Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-04
EARN AND HOUSEHOLD.

THIS years wool clip is about aOo,-
O0O,O0 lbe.
CONNECTICUT has law requiring deal
ers in olemargarine to stamp the word
on every box, package, ETC., offered tor
sale, or be liable to fine OF $50. Let
the law be enforced.
IT is said that bag of hops, as large
as the two fists, placed in grain bin,
will kill or drive away every grub or
weevil in the bin. The dead can be re-
moved by tanning.
OATMEAL and water is coming into
general use as drink during hot wea-
ther for men and horses too, Gil Cana
dian farms. Experience has shown that
it is a grateful and Strengthening bever-
age.
THE wool clip of 1873 is about 8 per
cent. greater than that of the previous
year. New England fell off about 5 per
cent, the three north middle states 3
per cent, and the Pacific states 8 per
cent. All other states show an in
! crease.
PARsNIPs contain almost twice as
much dry matter or real food as turnips,
and this of a superior quality. Carrots,
again, contain about as much dry sub
stance as mangolds, but are richer in
sugar, and of better feeding quality.
IMPRovErRE FARM-If the farmer i'm
proves his farm he improves his finan-
cial condition. The more valuable he
makes it the more his capital stock is
increased, the larger will be his returns,
and when he dies the larger will be the
patrimony he leaves his family. Fix
up the old home then. Clean out the
fence corners. Destroy the noxious
weeds. Grub ont the hazel and sassa-
fras. Burn out the stumps. Clean off
the logs and. stones. Make a paradise
on earth of your farm, for are you not
to live on it while you remain on earth,
and will not your family live on it when
you lie in yonder graveyard? Plant out
good orchards, so that your family may
enjoy the good fruit that you had the
foresight and energy to provide for
them.
Eggs AND MEAT.-As flesh producer,
one pound of eggs is equal to one pound
of beef A hen may be calculated to
consume one bushel of corn yearly land
to lay twelve dozen or eighteen pounds
of eggs. This is equivalent TO saying
that three and one-tenth pounds of corn
will produce, when fed to hen, one
pound of eggs. A pound of pork on
the contrary requires about five and one
tenth pounds of corn for its production.
When eggs are "a cents a dozen and
pork ten cents pound, we have BUSH
ell of corn fed, producing $2.SS worth Of
eggs and $105 of pork. Judging from
these facts, eggs must be economical in
their production and IN their eating,
and especially ct for the laboring man
in replacing meat.
Conscious accustomed to great
variety of food are invariably good eat.
ers, and almost always heavy mixers.
Thus, the best COWS in the neighborhood
are usually those Of poor men, whose
one COW is made pet of, and has all
sorts Of food. Such cows are usually a
good bargain at almost any price, though
they rarely do as well when taken from
their old homes and turned in with
the less varied fare according to larger
herds. Milk men have learned that it is
important to give COWS variety of food.
Hence their purchases of bran, meal,
roots and oil-cake. 1t may not pay
farmers to take so much pains, but they
can promote the thrift of their herds
and their own profits by changing the
animals food as often as possibe.-Co'-
respondence Country Gentleman.
READ MISUNDERSTANDING man, be-
fore beginning to read law, medicine or
theology, ask yourself if it would not be
better to read agriculture and practice
it. Are not the so-called learned pro-
LESSONS crowded to their utmost capaci-
ty? Is there not more inviting field
open before you as a learned farmer,
than as learned lawyer, divine or doc
tor? To attain distinction in any Of these
professions, you will, most likely, have
to go through the starving process for
several years, and to labor harder than
any farmer labors. Think of these
things. If you don't think Of them now.
you will think Of them often before you
make living by your profession.
Too MANY FENCEs.-1 have often won
dered at the preference of farmers for
small fields. One often sees two. three,
or five acres enclosed by an old zig gag
rail fence, and the whole farm, in many
instances, cut up into small sections;
whereas, third the amount of fenc-
ing would be just rs satisfactory and
much more pleasing to the eye. Guilt
waited as it usually is, nearly rod in
width of the land is left for the propa-
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