Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-01-23
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


II the dropprngs of cattle in pastures are
spread out, their value is increased three
fold.
THE farmer who plsws deep, manures
literally and keeps down weeds will pros
per.
The cultivation of tire soil is fast beeom-
ing science, and one that is OF more value
to mankind than any other.
The increased price of the great agr;cul-
tural staples, does not keep pace with the
increased cost reproduction.
MODERN fowls show the result of per-
sistent effort toward Improvement rs
mach as the present races of cattle, sheep
or swine.
WE should bear in mind the fact, that
while sudden wealth is rarely acquired IN
farming, neither will great or sudden loss
Is be met with.
The driver of q grocery cart who let a
basket of eggs fall, says that truth
squashed to earth may cit up and git, but
he'll be darned if eggs will.
ONE hundred Merino sheep, with plenty
of bedding, will, during the ordinary feed
ing time in winter, produce about forty
two-horse wagon loads of manure, which
is FIR more valuable as fertilizer than
that Of either horses or COWS.
We are now exporting apples to Flu.
rope. The shipments from New York
have been between 1000 and 5000. bar
rels week for the last two months,
recently increasing 10 between 10000 and
81 1900.
PROFIT IL keeping stock comes from the
food digested and assimiiated in excess of
what is required TO support vitality, and
the more we can get single animal to
digest and assimilate, and therefore con.
vert into the desired product, the greater
the profit
APPLES, pears and peaches contain from
s. to sc per cent of water, and most other
fruits nearly the same. Grapes contain
nearly twice as much sugar as apples,
mere than twice as much as currants,
three times as much as raspberries, FIVE or
six times as much Of apricots and peaches
Il FEED more gross! These three words
contain and explain the entire theory of
that practice by which any one can make
Z hog misunderstanding the cholera-as pro-
d fitabe as the raising ofany other kind of
stock, if not more so, on account of their
ready sale in any market every year.
A correspondent Of the New York Tri-
bune holds these excellent articles of
faith | believe the best fertilizer of any
sol is spirit Of industry, enterprise aud
Intelligence, and without these no man can
be successful. believe that man who
is not smart enough to enter the CONNER
cial world, is not smart enough to run "a
farm.
JOSEPH HERS claims that he can make
cheaper pork out Of late fall pigs than
out CT spring pigs. If well wlntered, be-
ing young, they will consume but little,
they will keep tat On clover during the
summer, and u very little corn in the fall
will make them ready for market. His
plan is to give young pigs all the cooked
corn-meal they will eat until four months
old
PROF. BuCKEAE reports to an English
farmers club that in pint of Italiah rye
grass seeds he had examined, he found
7,o4Q seeds Of weeds: from a pint of mix
ed grass he took out S,406. from pint Of
Dutch white clover seed 1900. All these
seeds were Of plants of an injurious or
troublesome character, many of them de-
cidedly POISONOUS.
THE following Is said TO he a sure test
OF a horses age, After horse is nine years
Old, a wrinkle comes over his eveiid. IA
the upper corner Of the lower lid, and
every year thereafter he has one well de-
fined wrinkle for each year of his age over
nine. If for instance, horse has three
wrinkles he Is twelve years old.
ACCORDING to newspaper gossip, there
! mare IN the city Of Troy. n. Y, which
i fond of lager beer She answers to the
homely name Of Nance, can speed , 40
gait but has become so partial to the
foaming malt that she has ceased to be
useful. Whenever she comes in sight. of
& tavern sign she feigns Sikh esS, and no
amount OF whipping viii for &c her to move
until pail Of beer is placed before her
and she is permitted to drink. After
drinking she pricks up her ears and goes
b. her way Is oily as Teuion.