Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-02-07

Unfortunately the road to success is
a mud road and has not been thor
olghly worked, and it has thorns and
briars by the wayside.
In Tie past twenty years this coun-
try has Increased in population % per
cent, and it has decreased in number
OF sheep 20 per cent. Dogs have con-
tributed to this state of affairs.
Poor yields are not always due to
poor soil. Some farming is fruitful Of
poor yields. Good farming will make
more plant food available and the
yield will be proportionate to the
amount of labor bestowed, other
things being equal.
man or woman working in a
dairy should have good eyes and a
good smeller. When a can becomes a
little rusty it should be discarded at
once. He or she should be able to
detect every odor that will faint the
milk or injure the favor of the butter.
That colt which persists in getting
its foot over the halter rope or strap
should have the rope passed through
a hole in the Manager on the end of
which may be hung a weight that will
at all times take up the slack, keep
! ing it taut When he lies down it will
| give him plenty of rope.
1t is an astonishing fact, says the
Agricultural Epitomist, that more
than 100000 dozen of eggs are i'm
ported into the United States annual
ly, about 10000 dozen of which come
from China and Japan, while 100000
dozen come from Canada. The Ameri-
can hen is all right, but something is
wrong with the American farmer.
We have beginners and cutters,
starters and losers, and then we have
| stayers. One of the best things in
this world is to know when to begin
and when to quit; when to start in
any enterprise and when to pass it
up If we stay by a thing that is
losing money the longer we stay the
worse.
Government statistics show that
| 1904 exports of bread stuffs will be
less than one-half the value of those
exported in the calendar year 1903
| The first eleven months of 1904 the
exports were but $S2,00O,O00, against
| $176,000,000 for last year. The de-
crease is largely due to the wheat crop
| of 1904 and the corn crop of 1908.
A banker riding through the coun-
| try recently saw the implements of
certain farmer out exposed to the
clements Now this man was a Dor
rover at his bank, and when he came
in to renew his paper, the banker
would not renew, stating that he
thought he was dangerous man to
loan money to. This is an object les
son.
The area under vine in France in
1904 amounted to A, 101 AGA acres. The
yield of wine, according to the official
preliminary estimate, was ], 749, 261 900
gallons, or almost double that Of the
year before. when the vintage was
of cider in France in 1904 was $685.
323, 900 gallons, against 1892 900 gal
Ions in 1903.
In digging a ditch many farmers
throw the top soil and clay all to-
gether and when a ditch is filed the
clay is on top which leaves a hard,
infertile streak through the field for
many years. i better way is to throw
all the top soil on one side of the
ditch and the clay on the other and
when filling again the black dirt can
be put in last.
The poultry nests and roosts should
frequently be taken outside Of the
building and lightly brushed with
kerosene and lighted match applied.
TIE fire will run over the surface
without doing any harm. If properly
constructed the roosts and nests can
be taken out and replaced in a few
moments, leaving an empty poultry
house. which can easily be cleaned.
How does rain spoil hay? Let us
|
| it in some hot water in a pail. A
brown color will come to the water
which is known as hay tea" If left
long enough the solution will contain
all the nutritive substances of the hay.
Cold water will do the same thing,
recurring some more time. Hay that
has been permitted to become over
ripe loses its nutritive properties to
| the perfected seed.
The wheat crop of Russia is now
given out by official authorities as
| follows: Spring wheat. 457.024, 600
/ bu.; winter wheat, 206, les, 518 bu In
1908 The figures were: Spring wheat,
421 ,083 SO; winter wheat. 200374,-
! 376 bu. Rye, which is the principal
food grain of the lower classes of Rus
sia, produced a crop of zoos $50, 45S
! bu., as compared with Oh ,941, $50 Blu.
in 1903. 1t will be seen from these
I figures that Russia will have consid-
erably more grain TO export from this
crop than She had from that of 1903,
and this is one great factor in keep
ing down the prices of wheat in east
ern Europe and Great Britain.
The State statistician of Indiana, in
his report on farming statistics Tor
the year 1904. says that 1T Is con-
sidered by those interested that wheat
can no longer be raised in Indiana at
a profit IN 1904 the average yield was
a small fraction more than ten bush
els to the acre. Deducting one and
one-half bushels for seed. the net
crop was but eight and one-half
bushels to the acre. TO pay for sow
| ing. harvesting, threshing. marketing.
to say nothing OF the interest on the
value OF the land IT may be expect
ed that under these circumstances the
/ wheat acreage viii decrease from year
to year" The report states that al
though the wheat acreage had been