Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-16
For Farmers.

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Oats grown on clay land make the
best meal. keep longest, and bring the
highest price.
Some dairymen estimate that butter
milk is worth one-qHarter to One-half
more, and others twice as much as
skim milk.
Arkansas lands are now somewhat
in demanS-those located in the cotton
belt--by capitalists who intend engag-
ing in cotton culture.
| In spite of drouth and chinch bugs.
Kansas, according to the latest relia-
BILE estimates, will have this season
about 100,000,000 bushels Of corn.
When farmer neglects or refuses
| cooperating with his brother farmers
he strikes blow at the advancement
of his class and becomes his own worst
enemy.
One dollars worth of food when the
COW is dry is worth $150 after she
COM es in. An animal in poor condition
can not digest as much food as one in
good condition.
! A black walnut grove that was plant
ed by Wisconsin farmer about twenty
years ago on some waste land, recently
sold for $27, 900. The trees are now
from 16 to 20 inches through.
If ewes suffer from an excess of milk
or inflammation of the udder on &C
count of weakness or loss of the lambs,
the milk should be drawn either by
hand or by substituting an orphan
lamb.
France and.Italy have hitherto pro-
duced sugar only from the beet root.
The sugar cane has lately been intro
duced in both countries, and its rapid
growth threatens the beet root in
dustry.
Merino ewes that have been bred to
Cotswold bucks will bring forth lambs
that will require copious nourishment.
The Merino mother is a small sheep.
Such cross needs the watchful eye of
the farmer.
Alsike clover is highly praised by
those who have grown it. The vines
often attain length Of five or six feet.
Used as pasturage it makes a good
feeding plant. Ten pounds is the usual
amount recommended for seeding an
acre.
The breeder who can bring to notice
a breed of fouls that will eat potato
bugs has fortune in his hands. They
are desirable want on all potato fields.
Bugs are usually plenty. Where is the
breed of fouls that will devour them
During the recent Arkansas State
Fair at Little Rock, Sam Morrow, col
ored, of Washington County, took the
first premium on wheat The wheat
was a splendid white variety, and weigh
ed nearly sixty-eight pounds to the
bushel.
One hears great deal nowadays
about the nitrogeneous fertilizer, but
few know Of what they are composed.
The small per cent of nitrogen in fer
tilizers comes from dried blood, flesh,
| fiesh-scrap from tanneries, old leather
and fish refuse. The compound of
nitrogen are ammonia, nitric acid, salt
peter, etc.
| The various trades and occupations
depend in a greater or less degree up
on the farmer for success in their diff.
erent callings, and where will you find
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artisan or mechanic who can say be
does not measure his successes or fail
ure, in greater or less degree, by tie
prosperity or adversely of the farming
community?
If Ohio, in place of her 100000 dogs
was to keep at the same expense the
same number of pigs, the figures would
stand something like this: 300, 900 pigs
Kept one year would dress 10000 600
pounds of pork, worth 81 600, 900. This
would be an actual gain, whereas now
the loss on sheep killed by dogs foots
up into the millions.
To make good butter in winter it is
essential that the cream should not
stand too long before being churned.
The temperature Of the cream when
placed in the churn, should not be
lower than 60 nor higher than 81 de-
grees. Sixty degrees when the churn
is warmed by hot water in the winter
or cooled in summer, is the proper
temperature, and the result will be sat
isfactory.
The value of potash for the grape has
been recognized by cultivators. A curl
OClS pIOOt ID lopOlIou W OhO VI eiiC
French journals. A variety of the
black musket has been found defective
in color where potash is deficient In the
soil, and the writer recommends that
one vine Of this grape be placed in
every grape-house, to show by It's full
or by its deficient color whether the
border for the root has sufficient sup
ply of potash.
When smoking hams something te
burn long time without looking after
is desirable. Corn-cobs are an excel
lent fuel for smoke-houses, burning
slowly long time, and if, after the
heap is well under way in burning, they
J are partly covered with ashes, the time
will be prolonged. Wood will burr
slower if similarly covered. Shaving
and sawdust, as is generally known
are also good, and if covered dowr
pretty we'll to keep the draft from pass
| ing through the heap will last many
hours.
The farmer not only stands in nee6
, | of hor,tu of rofaranoo on stock matters