Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-02-03

but the profit OH the Keeping. IL 1T
is profitable To get the best COW and
keep her in the best Hiannct, then il
is profitable 10 get Il whole dairy on
that pcinciple. VIII any one tell u+
why this i not done We can an
-wcr this readily. There is "a slack
ness in the case; We are IN the habit
of not doing il. 1T is necessary Tor
Us to get out OF our tracks devote. a
little time Ia this thing most Of all
begin right. Keep less cows, and
keep well, and those Of good quality
and bc not discouraged If YOU do
not succeed rs we'll ut first as YOU an
ticipated remember always that
there are those who DO succeed, and
that all succeed in the long run, and
snSuid De profited immediately, just
as 1t man who keeps good
single COW is prof ted immediately
that IL, n Il short time, at least. y
single COW generally improves so
Will Il herd, if kept equally well.
Let It's then get single COWS Tor our
dairies. In doing 80 we viii find
out il viii be more in the keeping
than in the selecting, unless we have
reference ID blood Valley Farm
or.
WHAT HENS WILL EAT.-At
StraIford, lately, lady who keeps a
number of fowl, which are great pets
and very tame, WAS recently stand
ing in her yard surrounded by her
feathery tribe, when one of them
jumped up into her arms, ana peck
ing ut her teeth, actually picked one
out of her mouth, dropping it To the
ground. Before the lady could pre-
vent il the hen swallowed the tooth
evidently thinking it was Il fine kerr
mel Of corn. The lady called IA ei@h-
bor, who caught and k He'd the un-
lucky fowl: in the crop, uniuiured,
the tooth was found and restored To
its old quarters.
Pruning THE GRAPE soon
n the leaves fall, unite from the trel-
lis To stake, and.get ready 10 prune.
Select two or three good fresh shoots
about six feet long, or thcreabOuts.
If YOU can sc. them without any
side shoots OF "spurs :" if you can
not get shoot SO long OF this years
growth, take two shorter ones Gut
oil all the rest OF the vine with Il
pruning knife, throwing away The
brush, or trimming II up for cuttings
and bury i'm the earth the shoots that
were saved. In the spring, when
uncarthed, cHt of all bat one good
shoot. The object iii rcS-rVinu more
i 10 have plenty III case of break
ing one oil when covering up or I'M
covering, a. Is occasionally The ease.
Always have your vines properly
pruncd before the ground is frozen
over, and cover them up Just before
the frost "et~ too hard to dig with
ease.
The trimmings of grape vines at
/ 81. Al
cat two buds oil, one at the top and
the other al the bottom. Sort and
tie them up into equal lengths, and
bury in boxes, bottom buds up, with
moist earth we'll sifted i'll, and keep
them all winter In the spring set
them out ia Il Y shaped trench, the
bud in the bottom, and the tol. bud
Just ut the surface OF the ground.
Fill the trench, II possible, with
loose, fine, wcll-Tottrd manure, well
tramped down. They are best when
grown two years, and kept euttivat-
Ell all the time.
WHAT RAILROADS. 10 FuR FARM
ERS.-ro haul forty bushels of corn
| fifty miles on Il wagon, costs, says
/ the A"riculturist, at least SD for
/ team, driver, and expenses. y rail
/ road would transport 1t Tor 81, at
most. Allowing an average Of forty
/ bushels per acre, The crop would Ice
worth - more per acre, ur per cent.
/ on : too As the relative advantage
/ is about the same tof utuer crops, il
/ * clear that railroad passing
/ through 4 town would add olp per
acre. To the value OF the farms. y
/ town ten miles square contains 6l,-
/ tNh acres. An increase Of 500 per
/ acre. is equal To- 81, lnu ,thhl, or enough
I Ia build 90 miles of railroad, even
4 if il cost Sl2,n'o per mile. But two
I hundred miles uf road " Guild extend
/ through twenty towns ten miles
/ square. and ,ost. hut $40 per acre if
/ taxed upon the land. Those figures
/ are given merely as an illustration.
/ If the farmers had taxed themselves
4 to build IT. the railroads ia this
/ country and given them away In amy
i companies that would stock ami run
/ them, the present Increased value cf
f their land would have we'll repaid all
/ the outlay.
/ Go To FARNING-A good living
4 IL what comparatively few men sue
T cced IN making i'm village cor city life
and Yet nothing il more easy of ac-
+ complishmeut on the farm. BESIDES
there j. a pleas are in cuitivatiug and
! emocliishIng the earth, improving
ami increasing its products. thus
adding TO the aggregate of human
+ happiness. Why, then. should
young men hesitate to Ice farmers =
T 1t i both profitable aud honorable
+ 1t Is the nearest approximation To
Independence that man, a r mem
i Der of society can make. y gentle
man farmer-and all farmers are, or
should be. gcntlemau-bCIOuUS To an
order of nobility that i not indebted
10 place-holder> for its installation.
and may. II he chooses, be ranked
among the greatest Genst,sctor> OF
the human race. Let all idle young
men go Ia work on farms and quit
seeking third az fourth rate clerk
ships. In short, ga To- farming and
quit begging.
CHEAT NEt".-StLE CELLAR
Sink barrel two-third~ of its depth
into the ground a box or caSk will
answer better purpose: heap the
earth around the part projecting out
of the ground. with a slope ou all
sides place the vegetables that Vou
desire 10 keen in the vessel cover
the top with a water tight cover !:
and when winter sets TIA. throw an
armfnl of straw. hay. or something
of that sort. ou the barrel. II the
bottom i cut a. the cask or barrel
il will be better. Cahhag..>, celery
aud other vegetables viii keep in this
way a, fresh a. when taken from the
ground The celery should stand
nearly perpendieular, celery and
earth alternating. Freedom from