Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-24
FARM NOTES.

and mix? is one of the questions of the
day.
Brains as we'll as farms are capable
OF cultivation. Never lose sight of this
fact.
A coating of varnish thoroughly APP
piled will preserve eggs in any ordinary
temperature.
There has been very great demand
for sugar beet seed at the Agricultural
Department.
When your soil needs potash only,
what is the use of putting on other fer
tilizing ingredients.
In eighteen of the great agricultural,
sheep raising states and territories
there is no dog tax at all.
A soil may be overfed and troubled
with indigestion as well as the animal
system, but it is oftener starved.
Try to find out the best way of doing
everything you undertake and be sure
that you do not do it the wrong way.
There is nothing gained by crowd.
ing crops. Numbers of plants do not
compensate for the loss of size and
quality.
Colts should be handled early and
petted, but never leased. They are
tractable creatures and very responsive
to kindness.
1t is not fancy but real stock that the
farmer wants for business There is
not much that is fancy about farming,
everything is real-very.
Flowing by steam in the Walla Walla
valley, Washington, costs only 40 cents
per acre. By horse power it has here
tofore cost 81 per acre.
Barren is the house and yard that is
not beautified by flowers and foliage.
The farm residence destitute of orna-
ment or shade is unfit for the abode of
civilized man.
Success in gardening depends on
the seeds. 1t is a waste of time and
labor to use inferior seed. Be cautious
and procure seed from the most relia-
BILE sources only.
Whenever the shoulders of work
horse are CALLED the harness should be
examined to remove the cause. A
horse in such condition should not be
made to work until cure is made
Apples are used as food at the ex-
pertinent stations in making tests, and
the results demonstrate that if they
cannot be protitably shipped to market
they may be fed to stock with advant-
age.
The agricultural optimists of Kansas
Y,hnot Of
900, 600 bushels in that State this year.
The thrashing season is yet little
way off and it may tell a different
story.
Glover hay, cut very fine and scalded,
is an excellent ration for growing pigs
that have been weaned. A mess of the
cut clover given once a day will pro-
mote their appetite and keep them in
health.
Major Fleming of Fargo, N. D., will
experiment this year in the way of Gull
tivating wheat. 1t is claimed that six
pounds of seed per acre, properly cul-
tivated, with a favorable season will
yield fifty bushels.
A correspondent of the Lice Stock
Indicator says. Il can invest 81, 900 in
sheep and burn every pound of wool
produced for five years and make more
clear money than can be made on cattle,
horses or hogs in the same length Of
time"
Sioux City will build another corn
palace this year, provided of course,
the corn is forthcoming in due season.
But there has never been a total fail
ure of the corn crop in Iowa. and this
year is not likely to be an exception to
the rule.
A Kansas newspaper says the corn
still remaining in the hands of the
farmers of that State is atpresent prices
worth about as much as the entire crop
was worth when it was gathered. And
yet it is estimated that nearl Y 100, 000,.
900 bushels have been sold.
A gentleman who took regular exer-
else on horseback, and subsisted prin-
cipally on milk, was asked by sick
man who was taking a course of drug
treatment how he had such good health,
and what doctor he employed. He re-
piled: My doctor is a horse and my
apothecary is a cow
Throughout France gardening is
practically taught in TIE primary and
elementary schools. There are about
$4,000 of these schools, each of which
has garden attached to 1t, and is
under the care of a master capable of
imparting a knowledge of the first
principles of horticulture.
A calf born in fall or winter is worth
two born in spring for profit. A
spring calf is so young that it gets little
good from pasture the first season, fol
by the time it can fight flies success
fully and crop grass enough to really
aid in nourishing it winter is at hand
and it is placed on dry food.
The general opinion appears to be
that the acreage of spring wheat sowr
in Dakota Minnesota, and other North.
western States is considerably less thar
in former years. The farmers have
been compelled to diversity their crops
to maintain fertility and make living,
and this is very hopeful change.
The medicinal virtues of the apple
are being sounded on all sides in
Europe 1t is said to neutralize the
evil effects of eating too much meat
and the German chemists state that il
is richer than any other fruit OF vegeta-
BILE in phosphorus, an element that is
useful in renewing the essential nervous
matter of the brain and spinal cord.
Various tests show that the cost OF
the production of milk differs greatly
in COWS, some COWS producing milk at
a cost Of one-third that produced from
others. The Importance of using only