Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-08

oiuN dAldSe III Accepting eHOuSA SAII
horses to eat all that useful ones earn.
1t is rather poor economy to cram
30 cents worth of drugs down the
throat of a sick chicken that would not
be worth over a quarter, if it were
WELL
1t is the hungry hog that is always
looking for break in the fence 1t is
the chicken eating SOW that should new
er be bred. Her kind will not pay for
the raising.
Some people seem to regard it a
pleasant surgical operation to ''eat
their heads Off" anu they feel it is not
expensive to keep stock that will do
that same thing.
Regularity costs no more than irreg-
ularity and it means much in the
management of stock. Stock have no
timepiece, but it wonderful how they
can tell when feeding time is at hand.
The alfalfa business is yet in its ia
fancy. There seems to be so many
things that one can learn about it.
This can be learned best by trying a
small acreage, though it is too late
to SOW this year.
Without exercise, it is impossible for
the muscles of young horses to develop,
hence the necessity of a goOd-siZed field
for them to run in. If you would have
horses with endurance, give the colts
a chance to develop their muscles.
Good sense and doCility as we'll as
lack of sense and treachery are mat
ters of transmission by inheritance.
This is true of ailments, habits of
action, disposition and all those things
which go to make good or bad horse.
The present day haying machinery
has taken a great deal of sweat out of
the business. In looking at some Of
the machinery manufactured for this
purpose it almost makes one feel that
it would be a pleasure to have haying
the whole year round.
A cavalry authority in Belgium esti-
mates that there are more than $780,
600 horses in the world. There are o.
100000 in Russia, while Germany and
Austria Hungary each has more than
the British isles, where it is reckoned
there are about 100000.
1t is usually the hired help that
watch the clock that complain most
of bad luck, hard times and lack of APP
probation on the part of their en-
ployers The kind who don't watch
the clock have little time to complain,
and even less inclination to do So.
Farmers and gardeners in the Yicin-
ity of Bennington, Vt, are sustaining
large losses as the result of the inroads
of Belgian hares, which are the off
spring of pairs of these animals which
were turned loose when this craze sub
sided some three or four years ago.
In securing good supply Of eggs the
Unborn tendency Of heavy laying is an
important point. 1t is a tendency
which goes in certain strains the same
as in certain families of cattle, ard
without it no. amount of skillful care
and feeding will produce the best re-
suits.
The largest individual wool clip ever
grown on the American continent was
shipped from Billings, Mont, to a Bos-
ton firm. The clip weighed 100000
pounds, and forty-four cars were re-
uuired to carry it. The owner refused
an offer Of "a cents a pound for the
wool.
Let the farmer who wants good colts
select the best grade mares and breed
them annually to one good type Of
horse OF course, the quality of the
dam always has more or less influence
upon the progeny, but no matter how
good or how poor the mother, the best
sire obtainable is none too good.
Indiana has a fertilizer law which is
aimed to protect the farmers and gar
deners within her borders. 1t provides
that fertilizers offered for sale shall not
only bear the inspection label of the
state chemist, but shall give the per-
centages of the ingredients which they
contain, so that the purchaser may tell
at a glance what he is buying.
From observations made with num-
Der of hens it was found that in every
instance the eggs We're moved, every
day and did not remain in the sane
part of the nest more than three days.
The thorough manner in which the hen
turns the eggs may well furnish US a
clew to the most natural treatment of
the eggs when under the artificial con-
ditions of the incubator.
There is one thing in favor of the
compressed air system of water works
not always to be found in the gravity
system. One can control the pressure
and can elevate the water to be used
in any part of the house and the boiler
and pipes can be located in frost
proof place in the cellar. There should
be more complete systems of water
works on farms. The best IS none too
good
In Missouri, where sheep or domestic
animals are killed or MANNED by dogs,
the owner of such animal may recover
against the owner or keeper Of such
dog or dogs the full amount of dam
ages, and the owner shall forthwith
yin such dog or dogs; and for every