Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13

SEIIAhIeu WITH SILT makes 4 nice 3D-
petiZer for hogs.
He who leaves the leaves of the Glow
err plant on the field robs the cattle of
the best part of the plant.
Keep a few sheep or goats and learn
to eat fat mutton part of the time in
stead of pork-pork- all the time
Guinea fowls are good layers, and
when not toe old their flesh is tender
and pleasant to the taste, but darker
than chickens.
There are mean hogs as we'll as
mean men, and when the two are
found on the same farm there is GER
tainly a great mess.
In shocking grain the bundles must
be set down in a vigorous manner or
they will not stay. 1t is surprising
what poor Shockers we have on farms.
Tame hens sit and lay better, and
fowls of all kinds fatten better when
not subject to sudden fright, as is Of
ten the case with those that are tame.
In making the best quality of butter
for market there are five essentials:
Uniformity in color, i'll texture, in salt
ing, in packing and in leaving no water
in the butter.
Do the boys turn the horses out of
the barn by soaring them out and max
ing them run? 1t is not the best plan.
Shaping them with the halter and
saying Get out of here" makes fools
of them.
Have you observed that some farm
ers almost always have good crops? or
course in bad year they do not have
as good crops as they do in good years,
but it is safe to say they have the best
crops in the neighborhood.
Fall is as good Il time as spring to set
out fruit trees. Get good trees and
plan to give them good care in the
future. This is the only way to have
natures medicine-fruit, to keep set
ting out trees it does not take long
to get your reward.
If a horse has the heaves feed less
hay and more grain and water him be-
fore feeding. A horse with the heayeS
should not be worked hard for an hour
after eating and too much should not
be expected of him. Feed wet feed
when it is convenient.
The wife and daughter should not be
required to ask for every quarter they
get for spending money. They should
be recognized as part of the firm, and
should have a good share Of the funds
without having to beg it. Come, now;
be generous and see how much better
you'll feel.
TO those who are familiar with trans
planting operations, the best time to
transplant rose bushes is in the spring.
Autumn planting may sometimes be
done to advantage by those who live
in mild climate and are familiar with
such work, but beginners had better do
such work in the spring.
Nut trees, as a rule, have long tap
roots, and it has been handed down for
years that to cut thin tap roots when
transplanting them meant death to the
tree, but experience shows differently
If the long tap root is cut many lat
erals are sent out, and thus a fine,
strong root system is established, which
will make a good tree.
Relative to the time of harvesting
apples, the author of bulletin, issued
by the Idaho station, calls special at
tention to the necessity of harvesting
Jonathan apples when the seeds have
turned a light brown. If the fruit is
not picked until well colored and the
seeds are dark around the edges, it is
likely to rot at the core while still
sound on the outside.
One of the most important factors in
increasing
blowing. If you don't believe it, plow
a portion of the field early in August
and the balance at the end of Septem-
Der, and in the part plowed first, you
may have an increase of ten bushels an
acre over the other. Early blowing is
especially necessary in clay lands. Cen
orally speaking, the field should be
rolled as soon as it is plOWed.
A man in looking over Il paper saw
the prices of hogs and he said to him
self, why haven't / Il few hogs 20
sellgo In another part Of the same pa
per he read of the cholera being very
bad in one locality and he unused, Il
am glad l have no hogs to die with
the cholera SO, after all, it may be
well enough that this man did not
have any hogs. This is good time
to be in the hog and sheep business.
The dewberry is propagated by tips,
the same as blackcap raspberry; and,
with the creeping propensities Of its
canes, the grower will have no difficulty
in increasing his stock of plants very
rapidly If the natural rate of increase,
however, is not sufficiently rapid, the
method of propagation from cuttings
Of the canes when in a proper state Of
ripeness will satisfy the most exacting
propagator. 1t is said that some vari-
cites may be propagated very readily
from root cuttings.
Excellent Fattening Ration.
Alfalfa hay and corn and cob meal
form most excellent ration for fat
tening, and unless future experiments
change these results we shall have to
admit that this combination gives bet