Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-05-30
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Fresh Fall Cows.

AO0A l. Oil SOWS
Major Alvord we'll says chat if the
prime object is to produce the great
est quantity of milk of the best quail
ity and at the greatest profit within
a~ year, the evidence is overwhelming
that the COWS should be managed so
as to calve in the fall months Sep
TENDER is just as good as any
Just at that time when the spring
calver is apt to be falling off in her
milk, the fall calver is brought to
{ the stable and receives good care
The grazing she gets after that is
needs nutrition the most following
the strain and while coming into full
flow. The spring calver is turned to
grass when It is "soft and Washy"
and least nutritious. She is apt to
fall away in condition and vigor and
not regain it until the approach OF
winter. If COW must have a rest
during the year, by all means let it
be in the heat of the summer when
pastures are brown and sere, flies
bother and she needs it most.-Ex.
/ Picking and Packing Apples.
} My orchard consists largely of Red
Astrachan, Williams, Gravenstein and
HUbbardstone, which are seldom bar
relied, but the strictly round, fair
fruit is sorted into two grades, large
and small, and shipped to retailers
in Boston in covered bushel boxes,
which are returned. The No. 2 or
culls go to the commission houses. My
winter fruit is packed in barrels in
the orchard if designed for immedi-
ate shipment, but if to be held, it is
put into bins in cool dark cellar
II believe it we'll to leave the heads
out of the barrels for a few days, in
case they are not to be shipped i'm
mediately. I assert all apples into
two grades. My windfalls generally
! find their way into the No. 2. I pick
by hand from the tree, never allowing
apples to be shaken off, I always face
the barrels with two layers of apples,
placed stems down, then fill the bar
rel, shaking we'll When quite full to
the top of the slaves the apples are
covered with paper and the head is
placed on and pressed into place with
the header. / always place papers in
the bottom of the barrel before fac
ing the two layers in. After the bar
rel is filled and headed, T turn 1T
UP end for end and mark with a
pencil the name of the variety and
grade-C G.. Shaw, in American Ag-
riculturist
Surplus Eggs.
On many moderate sized places the
eggs for Matching take much of the
: surplus, during the earlier portion of
the cheap season. But just after the
Matching the surplusage becomes
/ marked, while the price is still the
lowest, and likely to remain there for
! some weeks It is then that the sub
urban or country dweller becomes dis
I gusted with grocery prices and looks
for a new outlet for his products
With all due respect to the force of
circumstances it must be said that
this is not a favorable time to look
for markets. One cannot make yearly
contracts for these surplus eggs be-
cause the surp1usage is matter of a
few weeks only. This is the season
of the year to encourage the home
market" Better make the heaviest
table drafts upon eggs now. Let there
be plenty Of custards and buildings.
| Let the home consumers get their fill,
so that the draft on the high priced
eggs later may be less. Thus one may
snap ones fingers at the grocer and
| his eight or ten or fifteen cents a
dozen, and that Sin Poultry
| Topics.
Old VS.. New Oats.
| If horses have to work hard, old
oats even at higher prices are cheaper
| in the end The new oats are watery
and laxative. They may even cause
collie in horses hard at work. Nothing
| is more weakening than this. In
nutrition even the old oats are cheap
er. If they could be had in winter
to feed with hay, which is always
constipating, new oats would be a
good feed. But small amount of
oil meal is better at chat season.
Elk.
Poultry Notes.
Don't forget about sowing turnips
where the early potatoes were and in
the places where the corn is thin.
They make a good winter feed for
chickens and sheep, COWS and hogs,
and even the horses will relish them
when green feed is gone.
If you have some good chickens,
! ducks, turkeys or geese, prepare to
| take them to the county fair. The
poultry department always has as
many visitors as any other place, and
good display there increases inter
est in the business.
The best perches are made of shin
Cling lath and Turing strips, 1x2
inches, laid fiat, and the corners of
the upper side rounded nicely to fit