Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-25

ficted with heaves, but for all horses
Some men try extensive farming with
intensive profit. 1t is better to have
these conditions reversed. Intensive
farming usually brings extensive profits.
Are you doing all you can to improve
your pastures? 1t is easy to lose sight
of this important feature of farming in
attempts to make the cultivated fields
produce large yields.
He that does not enjoy feeding sheep
had better quit the business, for he can
not possibly make a success of it, any
more than a family can be happy with
out family love in its midst.
Some of our leading orchardists are
looking back into ancient history to
learn what they can about the new
seedless apple. Isn't that queer-look-
ing into ancient history for new things?
There ought to be a brisk demand
these days for the Old-fashioned bacon
our forefathers used to make. 1.-The
oId-fashioned bacon, the uncanvassed
bacon, the well-smoked bacon our dads
used to make"
See that the hens have plenty of grit
Break up some rock, Old crooks or
dishes, moderately fine, if there is not
plenty of coarse sand or fine gravel in
the ground, and put in where they can
get it at all times.\
A farmer in one of the western states
advertises in city papers that he will
engage himself to ~hauI automobiles
out of the mud at reasonable prices"
This is new vocation, and probably
could be made a profitable one.
The feed should be good and free
from aromatic substances. If these
aromatic foods are used they should
be employed according to those meth
DDS which will not cause odors or
fiayors to appear in the milk.
The kind of lead pencil farming that
we should favor is that use of the lead
pencil which will admit of a knowledge
of the cost of every crop and the cost
of the production of every animal By
this use of the pencil it will be easy to
figure the rest.
If every farmer would be as persist
ent in cleaning the rOadsides of weeds
as the railroads are in keeping their
right-of-way clean, it would add great
Iy to the beauty of the country. Com
pare some of the public roads with the
railroads and the former suffers by
comparison.
A breed of general-pUrpose horses
can be produced by Il careful selection
and combination of different blood lines
and a continuous breeding to a type
for two or three centuries, but the
shortneSs of mems lives and small prize
to De gained have thus worked against
the development of such Il breed.
Some good housewives that we know
Of keep a supply Of canned vegetables
and canned meats on hand 50 that in
time of emergency they may have some
source to which they may turn The
fruits, vegetables. fish and meat which
come this way can be converted quick
ly into many delicate and palatable
dishes, and they are always sure to hit
the popular appetite.
A few roots of horseradish about the
place often give Il pleasant variety for
the table, and it requires little or no
care. The grated roots form a deli
cious relish for the table in the spring
and fall, and a winters supply can be
had by placing the roots in moist soil
or sand in the cellar. The fresh
young leaves Of the horseradish make
appetizing green's in the spring.
Tests show that large number of
varieties of cowpeas are adapted TO
orchard use, but the most desirable for
Southern Missouri seem to he +he
Whipporwill, Clay and Black. It is
well to keep in mind that one of +be
principal objects of cultivation is TO
hold the moisture in the soil. # is
We'll established that cultivated lands
:etain moisture, while uncultfva+ed
soon dry out to a considerable deptb.
Cure for Horse Diste7nDer.
4 condition powder made m Of +he
following drugs is good for horses af-
fiicted with distemper: Eight ounces
of iron sulphate. 1 ounce of pulverized
gentian, i ounces of pulverized ginger
and . pounds of oilmeal mixed thor
oughly. The dose of this mixture is a
tablespoonful three times daily in
ground feed
Using Dips on Sheen.
There are something like TWENTY-FIVE
different sheep dips on the market and
NEST if not all Of them are reliable. As
is the case with many other things
that are manufactured carefully as
they must be to retain their reputation.
these dips are to be preferred. to the
mixture made at home Of lime and snl-
phur.
4 Safe Crop.
Sweet corn is one of the safe crons
fer the farmer near large town. When
tie corn is high in price it ran be sold
at a good profit, but when, as during
the present season, sweet com is cheap