Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-10-10
THE Farm.

~ until YOU have first grown him.
" ecdS, clover, meat, scraps. boiled po-
tatoes, kitchen refuse, any and all nitro
genous or ilesh-iorming foods, are pre-
ferable during the early months Of n
pigs existence, to the meal and grain or
fat forming foods which are required for
the iinishing-oT process
How TO CooI A RooM.-A writer in
PotEc HedM recommends that dish or
basin large enough to present good
surface of water be placed in rooms
where the water be changed once or
twice in very hot days, to secure a gem
eral lowering OF the temperature. The
hot air of the room takes up the water
IN the form of atmospheric vapor, and
dliluses the greater GOODNESS of the wa
ter through the room. until air and
water becomes of the same temperatures
When this takes place, fresh watershould
be put in the dish
MINERAL MANURE FOR GRASS. A
writer IN the Country Gentleman saws
made an experiment with nitrate of
soda and sulphate of lime Tor plaster)
on couple of small pastures, using
s.bout 125 pounds per acre of the first
and 100 pounds of the second. Ihave re-
peated the operation with halfthe guam
tity this spring. and can now show "A
growth of blue grass on the one and
timothy on the other, equal in depth of
color to any wheat field | have seen,
and i'll quantity of heritage, though not
| in height, of cCurse, superior TO all The
pastures last fall were fed down bare,
but to-day they carry grass enough TO
shame the best blue grass region, and |
have seen many thousand acres during
| the present month This application is
reported to cost about So per acre"
FEEDING SOFT Cork Feed the soft
ears of corn to mich COWS gain in
the flow of milk follows Now stop feed
ing these soft ears, and give them the
big ears, set with hard kernels, and it
will at once be seen how much more
good the soft corn does them. If the
| COWS are ovcrfed, or perhaps should
! they have but little Of the hard corn,
the kernel will be found in the manure
unutilized by the animals. In feeding
a herd of COWS on hard corn, some COWS
will always be found not digcsting COM
pletely the kernels. 1t is also observed
| that when corn is sent to the mill before
| it Is sufficiently dry to grind fine with
the cob, 1t Is unsatisfactory feed. 1t
does the COW less good than we should
expect, thus clearly betraying the fact
that at this time the meal is less nutri-
tious, in itself, is less dgestble than
meal made from old corn.-Sienhfc
| Farmer.
DRAINAGE OpERATIoNs.-M persons
inexperienced in digging drains will
waste a great deal of labor in digging
them much wider than there is any
need for. \ drain that is to be four
feet deep need only be twenty inches
wide ut the top and four inches at the
bottom, provided the land is not very
stony. If large stones occur, the drain
can sometimes be carried around them,
and sometimes can be turned under
them. If soft places occur, where the
sandy banks cave III, they can be kept
from falling in by boards and braces
reaching across the ditch. When the
drains are long and the nature of the
soil will admit of it the upper part of
the drain can be loosened by horse
walking in the drain and dragging a
subsoil pillow a horse used to the work
will walk in ditch two feet deep and
twenty inches wide, and loosen the soil
at least six inches more.
CHARCOAL AND LME-Permit us again
to urge all breeders of poultry who wish
healthy fowls, to be liberal in supplying
their fowls with charcoal. 1t is one OF
the best preventives of diseases amongst
fowls that can be named. Even if the
fowls are not confined, but especially
so if they are, charcoal pounded up into
bits or pieces about the size Of grain
of corn, or little finer. should be put
around in small piles where the fowls
can have easy access TO it, and they
will soon make use of it. The cost oil
charcoal is but trifle and where the
distance from town or city is SO great
as to prevent it from being readily OBJ
i tanned therefrom, the ashes from a
wood-stove may be seivcd out and the
small bits of charred wood or char
coal used in the place of that made in
the regular way. Especially during the
spring and early summer months, it is
advisable to use charcoal freely. Lime,
too, is valuable in many ways. In the
form of whtewash it begets cleanliness,
freedom of disease and laying hens
should have lime where they can make
use of it, in assisting in the production
Of cggs.-1he Pouhty World