Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-12-03

will act nicely on his bowels.
pretty accurate lineup on the abil-
ity and financial standing of farmer
can be secured by a glimpse at the
kind of fences he has on his place.
To the Shambles with the COW that
cannot produce enough to pay for her
keep Keeping this kind of an animal
is like pouring water into rat hole.
The anonymous letter writer and the
dog poisoner belong to the same cow
ardly company, both engaging in enter
rrlses for which they do not care to
assume responsibility.
The silo has certainly come to stay.
No better proof of this assertion is the
fact that i'll the older dairy districts OF
New England many new silOs have been
constructed this past season.
Poultry that is confined should be
provided with an abundance of char
coal, oyster shell and grit. When run
mig loose the fowls will get these ele-
ments or their equivalents of their own
accord.
There is such a thing as being more
nice than wise" and the successful
dairyman will be one who can draw
the line in the right place and accom-
plish the most satisfactory results with
Il minimum expense.
United States Secretary Of Agricul-
ture Wilson charges the farmers of this
country with being soil robbers. The
charge is rather sweeping, but if placed
on trial good many of them would
have to plead guilty.
A New JERSEY man who owns twelve
White Leghorn hens all over five years
of age, says they laid an average of
ten eggs per day during April. He
thinks it is a mistake to kill hens
under three years old.
Being behindhand is more largely Il
matter of mere habit than necessity,
being much more easily encouraged
than discouraged when once formed.
With many it is to quite an extent re-
sponsible for the fact that they never
get ahead in the world.
Massachusetts has a new law which
makes a uniform milk standard of
1925 per cent total solids and 3.25 per
cent of which must be butter fat. This
reduces the butter fat for summer
slightly and increases the winter stand
ard by a fraction.
When a dealer buys unsorted apples
he turns them out on the floor of his
warehouse and sets a boy at sorting
them. BY this process he sometimes
gains as much as 80 per cent on the
price of the whole lot. Why not do
this at home or in the orchard?
One beauty about good system of
thing is the fact that, while it makes
the land through which it runs arabic
IL wet season, it does not dry it out
too much in a dry season, as a mellow
condition of soil prevails that tends to
prevent baking of the surface.
The difference between poor COW
anG a good one in a dairy is the diff
ference between success and failure. a
poor COW is estimated by the pounds Of
flesh she carries-a good one by the
amount of milk she gives. Cows are
purchased at $50 that are expensive
and others for S1OO that are cheap, as
their work in the dairy will show.
The children in the home enjoy
balanced ration as well as do the ami
mails in the feed lot or stable. Such Il
ration is pork and beans, boiled pota
toes and brown bread, poached egg on
toast. good graham bread and Jersey
milk; roast pork, dressing and baked
potatoes, and apple sauce; roast beef.
mashed potatoes and pie.
Where one understands the proper
recipes for making the different kinds
of cement for the various farm uses
any enterprising farmer or farmers
boy can manufacture his own cement
blocks, make water trough, hogpen
floor or construct the walks about the
house provided only that a supr'v Of
sand and gravel is at hand.
\ farmer who for a number of years
past has made a speciality of some one
PRODUCT each wear last wear had fifty
acres planted to cabbages. When he
had marketed the last carload of the
vegetable he found that he had cleared
in the neighborhood of $50 per acre.
The raising of the crop meant to start
with a rich soil, clean cultivation and
lots of hard work both in the care and
marketing Of the crop.
The listing of corn-the planting OF
IT f.. the bottom of deep furrow IND
the covering Of it deeper as it sermi-