Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-10

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Charcoal is appreciated by the flock
Provide it for them.
Rape makes fine hog feed. They dc
not bloat on it as sheep do.
Sow little more clover and divide il
up into hog pastures. 1t will pay big
It is a good scheme to use kerosene
literally about the interior Of the plac5
the entire year.
A dairy COW shut up in a dark stable
and fed on highly concentrated food
quickly burns out.
Better to plant a little in the gar
den and plant well than to half plant
a great quantity Of stuff.
The community where. the good dairy
cow is in the majority is the commu
nifty which is marked by contentment
and prosperity.
Pie is good, but nobody wants it three
times a day, and nothing else. Nc
more does a hog want corn month IL
and month out without change
The feeding out of the odds and ends
Of fodder before the cold and wet fal
weather ruins it is important ant
means the saving of a snug sum every
year.
Feed the COW all the hay or other
roughness she will eat, even if she is
running on good pasture. Her appetite
tells her better what she needs thar
you can tell.
There are about twenty-five kinds OF
nut-bearing trees in the United States
The consumption of nuts is increasing
rapidly, the demand evidently growing
much faster than the home supply is
increased.
Some genius of figures estimates that
the corn crop Of Missouri for 1901
would fill 100000 farm wagons
which, If hitched close together, would
make chain that would reach around
the world
All good sheep feeders have gOo6
racks and feed boxes or troughs. \
flock may live if fed on ground, but
nothing less than keen hunger will
prompt so delicate an animal to take It's
feed from the wet and filth Of a yard
The tax commissioners of some west
ern states are now trying to find out
whether they caA tax land which was
previously entirely worthless, but
which through the expenditure of large
sums of money for irrigation has beer
brought to large fertility.
In spite of the fact that Professor
Milton Whitney says that there is
enough land east of the Missouri river
to sustain the population for the next
fifty years, Texas drainage system is
expected to reclaim 100000 acres
which lie along the coast.
The first butterfly farm was estab
lished about ten years ago by William
Watkins, a famous English entomol
ogist, at Eastbourne, England. There
are now many similar farms in France
and other countries. The object OF
these farms is to rear silk worms.
At the University of Illinois nearly
100 students We're last year enrolled
in the course of elementary bird study
The object of this work is to prevent
the needless destruction of birds and tC
teach farmer boys how to protect thost
which are useful to them.
The Holstein breeders in their re
cent national meeting appointed q
committee to secure a federal law fol
the inspection Of cattle for tubercu
losis and to do away with inspection
by the states. There is no question
that such a law would prove advan
tageous
A Kansas City man who went to 6
neighboring poultry farm to buy trio
picked out three good-looking birds and
rendered a $50 bill in payment, expect
ing about so in change. He almost
tainted when he was Informed that the
price of the rooster and two hens was
$3.50.
Unless the stock is fed an amount
over and above that which is needed
for body maintenance there will be nc
gain. A thousand-pound steer has
been found by experiment to require
daily Is pounds of timothy hay, Il
pounds of clover hay and seven pounds
of corn meal just to keep on an ever
keel. More must be fed if there is tc
be any gain.
If neighbor asks us to do an err
rand or two while in town why be
grumpy? We may want to ask a favor
ourselves next day or next week. And
by the way, some men have a knack OF
doing a troublesome act for a neighbo1
In such a manner as to create the i'm
preston that it is the one thing that
gives him great pleasure. That is 6
fine gift and we cannot cultivate it toe
much.
1t seems at the present time thai
the graduates Of the state agricultur
al schools of the country are finding
no trouble in getting located The
young man who knows the science OF