The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-06-21
AGRICULTURAL.

Z AhE SOOHoT Iu1uuluS 10 uOiIc dlI6I the
fruit is set, the better. Two-thirds or
one-half of the quantity set may be
often removed with advan tage.
For throat distemper, CRATE fine a
small, green, wild turnip; or if dry, give
heaping spoonful, mixed with bran or
OATS 1t is good for cough also.
Loss of appetite, thirst, diarrhea,
general weakness and cyanosis of the
comb are the symptoms of chicken
cholera.
A GRAVE mistake is made by farmers
who think that stock must not be fed at
home after the first appearance of grass
Stock will show this false economy all
through the season. "a .ss5tr
SOME one who has experimental in
the matter says tn at handful of bran
scattered in each hill of potatoes when
planting will in crease the yield one
third.
For potatoes and tomatoes take one
wheelbarrow load of earth where the
vine is to stand and fill if with half &C al
ashes and half soil. The yield will be
nearly doubled thereby.
APPLY around your trees almost any
substance that will cover the soil and
shield it from the drying rays of the
sun, and from the evaporation of moist
ure.
A SOFT, firm, velvety skin is nearly
always found on a good COW, and thick
hard hide on poor one. A soft firm
skin denotes rich milk, while a soft,
velvety skin indicates quantity of milk.
A DAIRYMAN says: Never keep a
poor COW the second year. No man can
afford to keep a COW that will not make
from 200 to 220 pounds of butter or its
equivalent every year.
THE following rule in blowing is re-
commended: Never turn up over one
or two inches of unfertile subsoil in one
season; and, when so turned up, the land
should receive dressing of manure"
Do cabbage worms trouble your
plants? For every hundred of cabbage
take quarter of pound of black pep
per and put it in box large enough to
sift out well. Go into the patch before
the dew is off and pepper the cabbage.
Two or three times will be sufficient.
The cessation of the pressing work of
earlier weeks allows the orchardist to
give his trees the needed pruning. All
dead and useless branches should of
course be cut away and those which crowd
one another, Cover all large wounds
with shellac varnish, on paint.
A MILLER of Halliday, ILL.,, who lost
N any hogs from cholera, has found that
dry bran, slightly sailed, is good rem
edy for it. If the hogs refuse to eat it
starve them until they do. Another
| farmer claims that if hogs are given
what salt they need in clean pasture it
will have the desired effect.
AN old poultry raiser. who believes in
drink BOTH. Some of the finest chickens
| ever saw were raised upon the free use
of milk with their food. Hens lay as
well, or better, when furnished with
this than upon any known article offered
| them"
EVERY family finds more or less
bones accumlating. Burn them with
your wood, and the ashes thus enriched
is one of the most valuable of all fertil-
izers. Money can not buy any article
which will so fertilize your soil. Bones
thus consumed will quadruple the value
| of wood ashes, which in themselves are
among the best of soil enrichers.
FREQUENT cultivation is essential to
successful corn growing. The cultiva-
tor should be kept going this month
through the corn and root crops about
once a week. It matters not that there
are no weeds in sight, it is not alone to
kill the weeds that we cultivate and hoe
but to loosen the soil, and by that means
to stimulate the growth.
A GREAT mistake is made often in
planting corn early. Indian corn re-
| quires warm ground and hot weather,
and it will not grow until these condi-
tions are present. If planted previous
to this time the kernel is apt to rot, and
if the corn does come up it is not fit for
much. Corn early planted has gaunt-
let to run in the usual summer draught.
SEE that the fruiting canes of black
berries and raspberries are properly tied
up to the stakes or trellis. The young
shoots now growing will form cranes
for next years fruiting, and should be
attended to. Cut away all except three
to five to each stool, and tie these to the
support as soon as old enough. The
young canes should be pinched of at
four feet for raspberries. Cut away the
old canes after fruiting is past.
THE rye ground, after having been
| cleared, may be Immediately prepared
and planted with fodder corn or oats,
the latter to be followed with late tur-
nips as the oats are cut for feeding; or
Hungarian grass may follow the rye,
and be cut off in time for sowing rye
again next fall. A good plot of cab
bages will be found useful for fall and
early winter feeding of COWS, and if
plants have been provided for, they may
be set out on the rye ground, or some
other piece of rich, moist soil.
The borers of the peach and apple
| tree should be looked to. No surface
remedy is of no use with these destruc-
tive fellows after they are once in the
tree. The use of the knife and probe is
the effectual means of reaching and de-
| stroying them. They can be detected by
their ear-marks'' of dust and depres-
sion in the bark. 1t is not necessary to
girdle the tree in Incorporation, in many
cases very little use of the kind is re-
quired. A few hours spent in this man
ner will often save many valuable trees
CURING hay in the cock is preferable
to sun drying. The sweating and fer
mentation improve, and prevent heating
in the NOW or stack. The writer prefers
to put up hay, after the dew is of, in
moderate large cocks-four feet vide
and high-after it has lain spread in the
sun for one full day. 1t may thus stay
safely for a week, if necessary, and a
hay cap will protect it from twenty