Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-16
FARM NOTES.

heller, Intended for the dairy, ought TO
come in at 2 years old.
The manure heap is the farmers
bank; but to yield the largest profit it
must be drawn from frequently.
The best possible location for man
ure is hear the surface of the soil. 1t
is ' advisable to plow it in deeply.
Coal ashes sifted over the dropping
boards in the hen-house is a benefit
to the anu and helps to kill ver-
min.
The 65, ZOO, 900 people of America
consume more food products of the soil
than twice their number in the old
world.
There are two things that are worth
much more than they cost-order and
cleanliness about the barns and over
the farm.
A small farm may be made larger
without extending its area; by deepen
ing and enriching the soil and more
thorough cultivation.
The Michigan Farmer says the loss
by killing potatoes is estimated by a
we~ll-informed grower at not less than
10 per cent of the crop.
About IS per cent of all the farms in
the United States are titled by their
owners This is the greatest nation of
home owners on earth.
Pumpkin contains a little peptic
acid, which gives it an additional value
in stock feeding. 1t gives a relish to
other food and improves the flavor of
milk.
The farmer should use all the labor
saving appliances he can procure, and
after that is done he will find work
enough on the farm for healty physical
exercise.
One man put some apples in a silo
among the ensilage and another man
did the same with potatoes and both
men have made a discovery! The APP
pies and potatoes were preserved.
To the good farmer all seasons are
favorable. That is to say, he manages
to get returns for his labor from some
source, whether it is wet or dry, cool
or hot. His cup is up at ali times.
Be careful to use enough bedding in
the stables to absorb and save all the
liquid manure. Often the most valua-
BILE mi of the barnyard runs to
waste and is carried away by heavy
rains.
The Breeders Gazette says the out
look for sheep husbandry in the United
States could not be brighter. The
journal says: 1--WE shall presently see
a mutton and wool market we have not
yet known"
For early feeding of poultry it is
well to scald the feed at night, and let
it stand for use in the morning. Early
and regular feeding should be the rule
in the poultry yard during the fall and
winter months.
Tenants may not lawfully remove
the made on a farm during the
time of their occupancy; the law re-
cognizing the fact that good husbandry
requires that it should be returned to
the soil whence it came.
An exchange says that every cow
kept in the dairy for butter will keep.a
sow and pigs. The skim milk and
butter milk, with good pasturage, will
make a growth of swine flesh about
equal in value to the butter product of
the COW.
Secretary Rusk closes his annual re-
port with the following forceful SEN
tence. THE great nations of Europe
strain every nerve to make science the
handmade of war, let it be the glory of
the American people to make science
the handmade of agriculture"
Two cubic feet of sound, dry corr in
the ear will make a bushel of shelled
corn. To ascertain the number of
bushels of shelled corn in a crib then
multiply the length Gnside) by the
breadth and the product by the height
of the corr in the crib and divide by
two.
President Borroughs, ofthe Nebraska
Farmers Alliance, is quoted as saying,
mo man car raise grain and snip it
500 miles at a profit" The best mar
ket for farm products is usually close at
hand, and the best policy is that
which plants factories in the midst of
farms.
The first school of dairying and
cheese-making ever organized in
America has been started at the Wis
consin State University in Madison. 1t
is intended to give a thorough and
practical knowledge of dairying and
cheesemaking, including the analysis
of milk.
Mr.. Hoard says that practical dairy
men are now milking cows that breed
once per annum, about eleven months
of the year, keeping them well enough
fed, so that there is a good flow of
milk and a healthy, vigorous, calf, too.
A good cows milk for two months is
worth more than a common calf at
birth.
Scotch farmers, who were brought
up on oatmeal and the shorter cate
chism, prefer the long varieties of oats,
which, they say, are more prolific than
the shorter kinds. They raise about
sixty bushels to the acre, sowing five
bushels of seed per acre. They make
liberal use of the barn-yard manures,
lime, and bone dust.
G.. W. HOLMAN, ex-president of the
Elmyra Farmers Club, says in the
HuSbandman, that he has been slow in
adopting the use of ensilage. But
others are outstripping him and he be-
lieves that every farmer who carries
on successfully the milk and dairy bus
mess will eventually adopt the use of
silage as the leading food for his cat
tie.
A country merchant says: when a
farmer comes to town with eggs, but
ter, vegetables and fruits in their sea-
SON, poultry, or a neatly dressed car
cass of lamb, calf, or pig in his wagon,
the whole neatly covered with cut