Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-05-10
FARM NOTES.

Give the young lambs all the oats they
can eat as soon as they shall BE old
Ell ough, so as to force them in growth for
the early market.
Pigs should be kept on all farms where
butter is made. This permits of utiliz-
Ing the skim milk and saves the labor of
shipping the milk to market.
There is nothing gained by adding q
large amount of coarse litter to the man
ure heap, as it only causes more loads to
be drawn. Litter should be made fine
and then covered with the manure in the
heap, in order to rot it as much as posi-
BILE.
The farmer who means to keep up with
the times, says the Rural New Yorker,
Will make sure TO have barrel of plaster
kept constantly in his stable for use back
of the COWS. When farmer begins to
fall IN love with manure" he gives one
of the best indications of a well balanced
mind.
1t is claimed for the mutton breeds of
sheep that with the same method of keep.
ing them on the farm as i'll use in England
iand worth as much as 800 per acre
might be proftably devoted to sheep, and
that if farmers would hurdle them, in
stead of giving them the range of the
farm, large profits could be made.
mixture of two bushels of ground
plaster with thirty bushels of wood ashes
is one of the best fertilizers that can be
applied to the clover field, and it should
put on early, being evenly broadcasted.
Tn work should be done on damp day.
! and the rains will carry it down. The
effects of the application will be noticed
during the whole season.
Keeping toads out of wells is a difficult
matter with some. The surface around
the well should be cemented for space
equal to a circumference of so feet. This
would compel the toads to enter at a dis
lance too great to reach the well 1t
seems almost impossible to keep them
out by closing the entrance only, as they
find their way il lower down.
Agriculture is the foundation of our in
dustrial system. Upon it rests all honor
able vocationS, and the general good of
| the community, no less than the well-be-
ing Of individuals, req lures that it be of
che highest excellence. 1t is not enough
that the farmer knows how to till the soil.
He must know how to i'm prove the quail
ity of his lands, and how to adapt various
plants to different soils.
The liberia use of lime in fine condi-
ton will greatly assist in reducing old
sod lGnd that may be plowed for corn
this spring. The lime should be divided
into two lots, one-thlrd applied before
blowing the sod, ana the remainder after
the ground shall have been turned over,
narrowing the surface after the land shall
have been plowed. The rains will carry
the lime down, and before thu corn crop
shall be matured the effects of the lime
will be very marked.
To get good sized, active mules, breed
a large weltmade mare, with neat limbs,
to good-sized Spanish Jack. If it should
not be wished to have ley mule take
care that the mare be lively and active.
Mules are less subject to disease than
horses, and their term of work averages
| twice as long. Foo cultivating crops
mules are superior to horses, as they
walk Indian fashion, one foot directly in
front of the other.