Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-28
An Agricultural Alphabet.


a correspondent of the Orange
County Farmer furnishes one as fol-
lows:
A COW, fat at the beginning of win
ter, will not eat near as much and
come out in spring in just as good
condition as poor COW fed high
through the winter.
Be careful of the comfort of your
stock aud it will put money in your
pocket.
Consider well through the winter
how to conduct your farR operations
next year.
Don't let your poultry roost in tress
through the winter. If you can't have
wooden house, fix that big stack of
corn stalks into one. It is better than
nothing.
Eggs bring good price now and
later; receipt for production-warm,
clean house; water slightly warmed,
warm food for breakfast.
Fix up the horse stable; close all
cracks, then don't blanket your horses
In the coolest weather unless they are
heated from fast drive.
Get the new seed catalogues and
look over the novelties, but don't be
ieve everything they say. Oh, my
not
Have lots of books and papers to
read through the winter
1t is a very good plan to bring your
brides in the house after using them
IN cold weather. Then when you want
to go riding in cold weather you won't
h0v pn MI Nf
tongues
Just make it practic in very cold
weather to mix the horses food in the
morning with water very slightly
warmed.
Kill hogs before the new year gets
around, whether the moon is right or
not.
Look we'll to the sheep and have
sheds for them to get out of the storms
and don't try to raise early lambs an
less you have a warm place for the
ewes in the barn barement or some
where.
Make all improvements on the
farm this winter-in your mind-and
then when spring comes, you can
make them without delay with your
hands.
Nuts are fine for eating during the
long winter evenings. Have a full
supply.
Oats and rye are not very good food
for poultry. Save them for your
horses. and feed corn, buackwheat or
barley; these are all good. Give a
variety.
Put your chicken coops, If you have
any, and if you haven't you'd better
make some sort OF cover, and they will
last twice as long.
Quantities of hay and corn fodder are
wasted by the careless farm hands in
feeding the stock. Keep an eye on
the feeding and see that it is done cor
rectly.
Remove all the old manure, if you
have not done so before this. or it will
lose in value by freezing. Perhaps it
is too late already.
Start Farmers Club in your neigh
borhood and be president of it, if no
one else will accept.
Turn as much Of your gain into meat
as possible, and thus increase your
manure pile. It is more profitable
than selling the grain.
Use your horse every second day, at
least, even if it isn't for anything ex-
cept going to the postofice.
Vendues are pretty thick just about
this time. Attend them If you want
anything, but remember that anthing
not needed is dear at any price Don't
buy because thing is cheap.
Water the stock regularly every
day. Some says it pays to warm the
drinking water of the COWS. Try it if
you can.
Xcellent advice has been given
above, but it won't profit you much if
you let 1t go in one ear and out of
the other"
You can make farming pay nova
DAYS by
Zealously studying all the different
departments of your business and
carefully considering whether your
plans are correctly formed for bring
ing the most money for the least time
aud labor.