Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17

rubbish should be burned.
Skim milk and alfalfa. with a little
corn on the side will make baby pork
/ quicker and better than anything else.
Some men pride themselves on be-
! ing boss of the household, but never
do anything that other people are proud
| Of
| While liberal fertilization will in
crease the yield, thorough cultivation
is also necessary to keep up and i'm
prove the quality.
James Oliver, the chilled plow man,
died recently, leaving a fortune of S7Ot-
100000, which he had reaped from the
farmers of this country.
! The object in working over the soil
| is not to make it light, but to, mix it
and break up the clods, and that roots
| will work best in soil that is packed
| down.
| The department of agriculture re-
| ports that the general condition in re-
| gard to the healthfulness of farm ami
mails is higher now than it has been
in the past ten years
| The dairyman who receives his milk
! check every month and is compelled to
| pay from one-half to two-thirds of it
over to the feed dealer, is not making
! success of the business.
! Healthy animals require no medi-
cine; conditions in them may be estab-
lished and maintained by intelligently
| applied alterations in the quantity and
| quality of their food and labor.
A giant snail recently brought from
| South Africa to England is fully as
| large as two-ffths of an ordinary man
and lays an egg which resembles that
of a pigeon in size, color and texture
Do not dispose of the brood sow as
long as she continues to produce good,
strong filters, no matter how old she is,
but dispose of her with the first sign
Of letting down, no matter how young
she is
An attachment for the corn cultiva
tor which will replant the missing mills
is said to be the invention of a handy
Missourian. 1t fastens on the tongue
OF the cultivator and is worked from
the seat by a string.
The farmer who leaves the machines
standing in the fields where they were
last used is following an expensive
practice. 1t pays to have. "a tool house
and after a machine is through with
to clean, oil and house it.
Keep the ground in the orchard and
garden free from rubbish and weeds.
In these many of the insect pests spend
an important part of their existence,
and if they are destroyed many of the
pests will perish with them.
Twenty per cent butter fat weighs
SAG pounds to the gallon after all the
air has settled from it, while the 10
per cent weighs only 50 pounds. When
fresh from the separator the weight is
less because of the air contained in the
cream.
pairying affords farmer an oppOr
tunity of buying large amounts Of fer
tiIity in the form of commercial food
stuffs and feeding them out on his
farm, thus adding much fertility to
~ Iii,
the business profitable.
Generally speaking, the COW which
has had her milk-producing capacity
encouraged and developed will be very
likely to transmit these traits to her
progeny. Raise the heifers Of your
best cows and you will be on the road
to improving your herd.
The farmers cotton warehouse move
ment in the South, whereby it was
planned to enable the farmers to hold
their cotton until the price bad gone up
to Is cents per pound collapsed be-
cause the bank could not carry the Load
any longer The farmers had borrow
ed S75,OOO,OOO.
A vicious goat, while browsing
around a farmyard in Posey County, |
Ind, came across a heavy swing which
the children had been using and which |
touched him as he passed. He imme-
dlately showed fight and butted away
at the swing which came back at him
every time Half an hour later the
owner found the goat dead, but the
swing was still swinging.