The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-13
FARM AND HOME.
Seasonable Advice.


know of is thoroughly clean cultivation,
and blowing late in the autumn. Hand
picking early in the morning is the only
sure means in the garden. From five to
ten bushels of salt has also been reported
effectual, but it is not certain that it is
SO. The preservation of birds is great
help. The larya is only destructive to a
considerable extent in occasional years.
Prairie Farmer.
In southern California the tomato is
perennial. A vine in Los Angeles has
been trained over the sunny side of a
house, and is now twenty-five feet high.
1t has blossoms, and at the same time
has fruit in all stages of growth. In San
Bueneventura, grapevine, planted
seventeen years ago, measures forty
inches around the stem, and covers an
area of about eighty feet. 1t yields an
annual crop of about one thousand
pounds, single clusters averaging three
and half pounds.
GOOD wheat ought to furnish at least
"A per cent. of fine -four. The best sam
Piles often furnish rs to so per cent, and
in few rare instances as much as Sc per
cent. of -four has been obtained. Infe-
rior varieties seldom produce more than
SO per cent, and in instances only "a to
90 per cent. of -four has been obtained
from bad samples. On an average wheat
may be said to yield IS per cent. of fine
-four, land % per cent. of bran and mid
dlings.
| WOULD say in answer to j. A. S."
of Jacksonville, when he says he would
like to see the figures to show how cattle
can be raised on $50 land so as to make
it profitable, that it can be done with
Hereford cattle We bought last spring
some half-blood Herefords weighing
l 200 pounds, at four cents. Take two
for instance; 2,400 pounds cost 500;
pasture, six months, $lS; 100 bushels
corn, $25; for hay, So; total, $144.
Weight of cattle March IL, 3,400 pounds;
would sell to-day in Chicago at six cents.
This leaves 500 profit. This shows that
it can be done with the right kind of cat
tie, They had no shed, and have been
fed shock corn and hay.-Praiie Farmer
AN English gardener gets mis- small
seed early, and tests it by spreading, say
200 of an average sample, on piece of
fine flannel, cut to fit nicely the bottom
with cold water and keeping it thus a
few days on table near a sunny win
dow. The good seed will send up slen-
der white shoots a half inch or SO high,
and the killed" or imperfect seed, of
course. "makes no sign" Then count
ing the latter he can easily figure out
the allowance he must make for waste.
When this percentage is unsatisfactory
he returns the lot to the dealer and tries
again, and the consequence is that he has
never lost crop by dead seed"
Do we put the case too strongly when
we say man has no moral right to eat
apples who will not keep the borers out
of his trees, and the caterpillars from
eating the leaves and blossoms? With
out entering very infinitely into discus
sion of the moral aspects of the matter,
unless the borers are kept out of his
trees and all injurious insects destroyed,
the natural and unavoidable penalty of
his neglect will be scanty harvest, and
that of a poor quality, hardly fit even
for a lazy man to eat. If we would have
good, fair, sound fruit, we must pay the
price for raising it in good, faithful work
performed at the right time.-SpirH Of
Kansas.
My way of handling black walnuts is
this: If | do not want to plant more
than three bushels, | SOW in rows four
feet apart Gin falD, and when one year
old, or one year from the next spring
after | planted, | take sharp,
bright, spade and cut the tap roots off,
and let them stand another year, and
| then transplant them. If. however, I
want to plant more, and the transplant
ing will pay, after preparing my ground
by blowing and narrowing in the fall, |
stake off in rows eight feet each way,
leaving stakes standing. Then plant two
walnuts at each crossing of direct lines
from stake to stake. In the spring |
plant to corn the standing stakes telling
me where my walnuts are. Where two
grows cut one of.-hansas Farmer.
l DO not know the cause or cure, but
have reason to think sulphur is pre-
ventlve. We have not lost a creature in
five years with black-leg or murrain,
which is about the same thing. Previous
to this time we frequently lost calves,
yearlings Or two-year-olds After losing
three of the latter, just one week apart,
we began giving the others tablespoon
full each of sulphur, in salt, every day.
In about week neighbor suggested
that SO much sulphur might kill them
if the cattle took cold; we then gave it
once week for a while, and now not
oftener than once in three months,
which | do not think is often enough
We never lost a creature with murrain
that was in poor condition. Kansas Far
HaeT.
THE object of sub-soiling is to loosen
the soil beyond the reach of the ordinary
pillow, and in this way subject it to the
action of the air, allow the roots to go
down and the moisture to come up. If
the sub-soil is loose gravel allowing a
free circulation of air, there is no use
for sub-soil pillow. If it contains sub
stances injurious to plants, the first crop
at least would probably be injured by
the looscning. If it is so wet that the
roots of the plants cannot go down into
it. Well drained lands are most bene-
fitted by the operation, and in nearly all
cases pay well for subsoiling. By sub
soiling few burrows and comparing the
crop on them with that of the rest of the
land, you can best determine whether
subsoiling will pay.
The quality of barley is influenced by
the soil, perhaps to as great an extent as
any crop that is sown. The great bulk
of this grain, raised at home or abroad is
used for malt; and hence the kind of soil
should be selected which will give it that