The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-17
RURAL ECONOMY.
Seasonable Hints.
Much grain is lost by overripening

Seasonable Hints.
MUCH grain is lost by overripening
GREEN RYE is not suitable for mich
COWS.
HALF-BREED Jerseys or Attorneys are
among the best of the dairy COWS.
A WEAK solution of ammonia is one
of the best invigorators of all kinds OF
plants.
CLOVER is as good for pigs as it is for
cows Pork can be made cheaper in
summer than in winter.
Sow hundred pounds of plaster, OF
some good fertilizer, over young grass
lands as soon as cut. 1t will pay largely.
WEEDY meadows may be turned over
this month; pillow corn stubbles and cul-
tIvate two or three times before winter
The crop is raised. Do not let it be
wasted either owing TO heat, rain, or by
lodged grain. Act with energy to save it.
THOUSANDS of bushels of grain are
ruined every year by bad stacking.
Only one remedy-keep the middle of
the stack full enough.
FATTENING pigs should be pushed on
as rapidly as possible before the cold
weather. A pound of fat made now
costs less than. that made next month,
and that costs less than the same made
in December. Remember that cold
wea ther wastes fat.
GROUND for oats should be fall-plowed
and left ridged, so that the cultivator or
harrow may fit it for seeding in early
sprin. The land for early potatoes
should also be plowed and MANFRED.
Spread the manure upon the plowed
ground and leave until spring; then pillow
under.
THIsTLEs and many other weeds may
be destroyed by cutting just before or
while in full bloom They should be
cut as closely as possible, and in the
case of thistles, if cut just before rain,
all the better, as the hollow stems will
fill with water, which is said to rot the
roots.
YOU'VE fall pigs should have plenty
of milk, and, if the food is made milk
warm" they will thrive the better for
it. Small potatoes, boiled and mashed
in skinned milk, with a little bran, will
make them grow rapidly. Feed little
at time and often. The young pigs
stomach is very small, and overlooking
causes indigestion and prevents growth.
SOP ground for corn may be literally
t0p-dressed with coarse manure now, but
not plowed until near the time for plant
ing in the spring, when a dressing of
artificial corn fertilizer will be sufficient
for good crop. Better employ an ex-
ira team in spring to pillow for corn than
turn a sod now. There is other and
much more pressing work at this season.
THERE is a good deal of nourishment
in many of our weeds, and hogs will
thrive on them; but, asks some one,
don't the seed get into the manure and
SOW to the land again? Not if the
manure is piled and worked over twice
and allowed to heat between the work
ings and again after the second working
before spreading-the fermentation will
efectually destroy the vitality of all
seeds, and the manure made fine and
mellow by the process.
WHAT eats the Colorado potato beetle?
Grows, quail, rose-breasted grosbeaks,
ducks, chickens, Guinea fowls, skunks,
toads, black snakes, granddady longlegs,
yellow mites, ladybirds, rust-red social
wasps, tiger beetles, ground beetles,
soldier bugs, tachina flies, asilus flies.
Cut this out, and post it where you can
always see it, and don't destroy any such
friends, for they destroy many other in
sects as well.-Quincy Wnstern Agricul-
torjst.
COMMENTING on a report against the
patent cow mixer published in the New
York Tribune fortnight ago, the Toron-
to Globe remarks that " it scarcely needed
the emphatic condemnation of an assem-
bly, of practical farmers to show the in
vention up in its true colors," as moth
ing is better known than that it is a
matter of exceeding difficulty to keep
clean India rubber tubes through which
milk flows, and this objection alone is
suffic ent to neutralize all the good
that the milking machine could accom-
plish."
II is a fact first observed and made
known by an English farmer and agri-
cultural writer, MIR. John Hannah re-
Gently deceased-and widely confirmed
by many experiments during several
years past, that the later stages of the
ripening process diminish the proportion
of flour and nutritive value of the wheat.
The time to secure the best grain is
when the kernel is still soft enough to
be crushed, but is comparatively free
from moisture, and breaks into meal
between the thumb-nails. - american
Ag,icuItorist.
AT the late meeting of the Western
New York horticultural society, E.
Ruhlman, of Niagara county, explained
his method of raising celery. He EN-
ploys a collar mode of strip of tin two
or three inches wide and nine inches
long. This is bent into a circulr collar
and put around the celery plant when it
is first planted, and a little manure is
placed outside of the collar. As the
plant grows the collar is raised up and
kept in position around the crown of the
plant, and is still retained in place after
the celery is dug in the fall.
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