The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-12-07

ground they occupy.-Cor Country Gen.
| ttemGn.
GATHER Up THE LEAvEs--Aianv are ant
to consider the dying leaves ofthc autumn
| as possessed of little substance. This Is
| erroneous; they contain not only we're
! table matter, but potash, lime, and eartbv
salts, which are all required for the
growth OF the crops of the next summer.
Nature enrlches her soil, year after wear.
| IN the great unbroken forests, by the de-
composition of these leaves, and it seems
hardly possible that any rejecting farmer
or hortIculturlst can allow them 10 he
swept away by every wind that blows
and tnally lost altogether. lin orchards
the leaves ofeach tree should be collected
ana be placed under the soil about the
roots, they would provide, in the cheapest
manner, the best possible food for each
tree. Pear, apple, peach and cherry
trees would be greatly benefited bv this
SIMPLE process. 1t ia said that certain
vineyards of France and Italy are kept in
the highest condition by simply buryin~
at their roots every leaf and branch q
tails or is pruned from the viz =. that
close OF the season. 1t i0 --ss at the
fact that no manu- - E well-known
sought after bv . 81 is more eagerly
enters lar florists than leaf mold it
CONN" -sely into the preparation of
i, svst for potting house plants. They
are most excellent absorbents for horse
stalls, and ii they are gathered perfectly
dry and kept so until used, they impart to
manure dark, brittle character, which
improves 1t for any use and makes it I'M
surpassed for a top dressing for garden
purposes. a litter of leaves is also more
manageable than the usual one of straw,
as it can be renewed without the necessity
OF cleaning out the stall more then two or
three times a week, as the leaves absorb
the ammonia rapidly, ind can be more
readily incorporated with the manure, by
beng trodden and worked over in the
stall, than If removed daily. They are
especially recommended for hot beds, mix
ing the dry leaves with the horse manure ;
and there is no better ingredient for in
creasing the strength of WORKOUT gardens.
-Country Gentleman.
| KEEPING BUTTER-Mr. Charles White,
OF Whites Station, Mich, has devised a
method for packing butter to keep for
long periods, which he claims has proved
entirely successful. His plan consists in
putting the butter in sack fitted to a
peculiar shaped tub and so arranged that
when the packing is completed and the
tub turned so as to rest on the large end
the butter will drop down an inch or so,
| leaving clear space between the tub and
! the butter. Strong brine Is now poured
| through hole IN the small end of the
tub, to fill this completely The Urine
floats the butter and wholly surrounds it.,
excluding the air. The oriice Ia then
closed up and the butter set away in a
cool place. Butter packed In this way
has been found fresh and good at the end
often months
PLANTS IN StEEPING RooMs.-Sad con
sequences have followed from sleeping in
close apartments in which potted plants
were kept. Very many in warm family
rooms, not very frequently ventilated, may
seriously inlure persons Of delicate or
GanIzatlon-especiGlly predisposed to pull
monary affections or bronchial irritability.
All vegetables throw off oxygen-an ele-
ment that supports life through the day,
but that function is suspended through the
night While. exhaling oxygen FROM one
SIDE OF loaf, the other imbibes carbonic
acid gas--which is preiudical to life, and
the solid part OF stalk stem and wood are
formed from IT. But while sleeping, as
the whole vegetable kingdom does,
through the night, the absorption of that
deleterious gas is partially suspended,
though it collects about them by 7irtue OF
law not very we'll understood 1t is
that accumulation III room, the inhala-
, ton Of which into human lungs is so in
furious. Therefore it is always on the
safe side not to keep towering or any
other pot plants either in dormtories or
close family drawing rooms,
EXPERIMENTING WITH HENs.-In the
Poultry World, Isaac Lynde, of Ohio,
gives the result of an experiment with
different breeds Cf pullets III laying for six
months, and the cost of their feed On
of the breeds mentioned below, about SIX
months old, gave them yard forty feet
| square, with a comfortable house, and
kept an exact account of eggs and feed, as
follows: The dark Brahmas ate three
/ hundred and sixty-nin and one-half quarts
of corn, oats and wheat screenings, lid
six hundred and five eggs and weighed
seventy pounds. The buff Cochins ate
four hundred and six quarts, laid five
| hundred and ninety-one eggs, and weighed
seventy-three pounds. The grey Dorkings
ate four hundred and nine and one-half
quarts, laid five hundred and twcnty-four
eggs, and weighed fifty-nino and a half
pounds. The lIoEdans ate two hundred
and fourteen and one tourth quarts, laid
seven hundred and eighty-thrce eggs, and
weighed forty-iive and half pounds. The
| Leghorns ate two hundred aud thirty-one
and a half quarss. laid eight hundred and
seven eggs. and weighed thirty-Six and
a half pounds. TO make this experiment
more complete, and to show which lot
gave the most profit, including both eggs
and flesh, we have supposed the fowls to be
dressed and sold at the end of six months
at 20 cents per pound also that the eggs
were worth "a Giants per dozen two cents
cach), and that the cost of the feed was
. cents per quart, or 80 cents per pushed.
| The figures would then be:
Cost OF Value Value Total Total
| feed. eggs meat. value. profit
Brahmas IS Q D. sl2 10 sl4 90 SIS 10 sl6 SO
Cochins 49,. 10 Is ii 81 II 50 % AZ l6 q
Dorkings,... - 10 As II 80 - IS IA OC
Houdsns 49,. s. Is &c go "a rs ~ a
Leghorns y. ST 16 IA I 80 % Al II 81
,xrn,.,.. ,,r,E, 90, a., =,