Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-02-18
FARM NOTES

Winter dairying is more profitable
than summer.
Parsnips should not be allowed to
remain in the ground all winter.
Fowls during winter thrive best
with some green food, such as cab
bage-heads.
Brine put in the churn causes but
ter to raise and not run out with but
termilk.
The National stockman advises
farmers to desert all blacksmiths who
burn horses feet in order to make
shoes fit.
Hogs do well and fatten readily On
ground oats; wheat screenings and
barley with sorn fodder In the sum-
mer and roots in the fall. They
are healthy and, their pork is irm
and sweet.
The Australian newspapers are
proud of the fact that the population
of that country doubles itself every
twenty years years. while such an in
crease taxes twenty six years ia the
United States.
A large, deep pit at the lowest part
of the Stealing, filled with dry earth,
and having the liquid from the stables
and cow-houses drained into it, makes
an excellent compost that will re-
pay the cost of carriage. Eae
1t is told of kicking horse that he
was cured by suspending sack be-
hind him filed with hay. At first
his kicking was something terrible,
bat he subsidized entirely when the
hay returned toward his heels every
time.
Like sheep, with many farmers,
sufficient care is not taken to proper
ly save the manure from hogs, and
no special pains are taken to increase
the amount. Manure from hogs es.
pecially when fatted, as they gener-
ally are, on corn fed in the ear, is
very valuable, and when combined
with the cobs becomes particularly so.
If allowed too lie to long it is not as
good for corn as some other kinds,
because it becomes infested with too
many worms. It is coarse, and
should be gathered up and applied be-
fore it wastes too much by lying out
exposed to the weather.
Covered yards possess one advan-
tage in regard to the matter of con-
sumption of food by animals that are
covered than by animals that are not.
The cold wind, which causes loss of
the heat of the body of an animal,
necessitates that animal consuming
more food to regain such heat, but the
wet which falls upon any animal re-
quires still much larger amount of
heat to convert that moisture into
vapor. Under covered yard an ami
NAL is protected not oHly from cold
winds, but also from the rain, and an
immense amount of food is thus
saved.
The Ohio Farmer says that six. or
eight weeks for sheep and ten or
twelve for cattle is enough tine to
crowd their condition for the butcher.
This statement should be given with
some qualification or taken with some
allowances. While it may be true
that an auimal can eat enough in the
given time to fit him for market, it is
also true that one III low condition
will not bear a full ration and, must
be brought to it gradually, and one
excessive ration which brings on
securing in sheep is worse than a
day of fasting. Animals must be in
good condition at the start to be fin
ished off in the time mentioned.
Barley ground into meal, and po-
tatoas are recommended as most ex-
cellent food for making sweet and
healthful pork, the potatoes being
first boiled and the barley meal added
to the hot water, with the potatoes,
and all mashed together so as to make
a thick mush. To this might be add
ed as much buttermilk or SKINNED
milk as can be appropriated to this
use. which is one of the best and
most profitable ways of utilizing it
then.
A correspondent of the Western
Rural claims to have discov cred, by
the aid of powerful microscope, the
cause of the disease known as potato
scab. He finds the liquid portion of
a scabby potato swarming with living
microbat but whether as
cause or effect he is as yet uncertain.
He believes salt a partial preventive
and that rank green manore invites
the disease.
Ounce tree roots are small and
near the surface, and therefore should
be protected against the extreme
heat and cold by mulchine. The
trees also need pruning like any 9TH
er fruit tree. It is almost as reason
able to look for figs on thorn bush
as for a crop of fruit from the neg
ected ounce tree in the fence corner
in old sod and surrounded
by weeds and briars. But if well
rounded by weeds and briars. But if
we'll cared for, we'll protected, well
fed and cultivated. its bearing year
comes once every 365 days.
The hogs should have all the grain
that they will eat up clean now, but
40 more should be given at any one
time than will be eaten up clean and
quickly. It is mistaken idea to sun
pose that fateniRg hogs must have
grain lying beside them all the time.