Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-19

The producer cannot control the
price, but he should aim to produce
cheaper.
Ninety per cent Of the milk used in
England is from Shorthorn COWS, SO
it Is said.
Gather the eggs daily in hot weather
and keep separate all those found in
new nests.
Bear in mind that an application of
manure is one Of the essentials in a
good system of crop rotation.
Don't mortgage the farm in good
times. You will have to pay the mort
gage in hard times to your lasting re-
greet
One little strawberry growers asso-
citation in California last year received
S19S, 900 from their crops covering 800
acres.
IL disbursement ever overcomes
you, sit down near some ant hill IN
the path and learn lesson in per-
sistence.
With almost any crop of stock, be-
cause there is a season Of unprontaDle-
ness. is no reason why all the future
will be the same.
1t is considerable work to set poles
for lima beans A strip OF 6-foot 1enc-
ing with we'll braced end posts 1t just
as good and saves much labor.
The family cat is frequently a great
chicken thief unbeknown to everyone.
We make it a practice to shoot every
cat that looks crosseyed at chicken.
Always feed fattening cattle to the
minute as near as possible. To keep
them waiting an hour after the regu-
lar feeding time causes a loss OF
weight.
A mans time may be ever so valu-
able in the hay or harvest field, yet lew
farmers have ever added much to their
worlds accumulation by neglectlng the
OK that happened to fall in the well.
One thing sure is that farmers who
live in irrigated countries save an I'M
nense amount of energy by not having
To discuss the weather conditions which
is So commonly done by the corn Deit
farmer at every hour Of the day.
Better knowledge of market condl-
tons is deserving Of far greater at
tention than it has yet received by
PRODUCERS of beef, and more thorough
understanding of the demands OF the
trade is essential to the greatest sue
cess in supplying these demands.
Celery likes a strong, deep, loamy
soil well MANFRED and well drained.
Well-rotted stable manure Is an excel
lent fertilizer. though it may be ben
Gifted on most soils by the addition
of 500 to 800 pounds per acre OF COM
mercial fertilizer containing about III
per cent of potash.
M. Kale of North Yakima, Wash,
has a freak fruit which came as the
result of pollenizing a peach with the
flower of an apricot. The fruit ripens
and is gone by June l. 1t is said 70
be sweet and of excellent flavor. 1t is
reported that Mr.. Kale has refused an
offer Of $1,000 for one tree.
Keep the blossoms picked off the pan
sy plants or they will cease to bloom,
as the production of seed is an end to
Towering. Work a small quantity of
fertilizer into the soil around each
plant occasionally, and at the end of
the year trim them much with straw,
and the old plants can then be used
another season.
Everything else being equal, it is a
good policy to have the soil covered
over with plants whenever conditions
are favorable to their growth. We
have yet much to learn regarding the
value of cover crops Anything which
we can do to prevent the teaching OF
fertility and increase the humus should
be faithfully practlced.
A daily newspaper in Washington
prints as remedy for nodular disease
in sheep the following: "Shut them
in a tight room and fumigate them
with sulphur smoke, allowing them to
inhale the smoke for fifteen minutes"
This would undoubtedly kill all the
parasites In the sheep, but would as
certainly kill the sheep themselves.
Hemp can be easily grown in all sec
lions Of this country, but the obstacle
to its successful cultivation is the labor
of preparing it for market There is a
wide field for inventive genius in de
vising appropriate machinery for spe-
cially treating hemp and other fiibrous
plants which demand more labor in
some sections than can be proftably be-
slowed on them.
Gluten meal is that portion of the
corn left over after the starch has been
removed. and it is, therefore, highly
heterogeneous food. 1t should be fed in
connection with other articles. When
middlings are used 1t is best to mix
such foods with cut hay that has been
sprinkled, as the unadulterated mid
dlings are liable to cause indigestion.
Bran and linseed meal form an excel
lent combination at all seasons, and
promote digestion.
Violations of the twenty eight-hour
live stock law are costing the railroads
of the country about $4,000 a day in
fines. These fines have not been col
lected, however, and the railroad Off
Gals apparently pay no attention to
the violation of the law, which Pro
hibits the carrying of cattle In cars for
more than twenty-eight hours without
food, rest or water. They evidently
figure that it is cheaper to pay the fines
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