Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-03-08
FARM NOTES.

lhSlC IL oO1uc CIV Iut1CE IudI
silage is unwholesome and even dan
gerous to stock, especially horses.
A writer in the american CultiUatOi
favors sowing beans broadcast as yot
would any grain, always putting then
on greensward.
1t pays to keep eyes and ears oper
for the new developments of agricul
tUre. Our fathers didn't know it
neither DO their sons.
If farm will pay no more thar
legal interest how can a buyer who
has to borrow the whole price expect
to meet the debt at last?
A mistake made by many farmers is
wintering more fowls than the quar-
tiers will accommodate. Nothing Sc
soon engenders disease.
spanish" onions, which are really
Sicjlian and Italian onions, are largely
supplanting the American onion from
the markets of this country.
Dr.. Hoskins says that the discovery
of the Wealthy apple has extended
profitable apple culture at least one
hundred miles farther to the north.
To wholly abandon staple crop OF
product because it is temporarily I'm,
profitable is to lose ones hold on the
market when it becomes profitable
again.
Don't force your hens to lay them.
selves out by giving them too much
stimulating producing food, es.
pecially if your birds are worth any,
thing.
Large profits do not always depend
upon large crops. One may grow an
extraordinary large crop, but the ex,
pense OF SO doing may balance the re.
ceipts.
When butter is gathered IN the
churn in granular form it is never
overchurned. Pounding it after it is
in 4 lump or large mass is what over.
churns it.
It is believed that the Colorado bee
tie has been completely stamped out
in Germany by the measures ordered
TO be carried out by the Ministry OF
Agriculture.
More than 100000 eggs arrive in
New York each week. The chief sup
ply is from Canada and Michigan. A
single Canada train had 81 cars with
100000 eggs in each.
Shelter is cheaper than fodder, and
for cattle exposed to cutting winds it
requires at least o.-e-third more food
to keep up the same coldition in fesS
rs under comfortable protectios~.
Manure is the farmers savings bank,
and If more of them would have large
heaps Of it every spring to spread upon
their lands, instead of money at in
terest, they would prosper better in
the end.
Professor McMurtrio seems to prove
By Investigations that the much
praised and sought for folds" in mer-
mo sheep are detrimental, in that they
do not increase the yield and do de-
crease the quality.
Trees for shelter, shade and or.a-
ment, il well chosen, are always worth
the planting and subsequent 9ere re-
CURED to get them fairly rooted so
they will need nothing more than
friendly protection.
Usage orange timber is recon- mcnded
for railroad ties and other asses re-
curing great strength and durability.
1t grows rapidly, and is very firm in
its texture, but little practical use has
been made of it hitherto.
The State bureau of labor statistics
Of Illinois is making arrangements to
obtain from every county in the State
figures showing the mortgages on real
estate and personal property, the OBJ
jet being to ascertain how great a
proportion is held by outside capital
ISIS
Lard is not suitable as lubricator
for aNles Of wagons, as it is said to
loosen the spokes. Wood tar is still
largely lsed, and tallow is also an in1-
portapt ingredient, two parts of tai
low, one of tar and one of castor oil
being considered excellent for cold
weather.
1t is certainly poor management to
keep sheep all winter, taking pains to
feed and shelter so rs to obtain good
growth in flesh and wool, and then in
the spring, just when they need the
feed and care the most, to turn them
out and let them look out for them
selves.
It is generally supposed that the pig
IS capable Of digesting any kind of
food that is unfit for other classes of
stock. On the contrary, it can be very
easily injured by improper food, and
will do best on variety of vegetables
and grass. Corn is not necessary ex-
cept to fatten the hog.
Very important experiments in beet
cultivation and preservation have de-
monstrated that roots grown with a
moderate amount of nitrogen are more
easily preserved in silos than those
raised with fertilizers having phos-
phoric base. Roots increase in weight
during their storage in silos.
If the farmers could be persuaded to
report all useful lessons of their ex-
perience there would soon be great
gain III practical knowledge. They
may report 20 their neighbors, but
that is not enough They should write
to agricultural papers for the instruc.
ton of all farmers whenever they have
useful lessons to communicate.
Few farmers give that attention tc
their horses feet that they should give.
Most men rub and curry well enough,
perhaps, and many take great pride
and plenty of time in smoothing the
horses hide; but seldom it is that they
think of that most indispensable part,
the horses feet, and stop to give them
that little attention and inspection
that is almost daily necessary.
I. l. Lyon, Esq, president of the
Michigan State horticultural Society
says III his history of horticulture ii
that State that currants planted or
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