Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-01

boy that does not like farm work.
Sometimes it occurs that that boy
does not like any kind of work.
One thing that has been a means of
Increasing the consumption of mutton
is that there is less danger Of disease
in this meat than in beef CT pork.
Trim your horses feet. Do this with
the colts. They will get used to be-
ing handled, and the blacksmith won't
have much trouble in breaking them
In.
Don't imagine a harness adjusted for
one horse will fit every other horse on
tho farm. Here's a thing every farmer
ought to know, but it causes lots of
trouble every year.
1t is said that lightning will follow
the path of the least resistance. How
is it with the lazy man? He usually
does the same thing but he does not
move like lightning.
Keep a little money in the bank to
buy that calf that a neighbor has to
sell. He has more use for money than
the calf; you have use for the calf be
cause he will grow into money rapidly.
Scrub lambs, 155 days old, grown at
the Louisiana station, weighed only
thirty-two pounds each, as compared
with forty-three pounds for well-bred
lambs only 129 days old. Why grow
scrubs?
Have you plenty of litter stored for
the hens during cold weather? They
need exercise to keep them warm and
in good health while penned in; this.
along with proper food, will bring
plenty of eggs.
Getting discouraged and giving up
certain branch Of farming sometimes
comes just ut the approach of success.
Did you ever quit a certain thing only
to find it become profitable in other
hands soon after you gave it up?
Tying horses just long enough when
in the stable is one thing that is most
difficult to teach a boy. For some I'M
accountable reason the average boy
cannot measure the length of rope and
gauge correctly just how long or how
short TO tie.
Scientists say that the turnip is COM
posed of 80 per cent water; neverthe-
less, the very best mutton that En-
gland produces is raised on turnips
as a bulk ration, with the addition of
grain as a fattening ration. So the
water the turnip contains must be of
excellent quality.
A number OF experiments conducted
at experiment stations show that well
matured corn will shrink fully 10 per
cent in the course of six or seven
months after cribbing. Corn that will
bring thirty cents at husking time
should bring at least thirty-fve cents
six months later.
A h0rseman says: The finest winter
feed that l know Of is sheaf oats, that
is all | know about it. The horses will
go through the winter in good, strong
condition and in the spring they will
be fit for work. Let them eat the
heads and best of straw, and use the
rest for bedding.
A house does not always have to be
handsome to be comfortable. No one
with cold feet can enjoy home. Chills
running up the back are serious remind
ers of lack of management in some par
ticular. A furnace or a large stove
jacketed in the basement or cellar will
do more to keep the house warm than
any other way.
All mule colts and most young work
mules are pranky. That is they are
fond OF ''monkeying" with each other
when turned out in a lot: but they are
seldom mischievous to the extent of
jumping over fences and getting into
the crops. and even when they get into
q Cornfeld CIR other sort of crop, they
don't do much harm.
Have you ever noticed that when the
TX gets out of place it is sure to he on
cold morning when you have forgot
ten to get kindling the night before?
This makes a man real good natured,
but when he remembers that it is just
where he left it he is sure to try to
excuse himself Have a box in which
to keep plenty Of kindling all the time
and this trouble will not arise
It always makes the grain grower
swell W with pride when he sees illus
trations of fields of ripe grain in which
are fifteen or twenty harvesters at WORK
at one time. or a large combined head
er and thrasher that is drawn by forty
horses The average plowman feels
| good when he sees a picture of the
steam pillow, the woodman fairly goes
into ecstasies when he sees an illus
tration of five or six trucks of logs be-
irg hauled with one steam engine as
ls done in the Oregon pineries. We all
like to see such machinery at work but
the expense is something immense.
If it were only possible to induce
the hens to lay all the eggs they are
capable Of laying. at the time when
most wanted, doubtless eggs would