Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-12
FARM NOTES.

| Animals Of vicious habits should never
be used for breeding purposes, as vices
are transmitted. By careful breeding in
this respect the disposition of the ami
mails can be partially controlled.
Onions are often put out in the month
of March, as they are hardy and endure
| quite a severe frost. The sooner they
can be put out and made to grow rapidly
the better, as they do not make rapid
progress after the beginning of warm
weather.
A single diseased animal may entail a
loss in a community amounting to thou
sands Of dollars. 1t cost Missouri $1,000
600 and tea months time to stamp out
pleuro-pneumonia, while the loss to the
cactlemcn of Kentucky has reached fully
| $2,O00,000.
A Wisconsin farmer took lis stock
through hard winter, after dry sum,
mer, By storing every bit of corn fodder,
! putting all his straw under cover for feed,
and buying literally of wheat bran. His
stock came through in good condition,
and he made as much money as if forag g
lad been plentiful.
A farmer cannot afford to have cracks
in the stable, as they are too expensive,
the closing of the cracks being but small
matter as compared with the cost of extra
feed to keep the animals warm. Unless
stable be warm and comfortable, ex-
t1avagance ia feeding will be the result.
Shelter and protection can be provided
at less cost than grain.
| A certain proportion of animal heat must
| be created Dolly from the food, or that
stored as fat in the body will be resorted
to in order to counteract the effect of
cold. There is no 'standstill" in the
matter, as animals are either losing flesh
or gaining. Every pound lost causes a
| real loss of two, as the time and expense
of regaining that which is lost will be
doubled.
To every dollars worth of beef con-
sumed in this country nearly So in dairy
products-milk, cream, butter and cheese
are sold and used, and in every part of
it there is growing demand for an i'm
proved class of dairy goods. These al
ways command price commensurate
with the extra labor and care required to
produce them. Dairymen, make note
of this.
The peach-growers of Maryland and
Delaware have decided to request the
compelling the destruction of all trees
affected by the 'yellows." This is an
important matter and demands the at
tention of all peachgroWers, as the
"yellows," when once it appear in a Sec
ton of country, is very damaging, the
disease being contagious.
AS rule com posts should be prepared
length of time before using in proper
tion to the roughness and coarseness of
the materials. Not less than six weeks
will be required under favorable circum.
stances for the average materials used in
composing to become broken down by
fermentation and decomposition, so as
to permit of uniform mixing and easy
distribution.
In summer swine Craze and do well on
clover, and, indeed, are perhaps as
healthy and make as cheap and satisfac-
tory growth on that food as on any other.
There is no reason why clover should not
enter into the winter rations of swine.
Sweet clover hay could be cut up into
meal and bran, without much trouble and
with the best Of results.
A Colorado farmer is said to have
South down lambs 6 months old that
weigh 14O pounds each, and it has been
estimated that they will clip at least II
pounds of wool each when they shall be
IA months old. As extra mutton now
sells at Sc per pound for sheep in lots,
each of the above is worth $1150. This
shows what can be done with weil-bred
sheep withouG paying any attention to
the value of the wool.