Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-08
FARM NOTES.

OIeeu pine DOugnS are Recommended
as winter quickener and appetizer
for hens.
Distillery feeding develops '1umpy
jaw in cattle. The best food is the di-
rect product of nature.
agriculture is the most healthful,
most useful, and most noble employ
ment of man. "-George Washington.
Canada last year exported farm
products to the value of SIS, ZOO, 900, of
which the United States received $50, :
5O3, 297.
The live stock of Kansas as esti-
mated by Secretary Mohler, of the
Board of Agriculture, is valued at
&116, 126, 465.
Corn fodder cut up and cured does
not cause the "corn-stalk disease" in
cattle, that is, if they have plenty of
water to drink.
Professor Henry estimates the feed
ing value of ton of corn fodder to be
about seven-eighths as much as a ton
of timothy hay.
Essex swine are invariably black.
Berkshires are black, with an occa-
sional splash of white, and some of the
Neapolitans are pure black.
The best use to make of wheat screen
more phosphate of lime than any other
grain, and this helps to make hens
shell out.
Professor Sanborn says the pig will
gain twenty-five pounds by eating 100
pounds of grain food. The steer, on
grain and hay gains about eleven
pounds per 100 weight.
When you see unsheltered machines
wagons, reapers, etc, about a farm
you NAV be quite certain the place is
mortgaged for about all it is worth, or
that it will be in due time.
Cream ripened at temperature be-
low 60 degrees is apt to be bitter. 1t
should be kept in winter at a tempera-
ture of - to 80 degree for about twen-
ty-four hours for ripening, stirring fire.
quently.
A correspondent of Hoard's Dairy
ntGn says he has been taught to feed
bran, and now has the habit of feeding
it the year round, using about forty
tons year There is no feed like
silage and bran to make young cattle
grow in winter.
An Iowa farmer recently marketed
thirteen high grade Poland China pigs
months old weighing an average of 249
pounds. They had the run of clover
pasture and were fed small grain
ration twice day until time for fat
tening when they were shut up and fed
corn exclusively six weeks.
A correspondent of the Western Rural
giving his views on the comparative
cost of raising hogs and sheep, says
that it will take twenty-five bushels of
corn to raise and fatten hog to 800
pounds. worth to-day $500, while the
same amount of corn would raise and
fatten five sheep, worth $25,
The following item is floating around:
IAN intelligent farmer gives the low
est price at which corn can be raised
in the West without loss at the various
yield per acre. His estimate is as fol-
lows: Sixty bushels to the acre, 13c;
fifty bushels, 15c; forty bushels, 1Sc;
thirty-tive bushels, 22c; thirty bushels,
S0c.h
Experiments at the Cornell On. "
station show that horse manure thrown
in a loose pile and subjected to the ac-
ton OF the weather loses one-half its
value us fertilizer. Manure that
simply dries without heating is not
damaged materially. 1t pays, there
fore, to haul out and scatter manure as
it is made thereby saving it all; or, in
lieu of this, it should be kept covered.
Mr.. Boldly, of Morgan county, Hi
nois, practices successful method of
Kidding sheep OF grub in the head. He
feeds them shelled corn on Il barn floor
literally strewed with air-slaked lime.
The sheep in eating fill their noses
with the lime, which causes violent
sneezing, thus eNpelling the grub. In
q few moments the floor will be Gov
the market. The chances now are in
favor of better prices.