Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-10

It is about time for some faker to
bob up with some new variety Of alfal-
ia with wonderful qualities. A variety
that will do we'll anywhere and live on
anything.
1t is estimated that an active man
and active boy can attend to fifteen
COWS. These on fifty acres of land near
a good town ought to make for him
good living.
A dozen good fowls will furnish more
eggs than the average family requires,
and will leave a surplus fer pin money.
Think what it costs to buy absolutely
fresh eggs all the year round.
The advertiser Of breed not only
laws the foundation for a paying bust
Hess for himself, but helps boom his
breed and his association, and thereby
indirectly benefits his brother breeder.
When a farmer sells a horse ne
must give a guarantee. When the
same farmer buys nursery stock he has
to wait until the trees come into bear
ing to see whether he has what he
bought
The woman with a gasoline stove
and the farmer with gasoline engine
have all of a sudden discovered that
the demand for gasoline by automobiles
has caused it to slide 10 a notch or
two in price.
A thorough farmer can get more out
of the scrub than a scrub farmer can.
As a rule that kind of a farmer does
not keep the scrub any longer than he
can help A scrub farmer will soon
make a scrub out Of a pure-bred ami
NAL.
Hogs shipped into the stock yards
show the result of too much inbreeding
by careless farmers, who reason that 1t
does not pay to get new boar each
year while they have one which will
breed, and they lose enough in litter
or two to pay for a new sire.
at leisure has run its course-at least
1t should have by this time. 1t is now
in order that less time and money be
spent on this, or that or the other
breed and more attention be paid to
the individual animal.
A camel can easily carry a weight
of one thousand pounds on its back,
about four times as much as a horse
can carry. The camel begins work at
the age of and is useful for half a
century; the horse. as a rule, is nearly
played out at the age of IS.
. Moving down strawberry tops just
after fruit has been gathered is prac-
ticed on many rich soils to cause the
plants to stool out more vigorously
and to retard runners. This is some
times followed by thin dirt covering
to further encourage stooling.
An exchange remarks that ''what is
known in the market rs chamois skin
IS really obtained sheep skin Innings.
The supply of real chamois is very lin
tied, and all there is in the world
would not supply the United States for
single day Another decided score
for the sheep!
The free seed delivery has done some
good in the world after all. The agri-
cultural department at Washington
brought us sorghum from China. and
kafir corn has been given the semi-arid
country of the Southwest. Macaroni
wheat has been brought from Russia.
and japanese rice from Japan.
Now come the news that food adult
GRAFTON is practiced in Germany Just
as extensively as in this country. That
Is awful after that country refusing our
pork products. 1t is presumed that
Germany wants to do its own adulter-
ating. The number of prosecutions for
adulterating food in Germany have in
creased from HOO to 5000 In 1903 |
Who'd thought it?
More money may be made from or
chards on thin land when the trees are
set close, twenty to twenty-five feet
apart, than when only half that many
are set. The trees shade the ground
better, and heat and drought will not
do as much damage as when the great
ar part of the ground is exposed r. he
sun to burn up the humus and d., ne
p7OiSt11ro ont Of no coil
When snow is on the ground. rab- !
bits have a hard time securing food. |
and will eat anything that will pre-
v~ut starvation. 1t is then they girdle
trees and do damage which is not with
in the power of the farmer to repair.
Smearing the trunk with blood or wrap
ping the trees with tarred paper or
mosquito netting two feet from the
ground serves as a protection.
For twenty years the Ohio Expert
ment Station produced an average of
forty bushels OF wheat in a three-year
rotation consisting of potatoes, wheat
and clover. On another farm rota-
ton Of corn, oats, wheat, clover and
timothy was carried on with yield of
twenty-eight and one-half bushels of
wheat per acre. With proper market
privileges for a series of years a clo-
yer. potatoes and wheat rotation will
be hard to beat
If a garden is MANFRED hexvily and
not kept in growing crops all through