Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-02
Ggr icdltural lore

of salt and fresh water. Silage from
corn is probably the best feed for
sheep. 1t should be cut after the
corn has glazed Feed this morning
and night and at noon feed roots and
hay Do not give more than the sheep
will eat up clean every time.
The lambs should begin II come
about the middle of December or
January /. The basement 81 ould be
warm enough so that the Temperature
will reach 65 degrees during the warm
part of the day. Of course sheen
must have plenty of fresh all nut nc
sure that draughts do MOI strike
them. Let the lambs run out in the
yard as much as possible, and when
old enough to wean put them into =
pen by themselves and give them
cornmeal, bran and all the silase they
Will eat. By this treatment tbs lambs
VIII be ready for early spring market
William II. Stage, in American Agr,-
culturist.
Dairy GIeanings.
! 1t is not always the man with the
biggest herd of cows who clears the
most money from his dairy.
Gilt edged butter is more to be de
sired on the average customers plate
than any d,'tcacy of the season.
The reason some farmers never ex-
tract the latent gold in dairy COWS il
that they persist in looking TO the
grain and corn fields for it.
The dairywOman who churns befoT,
sun up in the morning often makes
grained butter without the use OF
ice
1t is a curious fact, and yet truo.
that some of the most profitable mo
ments any one engaged in dairyinF
can spend are in repeated washing Of
the hands.
1t is parody on cleanliness t.
try to strain filth out of milk when II
might have been obviated by the er
ercises of the most ordinary Urecan
tions.
Despite all of the laws to the cou-
trary skinned cheese is yet sold for
full cream" and oleomargarine for
real butter Where is the remedy?
Those people who consider milking
irksome will never make good dairy
men.
While it pays to raise hogs in COLI
junction with the dairy, it never has
or never will pay the mandatory t.
keep the swine quartered near ::
creamery.
In the writer's experience, the avey-
age man cannot milk more than ten
COWS with profit at one sitting The
reason is that tired muscles cannot
extract the milk from the udder with
proper facility. Moral: Do not hui
the delusiOn that you are economizinE
when you throw large amount OF
work onto your mixers.
It is wantOn waste to throw fodde;
corn in the whole stalk be- lore cows
especially if the canes ARE spread
about the fields. The cattle will de
stroy with their hoofs at leak t half OF
the fodder SO fed. 1t will always pay
10 cut the canes up aRd -fehd then
from q manger.
Now and then We run against peoplp
who can be taught nothing more in
regard to dairying. These are lie
the ones who are not makina,
more than two-thirds possible profits
out of the business.
The woman who can make g0op
butter once a week is to he commend
ed, but the one who can make it uaj
formly good every day in the week
need look no further for a profitable
vocation.
Some consumers like butter s3Itet,
more than others. and the wise pre-
Queer will always consult the tastes
Of his customers in this regard.
Color is only skin deep il guw
go more by the contour and size o.
her udder. l once knew q dairyalar
who never purchased a new COW rntl1
he himself had sat down and 70 her
her. 1t is needless to add that he sci
dom made poor purchase.-Ge0rgt
e. Newell, in Nebraska Farmer.