The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-11-09
RURAL ECONOMY.
Practical Notes

TIE quality of the dung of animals,
as a manure, always depends on the
! quality of the food
WEEDS about the walls and buildings
| should be cut before permitting them to
mature seeds, and burned A single
weed neglected will be frightful source
of evil next season.
Roof crops of all kinds are usually
crowded; one well develped and quickly
grown root is better than two or three
starved ones.
THE farmer who keeps all the stock his
farm will safely carry, and feeds them
fat, soon has rat acres, even if they
were not originally so, from the manure
returned to the soil. And the fatter the
cattle are made the better the soil will
become. 80 fat cattle make fat farmers.
GRAVEL, sand or some other similar
substance Is almost as essential to the
fowls well being as is food, and if fowls
are kept in confinement, and not sup
piled with this, no matter how much
grain you may supply, they will not
thrive, or even keep healthy for any
length of time.
BEET root affords very grateful food
for cattle, sheep and swine, and is better
raw than boiled or steamed. The fatten-
ing qualities are not equal to 1the Swed-
ish turnip, but for mich cows and for
nursing ewes in the spring, it exceeds
any turnip plant in the juicy property.
1t is highly beneficial to store pigs
through the winter.
The fall months offer seasonable oL-
portunity for making permanent i'm
proyements on the farms. Much of this
work of ditching, retaining wet land,
the repairing and making of stone walls,
the general repairing of premises in
places where needed, can be profitably
done between the periods of harvest and
frost, as the weather is apt to be pleasant,
the days long and labor cheap.
THIS item is going the rounds: at
may not be generally known that com
mon cooking soda is a sure remedy for
the bite of rattlesnake, if applied soon
enough. An incision may be made to
the depth Of the wound made by the
fangs Of the snake and into this cut the
soda should be sprinkled. 1t will i'm
mediately bubble up and turn green,
caused by the action of the soda in neu-
Trailing the acid of the poison"
IT is SOW of the Poland China breed,
is q years old, and will nearly, if not
quite, raise the beam at 900 pounds
She measures 6 feet from the tip of her
nose to her tail; stands SO inches high,
and measures 2 feet across her back.
Colonel Wallace bought her when pig
from a Collin county farmer, who i'm
ported the stock from Kentucky She is
certainly a massive piece of evidence
toward recording North Texas as good
hog-raising country.-Sberman (Ier.)
Register
SPONGE is an expensive article in the
stable, for when constantly in use it soon
decays. To employ it to the best ad-
vantage a double supply should be
always on hand, one piece being ia use
for week, and then put by to dry for a
similar period. In this way soft, fab
by and nearly WORKOUT sponge RECEIVERS
its texture, while sponge treated on this
plan will last fully three times as long
as if it is constantly wet from first to
last.
IN many European towns night-soil is
collected, dried and converted into
manure termed proudrette. Sometimes
it is mixed with gypsum or other sub
stances, for the purpose of Disgusting its
OdOr. Poudrette is in general, manufac-
tured in a very unscientific manner. and
is seldom worth the price (S15 to $50 per
tom at which it is sold. 1t rarely CON
tains more than , per cent. of nitrogen,
and frequently only per cent, with 8
per cent. of calcic phosphate, and 1.5
per cent. of pOtash.-Amerjcae CultjUat0r.
Pools in pasture which are liable to
be trodden into mud by the cattle should
be deepened and sufficiently paved, and
if supplied through underground pipes,
these should be protected at the outlet.
1t is often the case that a deep drain
near the house will remove the stagnant
water Of the soil, and add to the comfort
and health of the family, while a stone
or tile drain passed under the road will
add to the convenience and attractive
ness of the roadway in spring and peri
eis of wet.
OFTENTIMEs a shed built in the barn
yard and facing the south will be found
a profitable adjunct to the stock of farm
ers winter resources; atany rate, tight
board fence on the north and east sides,
or preferably Oh all sides, viii be found
of great value. 1t is also a good idea to
conduct the drainage from the roof sur
faces, by means OF cutters, so it shall not
drip into the yard and accumulate in
places which by all means should be
kept dry; for frozen water-surface
about the buildings has been responsible
for many accidents to stock through
slipping, which may be productive Of
strains, fractures or internal injury.
THE experiment of an agricultural ex-
hibition the farmers clubs, oranges,
agricultural societies and towns, is
soon to be tried for the first time in Mas
sachusetts, upon an entirely new plan.
Preparations have been going on through
the entire summer. At the coming fair
the attempt viii be made to show prin-
ciples as well products, and to stimulate
a greater development of agricultural
resources. No money will be paid out
in premiums, but the funds accruing
from the exhibition viii be expended in
paying for agricultural lectures during
the coming winter, to be given in the
several towns entitled to them, from
having been awarded premiums at the
fair Prairie Farmer.
1t is remarked by German paper that
there is a great difference in the nutri-
tive qualities of different foods, COM
monty known as green foods, and also
that they vary with the age of the plant;
thus in clover and lucerne the most i'm
portant substances or principles decrease
in quality as the plants grow older. This
materially alters the nourishing quail
ties, and the feeder has to guard against
this deterioration by changing the food