The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-20
FARM AND HOME.
Seasonable Notes,

| ALWAYS feed your hands as we'll as
you feed yourselves, for the laboring
men are the bone and sinew of the land,
and ought to be we'll treated.
MAKE your fences high and strong so
they will keep. cattle and pigs out. If
you have brush make your lots strong
and secure and keep the hogs from the
com.
| WHEN rainy, bad weather comes, so
you can't work out of doors, cut, split
and pile your wood, make your racks,
fix your fences or gates, and patch the
roof of your barn or house.
! VEGETATION purifies the air-frstly,
because it absorbs carbonic acid; Sec
ondly, because under the influence of
sunlight 1T exhales an equivalent in oxy-
gen; and, lastly, because it produces
ozone.
FEED your land before it gets poor.
Give it all the manure you can make
and haul, and it will enrich you. Starve
it by taking off crops continually and re-
turning nothing, and it will bankrupt
you. Feed the land literally and twill
feed and clothe you.
MANY farmers think it don't pay to
bother with much gardening; but a good,
large garden, we'll planted and well
worked, will give a liberal profit from
the sale of surplus vegetables, after sup
plying the home table the season through
with all the vegetables desired.
! Do not allow ashes of any kind to be
wasted. 1t will pay to haul leached
ashes several miles, when one has his own
/ team and a laborer at fair wages. Coal
ashes, when spread around berry bushes
of any sort, or around grape vines, will
aid materially in producing large and
1 fair fruit.
j KEEP your stock constantly gainingin
/ flesh. Use the most unfailing vigilance
and diligence to secure this. The mo-
ment they begin to go down-hill dollars
are running out of your pockets, even
though you don't feel, hear or see them,
and it costs much more to get them up
again than it does to keep them up if
properly attended to before they begin
to fail.
A CROP of English hay, weighing two
tons, removes from the soil about sixty
two pounds of nitrogen, seventy pounds
of potash, and sixteen pounds of phos-
phoric acid. From an acre, crop of
clover hay, weighing two-and-a-half tons,
abstracts about IT'S pounds of nitrogen,
10 pounds of potash, and thirty-two
pounds of phosphoric acid. Two or
| three crops grown in succession, and
without manure, would partially exhaust
even the best of land.
| FEED sparingly of the common soil
cake" or chambers "scraps," that is
sold for use in poultry yards now a-days.
A moderate allowance-twice week
is good for them. But overlooking this,
or permitting hungry birds to have con-
slant access to it, in a mass, is detrimen-
/ tai rather than beneficial. 1t will scour
them, if fed too freely-and induce lay
ing hens to drop soft-shelled " eggs,
very freqently. Cooked coarse meal,
alternated with scraps, for artificially-
! fed fowls, is much better than continu-
ally giving them the latter. When they
have good grass run in the summer, the
insect food they will gather is all
sufficient without any "oil cake" any
way.
/ NJ. COLOGNE, noted hOrticulturist
of Bruges, has been very successful with
potatoes by planting whole tubers thirty
| inches apart in the row, or cut in half
at twenty inches of distance. The sets
are placed on the surface, and slight
covering of soil drawn over them. 1t is
claimed for this plan that the seed
| sprouts very quickly, and their develop
ment is also fastened, which is point
gained in avoiding the destructive potato
disease. The earth is gradually drawn
up around the plants as they increase in
! ,l re IF fba
| appear to suggest. 1t is further claimed
| in favor of this treatment, air and heat
have an opportunity of gaining freer
access to the roots than by any other
and according to our foreign authority
this method deserves to be fully tested,
not only ON account of the acceleration
of growth, but because of an alleged in
crease of yield.
! THE successful farmer is he who pro-
vides conveniences for the care of his
property and the performance of his
work; he counts time as an important
item in the yearlyscalculation, and care
of all his various effects as factor in the
annual returns When he puts the horse
in the stable there is place for the har-
ness where it will be safe from weather
or any other damage; his wagons and
tools are provided with coverings to pre-
serve them; about his premises will be
found q little shop or room where he
keeps saws, hammers, vises, augers, and
the various tools that are needed to mend
and put in order the different machines
he uses These simple articles prevent
days and weeks of delay, besides adding
to the length of time implements will
last. 1t pays to have conveniences, and
also to get what you do buy of good
quality Lancaster Farmer.
AN English writer in the Journal q
! the Royal agricultural Society assumes to
have made discovery in top-dressing
green sward with lime, and its restora-
tive effects, and describes the process
somewhat in detail. Now, if the writer
had visited this country, where English
farmers imagine agricultural science to
be in its infancy, he would have found
that the application of lime to sward or
sod is a common practice here, especially
upon pasture lands. We have known
sward to afford the very best pasture for
fifty years, without breaking up, and so
maintained by the top-dressing of lime
once in from six to ten years, say of
from thirty to fifty bushels per acre.
These pastures, which mostly abound
in clay mounds, after being grazed down
are restored knee deep with the richest
4 and most nourishing heritage in from
four to five weeks The truth is,
nowhere has lime marked effect and
can be used with more profit than in the