlier, and thinks it is in
creased in quantity-the plant being
checked in its growth of vino, expend-
ing its energy in fruit production. On
the farm we saw some so created
that they were well loaded with fruit.
A CURRENT paragraph chronicles the
forced termination Of long-cOntinued
lawsuit between two neighbOring farm
ers in Indiana, all about the contested
ownership of a cow-bell worth So cents.
Not being able to pay fees any longer,
the lawyers refused to serve in the case.
and the litigants were compelled to
compromise, which they did by each
agreeing to pay his own costs, amount
ing to over 81 500 a side" 1t is added
that both men are impoverished"
which suggests Proverbs xvii, IA; Xxx, 8,
and XIV, S.
Four turkeys (says an old raiser)
were confined in pen, and fed on
meal, boiled potatoes and oats. Four
others of the same brood were at the
same time confined in another pen, and
fed daily on the same article, but with
one pint of very finely pulyerized char
coal mixed with their food-mixed
meal and boiled potatoes. They had
also a plentiful supply Of broken char
coal in theirpen. The eight were killed
on the same day, and there was a diff
ference of one and half pounds each
in favor of the fowls which had been
supplied with charcoal, they being
much the latest, and the meat being
superior in point Of tenderness and
flavor.
BETTER THAN SCoLDING-I have
waited for somebody to say
something for farmers boys. The girls
have taken all the attention, and the
boys are left in the cold. l think
fathers would pay their own boys for
something they would get along better,
and boys would stay on the farm and
not go to the OvercroWded city. Now |
hear some father say, "What! Pay my
own boy?" Yes; pay boys that are big
enough to work; not to spend foolishly,
oh, no. but to buy their own clothes,
and you can oversee that boys are what
men are made of, and like little indie
pendence. A little money will do
more good than ever SO much scolding.
To prevent saddle gals the saddle
should be lined with some smooth.
hard substance. Flannel or wooden
cloth is bad. A hard-finished, smooth
rawhide lining, similar to those of the
military saddle is preferable. Then, if
the saddle is poorly fitted to the horses
back, there will be no gals, unless the
horse is very hardly used. Calls should
be washed with soap and water, and
then with solution Of three grains of
copperas or blue vitriol to one table
spoonful of water, which will harden
the surface and help to restore the
growth of the skin. White hairs grow
ing upon CALLED spots can not be pre-
vented.-Nebraska Farmer.
TT is we'll known among feeders that
when an animal is once ready for fat
tening, the quicker the process is car
ried on the better and more tender the
meat. Above all, once an animal is
-being fed, it should not be allowed to
shrink during the fattening. 1t is not
only loss of time, but the animal will
not retain that uniform juiciness of flesh
that it otherwise would. If the animal
be intended TO be fed right along from
the calf, plan usually practiced by the
best feeders nowadays, SO that it may
be turned off ripe at not more than
three years old past, it must be forced
right along from the time it is weaned.
In fact the calf should never know the
weaving process.-Prajrie Farmer.
To MAKE feed for chicks, fill bin
with cornmeal, oatmeal and middlings,
each fifty pounds, and bran ten pounds
add and thoroughly incorporate with
the lot three ounces bonemeal and one
ounce best cayenne pepper. Put a pen
of thick milk on the stove till the whey
is formed and it is. scalding hot; add
meal to make q stiff batter, salt a little,
bake in slow oven four hours. If in
setting nests you find clear eggs, add
two or three of them to the mixture be-
fore baking. If you can afford it, add
eggs any way. This cake, wet with
either milk or water, or crumbled dry,
is the most economical feed that can be
given; economical not for price, but be-
cause it gives the birds growth material
in perfection and in shape that per.
mits waste from neither loss nor fer
meutation. Enough can be made al
once to last week.. If sour milk is
not obtainable, make a soup of a few
scraps of meat boiled to rags; add pc,
tato parings, then add meal and bake
as before = WestSr1a- Ra.rai.
SEEDLEss APPLEs-A writer in the
Prairie Flrnaer, from Augusta, Iowa,
gives the following account of the pc
culiarities of grating: 81 was told
when boy, by the man of whom /
learned to graft, that if [ could get a
graft to grow top end down, the apples
would nave no seeds in. | got one to
grow by the whip-slice mode Of graft
ing. The limbs grew down and
turned up. The apples had seeds ike
other apples. When living in Bush,
Chautaqua county, N. Y, a neighbor. a
great horticulturist, budded all one day,
trying to get two kinds united in one,
by splitting buds. He succeeded in
getting one to grow; the kinds were
Rhode Island Greening and Tallman
Sweet. The apple is somewhat seal
loped in form; three ridges and three
hollows from stem to blossom. The
hollows are yellow and sweet; the ridge 5
are green and sour. l have the kind
here; it is q good bearer. Our fruit