Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-11
FARM NOTES,

Super-phosphate is the best fertilizer
to use II the fall for wheat.
Fall wheat should be going in now.
Plow the ground and maks it fiue.
The weeds are ripening their seeds
now. Now them down before the seeds
are perfected.
Though Is necessary in breeding, and
every Improvement that man makes in
his stock is evidence of the imwrove-
ment of his own mind. Breeding is an
elevating and developing business. 1t
broadens men, and it is only a broad man
and man of intellect that can keep up a
herd. Try breeding improved stock as q
means of keeping the boys on the farm.
The depth of drilling seed, such as
wheat, can be regulated on the drill, and
this should be carefully attended to in
order to avoid getting the seed in too
deep.
Radishes will grow during the whole of
the growing season. A late crop can be
put in for winter use. This vegetable can
be had in abundant supply if successive
crops are sown.
There is nothing more highly relished
by hogs than charcoal. They will help
themselves 90 it, and it will prevent dis
orders of the bowels. The best mode of
giving it is when it is fresh, and if placed
in the fire and heated occasionally it
will be more serviceable. 1t corrects the
acidity of the stomach, and as it is cheap,
a supply should be kept constantly in
each pen.
Spinach is one of the early green's. An
application of very fine manure will has
ten them and give larger crop.
pretty writing table is the invention
of woman furnishing artist. The top
is composed of four flaps; folds into the
shape of an envelop; the ink bottle is
hidden away in compartments; the
pad has a special stand, the pen and
paper-cutter another. The little table is
bijou boudoir table, graceful in shape
and delicate in coloring. Over the cream
ground is spread pretty painted pat
tern of wild roses and foliage.
In small patch of cabbages the laying
of the eggs which produce the cabbage
worm is done by only half dozen of the
white butterfy's and they should be cap
tured and killed, which is not difficult and
much better than attem pting to destroy
the worms in the cabbage. On large
fields the number of butterflies daily at
work sometimes are So few that ten min
utes will suffice for catching them. A
single butterfly will visit a large number
Of plants.
For farm manure the sheep is sur
passed only by the hen and rivaled Only
by the hog. 1t is much easier TO save the
manure from the sheep, less of the liquid
being lost. Owing to the dryness of the
solid, most of the liquid is soaked up and
saved, while that from cattle is lost, or
saved ouly expensive tanks or oemented
cellars. Sheep, while on grass, scatter
their manure more evenly, and it is
therefore of much greater value. Thus,
wherever sheep are kept the land is found
to continually increase in fertility.
Muck is a valuable absorbent and con
tains in itself proportion of plant food,
but only in small O quantity. 1t is not as
serviceabIe if used when freshly dug as
when it ii exposed for awhile. The prop
er mode of treating muck is to dig it up
in the fall and let it remain exposed in
order TO permit the frost to pulverize it,
and also to allow it to undergo chemical
change. When in fine, dry condition it
is superior to all other absorbents for use
in the stalls and for sa@ing .he liquid
manure.