The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-02-23
Some, 8arm anb 8arnen.
TO MAKE COWS GIVE MILK.

Gu nllI Dy IflenQ Ii you desire u
get large yield of milk, give your COW
three times a day, water slightly warm
slightly sailed, in which bran has been stir
red atthe rate ofone quart to two gallons Of
water. You will find that your cow viii
gain twenty-five per cent. Immediately,
under the effects of it, and will become
so attached to the diet as to refuse to
drink clear water, unless very thirsty
but this mess she will drink almost at any
this drink is an ordinary water pail full
at each time, morning, noon, and night.
Your animal will then do her best at dis
counting the tactical.
HOW TO MAKE A FARMER POOR.
]. Not taking a good agricultural paper.
9 Keeping no account of home opera
tons Paying no attention to the maxim,
"A stitch in time saves nine" in regard
to the sowing of grain and planting of
seed at the proper season.
8. Leaving the reapers, ploughs, cult
vators, etc., uncovered from the rain and
heat of the sun. More money is lost in
this way than most people are willing to
believe.
4. Permitting broken i'm plements to be
scattered over the farm until they are ir-
repalable. One of the Seven Wise Men
of Greece said only this to prove his
sense 1.-THE time to mend tie plough
is when the plough Breaks
5. Attending auction sales aid purchas-
ing all kinds Of trumpery. because, in the
words of the vender, the articles are
very cheap"
6. Allowing fences to remain unrepair-
ed until strange cattle are found grazing
in your fields and bruising the fruit trees
7. Planting fruit trees with the expec-
tation of having fruit, without giving the
trees half the attention required to make
them produce.
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.
A crazy Connecticut farmer has built a
$4,000 hog pen, which is grained and
papered.
So great has been the demand upon
the Department of Agriculture from the
Northern and Western States, for gratis
of Russian apples lately sent from ST.
Petersburg, that the supply is nearly ex-
hausted.
On one half acre of corn ground, near
Edinburgh, Indiana, Hiram Porter rails
ed this year over five hundred large
pumpkins.
A Connecticut man writes to. the Con,-
try Gentleman that two applications of
salt water cleaned his hogs of ticks, with
which they were covered in the summer.
1t is best to handle calves and colts as
much as possible, pet them, lead them
with halter, and caress them in various
ways. Young stock managed in this way
will always be docile and suffer them
selves to be approached and handled
both in the pasture and in the barn.
The Massachusetts Ploughmau con-
dennis the plan of dumping manure in
little heaps, when hauled out in the fall,
for top dressing. 1t says if the manure
is allowed to lie so during the winter, it
will lose much of its value, and says it
ought to be spread in the fall. If not
done already, it thinks advantage should
be taken of the first thaw
A. hog sweats, not like horse or
man, but through his fore legs. There
is spot on each fore leg, just below the
knee, in the form of a sieve through
this the sweat passes off, and 1t is necesss
sary that this be kept open. If it gets
closed, as is smetimes the case, the hog
will get- sick To cure him, simply open
the pores. This is done by rubbing and
washingwith warm water.-Rural Horld.
According to u German author the
chick, at the moment Of escape from the
egg, weighs two-thirds as much as the
original egg. If, therefore, it is desira-
bic to have large and strong chicks it is
necessary to see that the heaviest eggs
are Matched. The average weight of hens
eggs may be estimated at about ten to
the pound some weigh considerably
more, and others much less than this pro
portion. By paius in selecting large eggs,
it will be possible, according to the usual
theory of selection for breeding, to secure
a race of chickens Of large size.
DOMESTIC RECEIPTS.
GLAZING for Linen. Add a teaspoon
full of salt, and one of finely scraped
white soap to pint of starch.
Rhode Island Broua Bread One
quart Indian meal, one pint rye -four, a
small cup of molasses, one tea spoonful
each of saleratus aud salt; with hot wa
ter thin it enough to pour, bake three
hours.
To Keep BEus Calico or La,cn from
Facing an ,unce of sugar Of lead
into pailful of cold water in this So
luton soak the material for two hours,
ana let it dry before being washed and
ironed. All shades of blue may thus be
kept from fading when washed.
To s sjien KID Boots. quarter
of pound of tallow, then pour it into
jar, and add to it the same weight of
olive oil, stir, and let it stand still ap-
ply small quantity occasionally with
piece of flannel. Sbo id the boots be
very dirty. cleanse with warm water It
will soften any leather.
Rronzino for Leniher-A small amount