Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-22

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! Late melting hens are as a rule in
| different winter layers
| Avoid shipping fowls to market in
crates that are too crowded for COM
fort.
Honey is the saccharine liquid gath
cred by the bees from natural sources
and stored in their combs.
Potatoes are not the best food for
egg production. Balance them with
| linseed meal, bran, clover, etc.
Sheep restore TO the soil larger
proportion of the elements they take
from it in grazing than do any other
stock.
Parched corn, wheat or oats makes a
pleasant change in the diet of the hens.
Almost any change is relished by Bid
dy, and is beneficial.
For scaly legs, which are the work
of minute parasite, an application
of SULPHUR and lard, once a week, is
good Scrub legs first.
Because sheep will make better
use of q poor pasture than will any
other stock do not try to raise them
on one that is absolutely bare.
The dust box is necessary for the
fowls during the winter time if they
are to be kept free from lice. Nothing
is superior to road dust for this pur
pose.
Disposition needs TO be considered
in hogs as we'll as in other stock.
The hog with a short nose, thick head
and short body is liable to be quiet and
easy to manage.
For soft-shelled eggs, give hens more
exercise. Cut out corn and give vege-
tables in abundance. There is no medi-
cine worth trial An injection of oil
into vent may relieve local inlamma-
ton.
Fowls should never be allowed to
run at large in the barn. They injure
the hay and oftentimes cover the cat
tie and horses with lice and mites.
They should have warm quarters by
themselves.
There is no need of being bothered
with CHICKEN lice. Anything that will
kill lice Oh sneep will also fix these
chicken pests. Then, dipping is so
much more convenient and is attended
with less danger than greasing.
Breeding sheep are now so high that
it really Seems reckless to buy them;
but r it is, buy now or never, better
to buy a few and make start. Sheep
on a farm seem somehow to- be- evil
dences OF success and harbingers of
luck
At mo- period in the history of this
country have there been SO many new
candidates for admission to the ranks
OF the sheep and wool raisers as today,
The sheep business seems to have az
greater fascination for men of adj
classes than amy other rural occuRa-
tion.-Sheep BGeeder.
The sheep has been intimately as
ISOLATED with man, probably longer
than any other animal. The wool and
flesh have been esteemed by the human
family probably as far back as any
records reach. Wooden goods are
known. to. have. been made in Asia two
thousand years before the beginning of
the Christian Era.
Under no circumstances must a
brood SOW and her pigs be shut in a
nasty, muddy pen" This is the adj
vice of 4 very successful and expert
enced breeder to a beginner. Note
that no decent breeder ever treats his
fine brood COWS that way, and why
sense treatment to the 'just plain
breed" or those Of no breed at all.
More tanning mills are worn out by
hauling over the country in farm
wagons over rough roads than are worn
out in actual use. Many are permitted
to fall into disuse by neglecting the
sieves which rust out easily. The best
place for the latter is in d case made
expressly for them where they can be
kept dry and they should be given an
oil preparation occasionally. 1t is bet
ter to own a mill than to depend on
borrowing.
In this day of telephones it is a de-
pIorable condition when a farmer goes
to town with a load of hogs to find that
they have declined in price from ten to
fifteen cents per hundred, and all be-
cause he has no phone. A man who
has no phone may feel Independent,
but he is most dependent ana IS at the
mercy of all who deal with him. He
| is not in touch with his fellow farmers
or with the world. If a person only
needed a phone once it would pay
to put it in
4 dog is not the best animal to- send
| after COW that is giving milk. When
| accompanied by a small boy with a
| whip the condition has not been helped
| any. A Nebraska man has been max
| ing some tests of milk when cow
was warm and excited and at other
times. A COW being brought by dog
and boy was very warm and excited
| and her milk tested %. The next
morning her milk tested Al, and a
week later when she was brought up
| by man and was perfectly cool, her
milk tested g.