Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-19
FARM NOTES.
New Orleans Picayune.

In making a fence do not forget that the
zlgzag fence leaves many corners for har-
boring weeds.
Growing pigs may be fed buttermilk and
whey, but the principal food at this season
should be grass.
A row of raspberries 100 feet LONG
will give an abundant supply for an ordi-
nary family. Plant few red raspberries
this fall.
The German prune and the plum are so
nearly allied that they should not be grown
IN the same orchard or they will hybridize
in fruit
The summer is the time to put the barn
in condition for winter Painting should
be done now, and the roof should be made
tight and close
The breed is an important factor in
stock-raising. The breed adapted for the
object sought will give better results and
at lower cost proportionately y.
When ''scours'' occur with animals feed
nothing but cut hay for few days Scald
the hay and add little salt to it. Diet is
better than medicine.
Pigs will eat clover hay if it is cut up.
and 1t IS excellent for them. The best
mode of feeding it is to scald it and then
sprinkle with bran and corn-meal.
It is very difficult to keep toads out of
wells, and this matter is an important one
if pure water is desired loads drown.
sink to the bottom and there decompose.
All barns should be so constructed as to
allow the family cat to go anywhere under
or III 1t as precaution against rats and
mice, which destroy more than may be
supposed.
There is one or two advantages in prop
erly sorting fruits and vegetables it,
aids to protect the sound fruit from decay
and adds very materially to the appearance
and quality of the fruit
The early turnips may now be cleared off
and another crop grown on the same
ground for family use. Use plenty of ma
nure, pull up the grass and weeds if the
plot is small, and have the soil made deep
and fine
Wire-fencing for poultry yards is cheap
and good, but the lower part of the fence
should be of boards, in order to avoid quar-
reling of the males in adjoining yards.
The board also serves as a windbreak in
winter
Raising mules pays, for the reason that
it cost less to raise mules than horses, and, |
being harder, there is less risk of loss.
Where there is plenty of pasturage a
young mule will secure nearly all the food
he may require.
Pole beans entail more labor than do the |
bush kind, but they give more groupings.
1t is better to plant the wax varieties in |
The old well-known Refugee
variety is one of the best early bush varie- |
ties to plant.
A grass plot, with no shade from the
sun, and where flies are numerous and
diligent, is not the best place for calves.
But if the calves be kept in the dark, cool
stable during the hot days of fy-time, and
turned out for the evenings and nights, |
the protection of the soiling system will
be coupled with the benefit of exercise and
feed outside.
Corn in the glazing stage makes the
best fodder. If cut when the ear is hard,
the stalk is then Ito certain extent woody,
and if cut very young, before the ears are
formed, the stalk abounds in water and is
lacking in nutrition When the ear is
about filed and beginning to glaze, the
cutting of the corn at that stage arrests the
natritive elements in the stalk. and the
fodder is then equal to hay, being fed to
stock with the ears on the stalk or cut up
In cutter.