Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-10-07
FARM NOTES

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in most instances. Money spent in
manure or ashes for orchards is we'll in
vested.
Sixty tons of almonds were gathered
from sixty-five acres on the Oakshade
farm, in Yolo county, Cal, the present
season.
Secure early, before fall rains or winter
SHOWS begin, bountiful supply of dry
straw to be used about and under stock at
night.
Calves must grow all summer to be
worth keeping through the winter, or to
bring anything like remunerative prices
in the autumn.
It has been proven over and over again
that little land well titled is more profit
able than an extended area neglected and
improperly cared for.
Give the young turkeys meat three
times week, and force them in growth
as much as possible, in order TO secure
large size by Thanksgiving.
Do not feed breeding sows very largely
on grain. They may be kept in good con-
dition, but it should be done by more
bulky or partially green food.
Cotton-seed oil sells in London at half
the price of lard oil. It is the low price
of cOtton-seed products that keeps the
price of all other grease down.
Incubator chickens are increasing in
the market every season, and yet the
prices are still very high during the
period between Christmas and June.
mixture of several kinds of grain for
feeding stock is always better than one
kind alone. Variety in grain is as i'm
portant as variety in bulky food.
The one great cause of the small
profits of the majority of small-fruit
the fact that they try to work too much
land.
few sods and a little cow manure
made into heap now where you can
throw kitchen Stops will make an excel
lent compost for your flower pots next
winter.
During the dry seasons a large supply
of fine road dust should be stored away
for winter use as an absorbent. 1t is ex-
celIent in the stalls and also in the manure
heap.
| The best binder Irvine measures from
| go to 700 feet per pound. The cheap
| stuff, that will hardly stand the strain of
| tying but about 47O to 200 feet. Better
| test the Irvine next season before buy
| ing.
| 1t is advised to SOW two bushels of John
son grass seed Sorghum halapense) per
acre in order to get good stand. This
is essentially a Southern grass, and in
that climate thick seeding is essentially
necessary.
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sweetest fruit and remain in bearing the
longest; but many cultivators, who grow
for size and quantity only, believe they
have the best results when growing them
on the level ground.
It is not all in rushing from daylight
till dark, but as much more depends upon
the proper forethought and laying out
of the work-that is, putting thought as
well as muscle into the management of
the farm.
A successful grower of bedding plants
lays two inches in depth of rich, old man
ure over the entire surface of his grounds
before digging over in the spring. 1t is
good time now to start a manure heap
for next years use.
While planting the tree do not try to
rattle the dirt among the roots by max
ing the tree up and down, for this draws
the fine hair-like roots out of place, but
does not push them back; it folds them
up and gets them all out of shape.
) All small apples and others defective
! IN form or damaged by worms have their
best market on the farm as food for ami
) mails. If packed with sound fruit even
in small proportion, they reduce the
price of them all, even to the point OF
loss.
A writer says: Last year we tied our to-
mato vines up to stakes. This year we
have pat three stakes around the hill and
,, nailed hoop on them. 1t keeps the
vines out of the dirt. We hare also mulch
ed them with old pea vines.
Many nurserymen advise transplanting
evergreens in the late summer rather thar
spring, as the pleasant moisture of the
autumn causes them to root well before
+ winter, and they are not first taxed to en-
dure the scorching heat of early sum
I mer.
/ Plans should be laid to prepare tht
3 ground to be planted with raspberries o.
blackberries next spring this fall. If the