The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-07-13
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD,
The Farm.

full remedies for bots in horses, IS a
strong decoctlon of sage tea, made very
sweet
SUEL FOSTER thinks there are few
branches of business which would pay
better III Iowa than osier- raising and
basket making.
IT has been thoroughly tested and
found than one load of manure kept
from the open air under cover is worth
two loads that have been exposed to
rain and sun.
g ONE who knows = makes it a point
TO select COW with yellow skin. One
whose skin is pale or colorless j. not,
he says, half so likely to produce good
butter
HoE frequently around newly plant
ed trees. 1t is better than mulching
with any material, as the fresh stirred
soil admits air, light and heat, and alb
serbs the dews Of every night.
ONE of the most important principles
established by Llebig is rotation of am
monla-collecting with ammonia-dis-
perslng crops--that is, root and green
crops alternating with cereals.
4 SMALL or moderate-sized tree at
the transplanting Will usually be a large
bearing tree sooner than a large tree set
out at the same time, and which IS nee
essarily checked in growth by removal.
A CORRESPONDENCE Of Moore's Rural kept
II calves III stranchions one winter, and
found their horns c standing in all di-
Yectlons. Now he either ties them
with a rope or lets them go loose in the
pen.
For covering outbuildings OF heaps
of stones or nnsightly objects of any
sort, plant Wisteria honeysuckle, Gle
mats, or a Clinton grape In the alb
sence of these, the common cypress,
morning glory, or the wild hop-viue
answer a good purpose.
4 CoRREsPoNDENTo of the Western Rural
says if fence posts of any kind of tim,
Der are covered with a coat of boiled
iinseed oil, in which pulverized char
coal has been stirred to the thickness
of paint, mot a man VIII live long
enough to see them rotten.
STIRRING the soil frequently with an
iron rake, about all garden crops, can
not be too strongly urged Let 1T be
done frequently and well. Two
thorough STRINGS are as good as one
rain, and when the rain comes the
soil is In the best possible condition to
receive 1T.
THE st. Joseph Herald, speaking for
the Michigan trnit region, states that
experiences of last year fully demon
strated that even plums may be saved
from curculio by the Ransom plan, the
Earring process, and carefully gathering
all the specimens that permaturely fail
TO the ground.
The Illinois Horticultural Society re
commend quassla as the best medicine
for the insects that mutllate rose
bushes and many other garden shrubs.
Make a strong tea of quassia bark-it
costs 10 or II cents pound wholesale
and drench the bushes The little
pests will not fancy the taste any better
than sick children do.
\ PRACTICAL writer SAYS that when
working hard IN warm weather, horses
should be watered more than three
times'a day 1t is claimed that a horse
should sweat freely in order to work
freely, and that water tends to produce
this If there Is absence of moisture
in the system, 1t Is positive proof that
the horse needs water. If working hard,
and he does not sweat.
IL the publications of the Acclimati-
zation Society of palermo, we are IN
formed that radishes may be obtained
at any season, and very quickly, IL the
following manner: The seeds are to
be first soaked for twentv-four hours,
and then placed in bags and composed
to the sun. They will begin to ger
inmate III about twenty-tour hours,
and are then to be set IN Il box filled
with we'll MANFRED earth, and moiSten-
ed from time to time IN luke-warm
water In five or SIX days the radIshes
viii attain the size of small onion. To
grow radishes IN the winter the box Is
to be placed III a warm cellar, covered
with a top and the earth molstened
from day to day with lukewarm water.
THE record of experimental eXper-
fence goes to show that dustlng the
vines or tops of potato plants with plas-
ter. from time To time during the sea-
son. increases the yield fully double.
The best of recorded results have been
when the first busting was rs soon as
the vines were four inches nigh. again
when double that height, and again
Just at blosSoming time. Our own re
suits with pototo growing have been to
sprinkle a little plaster and fine bone
meal in the hill Mt planting, and then
we have practlced only one busting of
the tops at about blooming time.