Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-11
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

1t takes three and one-haIf acres to
keep cow in New York State, and she
gives 125 pounds of butter, on IN average.
With the siIo one acre will keep a COW.
One sIlo man keeps 100 COWS on the same
ground on whish he formerly kept twenty
five. The old way must go.
E. F. Smith, connected with the botani
cal division of the Department of Agri-
culture, has made the subject of peach
yellows study, and thinks there is dis
eass resulting from starvation, which re-
sembles in some symptoms the true yell
lows and may ae cared by proper feeding.
But for the true yel!ows no application of
fertilizers, kainit, potash, ETC., have been
found of use. No remedy is suggested
for the true yeliows, and its cause is still
unknown.
The proposed national agreement
among the barb.wire manufacturers to
maintain prices has fallen through. The
ajority of manufacturers agreed to its
terms over their signatures and others
were willing to do SO provided other com
petitors joined. The hesitation displayed
in this particular, however, cou I'D with
one or two absolute refusals, decided the
promoters of the project to drop it alto
gether, and notice to that effect has been
issued.
correspondent of the New York
Times says he wrapped the trunks of his
young orchard trees with newspapers to
prevent them from being gnawed by
mice, rabbits or sheep, tying the papers
al top, bottom and middle, and found the
simple precautjon insured absolute safe
ty. The bark under the paper was
round, smooth and bright. The white
paper does not absorb the heat as does
the tarred paper, and hence the bark is
not killed when warm day is followed by
a cold night.
When cream is thick and ropy, and will
not churn, it is because of the presence of
an excess of albumep, which is like the
white of an egg. This also prevents the
escape of the cir, gathered by churning.
as is denoted by the swelling of the
cream, which becomes frothy. Too low
a temperature sometimes operates in this
way, while too high temperature makes
the butter too soft and porous. It is we'll
to raise the temperature of the cream
somewhat higher than the churning
point, and let it lower at it, as fat is bad
conductor and does not heat as soon as
the fluids in the cream.
I know dairyman, says a writer, who
for thirty years has only under rare and
exceptional circumstances ever turned
one of his COWS out of her stall, from the
beginning to the end of the foddering
season. know. moreover, that no farm
er or dairyman in the finest dairy country
in New England, has ever had more uni
formiy healthy, rugged and profitable
herd than his. His COWS can drink cool
spring water in large or small quantity
just when they please, by day OR by night.
L saw him putting a new line of trough
ing into his stables twenty four years
ago, which, with scarcely a dollar of ex-
pense for repairs in all that time, is still
in use, and apparently good for twenty
four years more.
If taken in time, black knot in cherry
trees can be cured by an application of
coal oil, taking pains to see that none of
the oil is allowed to get on the unaffected
spots of the tree. When it csa be done,
cutting off the deceased limbs will al
swer. But if either of these cannot cure,
as rule, the quicker the tree is cut down
the better.
Either red clover alone or clover and
orchard grass are the best to use in seed
ing down the orchard. But do not be in
too much Of a hurry to seed down unless
the soil is rich and in good filth and the
trees have made good healthy growth.
The sooner an animal is matured the
sooner it will be ready for the market
and the cost of production diminished.
The quickest growth is when the animal
ID very young. 1t should be forced at
the beginning.
blanket for the horse is cheap ar
ticle considering the food it saves and
the colds and sickness it avoids. It is
indispensable in we'll regulated stables.