Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-21
FARM NOTES

place as they add profit in more
ways than in the honey they furnish
and they will not hurt anything
unless it is a meddlesome man or
woman.
Harvest hands are so scarce that
women in some of the states have
gone into the fields and are doing
good work shocking at the same
wages as the men receive for the
same work.
Automobiles are no longer a
curiousity. They seem to be running
in every direction though we have
not seen one attached to binder
instead of horses nor to wagon
hauling grain.
This Is good time to plan where
you will sow grass seed next spring
and what kind it will be best to
SOW. That should depend on the
lay of the land and whether wet or
dry or fiat or rolling.
22S
Limberneck is cansed by fowls
eating decayed meats. There is no
sure cure for it but there is a very
good way to prevent them having
it and that is to see that they do
not get any such stuff to eat.
stS
Rats and mice are doing great
deal of damage. All the traps dc
not even keep down the increase.
Great pains should be taken TIC
make granaries and corncribs rat
poof. It is astonishing how much
damage they can do.
az
The pure food laws have given
greater confidence in milk SO that il
is used more extensively. Imitation
butter being condemned creates &
greater demand for dairy butter. I
requires skill to make good butter
but 20 0r butter is not wanted.
22S
i at a sale of Poland China hogs
held in Missouri the first of this
week one pedigreed animal sold fcl
SIS, 125 and an another for 4,250
Others sold for 50, $50 and similar
prices. AS Grant county is a Poland
China stronghold this item should
be OF interest.
SSS
Geese have been known to reach
the age of forty years and a twenty
year old goose is no uncommon
thing. Ganders should not be kept
for breeding purposes after they are
three years old. It is surprising
that more people do not keep geese
as they are easily raised and easily
kept and yield a good profit.
III
Remember that the feed of wilC
ducks is vegetable and animal such
as grasses and fish and insects. Il
order to successfully raise the
domesticated ducks we must follow
natures course as closely as pos
sible. Do not feed too much grain
as they have no crop and the fooC
goes directly to the gizzard and
must be as soft as possible.
S2z
Farmers are watching the crops
They have finished cultivating the
corn. Their part is finished an(
now the crop depends on th'
weather. We cannot bring timely
rains. We cannot prevent storms
of wind or hail nor can we regulate
the time of the coming frost. W.
can just wait. Corn looks well-i
a good color-is tasseled and silke(
out and the prospect is good.
SSS
We believe that the floors to al
houses that are intended for tn
housing Of poultry should be made
of cement as it is cheap and easy tt
handle and will last a life time. Al
SO chicken houses should be white
washed again one of these warn
days. Do it while the wash is no
and you will get more mites ant
lice especially if you put in little
carbollc acid or liquid lice killer.
S2S
The indiscriminate cutting anC
dest1 uction of our forests-by rea
son of its effect upon the soil anC
climate and topography-is the
direct cause of disastrous results
| which are of financial interest t.
every citizen and to every com
munity. The person who lives
many hundred miles away from
forest and whose property has been