Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19
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Hogs will turn grain into money
quicker than any other farm animal
Beauty In form and appearance is no
safe indication of a sow's good breed
ng qualities.
Experience has taught that the most
profitable kinds of poultry to raise for
market are the quick growing, early
maturing breeds.
Because there Is no profit from it,
many farmers do not provide nice
lawn. This is neither good business
oor good sense.
E. n. Ball, secretary of the Michigan
Merino Sheep Breeders Association.
says Michigan sheep breeders are con-
fdent of the future.
Spinach is a much-neglected crop in
the kitchen gardens of the rural dis
tricts. 1t is found on sale In the city
markets, however, at nearly all the sea-
son Of the year.
In burning stalks no available fertil-
1ty goes up il smoke. The loss in
smoke is carbon. There is very little
nitrogen in stalks There is more hui
mus, and if a soil lacks humus the
stalks will be a help to it.
It is all right to look for ease and to
plan to have an easy time, but in the
meantime it is safer to work on. 1t IS
not always the one who does the most
work who thrives, but the one who does
the best and most timely work.
The goose is a very careful mother,
and the job of incubation would better
be left TO her. She can be allowed to
swim in breeding season, because she
is orderly and knows where she puts
her eggs, but duck will lay anywhere.
Better not permit access to water, but
keep breeding ducks in yard.
Some of the "safe schemes adver-
tised are safe. One man invested in
one of these safe schemes" and his
money is apparently safe, for it is
there yet and no indication that he will
ever get 1t out again. 1t is a well-knOwn
fact that the safest schemes do not
have to be advertised as safe schemes"
Farm land in a certain locality was
selling at about 500 per acre and 4
trolley line passed along through that
locality and land now sells at from
1925 to $3.50 per acre. This is the way
it helps the land owner The land is
more valuable, and it is the demand
for it that causes it to enhance In
value.
1t is a good plan TO sometimes get
away from the crowd. Last summer
many were induced to store eggs be-
cause the crowd was dong it. For the
past few years many lamb feeders have
been making money feeding lambs; this
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because feeders stuck too closely to the
crowd.
Each tree should be carefully exam
ined early in the spring, say in March,
for the presence of BOXERS which have
been at work during the past six
months. They can be found by scrap
ing the dirt away from the tree and
closely for the saw1ust trail
If that Is found the borer must be cut
out and killed.
1t is almost always a good plan to
keep the harrow close UP to the plow-
ing, as it closes up the avenues of es
Gaping moisture, thereby Fastening de-
of all litter and mulch
which will add still more moisture to
the soil. There are many problems go
ing on all the time i'll the soil. We
want to get some of them in our heads.
SIN 1888 Japan only use1 little
over one thousand pounds of American
flour. Last year she took 5O,O0O,0O0
pounds. 1t seems that breech clouts
and chop sticks have made way for
pants, plug hats and baking powder
biscuits, and more than any other ma
ton to-day Japan is adopting the Amer
lean type of civilization" remarks
writer in an exchange.
Dat smut Is caused by microscopic
plant life that lives on the oat plant.
1t is propagated by fine spores that are
like dust These find Judgment in the
bulls of the oats and are sown with
the seed. They grow in the plant and
is seen of them until it Is man
ifested In the ripening grain. IAN enc
my hath not sown" this, but one is re-
sponsible for it in the selection of his
seed. Seed oats can be treated so as to
be free from smut spores The question
is, will it be donef
Papers not posted on the status of
the Angora industry are liable to print
some strange news thereon The fol-
lowing from the American Cultivat0r
is a case in point: THE popularity of
the Angora goat seems to have been
a short-lived affair. Some Of the larger
have gone out of business,
declaring that the young stock could
not be sold. Others have offered goats
at 81 per head. Probably the trutt is
that the boom in sheep has slde-track
ed the goat business for the time be-
ing"
Heavy Mixer Is Profitable.
A balanced ration is the ration that
Is best for the purpose. A cow that
produces milk requires more protein in
it's food than one that il not producer
steer that Is being fatted for market
should have more carbonaceous mate
rial In her food. There is no ration
that will serve all purposes and dis no
two animals are exactly alike no kind
Of ration can be said to be balanced
10 provide the substances deTnar led by