Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-11-22
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ed at 500 POO, zoo, the wine crop $2l0-
100000.
SOME of the farmers who have been
buying patent eow-milkerS now call
them cow-dryers.
THERE is no animal that will better
repay the cost OF good extra keep than
a dairy COW III full milk
STANDARD apple trees should be
planted 80 feet apart each way, though
III poor soils = feet may he enough.
TnE wheat crop Of the northwest as
it is being threshed is turning out better
than was reported, both in quality and
quantity.
CLEAN up all rubbish about yards and
buildings, and remove manure heaps
having al possible materials for COM
post gathered and utilized.
A SWEET potato of the yam variety
has been raised near Abilene, so says
the Gazette, which weighed when taken
from the ground, ten pounds and four
ounces.
TIE London Omnibus company,
which ten years ago fed their horses
principally with oats and beans with
hay, now feed almost exclusively on In
dirn corn and hay.
IL the Kingston lGanada) poultry ex-
hibition, the Judges had some of the
game fowls washed i'll n bucket, and it
was discovered that they were only
common fowls painted.
The best favored meat, and at the
same time Of the richest quality, is nj
tanned when the cows feed on old and
rich permanent pastures i'll summer,
the flavor being particularly sweet.
a THIEF received thirty lashes on his
bare back 1T the whipping post III Vr-
ginia, the other day, for stealing steer
That's better than taxing the people
to feed him in Jail for several months
JUST think of the enragod feelings
of farmer who finds too late that he
has squash down in an off corner of
the field that was Il h.lf pound heavier
than the one that took the prize at the
fair.
Work not rod OF land more than
you can work well. Ii is easier and
far moro profitable to reap sixty BUSH
els from one acre than fifty from two.
Manure and proper cultivation will
enable you to do 1t.
DO not work butter too much nor too
fast. Work slowly, and until all the
salt is thorougly and evenly absorbed,
otherwise the butter will not be Of uni
form color. Working it too fast will
destroy the grain.
A SAMPLE sheaf of millet from u forty
acre field belonging to John Haines il
on exhibition at the office of the Abi-
lene, Kas.,) Gdeette, measuring over six
feet in length. The sod was broken
for this heavy crop in the month Of
May.
An the harvesting implements and
machines should be cleaned and oiled w
both woodwork and iron-and stored
i'll dry, covered place. TO remove
rust use crude petroleum: then brush
over with linseed oil. Petroleum is n
good preserver OF wood.
In Germany farms are systematical-
ly drained without regard to the amount
of water on them. The object is to ad-
NIT the air into the soil to ventllate it,
as II were The same thing has been
done in some parts Of our own country
with evident profit.
Pure air and good water are Of even
greater importance than exercise III
the care of young animals. They are
often huddled together i'll houses alto
gether insufficient i'll size, and in which
the atmosphere is almost constantly
impure from the product Of respira-
ton.
There is no better time than the pres
ent for draining wet ground. Swamps
are now dry; work is not pressing;
every foot Of land a farmer owns should
be made profitable, and if the season is
permitted 70 pass and this work is neg
lected, 4 year must pass before the op-
portunity returns.
Much has been said Of late about the
deterioration 81 the breed Of Jersey
cattle ut the place Of their nativity. A
recent correspondence to the Monthly
BuQetin shows the breed to be rather
improved than otherwise, with only
slight difference in color where color
breeding had been a specially.
On stiff clays, barley may yield a
a greater produce, but il is Of coarse
quality. On light chalky soils, it is thin
skinned, rich in color, and, though
light in weight, well adapted for malt
ing On loamy lands and sandy marls,
il assumes greater plnmpncss, yet still
retains its mailing quality.
"a RICH sugar reiiner of san Francisco
has bought 10000 acres Of land III tic
Hawaiian Islands for tie cultivation of
sugar cane. He will irrigatc the dry
lands and drain the swamps, build rail
ways and spare no money to make the
thing success. The same man, when
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