Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-19
FARM NOTES.

An English paper reports that 2,S46
| ewes in twentysix focks have produced
4, 402 lambs-a return of 155 per cent.
Hoard's Dairymen thinks that the con-
slant breeding for beef and talking about
milk Is one of the glaring inconsistencies
of the day.
Ewes that have weaned their lambs
may be fatted very easily if given two
meals day of grain with plenty of grass
in the pasture.
Radishes may be had in succession al
| all periods. Use plenty Of manure, and
grow them quickly, SO as to have them
crisp and tender.
The pigs will be more thrifty if kept in
clean, dry pens and we'll Uttered, but will
make more weight if they have rup on
clover lot.
A sheep -breeder up in Manitoba reports
a eve which never has less than three
lambs at time. And he says her daught-
ers keep up the record.
All young animals quickly learn to eat
ground oats, and there is no grain better
for them. They will grow and thrive
upon oats even when drawing milk from
the dams.
tree that is making too much height
without corresponding branches should
be trimmed off at ths top in the fall,
which will encourage greater growth in
the branches next spring.
Keep squashes and pumpkins away
from cantaloupes and watermelons. In
fact, 1T is best to grow no pumpkins on a
farm where melons are raised, as bees
carry pollen from one plant to another.
The hoe may be used with advantage,
both on beets and carrots. The spaces
between the rows can be cleared with
cGltiyator, but the hoe should be used to
clean out grass and weeds between the
plants.
There is yet room for some one to dis
cover sure simple remedy for the cab
bage worm. The remedy must be non
poisonous, cheap, easily applied and free
from odor to the cabbage. Kerosene oil
is an excellent remedy, but it imparts its
odor to the cabbage, which is objection
| able.
Rye will begin to grow on the first ap-
progch of spring. It provides the first
early pasturage. If kept moderately
grazed, provided tle land has been well
MANFRED as the time of seeding, the crop
will continue TO afford green material as
loDS DIS CSslEeG. NO crop can compare
with it for early pasturage.
All grass crops make the best hay if
cut before the seed-heads form. When
| plant produces seed it has performed its
mission and stored much of its nutritious
matter in the seed. 70 secure the larg-
est amount OF nutrition in hay the grass
should be cut while the stalks and blades
contain the elements that would other
wise be directed to the formation of
! seed.
| Grab grass, which SO persistently takes
| possession of the ground after a rain, is
warm weather crop, and will cause ex-
ira labor unless kept down. It is very
easily killed with harrow or cuiti7ator
when young, but if the work be delayed
for week or ten days iJ is difficult
matter to get rid of it. It is the pest of
corn fields, and in order TO keep it down
the rows should be cultivated often.
Old strawberry fields soon become over.
run with weeds. This can only be pre-
vented by pulling the weeds out between
the plants as soon as the crop of berries
is picked, at the same time working be-
tween the rows well with cultivator II
all weeds arc pulled out as fast as they
appear, so as to prevent them from seed
ing, there will be but few of them the
next season.