The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-02-15
AGRICULTURAL.
Farm and Gnrden Notes.

Farm and Garden Notes.
THERE ale over 100, 600 COWS In the
state of Vermont, yielding an income
of IS, 533, 500.
4 WRITER In the Horticulturist buvs
bones of the butcher at 81 per 100
pounds, and considers them the cheap.
est fertilizer he can obtain. He trans
forms them tnto meal by the usual
process of packing in moist ashes. al
ternate layers OF each, allowing them
to remain there one year, when they
will be thoroughly decomposed
AN intelligent farmer In Ireland gives
the following as the respective auanti-
ties OF roots consumed by the different
classes of stock on his premises Stall
fed, y to tons per head store cattle.
to tons per head fattening sheep.
10 to II cwt. per head other sheep,
10 to Is cWt. per head. OF course this
IS meant seasons feeding.
MILToN CRAMNER, Of Bath. Mich
performed IA days work on the 10Th
nit, which, it is claimed, exceeds any,
thing on record After cooking break
fast, dinner and supper for six men,
and grinding down two axes, he cnt
down the timber, lined, scored and
heWed seventy-tiye ties. One hundred
ties is claimed good days work for
three men
". A. JAMES, of the Northteld
Mimi Cheese Factory, sends the fol-
lowing report to the Western Farmer.
In four and one-thlrd months this wear
from $50 cows 285, TT pounds Of milk
were received, from which &C. SOD
pounds of cheese were made, which
sold Ia st. Paul, Minneapolis. and
Chicago, at an average of eleven cents
per pound, net. The patrons kept the
Sundays milk at home.
CORRESPONDENT OF the Scientific
American states that butter, as we
know twas not III use before the-eom-
meneement ct the Christian era It
was then used as cosmetic or hair
dressing by women. For some centu.
mes later II was used as a burning oil
Tor lamps, Ind churches were lighted
with 1t III france ut so late period as
the year 1900. Since then it NAV be
considered as an article food solely.
sJoME gardeners and agriculture,
writer's lay much stress on the value of
forest leaves as n fertilizer. DIR. Mich
OILS OF the Boston Journal cf Chemistry
says that, reckoning good stable ma
hure at IS n cord a cord of dried leaves
3about 400 bushels he makes it, Is
worth about 30 cents. They are of
5soroe value as an absorbent in stables,
hnt less So than straw, and they lack
It's ready character aud decompose far
more slowly. This will doubtless sur
prise some readers, but it is probably
correct.
THE new stock law of Iowa is as fol
lows "FrCm and after the first day
Of October, 1872, every owner of swine
or sheep shall restrain the same from
running at large, and III the event Of q
failure to do so shall he liable for any
damage done 10y SAID swine or sheep,
to he recovered by action hv the party
injured against any person owning sair
stock, and al damages and cesis re-
covered under the provisions of this act
shall be lien on oil stock committing
such damage
CORRESPONDENT of the Main,
Farmer declares that he "has prove,
10y actual experiment that one hundre,
weight oi good hay Is equal to tishe
oi corn, and, consequently, that ma,
makes mistake who sells ton of ha,
Tor less than TIE value OF twenty huab
els OF corn III the same market Yer,
much would depend upon the qualit,
OF the hay as to its value for food com
pared with corn. There is q good dea
ct hay sold about New York city a
more shan the price of twenty bushels
9t corn, which IS not worth half a!
much
DURING a recent discussion in Eng
9anf u was stated that the most sue
ceastul lines of short horns were thos
IN which one animal was the sire o
the dam also, thus making the parent
half brother and sister by the sam,
sire, out of different dams. This sys
tenn OF breeding had produced some o
the finest cattle in the country. |
was also said that where cattle wer,
closely inbred and preserved their con
stltuuons they had tendency TO los,
color, save, perhaps, in the ears, and t,
become white.