Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-09-26

| useful III us way DIS Is LuG CO6m1Cal
action of fire. 1t is one of the things
placed in our hands with which to
prevent a loss. and there are few
| losses so serious to the farmer as the
loss of fertility. With concrete floors
| and plaster for an absorbent, we may
add much to the value of manure, not
alone by saving the fertilizing value
of the liquids, but by retaining mois-
ture in the pile
WHEN TO APPLY THE MANURE.
Manure is best applied in a fresh
condition. Instead of letting it lie all
winter, draw it out as soon as made
| and spread on the land where it will
lie and soak during the fall rains and
winter freezing and thawing In the
early spring it should be narrowed in.
PROBLEM FOR FEEDERS.
Not less food, but food better adapt
ed to the purpose for which the ami
NAL is kept, and fed in such a man.
ner as to give the best results; this is
the line of investigation for the farm
ers and feeders today.
NEWSY FARM NOTES.
Sheep do we'll on corn fodder.
An egg freezes at about ten degrees
above zero.
A sugar refining company is about
to be formed in Japan.
Feed the table scraps before they
have become soured.
Cranberries are being successfully
cultivated in Dare county, N. G.
Feeding the fowls too much cayenne
pepper is apt to produce liver trouble
In Butte county, Cal. eight olive
trees are reported to have yielded $50
gallons of oil.
A large part of the food used on the
farm goes back to the land through
the manure heap.
A warm house, a varied diet, plenty
of exercise and very early Matched last
springs pullets are the chief ingre-
dents of the winter eggs.
The New York horse show cleared
about 100000 for the stockholders.
The trotting-bred horses won nearly
all the prizes in driving and carriage
classes.
In feeding barley to hogs the best
results are obtained by grinding the
grain and soaking it for five or six
hours before feeding. If given whole
much of the barley will pass undi-
gested.
While the first cross often unites
the good qualities of both parents,
any attempt to breed from it causes
the blood that the progenitors have
in common to prevail, and the Off
spring revert back to the original I'M
improved type.
The farmer who spends his money
before he gets it is always at dis
advantage, for as soon as he gets any
money some hand is reaching for it,
and he no sooner has it than it is
gone.
There are too many farmers who do
not give the farm credit for it's just
dues. such as the use of house and
everything in the way of meat, butter,
eggs, fruit and in fact almost every
thing the farmer and his family live
upon.
If foods are fed that are rich in
blood-making and muscle-forming
character, like bran and oats, the cow
puts the facts of the food into the
milk, and uses the rest for the support
of her system, and stronger flow Of
milk is the result.
Grass is the foundation of success
in farming. Tt assists during the pro-
cess of rotation to improve the soil,
and enables more and better stock to
be kept. The farmer who succeeds in
securing a good hay crop has won
half the battle.
Autumn is the time to prepare for
early chickens. Dispose of all surplus
birds and push the early pullets for
ward. If they lay early they will be-
come broody early. Without early
eggs and early sitters there can be no
early chickens reared in the old way.
It is safe to assume that the crops
raised by a good majority of those
who have to make living at farm
ing in any community are about the
most profitable that can be handled
there. There may be some exception
to this, but as a rule it holds good.
Farmers, in the application of COM
mercia1 fertilizers, must never forget
that they are entirely unlike barnyard
manure, because of the fact that they
may be compounded so as to make a
great variation in the proportion OF
the three principal elements of plant
food.
Without education. and without
books and papers, a person may be-
come a good practical farmer by the
force of habit and do his work as per-
fectly as a machine, but he thereby
becomes a mere machine, or beast OF
burden, with no more bodily comfort
or intellectual enjoyment than his
horse.
Diversified farming requires that
of nrndraoT tho