Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
FARM NOTES.

DON'T neglect the war on the weeds.
The number of cattle now in Texas.
according to one estimate, is about 5000,
900.
Nothing adds morei to the value of a
farm than good roads in the country sur
rounding it.
One of the best uses for poultry manure
at this season is to apply it to the cucum-
Der vines.
Hardly anything is of more Importance
to the cultivator of the soil than the quail
ity of the seed.
A Minnesota farmer believes that no
fodder Is equal to green amber cane for
producing butter.
Milk being complete food, it can not
be produced unless complete food is Civ
en- the COWS for that purpose.
Cows like cabbage leaves, but it is bet
ter to feed them just after milking, other
wise they may flavor the milk.
1t costs fifty-nine cents to grow bush
ell of wheat in Michigan, twenty-nine
cents for oats and twenty-one cents for
corn.
Another new breed of beef cattle, call
ed the Sussex, is being introduced in
this country as a rival of the shorthorns
and Herefords.
Rye land should be plowed early, so as
to allow the sod Or stumble to decompose.
If plowed again before the rye is seeded
the crop will be largely benefited there
by.
An authority states that the last fourth
of the milk from the COW should be saved
in a separate vessel, as this portion of the
milk is so rich m cream that it pays to
churn it all, and thereby save the labor
of skimming.
By keeping land in clover. cutting the
first crop and blowing under the second,
a New York farmer produced 100 bushels
of xshelled corn per acre. The fertilizer
used was handful of hen manure around
each hill of corn.
Animals have their personal Or individ-
ual peculiarities of tastes and habits, the
same as persons. Therefore in feeding
you want to notice that some animals are
more dainty as to their choice than 9th
ers. Their likes should be respected.
! Quite a number of experiments were
tried last season in the planting of Hub
bard squashes among potatoes. It was
determined that the squash vines were a
| benefit to the potatoes, as they kept the
ground moist during the weeks of drouth
| besides large and paying crop of
| squashes were gathered with only the cul-
tivation necessary for potatoes.
According to the recent discussion a
| grass in order to be most valuable for
pasture must possess the following char
acteristics: Be we'll suited to the locality
but as to soil and climate, nutricious
palatable, capable of growing continu-
ously, so as to constantly renew its foil
age when clipped, endure the tramping
of animals, and be easily propagated.
The Home and Farm gives the follow
ing novel method of making cabbages
head: It says that when the plants are
about eight inches high, and have formed
woody stalks, make incisions in the
stalks with the small blade of a penknife,
insert small pieces of wood of the size of
a match and break them off. This checks
the growth, and hard heads will be
formed"
The owner of cherry tree, which
stood in the way of a German railroad
extension (near Niederlahnstein) is said
to have asked 5000 for the tree. Experts
were appointed, and as he showed that for
years it had yielded him crops, each of
which had been sold for a sum equivalent
to the interest on the amount asked, they
agreed to award him $500 and, the tree
had to go.