Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-18

wives have no dry wood to burn.
Let the chickens run on the range
where. they will have plenty of grass
and clover. Turn up earth for them to
| scratch in for worms.
Whipping a shying or frightened
horse is senseless and cruel pain does
not relieve freight, but the assuring
voice of the master does.
1t is not good policy to force the
growth of colts by giving them stimu-
| lation foods and overlooking them.
The overgFown horse is seldom a dur
| able one.
Butter is regarded as a comparative
~ modern product. Scholars believe
that the word translated butter in the
early writings should have been trans
| lated cream.
A Montana sheep firm has bought a
410-acre ranch in the Yellowstone val
ley near Billings for So, 800, nearly $50
an acre, the highest price yet paid in
that section.
While small bunch of sheep can be
kept on any farm to a good advantage,
they serve a double purpose, as they
enrich the farm and bring a cash in
come a 1.-THE same time.
A breachy old eve is about the worst
| property one can own, as she leads the
good sheep into unforbidden pastures
There are few fiocks but what has one
of these ''pesty old things"
Tomatoes do well when heavily fertl-
lized. When the plants are set they
may be placed upon a shovel Of we'll
rotted manure After they begin to
grow, more manure may be added and
plowed in.
The stingy feeder hurts himself as
we'll as his COWS; but, on the other
hand, the mich COW that will not re-
pay generous feeding should find the
block, and her place be filled by a good
animal. Worst enocomy of all Is to
breed to an Improbable scrub.
This year the man who prepared
every acre Of ground right before plant
ing is now ahead. We know of corn
planted on well-prepared ground two
weeks ago that is now up to some OF
the corn that was hogged in six weeks
ago, and in two weeks more it will be
ahead.
One practice that has been so neglect
ed as to almost be given the name Of a
"lost art'' should again be revived. II
Is that of stacking grain. There are
too few farmers who can build a stack
of grain that will keep. The reason is
easy. Threshing from the shock does
the damage.
There are many foul weed seeds that
cannot be taken out of clover seed by
ordinary methods. When an extra eff
fort is not made to get the seed clean
it will be sure to grow all kinds OF
plants not wanted 1t will not pay to
drift into neglect in this way and slip
one cog backward.
Fat hens may be most quickly re-
duced to reproducing condition by
giving them free range on grass, with
holding soft food and feeding them
sparingly with oats and other bulky
food Scratching beds of litter, chaff.
leaves, ETC., will take the place of range
where birds must be confined.
Not until man began planting corr
from individual ears in separate places
did he learn of the individuality OF
ears. Now, since he has learned this
much, there is a thirsting for a greater
knowledge of seed corn. Some of the
older students in seed cornology have
long since ceased to learn any more
Others are satisfied they can still learn
something.
A farmer who has had experience
with cement tanks writes that it does
not pay to build them unless they are
well reinforced with wires and iron
rods. The freezing will sometimes
cause them to crack, and a crack means
a leak a leak means trouble 1t does
not add much to the labor or expense
to imbed pieces of wire all through the
concrete while making cement tanks.
Close attention to details is neces-
sary in order to produce two tons of
butter exactly alike in quality. A
change Of food will affect the milk and
butter and so will any mistake in keep
ing and ripening the cream and in
churning. The food also favors the
butter, as wild onions have been obsta-
cles in that respect Lack of cleanli-
ness also affects the quality Of the but
ter.
Weeds n Source of Disease