Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-24

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Never keep boar pig that is not
fully up to standard.
Barley is good for horses, but it is
better for making beer.
A bad slip on the ice will take
pounds of flesh off a fat steer.
A ration of half alfalfa and hat
corn is excellent for breeding sows be-
fore narrowing
A hog raiser who has a running
stream and bluegrass pasture is in
deed fortunate.
The feeder who fails to study the
effects of roughness is not likely to
make much progress.
Some men seem to feed cattle for
the mere fun Of the thing without
much regard to the profit.
Bran is good hog feed from chemi-
cal standpoint, but mechanically it is
too coarse. Shorts are better.
Many young pigs are killed by lice
and the owners take so little Interest
that they do not know what ails them.
Stock with inherent good qualities
will make money OH the same feed and
care which with a scrub will bring only
loss.
See that the names, as well as the
collar, are properly adjusted. You may
thus have sore shoulders on your work
horses.
Good feeding is something more than
shoveling unhusked corn on the ground
and allowing animals to dig it out Of
the mud
William Jennings Bryan owns $780,
600 worth of farm property. His home
place, near Lincoln, Neb., is assessed
at $4,000.
for the hog. A good substitute for
either of these is rape, field peas or
COW peas sown in pasture.
Factories of this country produce
S10O,000,0O0 worth of farm machinery
every year, of which about 100000
worth is sent to foreign lands.
About 245,000 acres, or nearly 3S3
square miles of land, in Missouri, that
was formerly worthless has been
changed from marsh and boys to fine
farms.
Never let the dead wood remain on
the fruit trees. 1t not only provides
hiding places for insect pests, but it
opens the way for extending the de-
cay Of the heart of the tree.
Rye sOwn in corn ground in Septem-
Der makes fine pasture for late fall. If
al &c tIn irNCy will
make good pasture until the rye is ripe,
when the hogs will thrive upon the
grain.
Forty-fve thousand dollars is tidy
commission on a land deal-a sum
which is said to have been paid on the
sale of the Spur ranch in Dickens
county, Texas, to an English syndi-
cate for $2,500,OOO
To introduce new blood secure sew
eral good hens and mate them to your
best male bird, provided he is a good
one. If your flock is not up to the
standard get the best male bird you can
and breed up to him.
Good pasturage and plenty of water
is all that breeding stock need, but
pigs which are to be marketed at six
months must have plenty of grain to
bring them up to the best marketable
weight, about 200 pounds.
Daniel Freeman, of Brownville, Neb.,
filed on the first free homestead pro-
vided by the government on January
LIST, 1868. He is still in possession Of
this old patent, which is numbered /,
and lives on his homestead.
1t Is essential that we attend to the
comfort and bodily ease of our COWS.
1t would be well If some of us would
ask ourselves how certain lines of
treatment would suit us. All animals,
man included. have much in common.
Again the Pennsylvania station, at
great labor and cost, proves that steers
fed in sheds will make more gain than
those fed in the open during cold
winter. Did anybody ever suppose they
would not?
Professor E. c. Parker, of the Min
nesota experiment station, has gone to
China at the call of the government
of that country to organize and con-
duct an experiment station and school
of agriculture at Mukden, in Man
churia.
The fenced farm is the only one on
which live stock can be kept and the
rotation of crops followed, and as this
method of farming is the only profit
able one in the long run, it follows
that the farm must be fenced to be
handled properly.
DR.. o. P. Bennett, of Macon, Ill. has
bunch of artichokes planted in each
of his poultry yards. These. make 4
dense shade during the summer, and
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