The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-06

Seasonable Hints.

! PARSLEY, one of the best of the sayorv
herbs, is little grown in this country.
Its seeds take six weeks to sprout. and
should be sown as soon as the frost is out
of the ground; indeed, it has been sug-
gested that the experiment of fall sowing
be tried.
1T is an obvious waste Of forage to
plough under rich, succulent growth
of clover. If it is fed or cut, and then
the stubble ploughed under, the value of
the forage is saved, more manure is
made, and the direct value of the clover
stubble and roots is nearly as that of the
entire crop.
DON'T try to fatten your pig rapidly
until you have first grown him. You
cannot make heavy hog unless you
first produce a lengthy pig. Weeds.
clover, meat, scraps, boiled potatoes
kitchen refuse, any and all heterogeneous
or flesh forming foods, are preferable
during the early months of the pigs ex-
istence, to the meal and grain or fat
forming foods which are required for the
fnishing-of process.-Ploughnaan.
TAKING timothy hay as the standard
of comparison, it requires 100 pounds of
it to supply certain amount of nour-
ishment. 1t is estimated by careful ex-
pertinent that the same amount of nour-
ishment can be obtained by using the
following quantities of other food: Clio
yer hay, 50 lbs; rye straw, $50 lbs; oat
straw, 220 TBS; potatoes, 1876 lbs; carrots,
$50 TBS; beets, 346 lbs; ruta bagas, 262
TBS; wheat, 43 lbs; peas, A lbs; corn
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64 lbs.
AMONG the varieties of head lettuce
is the Dutch butter, with leaves slightly
speckled, more visible in the immature
growth than in the head. 1t is not
among the mammoths, but rather under
sized, and may, perhaps, be of less value
to the market-gardener on that account
than others; but for private family use
we recommend it confidently One
valuable quality is its ability to resist
heat, and the longer condition fit for
table than some other excellent kinds,
which shoot to seed as soon as the head
is fully formed.
EXPERIMENTS in sowing wheat at diff
ferent depths favor, in ordinary soils,
one to two inches. Samples of pure seed
sown one-half inch in depth came up in
eleven days, seven-eights of the seed
terminated; that sown one inch in depth
came up in twelve days and all the seed
terminating; two inches deep, seven
eighths of it came up in eighteen days;
three inches deep, three-fourths OF it
came up in twenty days; four inches
showed a growth of one-half, that came
up in twenty-one days; five inches, only
one-half grew and came up in twenty
two days, while that planted six inches
| deep came up in twenty-three days, but
only one-third terminated.
| DIR. KINGSLEY, of Oneida county,
writes TO the Country Gentleman that
fnely-powdered aloes will kill lice on all
animals, while the remedy is entirely
harmless, destroying the parasites by its
| intense bitterness. The directions for its
| application are as follows: Fill a large
common pepper box with the powder,
and sprinkle thoroughly into the hair,
on the neck, back, sides and rump of the
creature infested, and rub it thoroughly
| through the hair and on the skin with
the ends of the fingers. Leave it undis-
| turbed for a week; then card or curry
thoroughly, and apply as before, and so
continue at intervals of a week, until
there is not living parasite. have
used and recommended this extermina-
tor in numerous cases, without failure );
and two different applications, if thor
oughly made, generally suffice.
THE following is wash for fruit
trees used by William Saunders, of
the government gardens at Wash
ington: Put half a bushel of lime
and four pounds of powdered sui
phur in tight barrel, Stacking the
lime with hot water, the mouth of the
barrel being covered with cloth; this is
reduced to the consistency of ordinary
whitewash, and, at the time of applica-
ton, half an ounce of carbolic acid to
| each gallon of liquid. Mr. Saunders
says: 81 generally applied it in the
spring, before the leaves made their ap-
pearance, but | am convinced that it
would be more effective if applied later !:
but then it is difficult to do so when the
tree is in foliage" Mr. Saunders APP
plies the wash, not only to the stem of
the tree, but to some extent, to the main
branches.
A LADY correspondent of a southern
paper, writing from Arkansas, gives the
following recipe to increase the flow of
milk in COW. She says: "Tepid
water, slightly sailed, given twice day,
will increase the flow of milk one-third /;
if the COW will not drink it at first trial,
scatter handful of bran or meal over
the top of it. They soon become very
fond of it, and will drink all you give
them. 1 tried this plan three years ago
with perfect success. | had only one
| COW, and she was of the common scrub
stock of the country, and after she be-
gan to drink the water, prepared as
above, she furnished me twice day two
ordinary water buckets full of milk, and
by feeding little corn boiled with cot
ton seed, the milk yielded butter enough
to supply my table bountifully and
leave me few pounds to sell every
week. | gave her three gallons of water
twice day"
The Household.
HAIR Observation-Disclosures oil, eight