Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-01-25

all right, but no other grain will take
the place of oats.
Green string beans, onions, wax
beans, parsley, beets, cucumbers, rad
! ishes and tomatoes are desirable for
the home garden.
There is an onion hoe on the market.
| long and narrow but triangular in
| shape, that is most handy for getting
in narrow places in order to keep
| down the weeds.
Several dairymen have put in large
| crops of beets, the tops of which make
| excellent feed, increasing the flow and
| adding richness. They can be used
as silage and are cheap and valuable
milk producers
The butter oleomargarine fight
seems to have been a fight after all
| between the cow and the steer. Where
would the steer be if it were not for
| the COW? The COW has won and it is
fitting that she should.
A very careful accountant has cal
culated that it costs about sixteen
cents per bushel to raise corn in the
corn belt. When it is known that the
| selling price is considerably more than
| double that amount it is easy to see
why good corn land sells at the one
| hundred mark.
In some parts of Wisconsin farmers
have been growing peas for canning
purposes and now they claim that it
depletes the land and they further re-
fuse to grow them. Besides the dete-
| rioration in fertility there has come a
phenomenal growth of all kinds of
weeds and they have concluded to call
halt. There are some things the crop
grower will not even dare to do.
Contrary to general impression, the
! fewer eggs a hen lays, the more are
| they likely to be infertile, if we can
judge from experiments carried on at
the Maine Station. There an attempt
was made to breed downward in egg
| yield as we'll as upward The expert
mentors We're surprised at finding an
unlooked-for obstacle, namely, the in
| fertility Of the eggs from hens produc-
ing the fewest
It has been discovered that two hens
fed with grain laid in a given period
! 127 plus 81 eggs, while two others Of
similar races, fed with raw flesh laid
176 plus 121. The total for the first
two is 1914, for the other two 297. There
was a superiority as to weight in ia
vor of the eggs laid by the meat-fed
fowls, their average being 50 grams
against 45 grams for the vegetarians.
The stock yards is q very good place
to sell all kinds of finished live stock
products, but it is very poor place to
buy sires for breeding purposes. Stock
yard sires grade all the way from very
poor to no grade and their breeding is
like the X in algebra. There is also a
splendid chance for the introduction of
disease by such a practice. 1t is bet
ter to buy from reputable breeder
than to run any chances by buying
from stock yard.
Something of a novelty in the line Of
dairy schools is the recently establish
ed Norwegian course for dairy maids.
The instruction is of q practical kind,
the young women being taught to tend
cattle, sheep, swine and poultry, in
Guiding feeding, tending also dairying,
scrubbing and cleaning the milk yes
sells. The feed and milk must be weigh
ed and a record kept. There is in
struction from text books on the care
of live stock in addition to the prac-
teal work. The course requires about
six months attendance.
A new hardy English walnut is be-
ing introduced which it is claimed can
be grown in the latitude of Central
New York State. One tree in Niagara
County is reported to have yielded
twenty-five bushels Of walnuts, for
which the owner was offered % cents
per pound. The shell is very thin and
the meat of excellent quality. A num-
Der of groves have been set out in Nj
agara County, and one Orleans Coun-
ty farmer is planting a f1ve-acre or
chard. This grower writes that his
trees have gone through the winter
without injury.
Much is said about the use of the
h11+ 10 hon will
do good service in destroying small
weeds, and if the small weeds are
killed as fast as they appear the work
| later in the season will be lessened.
The object in cultivating should be not
| to injure the roots of the corn more
! than is possible. for which reason the
| cultivation should be shallow. If the
| land is baked and hard, it should then
| be deeply cultivated, going between the
rows until the work is well done, Civ
| i1rg shallow and level culture at the
| next workings.
Has Success with Geese.
| l have always taken great inter
| est in the raising of geese here in our
| climate I prefer the Toulouse. l
| keep one gander for every four geese
| and keep my flock in little house by
themselves. They go out and in as
they wish. l have never given them
! any water and have raised as high
as seventy-five in one season. About
September / do not let them run any
more, but pen them up and feed them
ground corn and water. In six weeks
/ they will gain considerably in weight.
H. II. Hinkler of MinneSot in o.
/ J. Farmer.
Breeding Horses for Gait.
/ The gait which an animal will as
sumo when in great danger. or in fear
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