The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-09-12
RURAL ECONOMY.
Seasouable Hints.

THE hay crop IN England Is like the
hay crop here, one of the heaviest on
record.
BOTTLES are now depositing their
eggs on horses. Carefully scrape them
off with knife.
MANY wet pasture fields could be
made productive by little labor given to
surface drains; and the best drains are
those nearest straight Do not see how
little fall you think will do, but give all
you can.
IL Prussia it is said the potato is cul-
tivated with peculiar success. AS the
stalk grows the earth is heaped up, leav-
ing only three leaves at the top; roots
are thus greatly increased, while the
produce is said to be astonishing.
Cows should not be kept over eight
years old and ewes over five. Now Is
the time of year to determine what dis
position is to be made of old stock,
whether to be prepared for the butcher
or continue as at present for another
year.
FARMERS in England sowing arsen-
icated wheat are, by the recent act of
parliament, made subject to a heavy
penalty. The farmers poison their seed
wheat to protect it from birds and
insects, but the sacred game-birds are
apt to suffer. Hence the penalty.
HIGH prices for the service of blooded
stock sires have not been confined to the
present century. In 1850 Robert Bake
well, the most eminent breeder of that
period, let his rams for about $500 each
season, and in 1890 he let one ram for
s., 087. In one year he made over $15, 900.
THE Michigan Farmer gives the record
of cow owned by Mr.. John Heath,
near Tekonsha, Mich, three-quarters
Shorthorn and one-quarter Devon. The
daily yield of milk for the month of
May and three days in June aggregated
2,0l63 pounds. She was MIXED three
times day.
IT is beginning to be understood by
breeders that the confinement of stall
lions is detrimental to their success. We
have always thought that the daily use
Of Hambletonian as an every day horse
one of all work, as it were-was one of
the causes that showed to such great
advantage in his early colts; and it was
upon these his fame was made.
IT is said by farmers who has tried
the experiment so often as to be sure of
his ground, that bpttermilk poured over
the back OF = scurvy pig will entirely
and speedily remove the scurf. The
remedy is simple. Almost every farmer
rcan boast of one or more scurvy pigs,
and if buttermilk will cure it, it should
not be spared.
Corn loses one-ffth by drying, and
wheat one-fourteenth. From this the
estimate is made that it is more profta-
bic for the farmer to sell unshelled corn
IN the fall at 70 cents than at 81 bushel
In the following summer, and that wheat
at Sl.25 IN December is equal to 81 80 in
the succeeding June. In cases of pota-
toes-taking those that rot and are other
wise lost-together with the shrinkage,
there is little doubt that between Octo-
Der and June the loss to the owner who
holds them is not less than SO per cent.
MANY persons are poisoned by contact
with the wild ivy and sumac, and in
some cases the poisoning is very severe
10 such it may be of interest to know
that DR.. Brown, of the United States
navy, claims to have discovered certain
remedy for such poisoning. 1t is brom-
ide dissolved in olive oil, cosmoIine or
glycerine. He used twenty drops of
bromide to an ounce of oil, rubbing it
on the affected part three or four times
day, and washing it off occasionally
with CASTLE soap.
SHEEP dung decomposes more rapidly
than COW dung, and not so quickly as
horse dung. 1t is richer in solid matters
than the former. The pig being almost
an omnlvorOus animal, its excrements
vary IN composition, according to the
nature OF its food. Its dung is soft and
compact, and it decomposes slowly. 1t
is one of the richest kind of animal
manure, but it is alleged that when used
alone as manure it gives a disagreed
bic flavor to roots. On the continent
pig dung is largely applied to the hemp
crop.
Mr.. j. n. ADAMS, in the Rural Amer
lean thus tells of his experience harrow
ing wheat in the spring of 1877 after
being badly winter-killed, mainly to
secure good catch of clover: 81 re-
ceived good catch of clover while a
neighbor VINO ridiculed my movements
has ploughed his ground his spring for
another crop. He seeded in the same
manner, the same kind Of soil without
narrowing" There are hardly ten farm
ers in eastern Pennsylvania who harrow
their wheat and yet it will increase the
yield from three to ten bushels per acre,
besides rendering the catch Of clover
almost a certainty.
DIFFERENCE of climate has a good
deal to do with threshing and selling
grain at harvest or Immediately after.
In England more than half the grain of
all varieties remains in the straw I'M
threshed till the next spring. Oats are
never put in barns at harvest; they are
stacked very neatly and carefully
matched by a professional iaboring
thatcher. Wheat, barley, beans and.
peas are also chiefly put into ricks and
matched, remaining till, stack by stack,
they are required to be threshed for the |
straw quite as much as for the grain, ex-
cepting where capital is short.
"FoR seed, orchard grass should be
cut, when ripe, with scythe and cradle,
or with reaper, and tied up in bundles,
as are oats. Shock the sheaves on the /
ground, putting about two dozen bun
dies in shock, and leave the shocks
Let it stand in the field /
until it has been well watered; then /
handle carefully and haul to the barn
There will then be no trouble to get the
seed off. As to millet seed, the proper
way, | think, is to harvest every stalk
and get it dry and then set fire to it. 1t
is really of no value" So says a writer
in an exchange.
THE New ENGLAND Enrnner saws. |