Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
FARM NOTES.

reports there are $4,000. 900 acres of
arabic land in that state capable of
being rendered productive by irriga-
ton.
Leaky roofs in summer do damage
as we'll as in winter. 1t is important
that the crops stored in the barn be
kept absolutely dry. A single leak
will cause enough damage to pay for
a new roof.
Last year when the price of potatoes
was very low a Dundee farmer put
lot of them among chaff at the bottom
of silo. When it was opened the
other day they were as fresh as when
they were dug.
Mrs. Phillips, of West Fallowfeld,
Pa, has found a remedy for gapes in
lengthwise with scissors, and with
horsehair lifts out the worm that
causes the ailment.
When horse with a heavy load
stops to rest do not start him again
until he has had plenty of time TO re-
cover his strength. Some horses will
show an inclination to proceed after
| they have thoroughly rested.
Leaving the wagons and tools out in
the sun is often the cause of some of
the parts becoming loose. The best
seasoned wood is affected by moisture
and dryness, and all tools and imple-
ments not in use should be kept under
cover.
Professor William Saunders, horti-
culturist of the Agricultural Depart
ment at Washington, declares that the
golden rod is his first choice for ma
tional flower, the sunfiower his second,
adding that both are characteristic
American plants.
A test has been made in France to
see whether the color of a horse had
anything TO do with his characteristics.
1t has been demonstrated that any
such idea is all nonsense. Pedigree
and early training have all to do with
it, and color nothing whatever.
A Lewiston paper says: "a method
of distinguishing the mushroom from
the poisonous toadstool is said to be
by sprinkling salt on the under side.
If it turns black the mushroom is
good; if yellow, it is poisonous. Time
should be given the salt to act,
The Rev. L. De Witt Talmage says
he likes good horse better than a
stupid man, and his admiration for the
magnificent animal is the greater be-
cause his morals have never been in
| iured Notwithstanding he is often COM
PEELED to associate with bad people.
1t has been demonstrated that the
straw from wheat crop can be made
to take the place Of hay if cut and fed
| in connection with grain. This should
encourage farmers to give more atten-
ton to the storage of the straw, and
to keep it in clean, bright condition.
They have new way of planting
orange trees near San Diego, Cal.
They bore small hole and drop in a
dynamite cartridge, the explosion of
which makes hole big enough for the
tree, and loosening the soil to depth
of several feet enables tile tree to take
root easier.
If it can be done only occasionally
it will be found that thorough wash
ing of the family COW will be of great
advantage, Kidding her hide of insects
and cleaning away the dirt, thus pep
hitting of a better condition of the
skin. The udder should be washed at
every milking.
1t is suggested that the posts to
which barbed wire is fastened for
| fencing be painted white, as they will
then be better observed by cattle.
pieces of tin. painted white, and fast
ened along the line of wire, have also
been recommended as a safeguard
against injury.
A hen owned by John Seal of Swarth-
more. Pa, which has supplied his FAM
lily with spring chickens and eggs for
| nearly fourteen years, was recently
tied to a trestle to prevent her from
setting, when she committed suicide
by hanging herself.
| The state board of horticulture of
California has imported Australian
lady bugs to fight the cottony scale
which Is now doing so much damage
In the orange gardens of the state. The
scale is the bugs chief article of diet,
| and this method of saving the orange
trees has succeeded where all others
have failed.
They get at the real value of a cow in
Sussex county, n. j., by selling her at
so much a quart. The scheme is pro-
nounced by dairymen as the most
equitable yet proposed in the sale of
mich cows. The purchaser paws So. so
per quart. Thus, if she gives twenty
quarts daily, she is worth $50. The
purchaser keeps the cow on trial for a
week.
Protect your horses from the flies
whenever you can. One of the best
preventives for flies is sponging with
a weak solution of carbolic acid.
About three drops to gallon of wa
ter is a good solution. Or, use a
sponge with some of the lather from
carbolic soap. Suspend sponge sat-
urated with carbolic soap suds in the
vicinity of your horses and you will
find it effective.
Will Jenizen, of Atlanta, Ga. has a
hen that lays bird eggs. She has laid
fifteen or sixteen of them this summer.
The eggs are in size and shape similar
to the eggs of brown thrush, and are
speckled on the larger end in the same
manner as the eggs of thrush. The
hen is no pullet, but an old and ex-
perienced matron of the yard, and the
queer shape of the eggs has excited the
wonder of her owner.
The Atlanta Constitution refiectively
remarks: 1T looks like the Lord is
compromising the South for the loss of
its slaves by opening new and unsus-
pected sources of wealth. For in
stance. in slavery days the problem of
the plantation was to dispose of the
cotton seed-it was burned, rotted,
dumped, When slavery lifted II was