The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-12-07
RURAL ECONOMY.
Reasonable Hints.

| A KANSAS sweet potato is big enough
for family dinner. Some of the m
weigh nine pounds.
able if they lend their farming tools an d
then grumble if they have to go three
times to get them.
OATS vary in quality with the soil on
which they are grown. The meal from
oats grown on clay land is the best in
quality, is the thriftiest," keeps the
longest and is worth the highest price.
A FARMER in Bristol, Pa, raised six :
! teen acres of sage this year, and realized
1000 from it. Now let every farmer
go to raising sausage seasoning and run
the price down to l cent a pound.
THE long continued experiments of
Lawes and Gilbert, certainly show that
nitrogen is the constituent of soils which
first fails when cropping is continued
without the application of manures.
The quantity of ash left by ton of
wheat straw is sometimes as much as $50
pounds, and by ton of Oat straw as
much as 200 pounds, though not more
than 30 in each case.
BARLEY with thin skin, round, and
full in grain, with bright color, which
exposure to the weather Injuries, is most
mealy, and, therefore, the best for all
uses.
IT used to be thought impossible to
break a colt without a whip. But sense
and experience have taught that an APP
pie is better than a lash, and a caress
better than a blow.
IT should be borne in mind that to get
the cream to rise rapidly as possible Is
important, for when milk is put into d
pan and allowed to stand till it throws
up cream, the portion OF cream rising
to the surface is richer in quality than
that which rises in a second equal por-
tion of time, and so on-the cream pro-
gressively declining in quality, 50 long as
any rises to the surface.
THERE are two broadly distinguished
classes of wool that enter into commerce
fleece woods and skin woods. The first
are obtained by the annual shearing of
the sheep, the last are those cut or pulled
from the slaughtered animals, which,
having been subjected to lime, are char
acterized by their harshness and inca
pacity of taking a good dye, especially if
the animal has persisted from any
malignant disease.
TAKE special pains to furnish the barn
yard with an ample supply of water
before winter sets in; do not wait until
the weather is cold, but do it now if
there is no spring that can be brought
without resort to the hydraulic ram, and
you will be surprised at the result in
food, comfort and condition Of the stock
if they are able to get all the good water
they wish without being compelled to
wade through the deep snow in search of
it and then get poor quality.-Farml
and Firestde.
As soon as the mare and foaI can be
separated the foal should have, if posi-
bic, the run of a good pasture, as there
is no food better than grass, no medicine
Sc good as exercise, and no exercise so
prof table to young animals as when
taken Just when they feel like it. A
good warm shelter should be always
accessible, 50 that they may be protected
from storms The idea that roughing
it" the first winter makes a colt more
hardy" is all nonsense. The true
theory is plenty of food, abundant ex-
ercise, and protection from storms and
extreme cold, in well ventilat d well
lighted stables.-Nati0na Lice Stock
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