Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-28

take its place.
Now, honor bright, is there any good
| reason why farmer should not grow
plenty of straw berries for home use?
Keep fresh lime scattered around hog
pens, feeding pens and troughs. 1t is
one of the best and cheapest disinfect
ants.
The man who is most benefited by
what he has heard and earned at farm
ers' institutes is the one who puts them
in practice.
Pork is what we make it. There is
as much in the feed as in the breed,
doubtless, when it comes to producing
wholesome and good-favored meat.
Maryland sheep raiSers are urging
the Legislature to pass law to cheek
sheep scab. Thousands of dollars are
lost yearly to the farmers through its
rayageS.
Borrowing money ard borrowing
trouble are two different things in the
beginning, but they are very similar
when it comes to paying. Then it usu
ally amounts to the same thing.
ANY old place" never was a good
| place for a garden. More gardens are
located there than anywhere else.
| Should this be the selection the yield
ought to be amy old kind of a yield"
| The present outlook seems to prom
Use a practical milking machine Two
different machines are being given a
thorough test and the reports are very
| promising. None Of these machines are
| at present on the market.
The mortgage is gong-to stay or be
removed, according to the efforts put
forth. Ii is going to stay when robber
cows, lOafer hens, unthr;fty hogs dis
eased sheep and poor seed are kept. The
question is what will be done with the
mortgage?
Hogs can be kept in better trim if
they have little charcoal to aid their
digestion A thoroughly charred log
thrown in their pen or yard Will an
swer the purpose. Ii is better than
wood ashes, and the danger of choking
is reduced.
A train boy sold an cd farmer some
bananas They did not suit his taste
and he threw them away When the
boy returned the old farmer asked him
if he had any Ben DaTiS apples. He
wanted to eat Il few to take the taste
out of his mouth.
For starting early tomato and other 4
plants in house or hotbed, use sod cut F.
in three-inch cubes or old tin cans, with |
solder melted off, or little paper boxes |
which have only to be wet when placed !
in the ground. Transplanting can then
be done easily without checking the
growth.
In the dry, warm shed provided for
the hens in cold or rainy weather, keep
both straw and gravel. There will be
no better dust bath for them than fresh :
coal ashes. If box of this is kept I
convenient, the fowls will rid them !
selves Of vermin and will md necessary I
adjuncts to their ratiOnS in the cinder !
which they pick out.
Nothing is more amusing than to see |
man backing Out of an individual hos /
house with an Infatuated sow as the !
assailant There is a sort Of deXterity |
that is unusual to say the least. The Z.
doors of such pens should BIT made so !
one can enter easily and SET out sud !
denly in case of an attack. With some +
sows it is a good plan TO carry with one +
a hand hurdle.
1t is the general opinion among hen I
men that the hen that hides her nest (
Is more successful than the hen that /.
does not Should a hen hide her nest |
and come off with a large brood of ,
chicks she is held up rs ling all right !
but nothing is said Of tine thousands of |
hens that hide away and are never |
found again. This probably gives rise .
to the saying that the hen that hides !
her nest is always successful
The inside of the barn door may be
good place to keep accounts and rec
ords, but it is not the best place.
Notches in sticks have their significance
for the time being, but they lack per-
manency and it requires more or less
memory to keep accounts in this man
ner The best way to keep accounts is
to obtain book and keep account of !
all thing that are liable to slip the
memory.
The price of clover seed has been
known to influence the area sown. Some 4
times a failure to get a stand is attrib
utable to the price when rar sing from
So to $40 per bushel. No failure to get
a stand ought to attach to climatic con-
ditions SO long as there is a tendency
to economic in the amount of seed used
because of dear seed. One ought to be
honest enough with himself to point
out why he made q failure.
Fellows must be reckoned with bv
IuS DcdEA -IOW CI Cso OllE VI bGC troubles
he will have to fight. its cause is not
yet known, and no cure for true case
of yellows has yet been found. Grow
ers who have not studied the symptoms
of this trouble often class all trees with
a yellow foliage as '.yellows" trees, and
then say that with proper treatment a
large number of yellows trees Will re-
cover Yellow foliage is only enc symp-
time of the disease, and the one least
dependable.
Red raspberry plants should be taken
from young, healthy bed. Plants
from an old bed are less vigorous and ,
more liable to be diseased. The prop ,
er distance between the rows Is seven ,
feet for garden culture, and eight feet
for field culture The plants should !