Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-17

| she Is an egg and meat machine, and
nothing else
Pigs will fatten rapidly when fed
| corn alone. but the fattening will be
| at the expense OF health and growth.
Poultry manure is worth not less
than So a ton. But if you store it
where it will get wet, it will not be
| worth much of anything
You can't count the wrinkles on the
| horns of the COW that has been de-
| horned so as to tell her age. so it is
good plan TO keep a record book of
| your cows.
Hercules cleaned the Augean stables
by flooding them with water from the
| river. You can clean and sweeten the
atmosphere of your stables by flooding
| them with sunlight
1t is an excellent plan to whitewash
the trees, filing the cracks in the bark
with lime, 50 as to fill up many hiding
| places of fruit pests. as well as to de-
stroy many which are in hiding.
| 1t is claimed on reliable authority
| chat corn-fed horses are more suscepti-
| BILE to weak eyes than those given other
| grains. Corn may enter into the ration
| without any serious results, but it
| should not be made the entire ration.
Kindness will accomplish more with
The horse than whipping. When he
SHES at anything whipping will only
| scare him and make him shy worse the
| neXt time. Never yell at nor jerk a
| horse. Treat him gently and kindly.
It is always better to give medicine
TO swine in food. But if one wants to
drench, fasten a piece of rubber hose
| securely in a bottle containing the
| medicine. Throw the pig. put stick
In its mouth and allow the fluid to
slowly run down the throat.
Next to the contamination spread by
The stock bull, to which a good many
COW keepers send their aborting cows
without any disclosure of the fact, the
fraud of selling the aborted cow with
the calf of another at foot is the chief
mearS for the extension of the disease.
Automobiles will never take the place
of the heavy draft horses. There will
always be place for this class of
work animals and just at the present
time there is shortage 1t will pay
any farmer to raise some good draft
colts, but they must be good.
Beginning thing is easy, but it is
the stick to it that is difficult The
ability to go on and finish a thing be-
gun is the real test of character. In
farm work or in other stations in life
1t is the man who sticks to the things
he has begun that is ahead in the
race.
The present cotton output Of Brazil
is estimated at $4,000 tons, and, ac
cording to reports received from Uni
ted States consuls living in that coun-
try, the industry is increasing rapidly.
Primitive methods are still in vogue,
however, and the quality Of the prod
uct Is poor.
We are now cutting timber from the
forests of the United States at the
rate of 500 feet board measure a year
for every man, woman and child. In
Europe they use only GO board feet.
AT this rate in less than thirty years
all our remaining virgin timber will
be cut Time to change our methods.
The government reports the hay crop
to be 152 tons, compared with LA ten
year average Total production, esti
mated 67,743.000 tons, compared with
63.677,000 last year. Average quality is
94.5, against 9o.4 last year. Rye esti-
mated production, 30,921 900 bushels
aga inst 81, $4,000 last year. Quality is
better
How hard should the ground freeze
before covering up the strawberry
vines? Well, if it will bold wagon
up when driven over it you may con-
clude that it Is time to put on the
mulch. Don't put on too much at first.
however. Increase the amount Of Gov
ering as the weather increases In Sc
verify.
A much more sensible and profitable
type of agriculture will prevail than
is general to-day when every quarter
section farm in the country supports
q herd Of from thirty to sixty sheep.
They are large consumers Of waste
vegetable growths-the byproducts Of
the farmland for this reason every
landowner should keep flock.
Again let US urge you not to Leave
the tools out to warp and rust in the
winter storms. One winters exposure
will hurt them more than two or three
Years use Clean them up and pnt
them away in the dry II you have
no tool house put them In the packing
shed. A coat Of paint applied now will
add several years to the life Of the
woodwork of tools.
II the 1armef Is III SUCH SLTdlIS imam |
c!ally that he must economic, let him |
go without socks and undershirt rather |
than scrimp on the price Of seed corn
or oats that he has to buy this season |
He would be far better off at harvest |
time or husking If he got good seed
oats at 10 cents and seed corn at So
than ne would to take poor seed Of
either grain as gift. Economic If |
one must. but let 1t not be In seeds of |
any kind.
The Chicago health commission has |
forbidden the sale Of milk from ordi- |
nary tin cans. All milk must now be |
delivered in sealed bottles. Nearly |
one-half Of the infant mortality Of the |
city is supposed to be traceable to i'm |