Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-13
FARM NOTES.

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cover with cloth.
The best thing to put in front of
chicken-coops at night in hot weather
| is front made of Stats of common lath
about half an inch apart.
New places for coping the hens
should be selected every year. The
stock always do better on new ground.
being less liable to disease.
Hayseed swept from the barn floor
is good thing to throw into the chick
en- yards. The birds scratch it in, and
when 1t grows up it is good for the
stock.
Feed well, be clean, give plenty of
water, cold in summer. warm in win
ter. milk quickly. These four rules
are necessary for success in a dairy
farm.
Do not look for a fat cow as a milk
er. A good dairy cow may take on fat
when dry, but she never comes to her
full flow of milk until the supernatural
ance of fat disappears.
Dairy farms are not alike. Some
are for milk sold direct to the consul
| merS or creameries; some for cream de-
/ livered to creameries; and others keep
the milk and make butter on the farm.
A Kansas farmer advises building q
small stack of unthrashed oats, wheat,
and buckwheat in the poultry yard,
especially for the hens to work in dur
ing the winter to keep them busy
scratching for their living.
When a cow is choked with an APP
| pie, an effective thing to do is to hold
a block of wood on one side of the gull
let and strike with a mallet on the 9TH
er smart blow to crush the apple.
This is better than trying to force it
down or to lose the COW. The throat is
not seriously hurt.
1t is said that there are between fif-
! teen hundred and two thousand women
in the northwest who are interested in
ranch and stock property. Many ac-
! knowledge their brands over their own
names, while others are interested in
stock running under other names and
in which they are silent partners.
1t is of primary Importance that the
cow-house should be thoroughly well
ventilated without being in the slight
est degree draughty. Cows, like hui
man beings, require fresh and pure air
the whole twenty-four hours, and not
merely when they are out of doors, and
if they do not get it their health will be
certain to suffer.
The directors of the Iowa state fair
this year make the following rule: All
propositions for games of chance, in
Guiding wheels and sales of pools for
races, will be rejected BY this society.
Gambling of every nature and form,
| i IL ,,,fD
ing liquors, will be excluded from and
about the fair grounds.
The Spanish peanut is now very ex-
tensively used in Georgia for feeding
to hogs 1t is stated that the average
crop is 125 bushels per acre. The hogs
do all the harvesting, and they general
| ly eat the vines as we'll as the nuts. 1t
is estimated that an acre of Spanish
peanuts will furnish four times as much
| hog food as an acre Of corn.
A New York farmer states that he
uses only coal gas tar to prevent the
ravages of the potato beetle. He puts
gallon of tar in the tub, over which
he pours boiling water, which is allow
ed to settle and cool This is sprinkled
over the vines with an ordinary sprink-
| Ter. A gallon of tar costing Is cents
suffices for several acres of potatoes.
! A New York man who "does a little
| in poultry in an amateurish way" has
| seventy-two hens which in January last
laid sixty-two and one-half dozen of
eggs, and part of which realized in
market $15 10. He has brown Leg
| horns and Plymouth rocks, and has a
| coal stove in the hennery in which he
| builds fire when the weather is very
cold.
Every weed that grows near a plant
| takes from the soil the elements for its
support, and struggles for existence
with the plants for that purpose. In
the dry season weeds viii appropriate
| the moisture that may be required for
the desirable plants. The best mode
of withstanding the effects of drought,
| therefore, is clean cultivation, whereby
the grass and weeds are prevented from
| injuring the crop plants.
Peter Henderson states that patch
| of alfalfa about twenty-five feet by
one hundred, or only about one-six
| teerth part of an acre, used as a soil
ing crop, near ST. Augustine, Fla. fur
nished feed through the summer
| LuOHIHS lOI COW, hnu IWlCC OhoS
amount,o or about one-eighth of an acre,
would be ample to supply cow with
food during the entire season.
The warmer the milk when set, the
more complete will be the separation
of the cream from the milk at any
| given lower temperature; and the more
rapidly the temperature falls, the more
rapid will be the separation Of the
cream from the milk. Cream rises
| best when the temperature is fallingI
very slowly when the temperature is
stationary, and little or not at all when
the temperature is rising.
In termination, heat and moisture
are the powers which awaken the germ
to action, and no plantfood is needed
at this stage of the plants life except
] what the seed itself contains; but as
soon as the plant begins to send out
| its little rootlets it must have food in
| abundance, of suitable kind and in
suitable shape for its assimilation Grit
will starve. the same as an animal
would if deprived of food.
When the cream foams in the churn
and will not make butter, it may be,
and most probably at this season is,
due to too much acidity in the cream,
| If the milk be kept at moderate tenn
perature of sixty or sixty-two degrees
for two days, and the cream kept for
two or three days longer at the same
| temperature, there should be no diff
Guilty in churning. If there should be,