The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-03-15
FARM IND HOME.
Farm .RdEiRJS.

s. A FARMER to do well with hogs had
better not aim at the highest breed. A
half breed SOW and half-breed boar is
quite breed enough"
MANY colts and calves are suffering
froth fertnit. AZ ointment of lard and
sulphuf, rubbed along the spine, neck
and inside the thighs Of calves aid colts,
will BE beneficial.
For colts and calves which have poor
appetites, or are apparently not thriving
as they should, have a bushel Of corn,
and like quantity of oats or barley
ground, and then mix with bushel OF
oil-cake meal, and feed quart per day,
and it will give them appetite, yigor and
growth.
PREPARE this sprihg for an asparagus
bed. If yoti do not like it, OF if you
know nothing about it, cultivate and ed
ucate yourself and family to eat it. 1t is
important that every family should use
it, whether they like it or not. Do not
let your stupidity deprive your family
any longer OF this early spring health
invigorating vegetable.
Rules fc,. Success in Farming.
l. Never purchase land on credit, un-
less it be in a new coilntry Where it is
certain to enhance in value rapidly.
2. Keep no more live stock of any kind
than you can keep in good condition.
3. Never allow your stock to suffer
from cold, by housing them in open,
| rickety buildings. Remember that warm,
comfortable stables ale a saving Of one
quarter of the feed that otherwise would
be required
f. If your farm is so large that you
cannot cultivate Ill Of it TO advantage;
nor keep good fences on it, sell d part,
and put the money out at interest. You
may depend that by so doing you will
save great deal of care and trouble,
and lake money faster than by skim-
ming over large surface to get poor
crops, and those half destroyed by un-
ruly cattle breaking over your dilapida-
ted fences
5. Look well to your orchard, and re-
member that it costs nd n1ofe td t5+sduce
apples that sell for fifty cents bushel
than it does those that sell for twelve
and a half cents.
g. Keep none but the best nipple
ments that can be produced, and when
you possess them ta,ise care of them. It
ia al.<sc1.naa td eord farmer to see
his neighbors leaving theft fiawSs and
harrows in the field, week after week,
to soak in the rains and crack in the
sun.
7: Never suffer yourself to be unpro-
fidea #ith suitable work for yottrself and
hands on rainy day. A commodiolis
workshop is necessary on such days,
and plenty eff good tools. In such
cases a good farmer will never lack for
Notk: Mitch 1tio1iey ntay be thus saved
that otherwise would go % the Wheel
wright.
8. Never borrow tools, unless it be in
some unforeseen contingency. Every
farmer should own every kind of imple-
ment necessary on his farm.
o. Nefer put off till th-1llorrow what
may as well be done to-day.
10. Do all your work well. What is
worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
H. Don't try to make merchants, law
of
cons. becahae The fatifters vocation is
without honor Gen. Washington was
not ashamed of being farmer, and you
are no better than he was
II. The soil must, like the horse or
the OK, be fed, in order to give forth
abundantly, and it must have rest. A
iudic;ous rotation of crops is the grand
secret of prosperous farming.
"a. The mannre heap is an important
consideration with the farmer It should
be increased by all substances that are
easily procured, of decaying nature.
Remember that ammonia is the essence
the life of all manures, and that plas-
UCI ttDoOl 10 d1ld IL Il1C
while lime sets it free and causes it to
escape. Carting manure to the field,
and leaving it in heaps for months OF
weeks before it is spread and plowed
under, is but one step short of insanity.
It should be carted out no faster than it
can be spread and plowed under.
IA. Never leave your hired hands to
work alone. Be present with them,
even if you do nothing but look on. A
plir OF eyes will sometimes do wonders
with work1nen.
15 The farmer who refuses to lay be-
fore his children several good periodicals
of the day, including one agricultural
paper, is allowing his wealth and the
usefulness OF his family to run away at
the bung, while he is saving at the
spigot.
Domestic Economy.
| To PREVENT CLOTHING BEING 1NFLAM
NABLE-Add an ounce of alum to the