Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-11-06
FARM NOTES.


OF money on the farm as elsewhere.
MANY farmers who use plaster have
found its good effects more apparent
when salt is added.
ATTEND to the cellars by cleaning and
whitewashing them thoroughly before
the winter supplies are put in.
Hoes may be kept from measles
trichinosis, etc., by mixing a handful
of good wood ashes with their food twice
a week.
GERANIUMs that are dug up from the
flower bed this fall can be hung up in
the cellar on nail, and start out green
in the spring.
1T don't matter what man attempts
on the farm; to be successful he must
attend carefully and constantly to bust.
ness.
Fowl houses and yards should be
well drained. Low, damp grounds are
very unhealthy for chickens. Ahill.side
is the best location for a poultry house
VASES that are to remain outside all
winter, especially deep ones, should have
action of the frost will swell and crack
them.
The soil should be fed 80 that in turn
may feed plants, for in proportion to
the richness of the soil, either natural or
artificial, in just such proportion may
it be made to yield heavy crop.
PLANT plenty of hardy bulbs this fall
-hyscinths, crocusRs, tulips, narcissus.
ETC., and they will reward you next
spring with their fragrance and bright
cOlors.
THE best butter that is made in France
for expectation to England is not sailed
bu. at the final washing is simply wash.
ed in strong solution of salt in place of
pure water.
MOLD is more necessary in every soil
than farmers suppose, and supply can
be preserved by tie cultivation OF clover
and grasses, or pea vines, and turning in
of green crops, or by the application of
composts rich in the elements of mold.
VERY few farmers keep an account of
their crops, though they are commencing
to wake up the Importance of such
transactions. If we do not look into
such matters it is not strange that farm
ing does not pay.
CHRYsANTHEMUMsc can be lowered in
cold pit. On the approach of cold
weather, remove them to the pit where
they will bloom freely until early winter
They bear considerable frost without in.
jury.
ALLOW only three or four Lima bean
vines to hill, and when four or five
feet high pinch them off and never per-
NIT them to grow longer then that; this
will cause the growth of the lateral
branches and doubles tne number of
pods.
A BELT of forest trees seven or eight
rods in width has been known to COM
pleteiy stop the devastating march of
the chinch-bug in travelling troG one
wheat field to another, the cool, damp
soil Of such places forming an impossible
barrier to their progress. This is anoth-
er argument in favor OF tree belts on
prairie farms.
WE have kept many an hundred BUSH
ell of apples simply by picking them care
fully in the fall and burying them in
shallow pits in the open ground, cover
ing over with straw and four or SIX
inches of earth over that, in about the
same manner as we preserve turmps
from frost through the winter.
In all cases where insects OF
any kind infest trees a good drench-
ing of water, with one pound OF potash
to eight gallons of water, two or three
times week will kill the last one. The
same amount of copperas dissolved IN
eight gallons of water and applied IN the
same way will dispel all insects and has
tendency to make the tree hardy
LATE experiments made in Germany
on the cooling of milk before 1t is set for
the cream to rise show that while there
is no essential difference between It's
cream-rising capacity in the one instance
over the other excepting that the pro-
cess of souring is longer retarded IN tine
cooled milk, the butter made from cream
from the cooled milk keeps far better
than that made from the uncooled.
INDUSTRY, enterprise and intelligent
observation is what makes the good farm
err. Such man uses every means IN MS
power to keep his land fertile, by clean
cultivation, rotation of crops, ana tne
application of such manures as may DC
adapted to the special wants of the crops
he cultivates. He does more, ne reads
the best journals he can buy, having ref
erence to their practically in agrlcuitu-
raj art.
HARNESS that has been soaked Win
water will dry hard, unless it is dressed
while damp with some kind of non-dry,ing
oil. First wipe of the harness with
+bo, NTH q cloth KENT for