Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-04-14
AGRICULTURAL FACTS.

AGRICULTURAL FACTS.
1t is said there are IS, las, 240 neal
cattle in the United States.
The London Field says it is well
enough, and even advantageous, t.
wash horse when heated, provided
he be wiped dry and blanketed.
The best bank is bank of earth
1t never refuses to discount to hon
est labor. And the best shares are
plOwshares, on which dividends are
always liberal.
Every COW that rears a calf annu-
ally should go dry, for the purpose
otrest and recuperation. not less than
four weeks; and in some instances
the time should be extended to eight,
or even to twelve, weeks. If COW
he in full flesh when she is about to
como in, during the growing season,
she may be MIXED eleven months in
the year On the contrary, when
the same cow is expected to come in
during the foddering season, she
ought to go dry at least two months.
If COW be in thin flesh, she should
have three months for recuperation
and rest, especially if it is desirable
to rear n good calf.
The London dairymen have decid-
ell that the most profitable cows are
graded short horns, not because they
give more milk, but because. when
past milking, they make more beef.
The real value of the pea as an ar
ticle of food is difficult to determine,
and its fattening power has been va
rlously estimated. Two bushels of
peas are counted by some equal to
Of L.
hesitate to assign To them q much
higher proportional value.
England is country OF homes
However poor, however homely,
however destitute of comfort, an En-
glishman must have his home. He
cannot be so miserable bat what he
will find some one to share it with
him. The homes of the poor exhibit
poverty that the most degraded
and forlorn in Five Points, or any
other low region of New York, can
not conceive of.
Professor Brewer, of Yale Scientific
School, recommends the Breton cat
tie for scanty pastures. They yield
eight times their weight of milk per
year, and thrive well where other
breeds fail.
A recent writer states that three
hundred and fifty bushels of potatoes
remove ninety pounds of potash from
the soil on which they are grown,
consequently, wood ashes Is one of
the most valuable manures for this
crop.
There are now in Australia, says
the Mark Lane Express, some four
millions of cattle and forty millions
of sheep, while there are not a million
consumers, and the live stock, with
abundant pasturage, increases enor-
mously.
As general practice, Southern
and Western farmers have depended
on hundred acres, ploughed three
inches deep, for three thousand BUSH
els of corn, when the same store could
have been gathered from fifty acres
ploughed six inches deep and well
manfred.
\ farmer in Griswold, Conn, mas
published an account of his turkey
ventures, with expenses and profits
from June. 1868, To January, 1869, as
follows: Credit-9S turkeys killed,
,i26 lbs, at - cents per To-, $3.50. O2
; turkeys not killed, estimated ut 50;
total, S39f.o2. Debtor-11o bushels
of corn 1T 81 so, Sl65; cost of butch
ers, etc, $40; total, 10 Net profit,
S2i9.02.
BY putting little borax into cold
water. it will be found that ilannels
will not only come out better cleans
cd, but there will bc absolutely no
shrinkage.
\ cement, especially adapted for
sealing tin vessels containing ben
zoles, ETHEREAL oils, etc, Is prepared
by rubbing up finely ground lithrage
with concentrated glycerine. The
liquid cement is To be poured upon
the cork or stopper, or 1t may be APP
piled with brush.
The number of acres employed in
tobacco in 1867, throughout the coun
try, was 49i 1873. Thirty-two States
raised the weed, all except Maine,
Rhode Island and the Pacific States
aud Territories. There were Sl3, IA,
600 pounds produced, the value was
estimated at SOL PSI, i3l.
In the West, the large woodpecker |
is gone, but his work was to protect |
the forest trees, and the work is done. /
They also miss the turkey buzzard, I
but he is no longer wanted. as they /
transform their dead animals into |
fertilizers, that they may rise again !
IN the vegetable world.
THE CuLTIvATIoN OF HORSE
is nothing easier To 4
cultivate than Horse-Radish, and /
II should be found in every garden. /
The elaborate Instructions drawn
out which We have seen in some
journals, rs all bosh, or at least only
tends To deter people from rssing it.
All there is To do is to dig up bed
'ull spade deep, in rather low,
moist, place manure heavily rs
Tor any other garden crops. Slice
radish from the crown-two or three
inches down, each of course with a
piece of the crown, however small,
md plant two inches below the sur
ace, and IL soili come. For family
Use a bed ten feet square will furnish
enough all the time for generation,
without farther trouble err replant-
ng- This is ali.