The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-07-27
RURAL ECONOMY.
Practical Notes.
AN old COW for milk. a young hen fo

PARsNIPS contain twice as much rea
food as turnips.
SEVEN pounds of hay will produce one
quart of milk.
THE tassel of corn is the male flower
the silk the female.
A CUBIC foot of manure weighs from
fifty to sixty pounds.
! PLANTFOoD for paying crop must
be already in the superficial soil cult.
waited, or else it must be furnished to
the soil directly, or good crop cannot
be harvested.
No animals, unless well fed at all times,
can give a constant return for the food
consumed, and no pasture Is safe from
injury by overlooking if overrun in dry
weather by herd of poor, hungry ami
mails.
DoN'T let the grass get too ripe before
| beginning to cut for hay. Don't let it
be exposed to the sun too long. Put it
in cocks to cure. Put it in good stack,
or under shelter, as soon as cured. Don't
let the storms bleach all the substance
out of it.
GOOD corn can only be produced by
plenty of good timely work. Work it
thoroughly and often, early and late, till
ready to lay by. Don't let the weeds
get any foothold. The greater the drouth
| the more cutivators should run through
! it,
IT requires but seventy days to grow
a crop of Hungarian grass. 1t can
follow a crop of clover the same
season, the right time to SOW it
being after the clover is harvest
ed, About three pecks of seed to an
acre is required.
! THOSE of our readers who have kept
! their orchards in grass for years should
try thorough cultivation one year and
see what the effect will be. 1t will show
more on next years crop than this, and
we think none will regret the expert.
ment,-Kentucky Farm journal.
! FREQUENTLY we see grape trellises
made wholly of wood bars, which the
vine tendrils cannot clasp or climb on.
Vertical wires, eight inches apart, are
neatest, and carry the weight OF shoots
| loaded with fruit without yielding, but
light rods or neat twiggy brush answer
well for the vine to climb by, and such
support is essential for free and perfect
growth. -.
MAKE your farm so valuable by con
slant improvement, skillful culture, good
fruit. ornamental shrubbery and pleasant
surroundings that no money will tempt
you to leave it. We think it should be
the settled purpose of every young man
to put down his stakes for life, to make
permanent home which he will never
wish to part with till he is called to the
better land.
If any man wishes to pasture the
roadside adjoining his farm, as he has a
perfect right to do, let the flock be
accompanied by sufficient escort to
protect it from annoyance and his neigh
bors from damage. IL the quarrels and
i'll will generated among neighbors by
this practice could be rightly estimated
they would be found to exceed many
fold all the good that has been derived
from it'd.
SOME sensible writer truthfully says
that 81 most diseases of cattle are pro.
duced by wrong treatment-too much
feed at one time, too little at another
too rich at one time, too poor at another
etc. If all horses and cattle were fec
and watered and used properly there
would be little disease, and all ailment
could be cured by simple remedies
which every man has or may have a
hand"
CALIFORNIA hogs are small, but those
which are fed grain are hard feshed anC
well suited for curing purposes. Til,
Chinese portion of San Francisco's popu
lation are said to consume, as fresh pork
the most of the acorn-fed or soft hog
which are marketed there. The averag,
gross weight of hogs slaughtered in Sar
Francisco was 165 pounds in 1877, IS!
pounds in 1876, 155 pounds in 1875, anC
IA pounds in 1874.
The best preventive for worms il
celery is to mix plenty of salt, SCOT anG
fine lime with the manure that is to b.
employed in trenches. This should b,
added to the manure some weeks befor,
it is used, during which time it should
be turned now and then. The mixtur,
above named also benefits the growth o
the celery, which will lift clean ant
spotless CON Isled with that grown in tn,
ordinary way.
TIMOTHY Il S hould be cut as soo1
as 1t Is entirety out OF blossom At thi
time the new bulbs, which form Just a
the top of the ground, are in sufficient
state of forwardness so the bottom growth
will not be checked When clover i
mixed with the Timothy, the hay should
be cut when the Timothy is in proper
condition. Timothy should not be cut
Ice oil 4 10 OIL 81,
hot dry weather succeeding is apt tc
4 injure the bulbs at the base of the stalk
upon which the succeeding years croT
depends.
FRUIT in cellars is likely to suffe
from heat rather than cold. In the SLOW
operation of ripening, heat and carboni,
acid are thrown off. Whenever the tenn
perature approaches forty degrees, tn
outer air, if cooler, should be let in t,
reduce it. In the house-cellar, the accu
mutation of carbonic acid would be in
furious to the health of the family, AM
it is highly important that this be re
moved by ventilation In fruit-cellar
apart from the house, this is not neces
rious to animal life, tends to preserve tn
fruit, as it excludes the atmospheric all
THE Gallatin Montana farmers hav
commenced to destroy grasshoppers on
new plan. The grain fields are first SUI
rounded by bitches and these are fiIlet
with water. Alta point where the grass
hoppers make their approach board
placed crosswise of the ditch and tn
water forced under. A small quantit,
of coal oil is then placed in the waite
above, and floating down remains on tn
surface at the rifle thus formed. Tn
young hoppers are driven into the ditch