Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-09

! there is too much wet weather the grass
| becomes ''washy" and the tests run low.
This can be partially overcome by feed.
| Wood ashes is an excellent fertilizer
for young fruit trees. 1t contains large
per cent of potash. which is the essen
tial plant food most largely used by
fruit.
The best preacher is he who practices
what he breaches. The best teacher is
he who knows what he teaches. The
best farmer is he who practices what
he knows.
A certain "would-be agriculturist"
heard of the egg plant and he bought
n number of them. He says he is going
to raise a lot of feed for his hens, and
believes that it is the thing for egg pro-
duction.
An 'auto hog" ran over a Leghorn
chicken belonging to a California wom-
an. She collected So "at the point of
a blacksnake whip" There's new
woman for you. She did just what she
ought to have done.
To obtain strong, stOcky plants, IN
hotbeds, they should be transplanted
when two or three weeks old, and once
again, later, into cold frame. In this
way the best and earliest cabbage and
tomatoes can be had.
In cultivating large fields heavy
teams will not only keep up in better
condition, but actually require less
grain feed than the smaller class of
horses that have to work on their nerve
day by day to do the work.
In arbitrating troubles between your
self and neghbor it is a satisfaction to
know that If you get nothing by the
arbitration, you have saved some court
costs. You probably have also saved
the friendship of your neighbor.
An ideal table fowl is long in the
body, wide in the back, full in the
breast, and plump over the keel, meaty
all over. An authority says, taking its
legs as a center, there must be more
body in front of the legs than behind.
The shape is a parallelogram.
For the first three weeks of It's life
the pig should be fed exclusively
through its dam, and the dam ought to
be fed with that in view. No one ought
TO expect pig to eat and digest corn
while at a tender age. The pig needs
food that will produce blood, bone and
muscle.
When planting trees and shrubs on
the lawn for permanent growth, keep
In mind the habit of the trees. Make
the tops smaller than the roots Of trees
that are transplanted. Remove all
broken roots when the trees are set.
Cut broken parts off with a sharp
knife
A good many hours per year can be
saved by the use of snaps on harness
wherever needed. In putting snaps in
the brest straps they should be put in
so as not to catch in the neckyOke ring
when unhitching. Some use a roller
snap in the brest strap, and time is
saved by it.
The reason why mornings milk
should not be poured warm into the
nights milk is that the nights milk
contains great numbers of germs which
are just waiting for little warmth in
order to develop and multiply. The less
Of these germs the milk contains the
longer it will keep.
Horse raising will be deficient in
profit in exact ratio to the number of
$1,000 draft stations that from $1,000
to $1,000 are paid for. While horse
raisers are ready to give stallion graft
ers the bulk of their profits they should
not expect to be entirely satisfied with
their end OF the business.
Little danger exists of making the
soil too rich for vegetable garden, for
although a total Of ninety eight loads
of manure were applied to a half acre
during five years, none of the vege-
tables at any time suffered in point of
productiveness by reason of too ram
pant vegetable growth.
Skim milk is an exceedingly valuable
feed for growing calves. 1t must al
ways be fed sweet and must be as
warm as the mothers milk, about 90
degrees. Four quarts fed twice a day
is sufficient for the first month. Add
q teaspoonful of oilmeaI to each feed.
In addition to the skim milk, let the
calves have oats or shorts and hay.
No more wasteful plan exists TO win
ter pigs or hogs of any kind excepting
brood sows than to feed simply to
make them hold their own Success
full pork production means good, we'll
bred hogs, good pasture in summer,
good sheds, good feeding accommoda-
tons in winter, good feed, good water
and good care. The hog stands ready
TO do the rest
Winter wheat and rye plants have
all the teuacity Of life that can be
found in a single plant If one does
not believe this, let him try to kill out
volunteer wheat or rye where de
sires to plant corn, and he will ~ con-
WINGED. All known tools discomfort it
somewhat, but it soon conforms to the
new order Of growth and Is found in a
thrifty condition about the time the