Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-08
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To fight off the tomato worm, press
a circular tin shield into the ground
around the young plants.
Always advise with the women folks,
as they usually have an eye for the
beautiful and practical in the garden.
The winter months are the best time
TO repair broken tools and get them
ready for next years work. Look this
up.
oats prove q satisfactory ration when
given TO fattening lambs, but require
about % per cent more oats than corn
for a given gain.
One man takes his work as a stone
around his neck and sinks to apathy.
Another takes 1t as a stepping stone
and mounts to success.
The Iowa farmer Is sometimes prone
to curse the abundant rainfall, which
to many a Western rancher would seem
like showers Of blessings.
Hydrogen peroxide is one Of the best
externaI applications for infammed
sores Especially good for hands made
sore from corn husking.
No matter how good a garden you
had last year, you can have a better
one this year. There is only one sure
hIr cr1I Hy
as you would plan a house.
If you expect to build a wire fence
before spring, now is a good time to
set the posts If the ground hasn't froz-
eE too much. The wire may be stretch
ed any time before the ground thaws
and while the posts are solid.
Unless kept for breeding purposes the
hog which lives to his birthday is a
loss to his owner, and if he could get
enough to satisfy his appetite in a
large, roomy yard, he would put on
flesh twice as fast as he would in a
close pen.
Gooseberry bushes require but little
pruning Cut out the older shoots,
leaving the thrifty, younger ones, is
the rule, looking to having the bushes
not too crowded with shoots. Very
low branches are not desirable. Cur
rants are to be treated in much the
same way as gocseberries.
1t Is the experience of many hog
young pigs. For trouble of this kind
many hog growers dip their pigs oc-
casionally and find it does the work
perfectly and is more economic in use
than anything else they have used for
clearing the herds of lice.
A report from Reno, Nevada, says
that c. A. Harwood has perfected a
hybrid melon. a cross between a water
melon and a muskmelon, having the
rind % the former, and the seeds of
the latter. The fruit, 1t Is said, will
keep from one season to another. The
melons grow to an immense size, some
weighing thirty pounds.
w mt CduStS ii lHllllllS III tue III va u
of fowls that seem all right otherwise
Probably draft and wet have given
them ratarrh or a cold" When you
hear that 'rattling" clean up generally
scald all vessels, and in each quart OF
drinking water put Il tablet of anti
mony and arsenite, one-thousandth of q
grain, or n teaspoonful of kerosene. -.
Generally speaking, many farmers
fail to make money out of fall pigs
because they do not handle them right
ly. They put them in a pen and feed
them on corn to the exclusion of all
other diet, unless it may be little
milk o. a pail of kitchen refuse once or
twice day, and then wonder how any
body can make money out of winter
pigs. We wonder, too
There Is Il spirit of Investigation that
Is found In almost every boy that
should be encouraged rather than dis
couraged. 4 boy will play with a toy
for a while and then his desire to know
how it is made leads him to investigate
by tearing it to pieces. This is good
thing in Il boy and will lead him tC
know more and better things. The boy
that Is content with what he can SCI
and Will not ask questions may be com
PEELED TO live in n circumscribed sphere
The $1,000 offered by the Minnesot;
Horticultural Society for a Seeding
Duchess. equal to the Wealthy in size
quality and appearance and as good ;
keeper as the Malinda. is untaken a
yet. The task is a difficult one, as /
seldom happens that all good qualities
are found in one variety. However
progress has been made. Seeding.
shown at the recent meeting of tn,
State horticultural Society were of fin,
quality and are an advance over pre-
ceding exhibits. Let the good work 81
on.
SwitxcrIand's Fine Cows.
The little republic of Switzerland
has 100000 COWS. all mixers The,
average 5000 pounds OF milk a yea
per COW, with total valuation O
S44000.0O0. Forty-two per cen, is use
for home consumption and the rest 70
condensed milk, cheese and butter
The cheese is made in some 1000 sma
creameries, some of them cooperative
The average price of cheese in 100
was Is cents per pound, of which tn
United States imported $4,000
worth.
Afraid to Use Our PlOws.
\ German agricultural paper vouche
for the truth Of the statement tina
the chief reason why peasants Of tn
east refuse to use American or Englis
design plows is not from lack of caI
ital or familiarity with them. or simpl
conservatism. but because many native
firmly hp1iavp thof Dotbiuc will rrnI