River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-01-24
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
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IL the droppings 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 tie soil is fast becom.
ing a science, and one that is OF more value
to mankind than any other.
The increased price of the great agricul.
tural staples, does not keep pace with the
increased cost of production.
MODERN fowls show the result of per.
sistent effort toward improvement as
much 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
es be met with.
The driver Of a grocery cart who let
basket of eggs fall, says that "truth
squashed to earth may git 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 far 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 a week for the last two months,
recently increasing to between 10000 and
1900.
PROFIT in 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
81 to 96 per cent. ofwater, and most other
fruits nearly the same. Grapes contain
nearly twice as much sugar as apples,
more than twice as much as currants,
three times as much as raspberries, FIVE or
six times as much of apricots and peaches
FEED more gross! These three words
contain and explain the entire theory of
that practice by which any one can make
hog distinguishing the cholera-ls pro-
htable as the raising ofany other kind OF
stock, 1t 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
soil is a spirit Of industry, enterprise and
intelligence, and without these no man can
be successful. believe that a man who
is not smart enough to enter the CONNER
cial world, is not smart enough to run a
farm.
JOSEPH HARRIS claims that he can make
cheaper pork out of late fall pigs than
out CT spring pigs. If well wIntered, be-
ing young, they will consume but little,
they will keep tat on clover during the
summer, and 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. BUCHANAN reports to an English
farmers club that in a pint of Italian rye
grass seeds he had examined, he found
7,O4O seeds of weeds; from u pint of NIX
ed grass he took out S,4O6, from pint Of
Dutch (whitel 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
ofa. horses age After horse is nine years
DID,. q wrinkle comes over his eyeiid, at
the upper corner of the lower lid, anS
every year thereafter he has one we'll de-
fined wrinkle for each year Of his age over
nine. Il for instance, horse has three
wrinkles. he Is twelve years old.
AcooRDNc to newspaper gossip, there
lisa mare in the city Of Troy. N. ", which
IL fond Of lager beer. She answers to the
homely name Of Nance, can speed a 2: 40
gait but has become so partial to the
foaming malt that she has ceased to be
useful. Whenever she comes in sight of
q tavern sign she feigns sicki ess, and no
amount fwhipping will force 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
% her way as jolly as Teuton.