Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-07
NOTES.

, No pasture is profitable which takes
three or four acres to support cow.
Smutty corn should be burned.
When fed the spores are returned to
the land.
This is one Of the years when DO
tatoes have brought a better price
than wheat.
If turnips are fed before milking
they will affect the flavor of milk.
The best success in swine raising is
in keeping the pigs healthy and grow
ing.
1t is estimated that there is a short
age of nearly 10 per cent in the lamb
crop of 1894.
A flock of hens will consume much
that would otherwise go to waste.
Hens eat almost anything.
The principal secret in making
money out of pork is to raise the pigs
rapidly and keep them growing.
North Dakota will have a wheat acre
age of 100000 to harvest next fall, and
the estimate is 100000 bushels.
An agricultural writer claims that
the fertility of land depends solely on
its capacity to hold and retain moist
ure.
Black Spanish chickens lay the larg-
est eggs and they are of a beautiful
white color. In fact, all non-sitting
breeds lay white eggs.
The lambing season was uncom-
monty favorable in Great Britain this
year, the percentage of losses being
much below the average.
When a contagious disease breaks
out in a flock better kill the sick ones
and spray the house with carbolic
acid or copperas solution.
The total hog supply of the United
States for the year 1898 footed up A.
206,49S head. Of this number Texas
had 1855, 459, ranking fourth in the
| list.
In pasture where there are no trees
a few posts should be set to furnish
rubbing places for stock. They would
not be as liable to injure the fences
| by rubbing.
Ten shearing machines are reported
to have been set up at Casper, Wyo
These are the first to be used in Amer
lea, although they have been long en-
ployed in Australia.
1t can hardly be considered good
management that makes it necessary
to feed the hogs before daylight or
after dark They need to see we'll to-
eat to the best advantage.
A pouitryman of experience has con-
Guided that the best breed is the one
you have tested and tried as the best
adapted to your section and for your
purpose. There is no best breed other
wise
Some people invest 500 or less in
the poultry business and are disap-
pointed if it does not pay 30 or 100
or 200 per cent If poultry would pay
at that rate all the money loaners-
would go into the business
1t is reported from across the water
that the duchess of Hamilton has a
marble barn for her cows and that she
puts on her gloves and helps at milk
ing time. She also makes the butter
used when she has guests.
The Indiana Experiment Station
experimental with different amounts
of seed oats to the acre-from four
pecks to twelve pecks per acre The
land on which eight pecks to the acre
was sowed made the largest yield
Soft-shelled eggs are due to over
feeding. Fat hens should be compelled
to work for every kernel of grain,
given them. If this is not done.
promptly disease in some Of it's differ
ent forms will soon make it's appear
ance.
1t is said that the best way to test
cabbage seed is to drop some ON a hot
stove. If the seeds burst and pop dixie,
POPCORN they may be considered of
good quality, and those in the pack
age will terminate and produce good
plants.
The Iowa Agricultural College has
secured a shorthorn bull for service in
the herd, that is out of the worlds fair
dairy cow Nora" This addition
promises certain Improvement of
dairy tendencies in the future COWS
at this institution.
The farmer who centers his hopes
in grass and cattle, says an exchange,
will have much more even and sat
isfactory course before him than the.
ohC WIN uCpchuS AldluIy Oh SIdIu.
For one thing, he does not find it so
difficult to keep his land up.
The latest Canadian census returns
show that 100000 colonies OF bees are
kept in the dominion, of which 146,3OO
are in the province of Ontario. The
estimated average is fifty pounds nf
honey per colony, or 100000 pou
per annum.
Do not begin marketing the pullets
until the cockerels are all gone.
A stockman says that sulphur should
always be kept in handy reach of the
sheep house. 1t is a preventive of
many ills. A few pieces of roll brim-
stone should be always found in the
horse and COW troughs. Insects and
vermin do not like sulphur.
Don't forget to sow something for
the bees to work on. You can't expect
good crops of fruit without bees, and
your bees will never be profitable IN
less you give them an abundance Of
honey making material to work on at
various seasons Of the year.
That quality is OF more Importance
than quantity is shown by the fact
that Wisconsin has received $1.000000
more for her butter products than
Michigan, although the latter has
produced 45,00O,O00 pounds to only
100000 pounds in Wisconsin.
1t is uSelsS to grow onions no mat.