Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-20

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The idle hoe tells the story of a
weedy garden.
Be slow about making promises then
you won't have so many TO break.
Transplanted lettuce grows larger
than that which remains where 1t was
sown.
An exclusive diet Of corn will prevent
hens from laying; so will an exclusive
diet of anything else.
The odors in the dairy barn car
nearly all be absorbed by plenty of dry
earth or land plaster.
Trying TO run farm without ma
nure Is like trying to run an auromo-
bile without gasoline
Whether it is sunshine or rain, the
good dairy COW is always busy turning
a profit for her owner.
Milk twice a day and milk at regu-
lar times if you would obtain the best
results from your herd.
Putting the best foot forward means
putting up a bluff. The only success
full men are those who get there with
both feet
Chickens in the orchard pick up
thousands of insects, worms, etc,
which would prove injurious TO the
trees and fruit.
The furnishing of fancy farm-made
cheese affords an opportunity of max
ing great profits from the dairy if prop
erly conducted.
Starved land cannot grow good
crops. Provide the elements which the
crop needs and harvest day will be Il
day Of rejoicing.
Alfalfa takes a tremendous amount
Of moisture out of the soil and is not
as good for an orchard as some other
less voracious plants.
A good brood SOW must have large
capacity for feed, because it requires a
great deal of feed to keep her milk
producing machinery going.
Truck crops suffer least from fungi
in seasons that open with cool spring
and end with very hot summer, with
rainfall below the average.
Scab, foot rot and liver trouble and
catarrh are all induced by lack OF
thrift. Lack of thrift is induced by
lack of care and lack of feed.
The man who has no bad habits,
never makes mistakes and never fails
to say so is too good for the company
of ordinary mortals and should be let
alone.
If you are raising ducks without a
swimming place for them, be sure to
have the drinking pans deep enough
so they can get their heads entirely I'M
der water.
The feeding of dairy cattle affords
the dairyman an opportunity to save all
of the manure made by feeding out his
crops and return it to his fields for fu-
ture use.
Open sheds facing the south furnish
You cannot raise turkeys successfully
in confinement They must have a wide
range Of field.
The building of a silo enables the
dairyman to save all of the valuable
food elements contained in his corn
crop and get the most profit out of feed
ing it on his own farm.
A few days of pasturing on the stub
BILE fields after the grain is cut and out
Of the way will provide considerable
good feed for the stock and will be a
good thing for the field.
To make the most out of sheep they
must be kept for a series of years.
Some years they will return a much
better profit than in others, but it is
hard to sell out and buy at the right
time.
Artichokes are in some little demand
in city markets during early spring for
picking. They must be fairly smooth,
uniform and large, and washed very
clean. A few produce dealers handle
them.
Sixty-six Percheron horses recently
sold at Sioux City, Iowa, for an aver
age Of S406.50 each. One stallion
brought S1,21O. Be sure, however. that
these horses were thoroughbreds and
not scrubs.
Don't haul your hogs In tight box
wagons. The loss of one hog by over
heating will more than pay for a panel
rack for the wagon. Money is well in
vested that provides greater comfort
for the stock.
A fruit grower In the Hood River
valley, Oregon, recently sold forty
boxes of winter banana apples at So
a box. Last year this crop amounted
to 10000 boxes and brought an aver