Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-19
Low Prices OfCattle.

together too much of the savage in his
composition.-A1aericam Agriculturist.
Low Prices of Cattle.
Experie need cattle growers are of
the opinion that such low prices as cat
tie now bring cannot long continue.
A few years ago, when their business
was prosperous, thousands rushed into
it. A host of cattle kings appeared on
the Western ranches. The result was
over-production and a decline in prices.
When the prices of cattle fell, they
were just as anxious to get out of the
business as they had been to get in.
They we're ready to make any sacri-
fees to get out. Thousands of cattle
now ready for market were thrown on
the market, and with the result of de-
moralizing it. Raising Scent cattle is
a losing business, and the grower is
soon forced to quit it. Then will come
a time when the ever-growing demand
for beef cattle will exceed the supply,
and prices will go up with a bound.
The beef cattle industry is one that re-
quires much forethought. The grower
must study the probabilities of the fu-
ture when his young stock is ready for
cred with grubs, which should be de-
stroyed. The use of this remedy occa-
sionally through fall and early winter
has rid Mr.. Boddy's sheep of this pest,
as he informs Coznaaaa's Rural World.
An experiment made the past sum-
mer with our cows. says american Ag-
riculturjst, proved that when hand
full of salt, or about two ounces, was
given every day the yield of butter was
increased ons-ffth, and when the salt
was withheld the yield fell off in the
same proportion. The reason, beyond
question, is that salt is required for
full digestion of the food more of the
food was changed into milk. There
fore, cattle should be sailed often and
with regularity.
Bulletin No. II of the Agricultural
Station of Cornell University is de-
voted entirely to a description of the
habits of the saw fly borer, which in
tests wheat plants on the university
grounds near Ithaca, and is probably
found in other parts of Western New
York. The fly is a small black insect,
measuring one-third to two-ffth of an
inch in length. The female, which is
the larger, deposits her eggs in the
earliest and most vigorous wheat
stalks, and after Matching into a small
yellowish worm, which works its way
downward through the joints to the
root, near which it hibernates during
the winter, many of the infested stalks
break down, but not early enough to
prevent the maturing of the seed.
The export trade in cattle and dress
ed beef still continues an important
factor in American agriculture. The
total shipments abroad for the year
ending Dec. 81, 1889, were 3S4, 969 live
cattle, 80, 23O sheep and lambs, S75, 934
quarters Of beef. and 1, 464 carcasses of
mutton. Boston shipped 9S,246 live
cattle, 13, $50 sheep and lambs 27O, or
quarters of beef. and l, 164 carcasses of
mutton. New York shipped 124, 913
cattle, 4,OS3 sheep and lambs, and 517,-
278 qua tiers of beef. Baltimore shipped
Sc, 959 live cattle and 1852 sheep and
lambs. Philadelphia shipped IA, 592
live cattle and 5000 quarters of beef.
Portland shipped 1857 live cattle.
Newport News 2,734 live cattle, and
Montreal Canada, shipped 50, 66S live
cattle and 50, 925 sheep and lambs.
Mr.. Crawford, a well-known Ohio
nurseryman says the natural support
of the grape vine is the tree. He would
encourage farmers to grow grapes on
trees for their own use, if they have
not time to grow them in any better
way. Grapes rot less on trees than in
Vineyards There is right and wrong
way of even getting vine into tree.
1t will be a slow process of planting a
vine at the root of an established
tree and train it up the body. The
proper way is to plant it at some dis
lance from the tree and grow it on
stake until the end of the second year.
By this time one should have a ripe
cane six or eight feet high. 1t may
then be trained into the branches,
after which it will take care of itself.
1t will grow very rapidly until it
reaches the top. While growing fast
it will develop few fruit buds, but
when it can grow no higher, and must
grow horizontally, if at all, will bear
abundantly.
The fall calf has as much potential
protitableness as has the spring calf
says writer in the american Agricul-
tau'ist, but to make it actual more and
better care is required. The most crit
zeal part of the animals life is the first
6months. During this period the spring
calf has pasture and favorable wealth.
en- but the fall calf has neither, and
must therefore have the better care.
My fall calves are generally supposed
to be 2 wears old when they are ONLY 1S
months. To make them profitable
they must have extra care, which gives
them Increased value. | give them
full milk until they are week old,
then / change gradually to skim milk.
SITTER weeks of age, as good calf
can be reared upon skim milk as from
whole milk, provided something is add
ed to take the place of the cream, and
for this nothing is better than oil meal
boiled to a thin jelly. Persons not &C
customed to its use are more likely to
use too much than too little of it.