Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-06-20
FARM. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
The Farm.

THE Poultry World thinks the hight
Brahama the best breed OF fowls.
A poRK-RArsER ont West says he is
convinced, by an experiment, that there
is an advantage of % per cent, IN grind
ing and cooking grain for swine.
ACCORDING to the Practical Farmer a
tablespoonful of ground salt sprinkled
on the surface Of each hill, before the
corn is up, Will prove sure death to the
cut worm.
\ WISCONSIN correspondent of the
Western Farmer says he finds it abso-
lutely necessary to hill early rose pota-
toes, while peachblows and pinkeyes
do best with level culture.
In an article urging the Importance
of forestry, the Western Rural express
es the opinion that by the time the
groves attain sufficient age to be valu-
able as timber, they will have paid for
themselves twice in the protection they
have afforded.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country
Gentleman has found that sowed corn,
when fed alone or almost exclusively
and continually to COWS, is not so valu
able as it has been generally consider
ed but grass and sowed corn are all
that could be desired.
ONE of the most money-making APP
ple-growers in Pennsylvania says his
success is owing to high culture. Be
fore planting his orchard, the ground
was thoroughly prepared and literally
manfred, and this system Is kept up,
so the ground is ut all times in good
heart.
IL potato culture, by covering the
surface of the ground with any coarse
mulch, large yield of good sized tn
bers is almost certain anywhere in the
Middle States, while without it n crop
is uncertain, especially in light soils.
Whether the mulch viii cost more than
the increase of crop is worth, depends
upon circumstances.
A CORRESPONDENT Of one of our ex-
changes says he feeds his stock a tea
spoonful of sulphur to each animal,
with their salt, once in two weeks.
when he has done so no vermin have
troubled them, and his dairy COWS have
not been affected with garget, nor his
SlttD Will Slub III lIlt utuis JIG Has
practiced this twenty years.
IT certainly pays to take n little
pains with young trees, for what is
there that is more remunerative than
an apple crop one year after another
Who among our readers would be will
ing to take IS per tree for an orchard
of young apple trees just coming into
"a ha ON "a ri of
apple trees, covering a lot of fifteen
acres, that we would not take from our
grounds for So, 200. Add five years
more to them and one will see what
they viii add to the land. 1t is the
strangest thing to see farmers owning
100 to 200 acres of land, with barely
enough apples to supply the family, or
perhaps, an orchard OF 100 to $50 trees,
occupying three or four acres of land
from which they realize more profit
than from any twenty acre field they
have, not planting more apples, on, af-
ter they do plant them, not giving
them the proper care. When will
farmers see this in its true light?
IT seems barely possible that the
dairymen may try to improve too eX-
tensively on old practices. at the Ell
gin butter factory, in Illinois, there
has been trouble, which has been trac-
ed to the too sudden cooling of milk
The practice of cooling as rapidly as
possible is not likely to continue popu-
lar if it results in no better yield than
one pound of butter and three pounds
of cheese from thirty six pounds of
milk. The fact Is the animal odor is
very volatile, and seems to pass away
rapidly enough under the natural man
ner OF cooling, and equally so whether
the milk has been set in shallow or
deep pans and when butter of the
choicest flavor and most perfect keep
ing qualities has been, and may still be
made under oldfashioned methods,
farmers can hardly be recommended to
change them for new appliances until
they are really shown to be improve
ments. While progressive men of all
occupations are on the lookout always
for advances and willing to study and
adopt the means by which advances
are attained, they are disposed to hold
fast that which is good and to let well
enough alone.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country
Gentleman says ''It is generally
thought best, so far as my knowledge
extends, to let dairy COWS 90 dry three,
or at least two months. Ny own ex.
fence would give three months as about
the best average length of time COWS
should go dry before dropping their
calves in spring and this find best,
without regard to the general health of
the animal or the amount of milk to be
produced the following or after seasons.
Cows that are MIXED too long, either
/ get thin In flneh and c,ivn hut httln