Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-11-21

Gaining attentlon 10 the importance oil
sanitary regulations about the swine
folds. The disease would, no doubt.
entirely disappear before proper care
and feed, if these were generally EN-
ployed
/ How To PUT Down EGGs,t-I send YOU
receipt for putting down eggs that |
| have used to our satisfaction for over
twenty-five years. | never expect to
| find, nor do | wish for, a better one,
either in point of simplicity, economy,
or certainty. Take of good salt half a
pint, of unslaked lime piece the size
of a teacup. Put both in Il stone jar.
Pour into the jar two gallons of boiling
water. Let it stand until perfectly cold,
then put in your eggs. BE sure that
your eggs are all good. Care must be
taken not to crack any of them in put
ting them in, or they will spoil imme-
/ diately. The eggs must be entirely
covered with the brine, and kept in n
cool place. BE careful not TO have too
much salt, or the yolks may harden. |
have kept eggs in that way from Sep
TENDER until May, and used them for
/ the most delicate cake and omelet. A
/ friend in the commission business, in
making some changes in his store, found
n barrel in which there were Il few eggs
/ that had been overlooked, and had been
/ i'll a brine prepared in that way nearly
two years. He took them home, and
/ they were found To be perfectly sweet
and nice Cor. Detroit Tribune.
/ SAVING MANURE.-At the late Discus
/ sion Of farm topics ut the New York
State Fair farmer said 1--WE are
abusing our land, eXhausting it, and
raising poor crops. Perhaps we are rails
ing too much grain, and raising il in u
shiftless way. The great point, how
1 ever, is to husband our manure Super.
! phosphate is good, but it costs a good
deal. If you put in s. an acre in this
fertilizer, and get only ten bushels more
of oats or barley, where are you going
to find your pay for the work and all
/ the rest? Save the manure Save all
you can Half that is made is wasted,
or badly applied The cheapest pur-
Chased fertilizer is plaster, and farmers
/ should buy it by the ton. To allow
manure to waste by washing down into
streams to poison fish, he regarded rs n
! positive SIN Thesercmarks are sound
/ Farmers must make all the manure that
4 they possibly can, as they cannot de-
pend on commercial fertilizers Keep
as many swine as you can feed well, and
they will make Il great deal of very
powerful manure, if kept in PEN
where you throw in frequently load
or two of weeds, or anything YOU can
gather that will make manure Save
all of your hen manure, rs 1t is worth
rs much rs guano, when mixed with
soil, and so left two or three months
Another farmer spoke of narrowing
ground in the spring, sown the previous
fall To wheat or rye. Sometimes the
roller will break tire crust, and effect
the desired result to loosen the sur
face. He thought that the wheat crop
would be from five to ten bushels more
per acre if it should be narrowed at the
right time, or before rain. He said
there is no danger of hurting timothy
sown the previous autumn by harrow
ing in the spring, but like the wheat it
would be benefited by the operation.
SIZE OF POULTRY NARDs. The num-
Der of fowls which can be kept in a
given poultry yard depends almost en-
tircly upon the kind and amount of
supplies which are carried to them
while in said inclosurc. A hen can
take great many steps, and do a vast
deal of scratching on Il moderate space
Of ground, and the sooner people learn
that they cannot raise the grass for
forage, or the insects To supply animal
food in their poultry yards, the sooner
will many begin 10 accomplish good
results who are now making failures in
the business. When one moves into a
tenement, ever SO cOmmOdious and
comfortable, he will live but poorly if
he neglects to carry IN the barrel Of
flour and ct ceteras, as often as needed
So, when you have put your poultry
into the best house and yard possible
to provide for them, remember any
thing they need to eat must be supplied
or disaster viii be the GROWING result
Of all your efforts. Our correspondence
contains many letters every year asking
how many hens may be kept on half
acre or quarter-acre OF ground, as
though the poultry yard was to sup
port the fowls in the sense that a sheep
pasture supports the sheep, Bat this
is not So They are simply place for
exercise, air, and sun, like the play
ground of school. There is little to
be found, even in a large yard. that
fowls can eat, and large yard is about
on a par with a small one Fifteen or
twenty hens will soon kill all the grass
Of the better species suitable for their
eating, in yard containing one-eighth
of an acre, and flock twice AS large
will eradicate all but the coarser grasses
unnn q nllarter Of an acre Il they ARG