Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-07


make the calf and then feeds the calf
to make COW, and thus it goes on
| forever.
1t does not take as long to scoop out
a load of corn as it does to huSk it,
but it requires more back muscle and
greater endurance than it does to gath
er in the ears.
The condition of Il fellows bank
account is often quite accurately in
Dictated by the manner in which he cul-
tivates his corn and the care he gives
his home premises
Look for brains as we'll as feet, limbs
or body when buying a horse. An ami
NAL that is sound in every member but
has not level head is never a pleas
ant horse and seldom valuable one.
The small farm with the small herd
Is vastly better than a large farm with
q large herd, because the small farm
will do more in proportion than the
large one
Celery should be earthed up well. If
1t is not to be blanched between boards.
Gather the stalks together in your hand
or tie a string loosely around them and
then draw just sufficient soil to the
plants to keep them upright and slight
ly compact.
Tn tho n1attpr Of RAISING corn crOD
soils are much like men in the work
which is assigned them, a soil of mod
crate or rather low fertility giving bet
ter results when there are two rather
than when there are three or four
stalks in the hill.
One good thing can be said Of a
strawstack hog house. 1t does not
have a foul smell, as many hog houses
do. A hog will keep its bed clean If
given a chance, but 1t does not have
reasoning powers that will enable 1t
to escape the extremes Of heat and
cold usually found In straw stack
bed
When the orchard trees begin to lock
horns one is at a loss to know what
to do. 1t is hard work to cut out trees
where there are too many, and yet that
seems to be the cure. There are sew
eral ways of cutting them out. The
rows may run regularly, dlagonally or
any way to keep them from locking
horns"
A simple nail puller can be easily
made from one-quarter inch fiat file
that has survived it's usefulness. A
convenient size is one inch wide, one
quarter inch thick and one foot long.
It should be heated ad formed like
a hammer claw. One of its chief uses
Is in taking down barbed wire fence
and removing tin roofing.
Moldy corn fodder may be eaten by
stock if they don't have anything else
to satisfy their appetites. Nevertheless
that does not mean that such fodder
Is as good as bright fodder. If you
have several ricks of good, bright fod
der on hand you can feel that you are
blessed a great deal more than some
Of your neighbors.
A garden owner says: / have often
destroyed cabbage worms by throwing
road dust over them, also with tansy
Tea, but this year both failed and my
cabbage was nearly ruined, when
ieighbor recommended salt water,
which proved a success. Put a cup of
salt In a pail Of water and when dis
solved, wet the cabbage with it and
you will soon be rid Of the worms.
The newly awakened desire to pre-
serve tree species approaching extinc-
ton manifests itself in respect to the
big trees of California. Seven hundred
seedlings of the sequoia gigantea have
been set out in the sequoia forest, and
it is the intention of the Agricultural
Department to transplant them when
sufficiently grown to other national
parks where conditions are right for
their growth.
Japan controls the camphor produc-
ton of the world, and as camphor is
an important ingredient in the manu-
facture of smokeless powder, she would
have a great advantage over other ma
tons in event of a world-war Ex-
periments by the Bureau of Plant In
dustry have established the fact that
the camphor tree can be grown in the
southern portions of this country and
the government has acquired three
thousand acres in Florida which will
Immediately be planted
Thirty billion, 502 million, 961 thou
sand feet-this was the total cut of
lumber in the United States during
1905. These figures were compiled by
the Forest Service in cooperation with
the National Lumber Manufacturers
Association, and are believed to be as
nearly correct as Is possible to gather. |
They were complied from the return
Of 1866 establishments. The esti
mated value of this product is five hun |
dred million dollars. In the kind of |
lumber yellow pine led, and walnut |
foots the list, the total cut Of the lat |
ter being only 29,S51 feet
Pruning Peach Trees.
As the result of experiments at the |
Massachusetts experiment station, the |
following would seem to be the best |
method of peach tree pruning:
/. Prune peach trees moderately, re-
moving not more than one-third to one
half the previous years annual growth,
when the wood has been injured by |
freezing
2 When only the fruit buds are |
killed. the wood being unintured and