Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-13
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Long and hard pulling makes wind
| broken horses.
The corn grower seldom whines be-
cause the weather Is too hot.
The lambs should be put in the feed
lots so that they can be sent to mar
ket early.
In buying a COW try to buy the COW
that the seller wants to keep. She is
the good COW.
Whenever the swinging motion of
hoe is made as popular as the swinging
| motion Of 8 baseball bat, then boys
can't be kept from the garden.
Egg shells furnish material for new
shells. Do not feed them, though, I'M
| less finely pulverized, for there is dan
ger Of teaching the hens to eat eggs.
1t never pays to be next year farm
er, and yet it pays as we'll as it does
to be a last years farmer. Don't put
| off any farming for tomorrow that can
| be done today.
Sometimes the things we do the best
are not worth doing at all One Of the
| hardest things we often do seems most
| Is in hal no Wi
BILE before we meet it.
| Many farmers are thwarting the rat
nuisance by placing concrete founda-
lions under their cribs and granaries.
| The expense is little more in the be-
ginning, but there is a saving in the
long run.
Whenever a man does anything that
he knows to be radically wrong he won
ders what he has against himself that
leads him to do such a thing We are
constantly getting into trouble in this
manner.
The heavily padded collar is not the
thing for hot weather. 1t is all right
in cold weather when heavy drawing is
at hand, but when warm weather comes
there should be a different collar ar
rangement.
A Missouri farmer has tried baling
clover hay as he made it. He cuts his
clover one day and rakes it up and
bales it the next and stores it in sheds,
leaving small spaces between the bales
for air. He reports results as satisfac
tory.
Have you ever tried having summer
! collars for horses in summer and winter
collars for winter? 1t IS a good plan
and leads to fewer sore shoulders.
| Horses shoulders are not the same
shape or size in winter that they are
| in summer.
Some of the very accurate writer's
are given pain because western farm
ern farmers insist on calling it dehorn-
ing. The correct writer says it Is
'dishorning." Whatever it is, it means
removing the horns, and most farmers
understand what that Is.
The chicks should have a varied ra-
ton as we'll as the older fowls 1t
helps digestion and undoubtedly they
enjoy the change. 1t has been said
that a bill of fare is as necessary in
the poultry yard as in our own house
hold, for best results, and it certainly
Is true.
Separate sheep and cows. They don't
do we'll together. The cows are par
ticularly sensitive about the places in
the pasture where the sheep have
trampled the grass down and left their
droppings. Many farmers pasture their
cows and sheep together, but they al
ways do it at a loss.
The dairy ration should be paIatable
1t should be nutritious. It should be
digestible, abundant and as inexpen-
sive as possible after the other essen
tials are secured. But we should never
lose sight of the fact that no ration
is ever good enough or cheap enough
to coax a profit out of a worthless cow.
That dairyman who in addition to all
his other necessary work pumped by
hand the daily water supply for his
herd Of twenty cows operated his bust
ness at a tremendous economic disad-
vantage. There is a saving that is
wasteful and economies that are eX-
! pensive.
A man needs all his Sunday school
training to teach calf to drink. The
inclination of the calf is to do what
he believes to be right. When the
teacher does as we'll along the lines of
what he knows to be right he will be
q better teacher. 1t requires self-con-
troll when a calf gives a snort and fills
ones watch pocket full of milk.
One cannot be too good to ones horse
when it comes to making stalls. Nat
urally one would think that the wider
the stall the more comfortable the
horse would be. But the wider stall
may be dangerous after all. The horse
is more apt to try to roll in a wide
stall, and is more in danger of getting
fast than he would be in a narrow stall
4 medium width is best
Grating Wax.
A grating wax used at the Maine
experiment station is composed of one
half pound raw linseed oil, one pound
| beeswaX. four pounds resin Melt to-
gether and pull like candy.
Weather Protection for stock.