Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-04
FARM NOTES.

The beet sugar company, of Grand Is
land, Neb., in the first twenty-four hours
they ran turned out 300 barrels of refined
sugar ready for market.
The state entomologist of New York
says there are twenty-five different kinds
of parasites in that state that are destruc-
tive to potato bugs.
The Hawaiian geese are less aquatic than
other species of geese. They take bath
only once a day and rarely remain in the
water long. Their feet are not more than
half webbed.
A Canadian farmer who raised large
crop of tomatoes last fall and was unable
to dispose of them, says he commenced
feeding them to his mich COWS and found
they were greedily eaten and improved the
milking,
The total corn crop for each of the past
eleven years shows the astonishing feature
that the total farm value of a crop is not
reduced by a reduction of the yield, but,
on the contrary, the aggregate value is
greater than when the yield is excessive.
The corn crop of 1881 was the smallest
that had been produced IN this country
since 1874, but its home value was greater
tfsan any crop Gf the past decade, with the
single exception of the year following,
when prices were still higher. On the
other hand, last years crop was the
largest ever raised, yet its farm value was
the least of any crop in the past ten years,
1t is coming time for cold storms. Look
out for the young cattle and colts now;
get the hogs in from the lot and stuff
them, and take the old hen down that
roesta in the apple tree.
# you fail to make aairying pay anG
your neighbor manages to make a little
money oat of it, see if he does not own
better COWS than you do; see if he has net
some secret about feeding which you have
not caught on to-" and see If there Is
not something in his management that
you might make profitable by adopting.
Improved farm impk ments have IN
doubtedly enabled farmers to, cultivate and
handle larger acres; but it is nGt so certain
that crops by them cost less per busheI
than they used to dc. The more a anan
can, do the bigger wages he claims, and
this, with the cost Of machinery, its wear
and tear, and the lower prices subsequent
ON increased production. has given to the
worker rather than the capitalist or owner
of land the advantages which improved
machinery have conferred.
There is no reason why the barn-yard
should be filthy The farmer who aims to
convert all waste into manure will have a
clean barn yard, for he cannot afford to al
low the liquids to be wasted, or wait for
the cattle to txample the absorbents that
can more easily be deoomposed in the ana-
nure heap All material for the beds, OF
to be used in as8sorbeEts shoald first be
eat up or reduced in some manner.
| Watch the feet of the horses. Let them
go barefoot as unuch as possible, at least
change their shoes frequently. Endeavor
to know concerning the horses foot and its
care to keep out the hands of the bungEng
blacksmith. Shady how to tend and shape
the hoofs of the colt. A ;fne7bodied. and
fne-spirited horse may have a bunghng
gate or a lack of endurance FROM bad feet
that will hurt his value materially; too<of-
ten it is AID the owners Gwn fault.