Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-01-30

saying applicable to manural wealth,
ana from every barnyard MANY n dollar
mes on into the air every year un.
noticed save by the nose, and unfortun-
aely tne usual warnings are seldom
impressive enough to induce the farm
er to take ordinary precautions to de-
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THOROUGHBRED VS.. COMMON SHEET
a farmer IN this country who is sup
posed to own as good common sheen
as anybody in this locality sheared hi.
flock, and after weighing the fleeces
FOUND mat each sheep averaged two
and halfpounds. Take the whole
number of sheep in this State and they
VIII not average more than the above.
say that wool is worth twenty cents per
pound, the profits from each sheen will
be fifty cents. Take now An estimate
OF heeces of the thoroughbred Merino
and Cotswold, which will not average
less than eight pounds per head-the
net profits on each sheep, 81. 60 of 81. 10
in favor of the thoroughbred will com
mand a higher market value. Now it
costs the same to raise the thorough
bred as the common sheep; the mutton
OF one Is as good rs the other; the
profits of the Sool of the thoroughbred
Is three times greater than from the
common. Every farmer owning a
flock of sheep should make it con-
venient to purchase n thoroughbred
ram to improve the quality and yield of
his wool; such an investment will nav.
-Lire Stock Journal.
FENCEs.-It is said that the fences in
this country cost more than all the
houses, whether this is strictly true or
not it is beyond question that their first
cost Is immense and that vast expense
is yearly incurred to keep them in re-
pair; and what makes bad mattera
good deal worse is the fact that large
part OF this expense may be avoided.
Farmers have built too many fences,
some OF these are not merely useless
but are a positive disadvantage. They
take up considerable land which ought
to be under cultivation but from which
nothing of value is obtained, and thew
are IN the way about cul,ivating and
harvesting the crops.
In some places these evils are so
strongly manifested as to lead TO ~
marked deduction in the number of
fences. In some parts of Massachusetts
this Is true to - great extent, great
number of roadside fences have been
removed and many inside fences have
been taken away Where stone walls
abound it is somewhat difficult to follow
this example, but wooden fences can
easily be removed. For many pur-
poses large fields are better than small
ones. if they We're not it is question
whether any advantages which small
fields could furnish would be sufficient
to justify the great expense of fencing
them--Dirigo R,udl
HOUSE PLANTs.-Most of our plants
are injured by too much heat. For a
general collection of house plants, it is
not best to allow the thermom eter to be
above seventy, and if they could be
kept in a room where the thermometer
would not usually range much above
sixty-tive it would be the better. In the
night time fifty is enough. Give little
fresh air every day, and all the sunlight
attainable. An effort should be made
to give moisture to the atmosphere, for
our own good as well as the health of
the plants. This can be done in various
ways by evaporating water; but when
the plants are in separate apartment,
like in little greenhouse, it can be
done more conveniently and efTectually,
although this separate apartment be
only q bay window, with glass doors
separating it from the living room. In
this place water can be used freely, by
Swinging, ETC., and moist atmosphere
preserved. The temperature, with this
arrangement, can be kept lower than
would be comfortable in the living
room, and the plants are saved from
dust and many evils which we manage
to endure and live, but which generally
prove too much for the plants.
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RENNErS--THEIR PREPARATIoN.--lt il
only the fourth, or true digesting stom.
ach of the calf, from which rennet can
be prepared out Of the inner lining OF
mucous membrance They are usually
in their best condition when the calf is
from five to ten days old, but do no,
vary materially while the young animal
lives entirely on milk. AS soon as the
calves begin to live on solid food
the strength of their stomachs as rem
nets grow feeble The calf should be
perfectly healthy, must have sucked
the COW four or five days, and to within
a short time of killing. If it has been
without food for any length of time the
stomach becomes in1amed and con
gested with blood, and especially SO il
the calf has been driven or carried much
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