Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
FARM NOTES.

If the hedge fence is a little defective
run two or three barbed wires through its
length Barberry makes beautiful hedge
and is strong enough for all purposes with
the added wires.
A liberal feeding of oilmeal to the swine
is as profitable and necessary as when fed
to other stock. Especially when fed upon
dry corn do they become feverish and con
stipated and need just such relief as the
meal will give. Some western agricul-
turist reports say that farmers have thus
completely put an end The ravages of hog
cholera.
Lime is an invaluable article when APP
piled in cases Of mildew among cucumbers
or ID disease in potatoes. While the vines
both on top and underneath. as much as
possible. While speaking of potatoes, the
president of the Snonsin horticultural
society says that in TIL, - season there is
no fertilizer that produces or results
| than wood ash s. notwithstanding the fact
| that ashes seem so dry themselves. Equally
good results will follow when put on the
strawberry bed.
The wisdom of procuring and SO far as
possible OF planting fruit trees in the
autumn is becoming more and more gen
orally admitted. At this season there is a
lighter pressure of business with nursery
men and shippers, so that orders are got
out in better shape and sent through quick
er The weather is less tickle and the plant
er has more time to devote to the proper
execution of the work. If the climate is so
severe as not safely to admit of fail plant
ing, the trees may be procured and well
Il lI1 hot ,4oIx-
available as soon as the weather serves in
the spring.
Is the farmer as sensible of the fact as
he should be that cattle in cold quarters
eat great deal more? Every time a COW
shivers she takes another mouthful by IN
stinct to produce extra caloric. She also
gets in the way of doing it from habit,
Just as a man takes his slim ulant in one
shape or another under like circumstances.
With a stable of twenty or thirty cows
enough extra fodder would be consumed
| in short time to pay for making the
| shelter close and comfortable Nor will
| this surplus food devoured turn out the
cattle in as good a physical condition as
| would moderate amount in house of
normal temperature, dry and well ventilat-
ed There will be extra hundreds of
| weight OF f1eSh accumulated instead extra
hundreds of weight of food consumed. We
thus see that fodder can be as truly wasted
when put into the stomach as when trod-
den under foot.
The susceptibility of milk to disease is a
matter Of supreme importance to all con-
cerned. The avidity with which this nj
trogenous and saccharine fluid absorbs
germs of imrurity and disease and devel-
opes them with amazing rapidity. is now
being well understood by the medical pro
fession and by scientific investigators.
| But those most concerned-the producers
of m1lk-are mostly in complete ignor-
ance of its character in this respect Thus
there is greatest danger that milk may be-
come unfit for human consumption with
out any intention of it TO the producer and
any suspicion of it to the purchasers.
Milk removes from the COW large por,
ton of impure matter which escapes in
this way from the animal without showing
any indication OF its presence. Even pois.
ons, such as that of the fatal milk sickness
prevalent at this season, are carried of
from The cow in the milk without any evi-
dence in the animal of the existence of the
fatal impurity.