Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-26

when 1t comes to feeding oats.
Ringbones on horses are often caused
by letting the toes grow too long.
Some of the leading growers prefer
to trim fruit trees this month rather
than early spring.
Buttermilk saved from the last
churning makes good starter for the
cream for the next churnfng.
The best way to make the farm
profitable is to keep animals and soil
In healthy, vigorous condition.
Five million dollars have recently
been spent in Australia on fencing TO
keep the rabbits from agricultural land.
There is one crop which is produced
In a weedy field that most people fail
to take into account This is a crop
OF rabbits.
The winter time Is the busy season
for getting ideas for next season work.
Do lots of reading, lots Of thinking,
lots Of planning.
If you did not have a garden last
year begin to plan for one this year,
and if you had one last year, plan for
q better one this year.
The prospect is that hogs will grow
into money fast again for at least an
other year. 1t may be doubted whether
they will ever go very low again.
Ever know a farmer to buy a poor
cow because she was cheap and keep
her many years and think he had Sc
cured bargain? Many man is penny
wise and pound foolish when it comes
to the cow deal.
Half the bad habits of horses may be
laid at the door of the men who handle
them. 1 have seen a mare cured of
pulling at the halter just by the change
of master Kindness always brings the
best kind of returns.
If there is not a cool balance struck
between the feed bucket and the milk
pail you better serve notice on your
COW that her room is better than her
company. Get rid of the Improbable
COW.
Perhaps a little carpenter work
Just such as most any farmer can do
will add considerably to the comfort
Of the COW stable the pig pen or the
hen house. Better attend to it now
before severe weather sets in.
Do you know whether your Logs are
getting heavier or not? Don't guess at
It Have some scales and drive them
Oh them once in while so that you can
know about It, That's the way to find
out whether your money is counting or
not
Be up-to-date in your farm methods.
Know what manufacturers are doing
for you in the matter OF improved ma
chinery, and study the best of the farm
literature to know what agricultural
cApcllS arc IittlILS Jul dDcuI ihc IuILi-
walton and growing of crops.
Here is good idea for the hog
breeder: Put peck of sand in tight
bags and sew up, then If the sows far
row on cold or wet days you can put
the chilled pigs into a blanket lined
basket on the sand bag which has
been previously heated in the kitchen
oven. The little pigs soon dry off In
this way.
A person in the country never real
ICES how smoky the city is until he per-
chance spends u day or two there The
dense atmosphere of the metropolis al
ways recalls the story Of the English
man who lived in a certain seaport
that was extremely fOggy, and once in
shingling a house the fog was so dense
he shingled right over the peak on into
space.
According TO the most recent returns,
there are in Switzerland about quar-
ter of a million beehives, or one 10
every twelve inhabitants The yield
of a scientifically constructed frame
hive often reaches 100 pounds of honey
per season. The yield from "skep," or
old-fashioned straw hive, is much
smaller The honey harvest may be
taken at some four pounds per head of
the resident population.
Prof. Wiley of the agricultural de-
partment declares enough cornstalks
go to waste in this country from
which alcohol could be made sufficient
to drive all the machinery of our fac
tories besides furnishing the requisite
power for all the railroads and steam
boats of the country. run all the auto
mobiles, light and heat all our houses
and furnish light for the streets of
every city in the union. VIII ever an
economical method of saving this
| enormous waste be devised?
For Pigs Pasture.
At the Iowa Experiment Station a
| ration Of corn alone on timothy pas
ture produced the cheapest gains in
weight of any of the rations fed TO
pigs on pasture, but the mixed rations
produced the greatest total net profits.
Cutting Back Trees.
In highly interesting experiments at
the Woburn (England) experimental
fruit farm in cutting back apple trees
| when planted the ultimate result was
found TO be that trees not cut
back until the end of the first year con-
| tinued to form wood in subsequent
years. and the crop borne by them dur
ing the first ten years was only one
third Of that borne by those which were
cut back when planted.
Industry of Bees.
When you eat a spoonful of honey
you have very little notion as to the
amount of work and travel necessary
TO produce it. To make 1 pound of