Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
FOR THE FARMER.

Oats are referred to as ga very ex-
naustive crop"
It's said that corn cobs dipped in
coal tar and placed by the cucumber
vines drive away the striped bugs.
Cut your first crop Of clover and
plow the second under if you wish to
enrich your land with green manure
In sewing Lima beans set the poles,
of length of eight or ten feet, in the
center Of the hills before putting In
the seed.
April is the best month in the year
for selling broilers, although good
prices are obtained any time from
June to July.
1t is not to the credit of farmers
generally that they are unable to
give definite information in regard
to the condition of their business.
Farmers make mistake when they
hire ''cheap" help. That which is
cheap can not in this place Any more
than in other places be good.
Young clover should never be pas
tured. It. is SO tender plant while
young that the trampling of hoofs
will greatly injure if not destroy it.
Celery seed is often sown to heavy.
Half an ounce of seed is enough to
SOW under three 0X6 sashes. and will
produce on an average 1000 plants.
When setting hens do not allow to
many eggs in the nest. Better results
will be obtained from ten eggs, as a
rule, than from thirteen or more.
Says the n. E. Farmer: Neutral
stock" is the term a Chicago render
ing establishment applies to its lard,
which is prepared and sold for making
country butter.
It is thought thai ''the farmer who
has frst~class farm implements is
justified in disliking to lend them.
They are never SO good after they
have been borrowed"
The information is that "buck-
wheat should not precede either corn
OF wheat. 1t makes the soil to light
and porous for wheat, and corn never
does well after buckwheat."
It is said that ''if rye is kept closely
graged and no seed allowed to form,
its roots will live several years and
form a turf, the young leaves of
which are eagerly eaten by all kinds
of live stock"
The cutters of the cow stables
should be kept very clean in order to
allow the liquids to flow into the watts
unobstructed, from whence they
should be taken ,,and abso rbed by
suitable materials.
In the Western States the Percher>
on and Clydesdale horses are fast
supersedng the native animals, the
consequence being larger and more
powerful horses, and which are also
better adapted for general farm pur-
poses.
1.-TWO fields, lying side by side,
were," it is said, ''sown in wheat.
One was plowed and narrowed the
usual way, while the other was har-
rewed five times. The result was
that the latter gave seven bushels
more to the acre than the former"
It is said that there is no better
index to the health of cattle and
horses than the condition of the hair.
Indigestion and all other diseases that
farm stock is heir to, even in short
time is plainly Indicated by a rough,
harsh, coat of the animal.
There is a great difference in the
feed of COWS in various milk tests, and
the results are as often tests, of differ
ent kinds of feed and skill of the feed
er as the capacity of the COW. If all
milk and butter tests were made of
grass as feed their value to most COW
buyers would be greater.
A COW attached to the gubernatorial
mansion at Jefferson City, Mo, hav-
ing been milkeG five years by con-
victs, now refuse to allow anybody III
citizens dress to approach!her.