The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-22
RURAL ECONOMY.
Practical Hints.

Practical Hints.
No farmer whose land will grow corr
and grass can expect remunerative re.
turns unless he breeds meat-producing
stock. In every grass and graln-produc
ing district, in all parts OF America are
found examples of well-to-do and thirty.
ing farmers whose practice illustrates
the truth of this observation-disclosures
Live- Stock journal.
ANY farmer that has small pond OF
lake on his farm, or a never-failine
spring. so situated that by damming up
the gully or hollow below it, pond can
be formed, may make an acre or two
thus located the most profitable part OF
his premises, by stocking the water with
fish. This can now be done with little
expense through any of the state fish
commissioners.
beings, love occasionally to have condi-
ments with their food. Cayenne pepper,
mustard or ginger, increases the vigor
and egg production of fowls. This ap-
parently artificial diet is needed to sup
ply that which birds get in their wild
state-spiced berries, buds, etc. 1t il
these that give wild fowl their peculiar
game flavor"
WRONG education, false views of life,
mistaken ideas of labor, and desire to
make money too fast and without hard
work-these are some of the prime causes
which, with unfortuitous times and cir
cumstances, have produced such an army
of idlers. There is only one remedy for
this state of affairs. We must come
back to the old doctrine that any kind of
productive labor is honorable, and re-
ject the idea that white hands and an
Unframed face are essential to respecta-
hility.-Ohio Farmer.
IF an increase of eggs is desired in the
poultry yard, before very large sums are
expended in the purchase of everlasting
layers, we would recommend the keeping
of no hens after the first, or at most their
second year. Early pullets give the in
crease, and the only wonder is that people
persist, as they do, in keeping up stock
of old hens, which lay one day and stop
three, instead of laying three days and
stopping one. In some parts of England
it is the invariable rule to keep pullets
only one year. Feeding will do a great
deal-a surprising work, indeed-in the
production of eggs, but not when old
hens are concerned; they may put on fat
but they cannot put down eggs. Their
tales are told, their work is over; nothing
remains to be done with them but to give
them a smell of the kitchen fire.
The Spirit of the Times shows very
plainly how very many horses are made
lame. 1t AYERS that "during the past
eight years about all horse shoe nails
used have been machine-pointed nails
cut from cold rolled iron. By this pro.
cess the fibre is destroyed, and the iron
forms in thin layers. When the nail is
being driven, the horny fibres, of which
the hoof is composed, separate these thin
layers at the point of the nail, causing
one of the thin blades to enter the inner
parts of the foot, the other passing GU:
through the wall of the hoof and
cfnched." The farrier is thus deceived
but the poor horse is in agony. Itwould
seem that the best thing to be done with
a lame horse, is to pull off his shoes,
although this will not always remedy, the
trouble, for sometimes the point breaks,
and is left in the foot. The best plan is
to use hot forged nails as those do cot
split, and seldom break at the point.
MIR. M. G. CLARK, writing in the Ma
tional Lire Stock Journal, says that he has
recently tested the milk from his Jersey
COW, Glencoe Belle, and from seventeen
quarts of milk, the yield was four
pounds of choice butter. During this
time she was on grass alone. AT another
time from the same cow he obtained two
pounds of butter from eight quarts of
milk. The milk in each case was accu-
rately measured. At the same time,
under the same treatment and on the
same pasture, the best grade cow-a half
bred short-horn-that Mr.. Clark owned,
was also tested, and the yield for butter
was three-quarters of pound from eight
quarts of milk. This record is beaten
by Judge Hays, of Clinton, Iowa, who
asserts that he would not keep Jersey
cow on his farms that, during the winter
months, would not do better than that.
He says that six pounds of milk from
his cow Hagar, FL. R. 1898, in winter,
will make pound of butter.
CHEESE is struggling in the depths.
A large portion of it does not give salts
faction in the foreign markets. One rea-
son, and the principal one, is, undoubt-
eddy, that cheese factories produce toe
much butter; the skinner is too much
used. A certain amount Of cheese will
be taken for export to tropical climates,
or where full cheese will not stand.
This supply, however, is very limited
The English demand for full cheese is
not limited. The people at home will
not eat skim cheese. If palmed off on
them for cream cheese, they will cease
eating cream cheese at ALL In fact
from the low general character of oul
domestic cheese, in years past, very few
persons have cared to eat it all. Good
cheese must become common, and the
people must become educated to taste
for it. This can never be done if the
consumer gets fair slice to-day, and
the next perhaps a mean one from his
grocer; and yet the average grocer sells
cheese in just this way. 1t is luck and
chance; one day he buys a good one
and the next day perhaps a poor one
and all from the same dealer. The
blame lies in the skinner Certain fac
tories do not use this cheap implement
and this is the class of manufacturer.
who complain the least. They have &
reputation to maintain, and they d.
maintain it.-Prairie Farmer.
MOST of our western soils rest upon {
foundation as impervious to water as i
made of glue. A fertile soil is a "build
ing" of the most wonderful architecture
with its columns, spaces and aqueducts
not for the purpose of holding watel
like jug, buta great and comprehensive.
storehouse in which are deposited tn,
riches of the earth, the air, the sunshine