Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-03

bring better returns than an unlimited
quantity carelessly applied.
Buying cows and selling them as
fast as they stop giving milk never
built up a herd of high-producing
dairy cows
When farmer sells all the grain and
hay from his farm instead of feeding it,
he is cutting the UNDERMINING from
under himself.
Well-grown fruit or vegetables, we'll
marketed, bring a profit which the
careless producer never realizes. 1t
pays to do things right.
Once a week, from January to Janu-
airy, saturate the roosts and nest boxes,
and once a month spray the entire in
terror Of the building with kerosene.
The draft horse Is the one for the
farmer to raise, because it can be done
in harmony with the other interests
Of the farm and with the greatest
profit.
tuberculosis in cattle and scab in
sheep is spread from the stoclI yards
of the large cities by the feeders who
purchase animals from the pens with
out proper investigation.
Rye sowed in a cornfield will afford
good winter pasture for the lambs dur
Ing the fall and early winter months
and again when other grasses are back
ward about starting in the spring.
Every sheep grower should have n
hospital flock upon which he will be-
stow more time and to which he will
add from time to time all Of those that
are dropping or are pushed aside from
their feed by the more hardy ones
The calf from the moment of it's
birth should be kept in a thrifty, grow
Ing condition. Letting an animal down
is a great and permanent loss. 1t is
something lost forever, that no amount
of after care or feeding can regain.
Some idea of the scarcity of timber
may be had from the fact that when
an Illinois farmer cut nineteen-inch
boards out of cottonwood trees on his
farm the fact was heralded throughout
the state as somethingsquite remark
able.
II you intend to "hog off, the corn
this fall you will have an ideal feed if
you have planted cow peas with the
corn. 1t is pretty late to SOW them in
the corn after it is laid by, but in
the south they will make growth
enough to help out to a great extent.
"Too much hay will make a horses
coat rough and staring and spoil his
appetite" writes very good friend
and good farmer as well, but we diff
fer with him. The trouble is evidently
in something else as we do not believe
horse will eat more clean hay than is
good for him.
There Is no middle course or stand
still period to calf raising. Each day
the calf is not gaining 1t is losing. At
the end of two years proper care and
feeding we will be rewarded with an
animal with healthy appearance, with
a well-developed frame and an abund-
ance of flesh and fat.
Prevent the soil washing on your
farm. Many fine fields in some of the
western states have been ruined by
soil washing. Some are washed so
worked with modern farm machinery.
Soils that have good supply of hui
mus are not subject to washing, as
they have greater water-holding ca
pacity.
1t pays to use good sire. If a man
is in the dairy business, sire from a
milking strain should increase the pro-
duct of his progeny by 1000 pounds a
year, yet good mary dairymen give
little thought to the sire. If he raises
cattle for beef, good beef sire will in
crease the price for his progeny. And
1T costs less in the long run to feed a
thoroughbred than a scrub.
An enterprising merchant in a west
ern town has fitted up rest room for
the wives of farmers who drive to
town and who sometimes have tedious
waits for the husband to finish his
hr1Si M ia CT ty,
Furnished as it is with rockers and
tables on which are magazines, fash
ion books, etc, it is growing in popu-
larity, and is good advertising for the
merchant. Here is a hint for mer-
chants in other towns.
In 1000 pounds of cotton-seed cake
there are 90 pounds of dry matter,
which contains sc pounds Of nitrogen,
10 pounds of potash and 81 pounds Of
phosphoric acid. Corn G,000 pounds)
contains $50 pounds Of dry matter, III
Guiding 16 pounds of nitrogen, 31a
pounds Of potash and pounds of phos-
phoric acid. A ton Of manure from
cows fed on linseed or cotton-seed meal
is not only more valuable than a ton
produced from corn, but there is also
saving of labor in hauling and spread
ing.
Hints About Fruits.
The cultivation in the orchard should
be discontinued about the first of the
month. At the last cultivation sow
cover crop of vetch Or something sim
liar. This will take water from the
soil, thus helping the trees to ripen up
the wood and will also serve to catch
snow for protecting the ground during
the winter.
Plant pot-grown Strawberries for
fruit next summer. Prune the rasb-
berries; take out all the old wood, leay-
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