Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-02-25

FARM NOTES,

FARM NOTES,
1t is useless to expect a crop of red
raspberries where suckers are allowed
10 grow freely and cultivation is not
given. Planted five feet each way in
straight rows both ways, and cult
waited with a sharp tooth implement
thst will keep all suckers off between
the hills, and only three or four canes
allowed to grow in the hill with the
bushes well mulched, a paying crop
May be expected each year.
Vegetable matter in the soil is abso.
lutely essential to the growth of the
higher order of vegetation. Where
this is wanting, commercial manures
may be added in any quantity with
no appreciable result in benefitine
crops. But supply the needed organ.
ic matter and the growth and luxur.
lance of the crops will surprise you.
The object of fertilization is to insure
an abundance of elements going to
form vegetation.
Rough lands can best be utilized by
pasturing. The natural toughness OF
the lard is subdued in this way, and
the growth of bushes and other unde.
sirable plants kept down by constant
treading and feeding. And stock can
pick about among stumps and stones
where the pillow could not be run.
While the stock is a good thing for
the rough pasture, the rough past
ure is not always the best thing for
the stock.
Breeding sows and store hogs should
not be neglected now, but should re-
cceive good attention, be well provid-
ed with warm shelter, and be well fed.
All kinds of stock, in fact, should re-
ceive the best of care and be kept con-
stantly improving. For the swine a
little powdered sulphur in the Stops
once day or three times a week will
be of great benefit. Let them have
free access to some charcoal; also to
an abundance of liquid.
The way to make pure grape wine.
says D. Beecher, Secretary Of the
Pleasant Valley Wine Company,
Steuben County. N. Y, is simply to
express the juice from the grapes, put
it into a clean cask and let it fermeut.
When clear, rack it off into another
clean cask, and you have a pure, new
wine. If there is more sugar than
can be fermented, you have a sweet
wine; otherwise it will be dry. This
is the process known to Noah and the
other fellows of his day; but since
that time the secret fellows have in
vented other and cheaper methods,
the secret of which | have not yet
learned.
At a meeting of farmers of London,
Ont, Mr.. B. Colt, of Arizona, read a
paper on gooseberries, in which he
claimed that they could be made to
pay over 5000 acre. He said the
plants had retained their vitality for
twenty-five years, but new paintings
should be made every ten or twelve
years. After the wood bears three or
four years 1t may be cut out and the
young growth will take it's place.
White hellebore will destroy the saw
fly, but the green fruit worm must be
picked off. The best soil is rich,
drained, deeply worked
clay. The annual pruning consists
in moderately shortening the sum-
mer's growth and thinning out the
new canes where they are crowded.
A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman says: eff you find sick
hog do not remove him, but remove
all the rest; this is very important.
Divide your herd into two or three
parts, and put each one in q new and
separate yard or apartment, supplied
With new troughs, pals, ETC., and
hen avoid entering Or allowing any
one else to enter the vacated yards.
With carbolic acid, diluted in water,
n proportion of a teaspoonful of the
ormer to two quarts of the latter.
little can be done in the way of cur
ng a sick hog, and all attention
hould be given to preventing hogs
rom getting the disease.
DR.. Sturtevant, at the New York
station, has been investi-
rating the effects of exposure upon
he value of clover hay. While he
discovered that after whole months |
exposure there is but very little chem
cal change, he finds that the COWS re-
used the exposed portion, and en- di-
testing the different samples artif-
tally, he found the reason for their /
epugnance, which was that while in |
ordinary good hay over e per cent.
# the albumineids is digestible and
valuable as food only 40 per cent. of
hose contained in the exposed hay is
valuable. It is well to remember |
hese important facts in making hay.
t is never injured by being kept from