Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-12-19

As long as the brood SOW is prolific,
a good sucker and careful mother,
she is too young to be sacrificed for
an uncertainty.
Because a hog viii seemingly thrive
on stale food and that bordering on
decomposition. it does not follow that
this is the best kind of feed for them
| Exposed manure, according to the
| Canadian experimental farm test, loses
| about one-sixth of its phosphoric acid
and more than one-third of it's phos-
| plate.
Skimmilk is more valuable as hog
food when mixed with ground grain,
shorts or something of the kind. The
grain also does the hog more good than
! If fed without the milk.
About the most profitable animal on
the farm now is the sheep At present
prices. and even little lower, they
are the easiest and best money, yet do
not put all the eggs in the one basket.
The cows stomach is not a complete
strainer that separates all good from
all bad; and all kinds of food cannot
be given to a COW with full expectancy
that she can from it give an absolute
ly pure milk.
The soil is the stomach of plants. In
the soil the food is received and di-
gested. On the quantity and quality
of food put in the plants stomach de-
ponds it's welfare, just as much as you
depend upon the food in your stomach.
The advantage of using the separa-
tor over the old plan of settling the
milk consists in the uniformity and
certainty of the results, the saving of
labor, time and storage room, ease OF
management and as u result of these
economy
Men who handle pure-bred stock and
who use printed stationery ought to
have printed directions telling where
the farm is located and its direction
from the nearest railroad station. This
might bring many a buyer who would
not otherwise visit the farm.
On the tract of $50 acres purchased
by the State, near Madison, Ind, for
the Southern Hospital for insane peop-
pie, is fine fifty-acre orchard OF Wine
sap. Grimes, Transparent and other
good apples, and the crop was bought
| by a Lafayette dealer for $1,000.
| Ordinarily there is no advantage In
high roosts and the fowls will do bet
ter and keep healthier if the perches
are not more than three feet above the
! floor. Of course all the Stats should
be on a level, as this avoids crowding
and fighting for the highest positions.
If you are not using a low-down
wagon you are doing a whole lot OF
unnecessary lifting. For hauling fod-
der or corn for the silo, the low-down
wagon fits exactly. 1t is good, too,
for hauling out manure, If you do not
have a spreader.
According to an exchange, a towns
woman who recently visited in the
country tainted dead away twice in her
hostess kitchen. Once when she saw
her put at least a pound of butter on
mashed potatoes and once when she |,
saw her using real cream in making |
a chicken gravy.
A farmers club in northern Illinois |
has been formed for the sole purpose
in ba
district. 1t has been proposed that
clover or alfalfa be sown, each farmer |
seeding the strip adjacent to his own
land, and then each one is bound to
keep his strip clear Of weeds.
When oats and other grain having a |
liberal percentage of protein are |
scarce and high, horses doing hard |
work will do well on corn if fed In |
connection with a liberal proportion Of |
clover or alfalfa hay. In fact some |
horses doing regular work have been |
and are fed on clover or alfalfa hay |
with no grain and do well.
If one wants to have green corn on |
the table long after frost, let him plant |
some sugar corn very late in the sea-
son so it will be in the milk just about |
frost. Before frost falls pull up the |
stalks by the roots, with dirt on them |
and store them in a cellar, where it is |
pretty damp 1t will keep this way |
for weeks. As far south as st. Louis |
it is possible to have green corn in this |
way well into November.
Immature Corn for Cows.
Trials at the Vermont station show |
that there is no material difference in |
reproducing value between imma- |
ture and mature corn fodder when |
compared on the basis Of dry matter. |
The same results were secured with |
silage made from mature and i'm |
mature corn. A pound of dry matter
of the immature corn produced the |
same results as pound Of dry matter
Of the mature corn. This suggests that
If corn is cut too early the farmer
loses too many pounds, and on the |
other hand if cut too late too much In |
the way of coarse butts IS wasted.
separator Mtnimizes Waste.
As a reference for those who may |
desire to know how much butter to ex-
pect from milk, 1t may be mentioned
that no correct average can be given,
as milk from different cows varies.
Milk containing 3 per cent Of butter
fat will make about one pound of but
ter from Twenty-Five pounds (about
thirteen and one-half quarts) of milk.
One quart of milk weighs 2.15 pounds.
Milk containing 13 per cent of solids
should contain about per cent Of fat, |
81 per cent of albuclan and 512 per
cent of milk sugar, ash, etc. The aver
age amount Of butter fat in cream is
about % per cent The separator
method of handling cream occasions
less waste than by the old method An
ounce of salt is the allowance for one
pound of butter.