Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-09-01
Agricultural.
FARM. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
TIE Southern papers promise cotton

A CORRESPONDENT VI VIC wv 'lhn'o" IA
Telegraph who lost seventy chickens by
gapes last year, now says that fresh water
dailv, with a lump of roll birthstone kept
in il, W be found certain preventive.
THE Spaniards have maxim that man
is ungratefll to the past generation that
.,onted the tree from which he eats fruit,
ana ,aeals upiustly toward the next gener-
alton, unless he plants the seed that itmay
furnish fruit tor those who come after
him.
THE official returns Just received Of the
Bureau OF Statistics SHOVE that the total
value of condensed milk exported from the
port of New York in the year 1869, was
$79 $50, of which S2l $40 went to England,
ga 800 to Australia, $9,404 TO the United
States OF Columbus, $9,176 to China, Ss,-
JIG TO Brazil. SIS, 0S7 TO Cuba, S3,O93 to the
British West Indies, and 81, 757 to the Dan
ish West Indies.
DELICIOUS DRESSING FOR ROAST Fowls. -
Spread pieces of stale but tender wheaton
bread literally with butter, and season
rather high with salt and pepper working
them into the butter; then dip the bre y.
in wine, and use it in as large pieces as is
convenient to stuff the bird, The delicious
flavor which the WINE gives is very peno-
trating, and it gives the fowl itch gamy
charact n, which is very pleasant
A PROFITABLE Sow. Mr. II. G. Pease of
East VIVA ely, Mass, has a SOW that ne
bought in December, when three months
old Tor nine dollars, In September, 1869,
she raised q litter of ten pigs which he sold
for S. each, amounting to $50. The next
January she had litter OF fifteen pigs and
raised ten of them. Nine of them he has
sold fox S54, and has one left, now nice
shoat The 25th Of July Just passed she
had litter OF sixteen, six OF which he has
given away to be raised by hand, and ten
are left with the SOW, now all doing well.
The result thus tar is a clean cash income
o. sl04, and nice shoa, and the sixteen
pigs yet to be heard from.
VIRGIN SOILS IN THE SOUTH. The South
has an immense area Of pew lands yet I'M
touched by the piow, AID from this soil
will arise wealth grandeur and power
new to those states. The amount Of gov
erumeut lands in acres in the cotton states
is put down as follows; Alabama still has
" lJUj IJu, NlihnlAhlpgi' H'o-NBVNv. i~'uAHA"
ana, G,5S2, S41; Arkansas, 1854 43O;
Florida, l7425, 43S; whilst Texas has over
10000, 0G0, belonging % herself The
homestead and preemption laws Of the
United States afford an easy means to the
immigrant OF becoming at once thrifty
farmer in any of the states where the pub
lie lands are still unsold.
LARGE EGos-The Greensburg Ind
Standard says Mr.. John Glllibrand, vino
resides near Millhousen, in this county,
brought to this Office Monday, three hen
eggs weighing ten ounces, which is equiva-
lent TO two and one.half pounds per dozen,
The longitudinal circumference Of the
la gest one was eiglt and one.haif inches.
Its transverse circumference was six and
one-half inches. The hen that leyed them
was cross OF Shanghai ana Bramah. A
Minnesota paper crows over an egg which
was brought to that Office, the two circum-
teras Of which were eight and SIX and one
fourth inches; tho weight being four
ounces. The hen which laid it, produced
thirteen eggs ia succession, weQhing Q
ounces each, or tive aud quarter pounds
~ tra aggregate,
Sailing Allrh Cows.
In Switzerland the COWS are sailed early
every morning, and i; fed in tle stable the
salt Is given before lodaerjag. BY sailing
IN this way their appetite is improved, they
dllnk With more regularity, keep in better
health, and give more milk, than when
ea.tet m he usual way, as pracuced by
dairymen IN America. The Swiss dairy
men think il very injurious TO salt milcE
cows only once Of twice week, as they
would lick too much salt at one time, and
drink too much water for the day; they
consider that stock In order to do we'll
must DO ted with regularity every day
alike, and never given too much Of any
thing at one time,
To Make Cows Give MIX,
The agricultural editor of the Beekeep-
ers' journal vouchos tor the following,
handed him by friend;
III you desire to get large yield Of
milk, give your cow three times a day,
water, slightly warm, slightly sailed, in
which bran has been stirred at tue rate Of
one quar-. to Two gallons Of water You
will fnl that your COW will gain % per
cent Immediately under the effects Of it.,
and she will become so attached TO the
diet as 10 refuse to drink clear water, uu-
less very thirsty; but this mess she will
drink almost q. any time, and ask for
more. The amount Of this drink is au or
dinaiy water. pailtul at each time-uoru-
ing, noon and night. Your animal will
then 30 her best at discoua.lng the tactical
fluid.
TO Put mp Green Corn.
aim q true lover Of green corn, and |
keep it from one years end TO the other
aud have it brought TO my table a, any
time when the notion takes me, as fresh
and good as when first aiken from the
patch. Here is thewsy / work II,
have the corn shaved from the cob and
packed away in common stone jar, with
salt in alternate layers, 4 layer OF corn
say AZ inch thick followed 10y q layer OF
salt sufficient to cover il, and 30 on till the
lar is filled Pieces of boards are then
fitted over 1t, and stone laid on to weigh
il down; for pickle will soon rise, aul
oil the corn must be kent beneath the sur
face Cloth or paper is next tied over the
mouth of the jar 10 keep out dust-and
tIn. Is all NJ ~