The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-04-05
AGRICULTURAL.

u
ing rats by means of alcohol mixed with
cheap molasses. Rats love sweets and
will indulge in molasses, despite the
alcohol, until they are 50 drunk that
they cannot move, and are easily caught.
By eating old straw of barley or wheat
grown over with bunt and green clover
with rust, apeculiar disease in cattle was
developed recently in Bavaria. The
affected animals we're, however, entirely
cured by taking from them the above
named substances.
AN old farmer living near Elliota
recommends farmers to sow about one
pint OF winter rye to each bushel of
wheat this spring. The rye will not ma
ture but will keep green, and the
chinch-bugs will leave the wheat en-
tirely alone and eat the rye.
FEW things are so important as firm
ing the soil around newly-planted trees;
a neglect here is principal cause Of so
many vacant spaces III young orchards.
If pressed down as tight as possible, the
soil will refrain moisture q far greater
length of time than if merely thrown
loosely into the hole, promote an early
start of the rootlets and small fbers,
and prevent loss which would follow q
cessation of growth.
For scours in sheep give pulyerized
alum in wheat bran. Prevent6y taking
great care III changing dry for green
food. If lame examine feet, clean out
hOOfs; pare hoof, if unsOund, and APP
ply tobacco boiled with blue vitriol, in
little water. If the weather is not
too cold, shear at once, sheep beginning
to shed, and carefully save pelts of those
that die. Have some good book on sheep
to refer to. It will put money in thy
purse.
WE ferment manure for the same
reason that we decompose bone-dust or
mineral phosphates with sulphuric acid
and convert them into superphosphate,
or for the same reason that we grind
our corn and cook our meal These
processes add nothing to the amount of
plantfood in the bones or the nutri-
ment in the corn. They only increase
its availability. So in Terminating ma
nure. This process renders the plant
food in the manure more imme diately
available.
CHICKEN cholera was very bad here
last spring, and | will tell you readers
how we cured it. For every forty fowls
we took piece of assafetida the size Of
a hickory nut, broke it in small pieces
and mixed it in about pint of corn
meal, wet it thoroughly with boiling
water and placed it near the roosting
place, so that the chickens could eat of
it the first thing in the morning. If
they were not too near dead to eat,
cure was certain.--Letter to Ohio Farmer
A MILLER of Halliday, Ill, writes
the Prairie Farmer that, having lost
severely from hog cholera for years, in
feeding hogs on swill of bran and shorts,
he finally adopted the plan of starving
sick hogs until they would eat dry bran
slightly sailed. Since that time, he
says, he has not bees troubled with fatal
diseases among his hogs. Another cor
respondent claims to have succeeded
equally well by giving the swine access
to what salt they wished, in clean pas
ture.
The farmer wko is habitually care
full with his seed-grain, so as to get only
the best, is doing much toward advanc-
ing the products of his fields, not only
in starting his crop-in which it is SO
impo,tant-but throughout its entire
growth, including the berry which is to
form the seed for the succeeding year.
This is apt to be plumper and sounder,
and much the better calculated for the
next sowing and an improvement upon
the last. l include with the grains the
seed also for the forage plants.
Always the best growth should be select
ed, the greatest difficulty being to OBJ
tain clean seed and keep it clean, on &C
count Of the foul condition of the land.
ONE leak on nearly every farm may
be found in the neglect of the agricul-
tural implements. In travelling over
the country it is no unusual sight to
see plows, harrows, wagons, sleds reap
ers, mowers, etc, piled in the fence
corners, in the fields, lanes, barnyards
public highways. Whenever you see
things piled around in this way, saws
the american Rurat Home, you can set
it down that there is at least one leak
on that farm. An excuse might be
found for some farmers of limited
means, that they are not able to build
shelters for their implements; but we
find the same leak on farms where thew
count their acres by the hundreds and
their dollars by the thousand, and, of
course, the larger the farm the greater
the leak, We believe a careful estimate
OF the annual shrinkage thus incurred
by some farmers would astonish them.
and show why farming does not pay.
Collie is one of the most fatal dis
eases horse flesh is heir to. The symp-
toms of collie are readily detected. The
animal scrapes with bis fore feet, kicks
at the belly, and shifts about, turns
around, smells the floor, crouches. nuts
the nose to the TANKS, lies down, rolls.
remains for time on the back. and
breathes heavily throughout. But there
Is ready and safe means of relief and
cure IN every homestead in the land-a
means and method recently brought for
ward az meeting OF the London
Farmers Club, by Mr.. Frederick Street.
gentleman OF great skill and exDeri
ence i'll the training and management
OF horses. When the horse shows the
symptoms of an attack of collie, amply
st once, says Mr.. Street, q horse cloth or
wooden rag, wrung out of boiling water.
TO the belly and up the sides, and cover
with another couple Of cloths, 10 retain
the heat. As they cool renew the cloths
as often as needful. A large bran
poultice, as hot as can be borne, is
equally effective, and retains the heat
longer.
CORN stoyer cut earlier and properly
cured is quite an aid in preserving the
hay NOW: but there as q wide difference
in the estimate of farmers as to its value.