Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-09-21

done in a year or two if the breed is
20 be pure. as time is necessary to &C
cOmpGSh the work. We admit that by
crossing with clean-legged birds a por
ton of the time will be saved. but the
purity of the breed viii be injured
The Light Brahma, III all its purity. car
have the feathers bred oil The legs
with advantage.
A happy and vigorous old lady in
New Hampshire gives these rules fol
the secret of the success of eighty
years living on this planet. which
brings So much care and worry to
many OF her sisters. L ney er allow
myself to fret over things l can not
help. | take Il nap, and sometimes
two. every day of my life. I never
take my washing, ironing or baking to
bed with ne, and l try 10 oil all the
various wheels of a busy life with an
implicit belief that there is Il brain
and a heart TO this great universe, and
that l can trust them BOTH
An eastern paper speaks of careful
dairyman who, by breeding and good
management of his dairy during 10
years raised the standard of his herd
from 100 pounds of butter per cow.
which is the average for New York
state, to more than double that and
has cows with a record of 44O pounds
INC n1 IN hn 4
from which best results may be OBJ
tanned. he replied, Grade herds are
far more preferable than thorough
BREEDS" Farmers, as a rule, do not
fully appreciate the fact that about so
Der cent. of the cost of food given to
cattle is returned to them in the shape
of manure.
George Newell of New York offers
the following valuable ideas in The
CultivatOr on the subject of July dairy
ing:
Isn't the farmer about the best off
of any one after all these tight finan-
cial times? People have got to live,
come what will, and it is the duty of
the agriculturist to supply this living
Dairymen, especially, have many
causes to be thankful and while bright
er times are looked for in the future,
the present might be worse.
There is an interval between the
time that pastures begin to grow short
and the time that extra fodder is fed
in the early fall, that cows shrink in
milk yield a third more than they
ought to. Give the COW more to eat
at this interval, and thus keep UP her
profit
[ have many times pointed out that
premature turning out to pasture in
the spring is the principal cause for short
pasturage now. What little is gained
present. The elder blossoms are not
the root of evil if they do bloom at this
season.
Every tome the night milk sOurs, the
housekeeper should not lay it at the
door of thunder storm. Ten chances
to one there are some mischievous
bacteria loafing around in the seams
of the pans, pals or milk cans that
are at the bottom of the touble. A
daily shower bath of boiling water
will make it so uncomfortable for
these fellows that they will soon be
annihilated.
The way hay is put into the barn now
means a great deal as to how well the
do
is not put into the cock in the field to
sweat there for twenty-four hours it
should have some chance of getting rid
of this excess of moisture without be-
ing reabsOrbed. The custom of cutting
down grass in the forenoon and having
musty hay next winter. 1 saw a farmer
literally showering the salt into such
hay the other day as he packed it away
and 1 accounted him a wise man.
1t is a blessed comfort to drink cold
sweet milk and spread crisp, hard but
ter ON our bread these days, but the
dairyman without an ice house can
hardly do it.
While hot weather has it's wbackS,
it is making corn grow amazingly,
and a good crop of corn fodder means
well-filled silos for next winters use,
followed by plenty of milk and money.
The man who takes pride in beauti-
flying his stables and making them
comfortable deserves much credit.
Political fences are generally looked
after later in the fall, but this is just
the season when some agricultural
fences need to go a rail or two higher.
Good crops on one side Of a weak
fence and hungry COWS in short
pasture on the other, means destruction
of the former if You don't fix the
fence. ...ss
Yes, it means more than that, for it
explains why the COWS dry off in
milk yield during hot midsummer
weather. 1t is as much for lack of
sufficient food as anything. Show me
a COW that will shrink in milk very
when she has all of the
grass she can eat and all Of the pure
water she can drink She would be a
bovine indeed.
The mineral phosphate obtained as
refuse in purifying iron ores is coming
more and more into use as fertilizer
on account Of its Cheapness. 1t costs
less than phosphate obtained from
bone or than that mined in deposits Of
this mineral found il South Carolina or
Florida. AS the iron Stag phosphate
,,11ic to IsxS rid of
near iron works, its value is great