Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-27

N-S 1O 49,
by-products may pay more or less, but
the business is not conducted for the
sake of the ~5y-products. Dairying is
no exception to this rule.
High-priced labor cannot be made to
count on low-priced land. On low
priced land the owner must perform
his own labor. At all times it will be
necessary to keep the cost of produc-
ton down as low as possible.
One of the greatest troubles in feed
ing poor grain is not so much in the
loss, as compared with good grain, but
in the fact that Overheated or musty
grain causes many of the diseases
which ordinarily affects fowls.
E. L. Stewart, owner of an orchard
near Prosser, south of Spokane, sold on
an average of $40 worth Of apples
from each acre of his fifty-acre tract.
In one instance he secured between
1000 and 5000 boxes of apples off six
acres.
Occasionally a horse will form a
habit of chewing the ends of the halter
strap and such other parts Of the har-
ness as he has access to. Equal parts
of cayenne pepper and fish oil applied
to such straps will cure the worst
strap chewer.
Pigs will begin to eat with the sows
when two or three weeks old If get
ting plenty of exercise, it will not hurt
them to crack a little corn. But rhe
ideal feed is skim milk and shorts in
the form of a thin slOp. 1t will make
them grow and not get overfat.
Lambs should be weaned at about
3 months and put on fresh clover pas
ture. Each day sOme grain should be
given in the trough, to make growth
and overcome the check that might be
caused by weaving. One or two good
quiet ewes left with the flock will keep
the lambs quiet.
The two-row c%ultivator is here to
stay, and is n of the implements that
hurries up the cultivation when the
hay Is getting ripe. A field of corn
that can be cultivated in one day has
the advantage over a field which re-
quires two TO go over it. To the corn
grower this is evident.
Recent reports tell of the great
spread of the San Jose scale. This
ruinous pest will sweep away the trees
wherever a community neglects it and
permits it to spread. 1t is possible to
check it, and while the checking may
be costly, it is far less costly thai is
the destruction of the fruit and other
trees.
Some breeders claim hat chickens
from eggs laid earliest in the season are
the most likely to live and thrive after
Matching. 1t is claimed that cOntinu- |
Gus laying e~nfeebles the hens system to
such an extent that the later eggs in the
filters are not so we'll endowed
with vigor.
Horse breeding is being greatly en-
couraged by the government in Japan, |
and $4,000 has lately been made
available by the Mikado's government
for the establishment of public studs
at various points in the island empire,
and it is proposed to begin at once the
purchase of 1.50O stations to be placed
in these public depots.
Poultry and dairy farming are a good
In these days of improved
methods when the cream is sep
from the milk Immediately after
being drawn from the COW, the dairy
farmer has plenty of skim milk, which
Is an ideal food for poultry, and there
Is more money in feeding it to the mems
than to the hogs.
Pumpkins are good feed for lambs
in the fall, especially when they are
with paper skin, caused by
worms in the intestineS. They will eat
them if they are sliced or cut and
sprinkled with salt, but it is better to
1at-bottomed troughs, with
compartments each being large enough
to receive the half of a pumpkin cut In
such fashion as TO have the pieces lie
lat, with the inside uppermost.
Parasites develop rapidly and should
never be allowed to exist if possible,
as the sooner the work of stamping
the cause Of the disease Is done,
the less labor required. Minute fungi
be carefully sought and fought
with the spraying mixtures. The spores
so rapidly that a days delay
may result in heavy loss. Each form
has its own habits. requiring prompt
hasty work for its suppression.
Nearly all plant diseases are the re-
suit Of fungus growth.
To give a horse a drench, place a
stout rope in his mouth and around up
Der jaw. Back him up in a stall or
.orner. Throw loose end Of rope over
,eam overhead and let another man
,old it taut or loose as required. Stand
N a box and lift horses head up. Take