Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-10-07
AGkIcUL1URAL AND. DOMESTIC.

AGRICULTURAL AND. DOMESTIC.
The best way to catch hawks or owls
is to set up high pole with steel trap.
| on the top. The birds often alight direct
ly in the trap. LIZA
There is said to be no cure for con-
tracted ho0f resulting from laminitis or
fever Of the feet, otherwise known as
founder" The change is in the struct
ure Of the hoof and therefore beyond
! remedy. ! 't
Butter Cakes.-Take one-half a tin
cupful of melted gbutter, two cupfuls of
sugar, five eggs, one teaspoonful Of soda,
and -four enough to roll Cut with cake
cutter and put in dripping-pan. Bake
in a pretty quick oven.
Cider may be preserved sweet for
years by putting it UP in alright cans,
after the manner of preserving fruit. The
| liquor should be first settled and racked
Oft from the dregs, but fermentaHon should
not be allowed to commence before can
ning.-Sctentitc american. .
All farm machinery should receive
two good coats of paint whenever il has
been sufficiently exposed to cause the
paint to scale off and lose its glossy APP
pearance. A few quarts of the prepared
article Is economical, and will go long
wayin protecting machinery during the
exposed period and there is no doubt that
when unprotected by paint when in use
and by shelter when moi. in use more in
Jury is done than by ordinary wear
agricultural Exchange - ~
| r-Windgalls are the result of intlamma-
| ton of the sheaths of the tendOns, by
which is caused an excessive secretion of
the synodial fluid. The inflammation is
| generally caused by over eXertion, sprains
or strains in driving or drawing. They
cannot be permanently removed when
once they are formed They may be tenn
porarily removed by pressure and cold
bandages, or by careful blistering but as
they return on the first occasion of extra
exertion the treatment is scarcely worth
whitley. Y. Herald.
Green Tomato Pie-Take about half
dozen of tomatoes about the size Of a
walnut in the hull; wash them, if you
want clean pies, slice them in dish and
pour half tcacupfi1l Of sharp vinegar
over them and let them sit until you want
to make your pies; put in one layer OF TO-
matoes, then strew a little flour over them
and pinch of cinnamon and sugar, and
put tablespoonful Of molasses to each
! pie if have it; and about a half teacup-
ftll of water to each pie. Try them.
Some of our folks think there is no bet
ter pie than good tomato pie.-Cor. Gin.
Times.
The results of single top-dressing on
eight plots OF nearly half an acre each OF
sandy, warm soil of our State Agricultural
College farm exhibited the following
facts at the end of three years; The top
dressing was applied in 1864 and the
grass was cut twice each season in 1864
and 1860 and once in 1866 The produce
of each cutting and of each lot was
weighed separately and a perfect record
kept The results for the four seasons
were as follows: On the plot TO which
no manure or fertilizer was applied the
total weight OF hay yielded per acre was
$40 pounds. Where two bushels Of
plaster per acre were applied the yield pei
acre was Ii, 226 pounds, a gain of 4 ,4S4
pounds Where five bushels of wood
ashes were applied the yield per acre was
II 80, pounds, a gain of A, l65 pounds
Where three bushels ofsat were sown pei
acre the yield was IS, 800 pounds, Il gair
PEI acre of 5,22I pounds. Where twenty
loads OF muck per acre were laid on the
yield per acre was 1886 pounds, a gair
of SOFA pounds Where twenty loads o
horse manure were laid on the yield was
1t 6S6 pounds, gain of 6,224 pounds
These are results which Indicate tina
there are fertilizers which will produce a!
good results rs plaster. For instance, tn,
plaster yielded a gain OF 81 per cent
while the horse manure gave an lncreas'
of II per cent, or nearly IA ton more gras
per acre in the three years.-Mtehtga,
tNrMer.