Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22

Don't keep them tied up in the barn
all winter long They can stand
bit of fresh air and a little frolic every
day.
Nothing dignifes a man quite so
much as the ownership of a piece of
land. If you are renter, get hold of
some Of Mother Eartl as soon as you
can.
Some people would be better off if
they were to refrain from making new
resolutions. All that will be necessary
for them to do will be to mend some
Of the old ones.
One pound of corn meal is equal in
feeding value to 3.2T pounds Of skim
milk when fed to growing pigs. There
is really more value in skim milk than
we give credit for.
These days when the fire is burning
warm it will be a good plan to see if
| the insurance policy is all right, and it
might be a good plan to see that
ladder is convenient
Do you give your horses salt regu-
larry or occasionally? They should
have it where they can get it at any
time. II you think it makes no differ
ence, try eating without salt yourself
for a month.
Keep a fowls head and feet warm
and you have provided we'll for its
| comfort in that line. In other words,
if the floor is dry, the roof made to
keep out wind and frost, the sides we'll
battened, then the fowls will keep
warm.
There are two kinds of profitable
farming. One is to grow and sell
profitable crops and by so doing i'm
poverish the soil, and the other is to
grow equally as good crops and con-,
duct the operations so as to keep the
fertility of the soil up.
1t is well to remember when giving
medicine to fowls that with some
liquids a drop is larger than some
others. Sixty drops of water make
teaspoonful or dram; laudanum and
all other tinctnres and aIcohols have
100 drops to a fluid dram.
Hogs are % to 80 cents a hundred
| higher than a year ago, and don't
| seem likely to be much if any lower
As things look now, pork will be
made at less cost this year than last;
so, on the whole, the hog business
shouldn't give growers the blues.
Extra clevises, singletrees, double
trees, bolts, etc, should be provided now
when there is comparative leisure
When one gets busy and finds he could
rig another team if he only had a few
more cleyises or singletrees, and does
not have them, is the one way to insure
disappointment and loss.
The short courses at our agricultural
colleges afford splendid opportunity
for the busy farm boy to gather some
information along his line. The boy
who wants to get information will
find it there. The boy who is not
looking for it could not find it if it
were at the end of his nose
Glass gives more warmth to hotbeds
than any other covering, but for plants
that are somewhat hardy, a light
| frame covering of oiled muslin is as
good and is cheaper. 1t can be prepar-
ed by stretching the mus''u and satur-
ating both sides with Loiled linseed
oil, spread evenly with paint brush.
Congressman as a rule do not pay
much attention to the lobbyist There
| is a lobby to which any citizen Of the
| United States can belong and his in
| fuence will be respected. A stamp on
a letter will make you member Of
that lobby and your member Ill
show you respect if you tell him what
! you want.
The time to care for poultry is all
the time Thorough care and daily at
! tention are the essentials in any bust
ness, and the poultry business is no
exception. Wideawake and successful
! poultry raisers know this. a duty that
| you owe to yourself and to your pocket
| book is to entertain a little more en-
| thusiasln.
Many persons seem to think anything
! good enough for a hog and not very
much of it But it is not 1t is poor
way to make pork. by compelling them
! to make their own living. The only
way pigs should be required to make
| their living is by gathering the alfalfa,
| clover or other green stuff they eat in
a weli-covered pasture and a good feed
| of grain along with it all.
| The value of spraying apples has
| been further established by tests in
| Illinois. where it was noted by actual
count that twenty-five trees left I'M
sprayed produced nineteen unblem-
tshed apples. Forty-seven busted trees
| produced sixty-three unbiemished
| fruits, while sixty-six trees receiving
| liquid sprays grew 2,064 perfect speci-
mems. In another instance five I'M
sprayed Wealthy apple trees ripened
only eight apples without fault and
| eighteen busted trees perfected 337,
| whereas twelve liquid sprayed trees of
the same variety bore over 1000 speci-