The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-24
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
Seasoiiable Hints,

HOI, SnoWeu gain LOT the yoke not
carded. The same result occurred when
the carding was changed to the other
steers.
MODERATELY fat animals are the
most profitable. Every excessively fat
animal has been fed at loss during the
latter part of its feeding. When an ami
NAL is ready for market, sell it: if there
is feed left, buy some more lean animals
and feed them. "The nimble sixpence I"
brings the profit.
THE labor required to kill a hundred
weeds, well-grown and firmly rooted,
will kill 10000 when just sprouted. 1t
is easier in every respect to go over your
ground three times when weeds are in
the earliest stages of their existence,
than once after they have become firmly
established.
IT has been found by chemical analy-
sis that mornings milk is not nearly so
rich and nutritious as evenings milk,
and will not yield more than half as
much butter to given quantity. The
fatty matter increases as the day pro-
crosses from two and one-quarter per
cent. in the morning, to three and one
Hall dI NUN, anu uNt anu OUc-udll dG
night.
Mr.. SCHULZ, of Little Falls, n. Y,
estimates that the land in pasturage and
hay requisite for the support of cow is
is three acres; pnd this is the estimate
for moderately good dairy farms in Eng
land. In Belgium ten acres of land sup
port two COWS, one heifer, and one year
ling or calf; but when the calves are
sold Oft young, and COWS in full milk are
only kept, the proportion is two cows to
seven and One-half acres. COlman esti-
mates three acres of pasture as requisite
for COW in Berkshire county, Mass,
while IN some towns two acres OF pastur-
age are sufficient. Mr. Harrington, in
the report of the American Dairyman's
Association, thinks that on the average
four acres are required per COW, for sum-
mer and winter keep; while Y. A. Will
lard thinks that in Herkimer county, \.
Y, one and one-half to two acres of pas
ture per cow will answer, and in some
exceptional cases one acre.-Scjentifc
Farmer.
A CORRESPONDENT writes to the New
England Farmer that he finds air-slacked
lime applied to the potato tops will kill
the Larvae of the Colorado potato beetle.
This is also the experience of CORE
spondent of the Mirror and Farmer, who
says: "To years ago the Colorado bee
tie attacked my potato crop. After try
ing various things without success,
stumbled on a cask of lime that had be-
come air-slacked. | commenced to dust
it on the tops, and wherever it fell on
the slugs they turned black and soon
dropped off and died. [ passed over the
field three times between hoeing and
blossom time and found it not only sure
death to the Larvae, but a material bene-
fit to the crop. Last year | tried the
same remedy in another part of the town
with the same good result" We read of
man who placed 200 potato bugs in a
bottle and sprinkled lime over them
Within one hour not one was left alive.
On the following day ne sprinkled lime
over his potato patch, and on the next
morning found tens of thousands of bugs
living dead. The experiment is at least
worth trying.-Ameyican Rural Home.
AN article of diet of almost universal
consumption among the poorer classes in
Russia is the variety of homemade
cheese known as "Tworog," of which
more than 100000 pounds are sold an
nually in St. Petersburg alone. Its
mode of preparation is very simple.
Sour skim milk is placed over night in a
warm oven, and poured the next day
upon sieve, where it is allowed to re-
main till all the whey has~run off. The
curd is then packed tightly in wooden
vessel, and covered with lid made to fit
exactly within it. On this heavy weights
are placed, so as to keep up a constant
pressure on the mass of curd; and the
space between the lid and the top of the
vessel is filled with cold water, which is
frequently renewed TwOrog cheese is,
in fact, nothing more than hard pressed
curd. In the northwestern and southern
governments of the empire it is often
made from sleeps milk, and in Bessa-
rabia a superior quality made from the
whole milk is prepared, which possesses
far better keeping properties than the
ordinary sort, and which is exported in
considerable quantities to Wallachia,
Moldavia, and even to Austria-Ameri-
can Dairynaan.
For ounce and plum trees salt is all
that is required to keep them in a
healthy vigOr. In crops like barley,
oats, wheat, clover, and all the grasses,
there is All apparent value in its use the
first season; not as much the second, be-
cause salt Is an absorbent Of ammonia,
and while it takes it from the soil and
atmosphere, it also chemically returns
it to the roots of the crops, SO long as
moisture remains in the ground. 1t con-
tinues to act so long as there is moisture
within one foot of the base of the roots;
and its action in dry time tends to keep
the crop fresh and growing, whereas it
dries up where no salt has been spread.
The quantity to the acre will depend
much upon the condition of the land.
If it has been previously we'll MANFRED
with barnyard manure, in past years,
then two hundred and sixty pounds to
the acre, spread on at time of seeding,
and narrowed in lightly, will be suffi-
cent; if the land has had no animal
manure for years past, the quantity will
need to be increased-sOmetimes to eight
bushels to the acre. Salt | have also
found good in the vegetable garden and
on small fruits-OhiO Farmer.
No breed of poultry is handsome I'M
less they are well cared for If iudicious
care be exercised at first, there is little
danger of the gapes. Indeed, the writer
is of the belief that the gapes is disease
that ali chicks 60 through with, and is
seldom observable unless the worms, in
their passage from the lungs, meet with
some impediment that occasions stop.
page in their progress, which causes suf-
fering, and almost always results in