Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-09-25
AGRICULTURAL,

STRAWBERRIES set now, in rich soil
and covered we'll throughout the winter
will give a large crop next season.
To cure scab in sheep, rub it with
pure petroleum with sponge three
times a week. Dogs can be cured of
mango in the same way.
LAND laid down with clover is bette,
then money in bank, drawing more III
terest then any bank can pay, and co,n.
pounding the interest oftener.
IT is bad practice 70 pillow up pas
lures for reseeding. The older the pss.
ture, as rule, the better the grass Ii
q pasture fails, top-dres it with we'll
decomposed manure.
NOT only have trees about the farm.
yard, but have them in the pasture, by
the watering place, near the barn and
wherever cattle, horses and sheep are to
be provided for.
AS general thing, it is cheaper and
more convenient to get seeds
of the regular seedsmen than to
save them. But if any are saved, let
them always be of the earliest, fairest
and best specimens.
BEING the last of the warm months
September is overrated. 1t is a matter.
of-fact sort OF month, in which shrewd
people discount the remainder or the
season and prepare for the comforts of
long, cold winter, 80 far as they may.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Poultry
Journal has discovered that a very
strong decoction of peach.tree leaves is q
specific for chicken cholera. l do not
know of single failure when used
in time. Dose, one-half teaspoonful.
THERE is more money in good poultry.
raising, considering its cost, by one.half,
to be had annually then can be realized
from the pigs or the sheep on the farm.
And yet the latter are fed and housed
and bred everywhere, to the entire neg
lect, almost, of fowl stock.
WILD carrots can be exterminated
with little labor. 1t yields to moving
in two or three years, if the seed is not
allowed to ripen, being only biennial
whose seed germs must either sprout
soon or perish. Cattle will eat some of
it, and think sheep would eat it all.
For kicking horse fill ar old sack
with hay and suspend it from the loft by
means OF rope, in such a manner that
the horse will be able to kick it every
time it swings against him. Let him
kick until he stops of his own accord,
and you will have no more trouble with
him that way.
TRY your wild cherries in glass cans
and let sny half invalid or we'll per-
son swallow The juice of few at each
meal. If, to keep the land productive,
we must feed it, so we must attend to
feeding the body with the native relishes
which are plentiful, and SO save 30 much
bother with manufactured medicine.
ONE of the most important matters in
the care of hogs in the autumn, not only
with stockers, but fattening hogs, is
that they be kept dry under foot, have
plenty of the best food, and especially
that their sleeping quarters are dry and
warm, and at the same time we'll ven
tilated.-Prairie Farmer.
PROBABLY the very best way to pro-
tect wheat in the bins from the weevil
is to thoroughly fumigate the bins with
burning sulphur. This should be done
before the grain is put into the bins,
and repeated in the course of month or
80 after the grain is stored. Some per-
sons use lime and salt. but there is moth.
ing better than sulphur Chautauqua
Farmer.
A VERMONT farmer recommends the use
of sawdust, as bedding for cattle, to
keep them clean and to absorb the
liquid manure. An experience of TWEEN
ty years in using on large farm shows
that it does not injure the soil, being
freely applied in this way. Some soils,
no doubt, would be improved by the
addition of sawdust; Others might be in.
jured somewhat until the sawdust de-
cayed.
AN old stock breeder says: In my
opinion the best COW ever bred for milk,
cream and butter is highgrade Jersey,
a mixture of Jersey and Ayrshire breeds,
say seven-eighths Jersey and one-eighth
Ayrshire. Such a grade will produce
more milk, cream and butter of equal
quality than any other thoroughbred
Jersey.
1T is believed by many that red clover
is one of the best of soiling crops. A
half acre will keep one COW throughout
the months of June, July and August,
if cut and fed at the stall; while more
then twice the amount Il grazed, accord
ing to experiments IN England, will
will barely subsist COW during the
same time.
In order to keep their butter over the
period of low prices and hot weather,