Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-06-12
AGRICULTURE.

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out in the vicinity OF San Jose, CAL, this
season.
CRUDE carbolic acid mixed with sixty
parts water is recommended for killing
ticks ON sheep
The rice crop of this country is COM
ingito the fore again. South Carolina
has an estimated yield of 1900 tierces
this year, and Georgia $4,000.
SHEEP are being imported from Ger
many to England at the rate of about
10000 a week When American farm
ers set about TO raise fine mutton, this
branch Of foreign trade Will rapidly in
crease with ID
AN Ohio wdol-grower reports that he
has a flock of twenty-five Cotswold
ewes which this season produced forty
lambs. This he thinks is the greatest
fall OF lambs be has ever heard OF.
RUsKIN, the famous art critic and
writer on general literature, says: "To
watch corn grow and bloom, set, to
draw hard BREATH over the plowshare
and spade, to read, to think, to love, to
hope to pray. these are the things to
make man happy"
AMERICAN peanuts have been trans
planted in thk south of France, where
they grow we'll. Oil is made from
them, which ZONES back to this coun-
try, and after paying duty is used on
salads as olive oil. Meanwhile in
Florida. where the nuts grow abundant,
they are fed u hogs.
A GERMAN paper gives the following
as test for purity of milk. A we'll
polished knitting needle is dipped into
deep vessel pf milk, and Immediately
withdrawn il an upright position;
when, if the sample be pure, some of
the fluid will be found to adhere to it,
while such is not the case if water has
been added tb the milk even in the
smallest proportions.
WITH hard work, teams require good
care. Horsel will come from the field
in much better condition if they are
protected froh worry by the flies. The
best protection is thin sheet made to
fill the neck, with holes for the ears,
and to bucklt under the throat, and to
cover the bad, hanging loosely at the
sides to give access of air beneath. 1t
should be he'd by a crupper hand be-
meath the tail. Too much corn fed
now is apt tdproduce irritation Of the
skin, and to make the animal restless.
Cleanliness will be found great COM
fort to them. About this time, and for
a few weeks b come, look out for and
destroy the WEBS and nests Of worms in
your fruit trees. We never drive by an
orchard whert the white nests and CO.
coons show j. the branches, without
wanting to get out and nudge the farm
er. 1t is the stitch in time that saves
nine-hundr&. Black-knot on your
trees invites he pruning knife. The
little insects hat scale up the bark
may be dispoIed of, recording to some
authorities, by washing the bodies Of
the trees with strong I've and sulphur, or
salt brine, or whitewash. If you don't
know the remedies, look them up, and
go for the pe&s in time.
Sailing ST3cK.-One of the most i'm
pOrtant thing to attend to in the care of
farm stock q every kind, is that they
have access II all times to salt. In this
connection We would again call atten-
ton to the bSd practice in vogue with
many otherwise good farmers, in that
they salt irrekularly, and at such times
with too libehl hand. Thus animals
will gorge themselves, and this often re-
suits in sevefe purging. Again, when
salt is thrown around the ground to be
licked up, the stronger animals get
more than they should, and the weaker
ones little or hone. Besides, injury to
weak animalsis often the result CT this
struggle. The proper way to salt stock
is to have the salt placed under cover,
where they may get it every, day if they
wish. In this way they take up just
what they want and no more, and,
while eating what is necessary for them,
they never take enough to do them
injury. Thus cattle will seldom take
more than an ordinary tablespoonful
per day, and this is about what they
would require in summer as an aid to
proper Digestion Chicago Prairie Farm
er.
The Duck QUEsTIoN.-Again must
we call the attention Of breeders to the
profit in ducks. when properly cared
for and when there are facilities at
hand for breeding them properly.
Many farmer has realized far more
from breeding ducks than he would OBJ
tain for his chickens, for they are very
hardy, and lay remarkably we'll during
SOME parts of the season. As soon as
they commence to lay the eggs should
be carefully gathered and put away; as
soon as hen mot duck wants to sit,
set her with duck eggs, and let her
batch on1 40 ~, Cor tho brood Till tho1,