Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-09-09
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fruit, This limb now hangs full of fine,
large apples
"A correspondent of the Country Gen.
temaH says that tomatoes want water al
most as much as ducks, but as the vine is
hardy and viii stand almost any amount of
heat and drought, few supply the water i.
demands, In order to make tomatoes
ripen quickly, they should be watered at
least once a day The evening is the best
time to water them
"A writer in the Wisconsin Farmer
says he used to have Il good deal of trouble
to make currant or gooseberry cuttings or
slips grow until he tried the following
plan: He boiled some potatoes until they
were nearly done, and then stuck one on
each side, and put it in the ground Every
slip sprouted and grew well all summer
with but one or two exceptions,
TO preserve meat, cut it in from two
10 four pound pieces; place the pieces in
an eaYthen or wooden vessel sprinkle
with salt, and cover with powdered char
coal. In this manner meat may be kept
fresh more than fifteen days, no matter
how warm the weather may be. The COW
cring Of charcoal should be from an inch
to an inch and half in thickness, the
thicker the better Exchange.
--Mulching is said to be a sure remedy
for cracking in fruit. In some places that
excellent pear, the White Doyenne, cracks
so much that it becomes almost worthless.
In order to prevent this, pear grower of
New Jersey used thick mulch of old
chips and iron waste. This application
was perfectly successful as preventive of
cracking, and also impaired superior
flavor to the fruit and smoOthness to the
bark.
The following experiment, by Mr.. II.
Dayton, Of Alden, Erie county, n. Y, is
better than column of theorizing. His
orchard Of two acres and half, which had
produced very little fruit for number of
years, and most of that wormy, was care
fully plowed less than two inches deep last
fall, and narrowed and cultivated two or
three times in the early part ofthe present
season The result is, he picked, last fall,
over four hundred and fifty barrels of fine
smooth apples, bringing in about sixteen
hundred dollars. The soil was sandy
gravel, and had been in grass about ten
years.
Samuel II. Goodwin, of Madison, Ind,
says: Last winter all the bees in our
county, with the exception of about half a
dozen sWarms, died, and of course there
were none to suck the honey from the
flowers last spring. We have an orchard
that has borne but very little fruit for six
or eight years, but this season it is full of
healthy fruit. Now, the question is
whether the fruit is injured by the bees
taking every particle of honey from the
flowers many times a day or not; or, in
other words, is not the honey that is Sc
creted in every fruit blossom, put there for
the, health and nourishment Of the young
Z fruit?
Sun. baths cost nothing, and are the
most refreshing, life-giving baths that one
can take, whether sick or we'll Every
housekeeper knows the necessity of Civ
ing her WO0.ens the benefit Of the sun
from time to time, and especially after a
long rainy season, or a long absence of
abe sun. Many will think Of the injury
their clothes are liable to from dampness,
who viii never reflect that an occasional
exposure Of their bodies to the sunlight
is equally necessary to their own health.
The sUn-baths cost nothing, and that is a
misfortune, for people are still deluded
with the idea that those things only can
BE good or useful which cost money Let it
not be forgotten that three Of Gods most
bcnctiCent gifts to man--three things the
most necessary to good health--sunlight,
fresh air and water, are free to ALL you
can have them in abundance, without
money and without price, if you will. Ii
you would enjoy good health, then see to
it that you are supplied with pure air to
breathe all the time that you battle for an
hour or so in the sunlight; and that you
qucnch your thirst with no other fluid
than water-JoUr15al Of Healh.
The food Of their poultry is very care
fully regarded by the French breeders
For the first week after being Matched
land in winter for a much longer time)
The chickens are fed on barley meal mixed
with milk, stale bread soaked in water
and green food finely chopped Very few
instances can be found where poultry are
fed on whole grain, as it is believed that
whole grain would be too expensive, pro
duce fewer eggs, too much fat, and cause
more di,euse!when fowls are fed ad ljJjturn
~ IL N' E"A IaNlNll llll llltll Nl'pob Hllt'i
renders digestion difficult. The food i,
mostly composed Of about one half bran
and the other half buckwhcat, barley, OF
oatmeal made into a stiff paste, with
which The fowls are fed twice a day
namely 40 sunrise and sunset. This diet
is given indisqrimnatcly to oldand young
In some o4ses where fowls have not the
run of meadows, they are provided with {
certain amount ofanimal and green food
The waste Of the butcher shops is boiled
the fit skinned off, and when coagulated
thoroughly mixed with the meal food
Cabbagas and other vegetables are sup
piled in some cases, being either fed raw
or boiled and mixed with the other food
Buckwheat Is considered preferable to al
other grain as a stimulant to egg laying
and in winter certain amount is giyer
WAUlg.