Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-21

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With variety Of stock one can util-
lie all foods
All foods for plants must be soluble
to be available
When the pigs are not growing we'll
they are eating holes in the profits.
Straw can be turned into manure in
no better way than to bed hogs with
| 1t.
Every excessively fat animal has
been fed at loss during the latter part
of its feeding.
Gull out the backward-looking pullets,
keeping only the best and most promis-
Ing for egg production.
| Of eighty-four counties in MinneSO-
ia, there are creameries in seventy of
them, producing S6,217,727 pounds of
| butter in year
A sheep is really in its prime at B
years naturally, this beisg an average
| of two-thirds or half its useful posi-
bic life under good care.
You cannot expect the lambs to get
much good of the grain you feed IL
| you do not shut the old sheep away
while they are feeding.
One hundred pounds of wheat bran
contains 12.2 pounds of digestive pro-
tein, 1872 pounds digestible carbohy
drates and 81 pounds either extract or
| fat
The swine breeder to-day cares very
little for theories that cannot be prac
| tically applied. This is equally true
| with those following other lines Of
farming.
One man says he knows there is
money in hogs" because he put some
there. Not how to put money into hogs,
but how to get money from hogs is
more important
the lookout to furnish Just what the
market demands and who find the best
markets for choice products complain
least about farming not paying.
The fact that systematic men do so
much work with so little effort is
largely due to their keeping their i'm
those implements be OK, pillow or pen.
Grass can make milk, wool, beef,
strength, feathers and mutton, but it
requires in each instance q machine
especially adapted for the perfect con-
verting Of grass into each Of these sub
stances.
Profit lies not so much in big crops
as in good ones. A fifty-acre farm
properly titled and cared for will yield
quality that is worth more money than
viii farm twice the size, with crop
Of an inferior sort.
1t is rather strange that the creamery
promoter can make neighborhood be-
lieve that his information on dairy
methods is worth so much money when
better information can be had from the
larry commissioner for the asking.
Some of the currycOmbs and brushes
used on the farms of this country are
a sight to behold. Better throw them
over the fence and get new ones. The
cost is slight and you will do a great
deal better job. Think how much bet
ter the horses will feel about it, too.
1t is quite likely more a matter of
an available food supply than a Ger
tain degree of temperature that calls
the migra tory birds to their northern
haunts at the return of spring. They
fly south in the fall at the disappear
ance of insect life and return when it
awakens in the spring.
Naturally every farm family has the
right to decide what product of the
farm shall be disposed of and what
shall be set aside for home use. Ore
Of the most absurd features in regard
to this thing is the fact that so many
families work on the plan that what
cannot be sold is good enough for home
use. Thus is much satisfaction missed
Of course it would not do to reverse
the rule and consume the choicest of
everything that grows on the farm, but
if it is necessary to be economical.
these things could at least be INDUCED
in as luxuries, with much pleasure to
all concerned.
FavOrfte Figs.