Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-25

Push the lambs from the first if you
would have big, fat sheep.
If there were more square deals in
the world there would be more square
meals
Three conditions are needed for the
production of sweet cream. Cleanli-
ness, low temperature and richness in
the cream.
The meadows and pastures as well as
the growing wheat are often benefited
by rolling we'll in the spring after the
frost is through the ground.
Shelter and comfortable quarters
should be provided for stock, If for
nothing else than simply question of
economy in the consumption of food.
Lime is most active agent in rem
dering the soil mellow and setting the
plant food free to be assimilated by
vegetation, while it is itself direct
plant food.
Any soil is too valuable to lose by
erosion. If the field be low and level,
under drain it rather than cut it up
with surface bitches, which lessen the
cultivated area and carry away the
cream of the soil.
Every farm should have its grove or
wood lot. The timber alone is paying
crop, besides the lot may be utilized for
poultry and other small animals while
the trees are young and for any ami
mails when the trees are more mature.
Far too many men conduct them
selves on the rs it against the law
plan rather than the law of right.
When men ask themselves rs it
right?" then we will have made a great
Improvement Most men know what is
right.
1t is to be hoped that the man who
produced seedless grapes will try his
hand on producing a watermelon with
handles so picknickers can carry them
easily. OF course there are others
who would be helped by this improve
ment.
Good shelter with little feed is bet
ter for domestic animals than no shell
ter and much feed. Inclement weather
may tougher animals but it stunts,
starves and kills many more than it
toughens. A good barn is good in
vestment of farm money.
Sometimes there is a petulancy en-
gendered among children in the home.
A good way to cure this is to let some
members get away from home for
season. Little undesirable habits are
often broken up in this way and bet
ter ones formed in their places.
There is such a thing as fruitgrow-
er failing to see worm holes In his own
fruit when he is packing. There is
a good eye for grading the fruit. The
man who can't do that had better hire
q man to do his grading and packing.
There comes q time in the life of
almost every boy and girl when they
they know a good deal more than dad,
and it's puzzle to the average parent
to know just how much rope to give
them. The spell only lasts year or
two, but where one has about a dozen
children it helps to ring gray hairs.
A new wrinkle put out by some of
the big seed houses this year has bee a
what is called a seeding string" This
is nothing more or less than a tissue
paper string filed with seeds of differ
ent garden plants. In place now of
planting seeds by guess out of the hand
one can just lay string of lettuce or
radish in the furrow and cover in less
time than it takes to tell. The rows
can be kept straight in this manner
and cultivation made easier, 1t Is said.
Spray potatoes with bordeaux, in
which is used some poison, sucn as
paris green, at the rate of four to six
ounces in fifty gallons. For early pota-