Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-01

to the home as we'll as to the photo
graph gallery.
Clean, dry quarters are necessary
for the calf. Disease soon finds its
way where filth is.
With all classes of stock usually kept
on farm, care should be taken to feed
according to age, condition and time of
marketing
Allow the animals freedom of the
fields only when the ground is frozen
or dry enough that they make no per-
ceptible tracks.
1t is a fact that one clod Of earth to
the square foot can decrease that mois-
ture content enough to cause loss of
ten bushels of corn per acre.
The best tools are the cheapest, the
best stock Is the most profitable and
the highest fertilization and cultivation
will bring the largest crops.
Barbwire should not be used for
fencing for the sheep pasture, as the
barbs catch on the wool and make the
sheep look ragged, besides running
much wool.
Manure never contains a larger
amount of plant food than when it is
first made and except in special cases,
the sooner it is hauled out and applied
to the land, the better.
Grapes strung on wire trellises are
said to be injured sometimes during
thunderstorms. way to prevent this,
it is said, is to ground the wires, max
lug the current harmless.
Keep young colts growing If they
are expected to become as large or
larger than their parents. A colt once
stunted may afterwards be made
fat, but it can never be made to grow
as large as it otherwise would.
Protect the farm home from unsani-
tary conditions. The danger often lies
in the fact that the farmer is the
Judge of conditions and he is apt to be
blind to unhealthy surroundings be-
cause they are as they always have
been. Give the matter thought.
1t Injuries land to allow cattle and
other farm animals to run over it dur
ing wet, muddy weather. If domestic
animals must have out door exercise,
build a small lot on some high and dry
spot near the barn and turn them into
it few hours each day.
Funk Bros, who are among the larg-
est farmers in Illinois, came out boldly
in favor of drilling oats and of using
~ bushels of seed per acre. A test
of this in southern Ohio, ten years ago,
resulted in forty-eight bushels per acre
ON the drilled, against forty-one bushels
in the broadcast oats.
Some of the largest growers of po-
tatoes follow the hand picking of po-
tato bugs They begin at once as soon
as the bugs appear and thus getting the
| beetles before the eggs for future col
onies of bugs are laid they keep ahead
of the beetles and find it an easy mat
ter to keep them down.
If you have to keep your poultry
! shut up, make them work for the grain
| they get. On the farm where the poul-
| try have the range Of the barnyard
and farm they get exercise enough, but
where they are kept confined methods
have to be adopted to give them ex-
ercise to keep them in health.
To can corn cut the kernels off the
cob with a sharp knifs, scraping out
the pulp Fill into the can a little at
| a time, pressing down firmly until the
milk overflows the can. Add a tea
spoonful Of salt. When all are filled
place the cans in a boiler and cook half
an hour with the covers laid loosely
on. Remove from the fire and seal,
then cook two hours longer.
The values of poultry products now
reach an annual figure of half a bill
ion dollars or more, or an amount
about equal to the value of the wheat
crop. The price of eggs has been high
and growing higher for several years,
because consumers have wanted more
eggs than have been produced. The
exports are not worth mentioning. APP
parently there is no limit to the con-
sumption of fresh eggs at a moderate
price-G. *. Holmes.
Warm weather is acceptable to string
beans. especially if the season is not
too dry. The green varieties are best
for picking, but there is nothing to
compare with the German wax for the
table, though they are not 50 prolific
as the majority Of the other kinds.
Plant them every two weeks for sue
cession. 4 row of them planted every
week is better, and if the garden is
rightly managed in that way it is sur
prising how many different crops can
be grown, as it is not necessary to
wait.
With ali the remedies suggested for
blight on pear trees, the difficulty still
exists, and many pear orchards are
destroyed every year. At one time it
was believed that by keeping the or
chard ground in grass, the pear trees
would escape, but, while the rapid
growth of the trees seems favorable to
attack of blight, and. although the
grass may retard attack, yet the trees
will succumb to the disease should it
find its way into the orchard. The
spraying of trees, or treating the trees
at the roots, will confer benefit, but
there is no sure remedy for blight
Disease-Resistant Glover.
In carrying on their investigations
with clover anthracnose, the authors of
a Tennessee bulletin found that in
some badly infected fields there were
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