Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-07
FARM NOTES.
Work done out Of season is i'll doue.
The good die young" ana weeds

Work done out of season'is i'll doue.
The good die young" ana weeds
should.
Nearly always it is the docile bull
that does the goring.
Its yeryrare that anythingis gained
by working in the rain.
To increase the value of the heifer
ten per cent, teach her to lead.
No man practices economy who does
not use light, sharp, bright tools.
The man behind the times breaks the
colt; the wise man trains it.
Eternal vigilance is the price or
an orchard, and it is cheap at the
price.
Counting our chickens before they
are Matched would not be so bad did
we first candle the eggs.
The successful farmeris the one that
makes ten per cent on the money he
has lost through mistakes.
The horse with plenty of currycomb
outside and oats inside doesn't show lis
ribs before midsummer.
None but a good farmer can make
eight per cent on borrowed money; and
he is the last farmer to do il.
Bad tempered cows, dull plows, and
weak fences ought to be evils unen-
| durable, for they are not immoyable.
The man who allows the rivulets to
| get his manure is always sure that the
| government is robbing the people.
What doth it profit a man if he keeps
the weeds down on his farm and al
lows them to grow on the highway?
Better have your heart in your work
and eighty acres, than quarter-sec-
ton and be at odds with your occupa-
alton.
! There are now 2 hundred rivulets on
the farm, vet it is cheaper to give the
animals drink from a well protected
from surface water.
A farmer near Chebanse, H.. having
an OK that did not obey orders CON
cluded that the animal was deaf and
| bought an ear-trumpet, which worked
with great success. The animal had
| lost its appetite, but with its return of
hearing ate heartily. The ear-trumpet
is fastened in place by wires around
one Of the horns.
In respect to Dorset sheep, Henry
Stewart says that, whatever good may
be said about them in regard to. their
| proliticacy, they should be, avoided by
! American farmers as being TOO small
in size. having too small q fleece, and
being too delicate and tender for the
rough. cold wirds of our rude and in
hospitable winters.
Many farmers claim that if LARGE
potato with all the eyes cut out but one
| be planted 4 larger per cent Of early
marketable potatoes will be produced
| than if the seed were cut or small DO
tatoes planted whole. A study of this
subject was made at the Wisconsin ag-
ricultural experiment station last sea-
son with four varieties, the result in
each case being in favor of the large
prepared seed. Experiments at this
station also showed that results are
best when fresh-cut seed is used.
A very large share of the wheat i'm
| ported into Great Britain is from Rus
sia, the largest competitor of tue
| United States. 4 few comparative
figures will be of service. The annual
average of the wheat crop of the United
States for several years past has been
436, 100000 bushels, and the export
133, 600, 900. The average crop of Rus
STA for the same period has been 227,-
100000 bushels, and theexport 10000
900. Our spacious wheat fields will
bear all the strain that may be placed
on them.
Corn will thrive with moderate dress
ings of quite coarse stable manure. sut
the onion crop is so dependent upon
| liberal quantities of thoroughly decom-