Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-27
AGRICULTURAL.


OF MACHISERY-HoW To EXTERMIN-
ATE RATS, THE PESTS : ADDITIONAL
CARE OF STOCK At THIS SEASON OF
THE Wharf.-The VALUE OF SHEEP =
THE VALUE OF MANURE = SALT AS A
MEDICINE. ETC, ETC.
Joseph Harris says that an excellent
manure for the gardener and fruit
grower is made by mixing two or three
bushels of bone dust through load of
stable manure and letting the whole
fern ent together. The bone dust in
creases the fermentation, and the heat
ing manure softens the bone. The whole
becomes a strong fertilizer if the heap
Is properly attended to.
We have always thought it paid fair
profit for farmers to save their own
seeds. thine is money" says your
correspondent, when writing upon this
subject. and if he will only go to the
trouble to raise his seed In the future,
he will save both time and money, and
the vexation caused by buying seed
that won't come up when planted.
Suppose you want to cure 20 pounds
of beef nicely without the use of pickle,
this is the way to do it: One pint of
salt, one teaspoonful OF saltpetre, quar-
ter pound Of brown sugar; divide the
mixed ingredients into three parts, rub
them into the beef on three. successive
days. The meat will be ready to hang
up IN one week.
The chief solid fat found in butter is
the principal ingredient in palm oil,
while the chief liquid fat abounds in
olive oil and the soluble aromatic oils
make its gilt edge value, are found
abundantly in the cocoanut.
One great mistake in pig-breeding is
in having the breeding stock too young
in breeding the sows too young, be-
fore they have become welI-grown and
matured, and also in buying young
breeding soWs instead of flll-grown
ones.
Newly-painted rooms are very I'M
pleasant for several days, but if a hand
full of hay is strewn on the floor upon
which is sprinkled little chloride of
lime, after a couple of hours the often
sive smell will have entirely disap-
peared. ~.
Crude, unfermented manure and
much moisture tends to produce soft,
rapid growth in young trees, that con-
tinues late in the season, rendering
them liable to injury from severe cold.
Live stock will require more attention
now as the nights get colder and longer,
and this attention it is necessary should
be given by the owner or some one
with a direct interest in its well-doing.
1t is worth remembering that an ami
NAL in good condition at the start will
keep ia good health and vigor on less
| food than will be required to bring it
up again if 1T once falls off and runs
down in flesh.
The value of salt as a cure for bron-
chial affection, and ordinary sore
throat, can only be properly estimated
by those patients who, after having be-
come receptacles for troches, pectorals
and cough syrups, find instant relief
by swallowing single pinch of salt
The disagree&ble tickling Of the throat,
the hacking cough, even bleeding at
the lungs, is ameiorated by one or two
pinches of salt. Try it, We lovers Of
nostrums and patent medicine, and
your throat disease will yield before it's
simple touch like magic, your body be
strengthened, and your purse be none
! the lighter for the expenditure-Er.
One of the advantages of keeping
sheep is that qualities of lands and crops
can be utilized by them, which other
wise would be comparatively proftless.
While they are among the most profit
able stock, they actually improve the
soil, SO that more grass and more mon
ely are realized with less labor. A
writer remarks, that pound Of NUT
ton can be raised as cheap as pound
of beef or pork, and is worth equally as
much in the market, and the wool is
extra profit. Use thoroughbred males
of any of the popular breeds, and in a
few years your sheep will be a source
of pride as we'll as proft.-Er.
! II the object be to force pigs from
the time they are born with view to
making pork quickly, the less exercise
they have the better, but TO have
healthy meat, with the right proper
ton of Jean in it, they are best turned
out In grass lot or orchard where
they can root or run. The exercise
keeps them healthy and free from
cramp or rheumatism, and the grass
they eat tends to keep their digestive
powers in a good state.
Be careful to give the cattle some
dry food when the pastures fall off,
even if it is only run at the straw
pile, and do not neglect to provide
shelters against storms and high cold
winds, now liable to prevail. When
pumpkins have been raised now is the
| time to feed them, as many are lost if
kept In feeding to sows with young
pigs remove the seeds, as they are
diuretic in their quality and affect
them injuriously. Pumpkins are very
helpful in starting hogs intended to be
killed for pork this fall, but they should
have also good rations of corn. This
is a good season for thinning out your
COWS and getting rid Of the poor ones.
Lambs should be kept in a pasture
separate from the older sheep and fed
some bran or corn and oats mixed, as
they need this help to the growth of
their frames.
Industrious housewives, who are
given to oiling and polishing furniture,
will do we'll to follow this bit of advice
from the PrnticdE Farmer:
DIRTY or oily cloths or rags should
not be allowed to lie in outbuildings in
small piles. There is great danger of
spontaneous combustion. If you wish
to know what spontaneous combustion
is, ask your druggist for bit of phos-
phorus the size of pea. Keep 1t I'M
der water until won wish to soc If h11rr