Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-11-06
AGRICULTURAL.

m Fante,.par.nips ara . very COM
mon horse food.
An orchard ard vineyard Of ten
acres, lying short distance north Of
Stockton, CAL, was recently sold for
$500 an acre.
Owing to the famine in China
large demand for breadstufIs from the
Pacific slope has been developed, and
all the steamers from San Francisco for
China so out fully loaded with -four.
Modoc county, CAL, boasts timothy
o. feet ia height, with heads inches
In length; oats over 6 feet in height, and
thick as they can stand ,-and club wheat
that will yield from fifty to Sixty bush
els.
A superior grating wax may he made
by mixing one pint linseed oil, six
pounds rosin, and one pound beeswax.
The oil will admit of much greater
proportion Of rosin than where tallow
is used.
There are in Ireland 5Sl, 1868 small
farmers, being 30 more than in 1876.
OF these 81 $40 hold not above l acre,
66,637 not above ) acres, 1897 not
above 10 acres, 1904 not above so
acres, q, 14l not above 200 acres, and
LOIS above 500 acres.
Manure applied to anything now will
wor k wonders. 1t furnishes the means
and lets the plant know beforehand
that business is going to he brisk next
season.
Here's big farm, if n floating para
graph is to believed; A farm sixty
miles long and ten wide, in one tract,
mostly fenced, is that of Miller e. Lux.
cattle monopolists of California. They
have $4,000 head of stock, own 100000
acres of choice land, and are rated as
worth $l5,000,00O.
Mr.. Josiah Hopes, writing of Hide
bound Trees" says: Like every other
gardening ope ration, this, too, is liable
to be overdone, but slight cut, merely
through the outer layer of bark, when
the tree is suffering, will bring relief,
and SO far as have observed, does no
evil"
On stiff clays, barley may yield II
greater produce, but it is of coarser
quality. On light chalky soils, it is
thin. skinned, rich in color, and, though
light in weight, well adapted for malt
ing. On loomy lands and sandy marls,
it assumes II greater plumpness, yet,
still retains its mailing quality.
One great leak on the farm Is found
in the way stock is kept. Some try to
stop the leak by seeing how small
quantity of food will sustain life, and
often succeed by having their stock al
most entirely leak away; whilst their
neighbor who feeds bounteously does
not have this leak to contend with, but
generally has profit to apply to the
stoppage Of other leaks.
To keep sweet potatoes, take COM
mon sand and have it perfectly dry;
then dig the potatoes before the vines
are frosted, or rs soon thereafter as pos
sible; have the potatoes perfectly dry.
and then take boxes or barrels and put
in LAYER Of sand, then layer of pota-
toes, and so on until the barrel is full
Then place in n dry place where they
will not freeze.
RURAL, Jr," says: ave have
learned by experience that early gath
cred winter apples keep the best. As
soon rs fruit has attained its full size,
we advise that it be picked. In Central
Illinois this will occur by the last of
the present month; further north Il
few days earlier. A few days neglect
OF this important duty may cause the
premature ripening Of the crop"
As an illustration of the rapidity
with which sheep husbandry is advanc-
ing in Texas, Sheep Husbandry IN the
South says that in 1896 San Antonio re-
ceived but 10000 pounds of wool,
which was sent through Galveston.
In 1877 she received 1900, 600 pounds.
The wool Of Nueces and the neigh
boring counties is shipped from Corpus
Christi. In 1866 there were shipped
only 100000 pounds. This year there
will be shipped G.50O,0OO.
A WRITER in an exchange says: Elk
pericnce gained the past season goes to
show that liberal manuring is the most
economical. We can see in the past
harvest where So 90 worth more fertil-
izer per acre would have given twice
that value of grain. There can be
no doubt that artificial manuring
tice in tho future, and making q few
careful experiments will give valuable
experience as to the use Of these fertil-
izers.
A weed may properly he defined to
be "a plant out Of place." A beautiful
rose in the middle of n cornfield, where
it has no business at all, but on the con-
trary, is in the way, and interferes with
the proper culture of the grain, would
be weed. The writer knows Of vine
yard ofseveral acres now overgrown with
ASPARAGUS seedlings, which have sprOuted