Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-05
FARM NOTES T..

The official report numbers the sh .ep
in the Uuited States at 45,OO0,0OO.
Boiled peas and beans-if fed warm so
much the better-make excellent winter
egg food.
1t is more profitable to keep few hens
in roomy quarters than many in close,
small rooms.
Haul out the manure and spread 1t if
the ground be frozen. 1t Will save time
and labor later on.
Fish refuse contains not only nitrogen
in large proportion, but alse phosphoric
acid, due to the bones
There have been but few improvement
in hot-beds. They are nearly the same
to-day as they were 100 years ago.
There is no danger of growing too much
fruit of good quality, but it is an easy
matter to over stock the market with an
inferior article.
Stagnant water on farm is the hot-bed
of disease, and annually causes ten times
the loss equal TO an amount appropriated
for draining it off.
The sheep must have dry location at
night. Dampness is fatal to sheep, being
the cause of distemper, while wet pasture
fields conduce to fOot-rot.
When the rye shall be ready for feeding
do not turn the stock upon it, especially
if the ground should be damp, as more
damage would be thereby done the rye
from being trampled under the feet Of
stock than from grazing it.
A sheep-breeder up in Manitoba reports
a eve, says the Live Stock Indicator, that
never has less than three Lambs at time.
And he says her daughters kept up the
record. One of them had three lambs in
October, 1885; two in April, 1886; two in
| October, 1856, and three in April, 1887,
raising all but one (Which died when a
month old), thus bearing ten lambs IN
twenty three months. A good family of
sheep to breed from, that, and one likely
to pay many fold to careful shepherds.
Mares in foal should have exercise and
moderate work, but under no circum-
stances should be subject to harsh treat
ment, nor should they ever be allowed to
go where they would be in danger of be,
ing frightened. Under such circum-
stances the unborn colt is quite likely to
be Influenced, and may for its whole life
be nervous, timid horse, shying at every
trife, inclined to run from every new and
strange object it should meet. This
quality, if inherited, can not be overcome,
hence the necessity of avoiding those
things that might cause it.
Staggers are the result of congestion
of the brain, due to overlooking. Pigs
are more often everfed than any other
animals, and it is the source of neBrly all
diseases to which they are sEbject. It
effects the nerve dentres the brain and
spinal cord. Give the pigs no feed at all
for forty-eight hours, but only water,
then begin feeding very lightly, and give
the food in a shallow trough, so that it
can be taken up only slowly.
| It has been asserted that given
amount of food and attention produces
as many pounds of chicken flesh as it will
of hog flesh. If so, why cannot farmers
make poultry raising profitable and eat
nutritious chicken meat instead of SO
much bacon? A pound of fowl flesh will
produce more physical strength or mus
cular power than pound of fat bacon,
but there are many people who do not be-
| lieve it.
| Every blossom left On the young straw
berry plant will enfeeble it to a certain
| extent. If the plants be expected to
throw out runners and thicken in the
row they must under no circumstances be
allowed to blossom and fruit.