The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-01
RURAL ECONOMY.


| CLOVER increases III ory weight until
the blossom is mature1.
A CORD of green hard wood weighs
upwards of three tons. Some teamsters
seem to be ignorant OF the fact.
A WESTERN farmer thinks wheat does
best on clover sward, summer-fallowed
and the wheat sowed in the fall.
CRUDE carbolic acid mixed with sixty
parts water is recommended for killing
ticks on sheep.
CAPHoRETTED water is said to be ex
cellent for gapes in chickens. A pill of
camphor gum, the size Of pea, may be
given.
In Spain they are beginning to feed
cattle with forage insermingled with
ground bones in order to increase the
dose of phosphate of lime in food.
SALT at the rate of about FIVE bushels
to an acre is said to be excellent for
wheat. 1t is especially advantageous on
muck or humus soils. Apply it as top
dressing.
ALWAYS cook the meat which you
give to poultry. 1t goes twice as far for
food, and is more nourishing. Chop it
fine and salt it, as you do for family use.
Mix it with scalded wheat or corn meal.
AN English gardener saved his onions
from the maggoS by pouring over the
bed water nearly boiling hot. But if
the enemy has eaten itself overhead,
then do what you like; the crop is done
! for"
LEGUMINoUs plants contain more
nitrogen than gasses. Hence the value
of clover when fed To animals. 1t not
only furnishes muscle, but the manure
resulting is more valuable than that
from grass alone.
WE know of no humbug so thoroughly
exploded as the "hulless oat" is now.
We know that the hulless oat had been
and Ireland without ever becoming any,
thing more than curiosity.-Ioron
Globe.
POULTRY roosts should never be
! allowed in horse or COW stables. Hen
| lice are very apt to attach themselves to
the animals, to their serious detriment
Nothing is more surely calculated to de-
stroy their appetite and prevent them
from taking Oil flesh.
AS soon as the upper portion of the
straw or the cereals becomes yellow, no
further increase takes place in the weight
of the seed. If the grain be not cut
down soon after the appearance of this
sign its quality deteriorates and it's
weight diminishes.
| 1NNUMERABLE wire-worms were put
in permanent pickle by A. Bromley,
Riga, n. Y. Having field terribly in
tested with that pest he prepared the soil
for grain, broadcasted over three bushels
per acre of refuse salt" delivered on
the cars at Syracuse at$1. 50'-harrowed
it in, drilled the seed, and has "seen no
effect of the wire-worms since"
IT is said that though each of the 40
cows kept on the Illinois farm of Israel
Boies, could "rise up and call him bless
ed as feeder, the cost of their support
during the past winter was only III
cents per day per head all the feed being
thoroughly steamed. 1t is also stated
that there is no place in America where
farmers feed so high as within five miles
of Elgin. and no farmers who get 50
much money from milk.
YOU'VE chicks should now be coming
forward. AS rule, those Matched this
month, if in good breeds, will begin to
lay early in the fall and continuing
through the winter will brood early next
spring. The profit Of feeding laying
hens when eggs are scarce is obvious.
The loss of feeding "dead heads !"
through the winter, to lay only when
eggs are plenty, is apparent.
PIGS given a run at grass will do best
The orchard, sown to clover, might well
be appropriated to them in part. The
effect will be beneficial in two ways; the
pigs will have good grazing, and many
vermin will be destroyed If the pigs
gnaw the bark, was the lower part of the
trees with some thin mud mixed with
cow-dung. A feeding coop is useful for
young pigs. In this, some milk in a
shallow pan may be given them without
disturbance from older ones.
MANY farmers who find that their
"medders kind O run eout forget how
much crop of grass exhausts the soil.
A crop of English hay weighing two
tons, removes from the soil about 81
pounds of nitrogen, 20 pounds of pot.
ash, and Is pounds of phosphoric acid.
From an acre, crop of clover hay,
weighing q tons, abstracts about us
pounds of nitrogen, 10 pounds of pot
ash, and 80 pounds of phosphoric acid.
Two or three crops grown in succession,
and without manure, would almost ex-
haust the best land.
CAUTION should be exercised in turn
ing cattle on to the fresh grass. Young
stock are especially subject to disease
from overlooking with succulent herb
age. Black-leg, 5lack-quarter, or car
.buncular erysipel&s, frequent at this sea-
son, is SO caused. Where there is dan
ger, seton in the dewlap has been found
effective to prevent it. To change the
feed gradually, however, is the best pre-
sentative of the health. Incoming cows
that have been well fed should be watch
ed to prevent garget. To reduce the
feed before calving, and to guard the
cows against lying out during cold rains,
will be safe. Every owner of COW
should possess good book on the care of
cattle.
The annual yield of potatoes in the
United States, according to the returns
of the last census, was nearly 100000
900 bushels In view of the increasing
attention lately given to this crop it will
doubtless show at the close of the pre-
sent decade a large increase in the
amount of the yield, as well as in the
number and improvement of varieties.
In fact, it may be safely assumed that,
in spite of the fears of many in regard
to the ravages of the beetle, this crop
will still show yield at the next CEN
enc Of ouor o0n ono GOO h,rcbolc