Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-07-11
FARM. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


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enough to form kind of paste. Foa
the purpose of a disinfectant, this
I homemade chloride of lime is nearly
as good as that purchased at the shops
and drug stores. Use IL freely about
sinks, cellars, cutters and ont houses,
and, in this way, prevent sickness, sui
fering and expense.
GIVE the horses some-hreen clover at
noon, and cut it with horse.rake. 1t
is little trouble, and as hay Is scarce
and high, it will pay. 1t Is a great
mistake to suppose that horses Will not
eat hay if they are allowed any green
food. We have an object III advising
YOU TO cut it with the machine. You
will then have your machine III readi-
ness for haylng.
DR.. Nichols advises the following
test for kerosene: FIJI pint bowl two
thirds full of boiling water. put into it
a common metallic thermometer. The
temperature viii run mp to over 200
degrees. BY gradually adding cold
water, bring down the temperature of
the water to 100 degrees, and theI pour
into the bowl spOOoml of the kero-
sene, and apply lighted match. If it
takes fire, the article should be reject
ed as dangerous; If not, it may be used
with a confident feeling Of It's safety.
NovICEs commonly allow weeds to
get several inches high before they
think of clearing them out and des-
troying them. Now, the great secret
of cheap and successful culture Is to
kin all weeds before they come up.
Go over the bare surface of the earth
as often as once a week, and pulverlze
it thoroughly with rake or sklm-hoe.
/ This will XIII every weed Just as it is
starting, with less than one-tenth the
labor re luired to kill them when sever
al inches high. Do it often aud thor
oughly.
PROF. H. T.. CoLToR, In reply to an
. inquiry az to the means of preserving
timber, told the Farmers Club that
most Of the patent methods were inn
practicable in a small way, on account
of the heavy machinery necessary.
! The best method for common use was
to thoroughly season the timber, and
! then coat it with coal-tar or crude pc
! troleum, CT common pine-tar, put ON
/ hot. This kept ont worms, and mois-
I ture, which were the most destructive
agents to timber.
I Ar this season grass is often too sue
culent There is not nutrlment enough
/ in it in proportion to bulk, And it
Will generally pay to give the COWS in
the yard some hay to eat during the
night, ana little cut feed-say on
peck of hay and two quarts of fine
middlugs-th first thing III the morn
4 ing. A good COW ut this season gives u
generous flow of milk. and it Is mwise
not to supply her with all the food she
can digest.
+ PUMPKINS, as food for stock. find fa.
vor with correspondent of the Maine
Farmer, Last year he took twenty OK
cart loads from IN acre of land, which
also yielded ut the same time a crop of
corn He feed his sheep upon them
for two months, and this materially
helped to fatten forty, which he sold in
the fall for mutton, and forty more
which went into winter quarters. Civ
en- to cattle, they saved vast amount
of feed" What pumpkins were left
were cut up, placed III the dry-house,
and afterward soaked in milk for swine.
The Kansas Farmer alludes to the
1 bad policy OF hurrylng grain to market
when prices are low. The remedy lies
in keeping live stock. For the most
part. Western farmers must come to
this gradually. Add COW, pig, q
calf as You can. Raise some root crops,
without diminishing the size OF your
grain fields, and see that each year
your herds and your hocks are larger
than the year before. An extra supply
of garden vegetables can often be ex-
changed for some kind of young stock
from the people in town This is one
way to grow into stock farming.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country
Gentleman writes "The time has ar
rived when more attention has to be
paid to permanent pastures and NOW
ings. Whenever blue grass or other
thoroughly established thickest green's
ward is broken mp from its first natural
set 1t Will never become SO good again
under any management in vogue III the
United States In Kentucky, the home
) of the blue grass, the pillow forever de-
stroys the ricn and fattenlng verdure
and though those who have desplated
a blue grass region may make state
ments t. the contrary, afterward no
one can exhibit the same living. healthy,
mattered turf that existed before the
pillow destroyed the natural sward. 1t
is so with all good, permanent grass
: land, the varieties growing consisting
of the best native and other perpetual
grasses.
A PEACH-GRowER who "can show
good healthy trees that are twenty
three years old. of the Old Nixon, Old
Nixon Cling, Stump, the World, Early
York, Hayworth, and some others, and