Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-31


Plenty of screws, strap hinges, gate
hooks and eyes come handy around
the farm. Try box Of such in the
shop.
Remember yourself when building
poultry-houses, and plan them so that
you may take care of them with the
least amount of trouble.
Many mares are unable to supply
their colts with sufficient milk, partic-
ularly- when hard worked. In such
cases they should be helped out.
Hens prefer seclusion when they are
laying, and they are not likely to
break eggs and get into the habit Of
eating them if the nests are kept dark
No smoking or chewing of tobacco
should be permitted while the milking
is being done. The odor of the weed
is quickly absorbed by the sensitive
milk
Can you spare some of the barnyard
manure for the orchard? Draw it out
now, mulch the trees well and see if
you do not get a good crop of fruit
next fall.
Make every square rod on your farm
yield its quota of profit. Some use
can be found for even the poor strips.
Study out how you can best use all
your land.
The old orchard that has trees II to
Is years old and older, and already
in bearing, will be benefited by heavy
applications of stable litter or other
fertilizer.
Skim milk, which is whole milk,
minus part of its fat, and which costs
only half as much as whole milk, fur
nishes protein about four times as
cheaply as beef.
The farmer can become his own
builder as soon as he understands the
mixing of concrete and the making of
forms to mold it in. It's use is I'M
limited on the farm.
Common sense is better than the
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it clearly shows a lack of common
sense when a dairyman discards all
recent Investigations.
The active hen is the happy, con-
tented hen and the hen that helps to
keep the egg basket filled. Keep your
hens busy if you want them to be
productive and profitable
Prepare the nests and place the nest
eggs in them, so the pullets will learn
to occupy them. It is important that
the pullets be early taught to lay in
The nests provided for them.
With good milking cows, well fed
and well kept, milk can be produced at
cost of 60 cents per hundred and
butter fat for 16 cents a pound. This
is an average for the year round.
Give plenty of green food while the
ground is frozen. Cabbages, onions,
steamed clover, boiled potatoes and
turnips, with warm meal mash, are
excellent for pullets and hens ready
to lay.
Most farmers raise chickens by the
natural process, and that is all right
so long as you do not care to raise
more than, say, 100 chickens; but when
you get up into large numbers incu-
bators are necessary.
The best preventive for roup and
other infectious diseases is perfect
cleanliness about the poultry-house
and ground. No medicine can success
fully combat filth, darkness and damp
ness.
Farming is business requiring not
only some capital and a great deal OF
hard work, but a large measure Ct
know how as many people, tired Of
city life, have found when they tried
to farm without previous experience.
Every stockman knows how incOn-
venient a stiff new rope halter can be-
New rope may be made as pliable as
old, it is claimed, by simply boiling
it for two hours in water. Then hang
it in warm room and let it dry out
thoroughly
Profit in Sheep.
Sheep not only pay their own way,
but make up for losses caused by