Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-09-13
AGRICULTURAL.

In France parsnips are d very com
m Ell house food.
Thorough culture is worth three
mortgages on u farm.
Skim cheese contains more nitrogen
genous matter than lean meat.
An offensive war on weeds is five
times less expensive than Il defensive
one.
The nutritive value Of split peas ii
nearly three times that Of bakers bred
One evening spent at home il study
is more profitable than ten spent loung-
ing about country taverns.
The largest flour mill in tie world i
being built ut Niagara Fails. Its GU
pacity will be about 1000 barrels u
day.
Root crops Of All kinds are usually
crowded; one well-deyelopcd and quick
ly grown root Is better than two OF
three starved ones.
II horses are rubbed, morning and
noon, with q handful Of smart-wee2, the
flies will nottrouble them in the least
through the day.
II is computed that Minnesota il
capable producing 700, 900, 900 bush
els Of wheat annually, and that the wa
ter power Of Minneapolis alone can
manufacture halfofit into flour.
Rain water possesses fert;Ilizing quail
tiles, from the fact that quantity Of
ammonia and nitric acid is annually
brought down to the soil by rain, for the
benefit Of vegetation.
1T has been discovered bv Minnesota
farmers that two acres of suniloWers
will supply u family with fuel through
il long winter. The wood Of the stalks
and the oil Of the seed make roaring
and cheerful fires.
Statistics show that the actual con
sumption Of eggs i'll the United States
il about l0,00O,OOO barrels. The p0ul-
Try marketed or consumed in ISL is
estimated III 6SO,OOO, 600 pounds, Of the
value Of $6S,0O0,000
lna mass Of earth, twenty feet thick.
which had been undermined, and had
fallen over loosely, parsnips We're sown.
A fine specimen lnthe lot was found to
have u vertical root that measured
thirteen feet SIX inches in length.
A house too closely shaded by trees
Will be apt TO suffer from dampness. III
building let the living and sleeping
rooms, us fur us possible, face toward
the south, and thus gain the advantage
Of the sunshine. The sun is Il great
preserver Of health.
In moist charcoal seeds will sprout
with remarkable quickness and GER
talnty, but after they have sprouted
they do not continue to grow well in
charcoal alone. Drilled jill with the
seed, charcoal powder is said greatly to
promote the growth Of wheat.
Prof. j. b. Lewis, the celebrated Eng
lish eXperimontalist, says there is no
reason to suppose that broad-leayed
plants receive nitrogen from the air.
Yet this belief has become quite com
monty received, and from the teachings
Of supposed scientists.
Sheep-skins form large item in the
commerce Of Cape Colony. The ship
ments there now reach about l,5OO,-
600 skins annually They are chiefly
from the Indigenous or half breed sheep,
tile merinous being too valuable for
their wool to allow them being killed
or course Others besides ourselves
have noticed that fruit and hail-stones
grow much larger il the west than they
do in the north. Especially hail-stones.
Probably il i because they grow more
healthy and robust liars III the west
When an old farmer enters II printing
office 70 give the particulars Of i de-
structive storm, and gets the hail-stones
any smaller than hulled walnuts, the
"press gang kill him on tho spot and
throw his body down I'M old well. If
he says the stones were rs large US
goose eggs they put him on the free list
for life and drag him across to the sa-
loon and ''set EN- up L. S.A far
mer WIS never killed in the west for not
getting the hail-stones large enough to
please the fancy of the editors III that
ection NouisfoQm Pa Herald.