Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-08-28
The FARM


over it, is good for the general health
of sheep.
SWEET and nutritious grasses give a
richness and flavor to milk, attainable
from no other source.
THERE is no egg OF bird known
which IS not good food, or which could
not be eaten by hungry man..
MONEY skillfully expended in drying
land by draining or otherwise will be
returned with ample interest.
The Prairie Farmer advises a summer
fallow as the surest and easiest means
OF subduing Colorado thistles.
MANY farmers in Western New York
still raise large areas of peppermint, al
though the oil sells only for 81 80 per
pound.
BRANDY and salt, two-thirds brandy
and one-third salt, is good for all kinds
of gals, wounds. bruises and inflam.
matory sores on horses
THAT there is no royal road to success
as an agriculturist, is shown in the sur
rendering of Chiswick farm by the
Prince of Wales. He couldn't make it
pay.
A SOUND New Hampshire farmer says
no acre of land ever cheated him when
he had treated it with liberal hand.
Cultivation and manure will redeem 4
swamp or sand bank.
Much as we have tried to improve
our swine, it must be remembered that
what is gained in quantity and quality
OF flesh Is at the expense of the brstles,
for the finer the hog the fewer the bris-
ties. The sale Of bristles is an import
ant trade in Russia, amounting to some
100000 pounds, valued at $1,000, 900.
They are obtained from the wild hogs
that roam in a portion of that immense
country. France supplies 100000
pounds, and Germany adds to the ex-
portatiOns.
CHEESE as an animal food, may, with
advantage, be substituted for butchers
meat, at the current prices. There are
good and substantial reasons for regard
ing cheese as a wholesome and valuable
food, and it is worthy of even more
liberal consumption than it now re-
REEVES. English people probably con-
sumo more cheese than any other ma
ton on the globe, or in the proportion
of about ten pounds yearly to each in
habitant. In the United States the con-
sumption is only half the quantity.
PRoE. BEAL, of Michigan, says: "In
our cornfields are often large numbers
of slender stalks bearing no ears, or very
small ones. These stalks have tassels,
and they scatter pollen, and are very
apt to scatter some of the ears on the
best stalks-on the very ears which we
shall select for seed. Tie different kerr
nels on the same ears may have twenty
or more different male parents. Now,
theory and analogy at least tell us. if
| we wish to improve our corn to the
greatest extent, we must pay some at
tention to the pollen used. A much
better way would be to plant a piece of
corn by itself on good soil, and test it
well, giving the stalks plenty of room.
Before sheddinS pollen, cut out entirely
or remove the tassels of all the poorest
stalks. In this way we not only select
seed from good females, but also from
those fertilized by good Males
How TO TEILA RIPE MELLON. When
the melon begins to change color in
side, and its seeds to turn black, a small
black speck, scale or blister begins to
appear on the outer cuticle, or rind.
These are multiplied and enlarged as
the fruit natures. A ripe melon will
show them thickly sown over the sur.
face. A partial development only in
dicates half ripened fruit. A full crop
of blisters reveals its perfect rlpeness.
When hundreds Of melons are strewn
alongside the sidewalk, you will have to
look pretty sharply to find one that ex-
hibits a satisfactory "escutcheon," to
borrow term from M. Guenon. But
it is unfailing, when found, and by fol-
lowing this guide you may walk away
with the utmost confidence. The bis
ter is only to be seen upon close in
spection, but is plainly visible when
that is given.-Erchange.
RAISING HoRsEs.--I believe it pays a
farmer to raise his own colts-with an
if or two. First, if you have deep
chested, strong-limbed, keen-eyed.
good-natured mare. Second, if you
know enough 10 train tirst-class colt
when raised. If you have a
mare defective in wind, limb,
or disposition, don't, for human
ity's sake, perpetuate these defects.
There is no department of husbandry
in which such utter want of judgment
and even common sense is used as in
breeding horses Thee-fourths Of all the
old, soft-boned, broken-winded, deform-
ed mares in the country are breading,
and nine-tenths of the tine-bred, splen-
y s