Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23

means poor season to make it.
Fine emery and oil will make a good
paste with which to brighten tools.
The grass crop that the corn grower
Ices not care to see prosper is the fox
ail grass.
Sometimes the man who sits and
waits for something to turn up is soon
Mrned down.
A silo six feet square will hold
mough cider pomace for six cattle all
winter and will prove a good invest
nent.
The head may be said to be in good
working order when it can be used to
save the hands. These agents should
De in close cooperation.
A man might as we'll attempt to
drink the Pacific ocean dry as to at
Tempt to whip fright out of a horse.
When a horse is frightened it will re-
luire different tactics.
| Cultiyating corn in a field where the
olI stalks have been plowed under is
tinually wondering if the next row
will be as difficult to get over as the
last.
The man who never reads is incapable
IF doing much thinking, and he pits his
muscle against the other mans business
qualification brought about by thinking,
and thus works on the short end of the
| 1oubletree.
A boy can make no greater mistake,
from the standpoint of his own welfare,
than to choose a rich man for his
father. Nothing generates snap like
poverty. When 1t is root hog or die"
one generally finds some we'll directed
roofing.
| Many hay-makers now practice s..eca-
ing with sweep or other rapid devices
in the fields and put the hay in the
NOW afterward when there is more
time to do the work. The plan is prac-
ticed because they can get up more hay
in a given time il catchy weather.
Horseradish is difficult plant to
eradicate, but if plowed out when in
full leaf and the plant is prevented
from making new roots during the
summer, it will go a long ways to-
ward discouraging it. If disturbed
during the dormant season only, it will
not have much effect on it
The fairest boss hired man can
have is the one who works along with
his man, for he has an idea what work
is and how much ought to be performed
in a given time. No one who does not
work can be in sympathy with labor.
The hired man is today better paid
than any other laborer of like char
acter.
Nothing saves time better in bush
fruit growing than planting wide
enough apart to cultivate with har-
When the land is cultivated, less than
half the time is taken than by the
usual method. This encourages more
frequent tillage and consequent in
crease of crops.
If your meadow land along the banks
Of a stream is being slowly eaten into
+In Tow OF fl1A
Of the channel the remedy is to insert
a close row of willow stakes about
foot from the edge of the place where
the wear is noticed. The stakes will
root and grow and will usually hold
the banks.
The hired girl problem is getting
worse instead Of better. Many girls
seek employment in cities because the
wages are larger and there are more
privileges. They then marry city men,
leaving the country boys to find com
panions in city girls, who in turn will
not live on the farm, and both boys
and girls are lost to the farm.
Il
insect destroyers in the orchard and
garden. The toad is not as handsome
as bird, but has a large omnivorous
appetite; feeds under the leaves where
the birds cannot go, has neither bite
nor a sting for anyone, and is one Of
the best friends the gardener has. Ev-
erything possible should be done TO en-
courage their increase.
In Yorkshire, England, there is
farm for the raising of rare moths and
butterflies for geological collections, the
ground being planted with suitable
trees and shrubs. In their season the
stock of caterpillars is twenty thou
sand. From thirty to forty thousand
preserved insects are kept in stock, so
hat specimens may be supplied to mu-
seums at any time of the year.
If one peach is two inches in diam
ater and another is three inches, how
much larger is the latter than the
no, That would be a bad guess. 1t
is three and three-eighthS times as
large. Don't you believe it? Let your
boy ask the school teacher, and if the
teacher doesn't know, ask anyone that
is way up on mathematics"
It Is better for peach tree to bear
three bushels Of large peaches than
three bushels Of small peaches. Why?
Because the large peach is mostly juice
-water-but the small peach is mostly
pit-dry matter. 1t is very hard on a
tree to mature big crop of pits, but
not so hard to produce a big crop Of
fruit Thin the peaches severely and
the tree will live longer, other things
being equal
Many a young man Is of the opinion
that money produces thrift. 1t Is the
reverse; thrift produces money and