The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-15
RURAL ECONOMY.
Practical Hints.

| NEVER, under any circumstances,
leave your milk-strainer at the barn over
night.
If you will plant seed of the castor
bean where moles are most troublesome,
it will drive them away.
INSECTS on vines can be driven off by
sprinkling the vines with plaster, SCOT OF
air-slacked lime.
THIS is the time of year to plant Man
gel Wertzel seed. 1t is great mistake to
plant two or three inches deep. One
inch is enough.
Do not trim up your trees five or six
feet. Let the limbs of the tree come
near the ground. In other words, short
en- In your tree.
The great English agricultural writer
and practical farmer, Jethro Tull, living
and writing 100 years ago, held that fire.
quent blowing and stirring the soil was
equivalent to liberal cost of manure.
WORMS in horses are caused from hard
work, poor food, and general neglect
For ordinary cases of worms, common
salt, nutritious food and pure water will
prove satisfactory. Salt should always
be kept in the stall of horses.
CAULIFLowER should be transplanted
in rows some two feet apart, leaving
about two feet between the plants. Gull
liberal manuring, and protect from the
sun by breaking its leaves over the head
when in flower.
A SIMPLE remedy to prevent the pres
ence of moles and mice in and around
hot-beds, was told to us few days
since, viz: Stick pieces of green elder
bushes into the ground in the premises
infested, and these troublesome creatures
will give it wide berth.
The Chinese, with whom agriculture
is held in higher estimation than with us,
were the first to use night-soil. They
forbid it's waste and furnish receptacles to
receive it. They mix it with clay and
then make dried cakes of it, which can
be transported any distance, or preserved
any length of time.
THOSE who buy currant or gooseberry
bushes as late as this, will do well to cut
them severely back. No fruit would be
born this year if this were not done, and
! the expanded leaves not receiving a suffi-
cheney of sap from the roots, will ex-
haust the stems and cause weakness from
which it may require a year or SO to re-
cover 0lnan's Rural World
To wash the wool on the sleeps back
is not profitable practice. The wool is
not half washed, and the difference in
price will not pay for the loss in weight,
to say nothing of the trouble and risk
for both men and flock. If the sheep
are kept reasonably clean, and the wool
free from rubbish, it will be found better
than having to wash them to get rid of
unnecessary filth.
PEAR BLIGHT.-This troublesome dis
ease, so much in the way of the pear
grower, has been very successfully traced
for its origin to vegetable parasite of a
fungoid character. The remedy is a
vigorous growth IF the trees. A tree en-
tirely healthy and vigorous is not liable
to be attacked by fungus-decline and
decay are the conditions favoring
growths Of that character.-FruuR Record
| er.
In Cheshire, England, which is great
grazing country, the land that has been
underdrained and top-dressed with
ground bones will carry one COW to each
acre through the summer, but the land
not thus treated will only carry one cow
to two acres The dressing of bones
upon pasture land there is | 200 to ], )
800 pounds per acre, once in seven years.
Would it not be economy to improve our
pastures up to higher standard than
now prevails?
MAKE the roads everywhere on the
farm before the ground is firmly settled,
as it makes the best Job and is not so apt
to wash away by heavy rains. When
left until haymaking then the ground is
too hard to pick or pillow, and what is
thrown into the road remains loose, and
draws heavy when we come to haul in
hay and grain. But when it is made
early in the spring it settles firmly fast
by the time the haymaking and harvest
ing comes.
HEN manure should be mixed with
earth. Seeds are lost by planting them
where too much hen manure has been
dropped. Plaster is good to mix with
it; but better way to use hen manure
especially for the garden, is to put it in
barrels, half filling them, and then pour
in soft water until full. Take the liquid
after the manure is well soaked and ap-
ply it when needed. Be sure to use
soft water; rain water is best.-Fa,mer's
Friend.
AN eastern farmer says: CATER ex-
perimenting with all the varieties OF
corn sowing in broadcast, in drills, and
cultivated by hoeing it, have come to
the conclusion that the best and most
profitable way to raise corn fodder is to
plant sweet corn; put your rows three
feet apart, plant thick, not more than
stalks in hill, manure heavily, keep il
clear of weeds, hoe two or three times
and you will have an abundant crop OF
the best kind of fodder for mich cows "
A MAN in Bethlehem, Conn, has had
patented new instrument for milking
cows. 1t consists of four small silver
tubes, about the size of knitting-nee
die, with holes in the sides, the ends
rounded and very smooth. The tube:
are inserted into small india-rubbel
tubes about six inches long, fastened to
gether at the lower end. When the tubes
are inserted into the teats about an inch
the milk will Immediately flow in a con
tinuous stream until the last drop i.
drained.
Family Matters.
MAKE a paste of soft soap and emery
for polishing steel.
OLD paint pals and cans may be thor.
ouphlv cleaned with strong hot I've