The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-23
AGRICULTURAL.

to keep an inferior animal.
Hoes may be kept from measles,
trichinosis, ETC., by mixing handful of
good wood ashes with their food twice a
week
The value Of COW depends much
more upon the length of the milking
season than upon the quality Of the milk
given for few weeks.
FoR throat distemper in horse crate
fine small green wild turnip, or, if dry,
give heaping spoonful, mixed with
bran or oats. 1t never fails. Good for
cough, also.
IT is said that every ton of dried to-
bacc0 leaves carried off exhausts from
the soil, in mineral matter, as much as is
contained in fourteen tons of the grain
Of wheat.
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.
BEANS should not be hoed when the
vines are wet, as it is said to make them
rust. Plant refugee for late crop, es-
pecially for picking. Pinch the stem
of ilnas off, when they reach the top of
the pole.
CROPS must eat as we'll as the owner,
and therefore the soil should be we'll
MANFRED. Crops which leave land bet
ter than they found it make both the
farm and the farmer rich. The best fer
tilizer Of any soil is spirit of industry,
enterprise and intelligence,
A WASHINGTON COUNTY pa paper
thinks that the prize system at county
fairs has never accomplished any good
but, on the contrary, has run the socie-
ties in debt very often and created bad
feeling, and should be done away with.
Ii recommends in its stead the giving
out of diplomas or medals.
HENS do much better when allowed a
free range outdoors than when confined.
In France it has been found that with
fowls allowed considerable freedom
twenty per cent. only of their eggs fail
to hatch; with less freedom forty per
cent. failed, and in close confinement
sixty per cent. were not Matched
A PERSON who has tried it says that
handful of tobacco stems placed in the
box in which the dog sleep viii entirely
rid him of feas, and that a leaf or two
of the same weed put in setting hens
nest keeps Vermin at a respectful dis
lance. These are two more things to-
bacco is good for.
ToADs live almost wholly upon slugs,
caterpillars, beetles and other insects,
making their rounds at night while the
farmer is asleep--and the birds, too
and the insects are supposed to be hav-
ing their own way. English farmers
understand these facts so well that they
purchase toads at SO much dozen and
turn them loose.
THE farmer who has supply of roots
on hand with which to feed his stock is
now reaping the reward of good manage
ment. Roots fed at this season. not only
serve to increase the flow of milk and
give color and flavor to the butter from
fresh mich COWS, but cleanse the blood,
tone up the system and place all classes
of cattle in generally healthy condi-
ton.
BEWARE of drinking too much cold
water while you are working in the sun,
and do not plunge suddenly into a cold
| bath. If you are near brook, wet
your head, put leaves into your nat, and
frequently put the hands into water,
letting them remain there for q consid-
cradle time. The effect will be soothing
upon the whole system, and it will reduce
thirst.
A FRENCH veterinary surgeon, to
prevent the attacks of flies about the
nT hOrsoa II N
side of the ears, or any other part es-
pecially troubled, with a few drops of
empyreumatic oil of juniper. The odor
is said to be uncomfortable to flies, and
that they will keep at distance from
| the parts so treated. Drivers will do
well to make a note of it.-Prairie
Farmer.
ACCORDING to the Maine Farmer. a
cultivator leveled off twenty feet square
of pen where cows had been yarded,
spread bushel or more of wood ashes,
prepared the ground properly, sowed it
| to onions, watered them lust as they
came up with tepid manure water, and
gathered twenty bushels. This would
be about two and half pounds of onions
to every square foot, or at the rate of
about 2,150 bushels per acre. A big
story, but not impossible when all con-
! ditiOns are favorable.
Cows viii quickly fall off in their
milk unless they have plenty of clean
water within convenient reach. They
will suffer considerably from thirst be-
fore they will travel long di tances for
water, until they become feyerish, they
will drink too much, and this going
from one extreme to the other will affect
unfavorably the health of the cow and
cause a decrease of milk. Cows are kept
solely for producing milk, and any un-
necessary exertion that they are
obliged to make to procure food or drink
will divert jvst so much of their energy
from milk production.-Anaherst Bee.
LET any farmer try the experiment of
cutting lot of second crop clover while
the stock is yet green, or about the time
it is fairly in bloom. Let it be well
cured without rain, if possible) and
slowed away under some good shelter
for the use of his hogs in winter, and il
his heart rejoices in the hsppiness OF
Gods creatures, it will do him good to
see how his hogs enjoy a feed of clover
once day-how they will pick out the
| heads, leaves and small stems, and leave
nothing but the coarsest portion Of the
stalks. He viii then find little difficriGy
in agreeing with US that stock hogs
require little roughness in winter a.
well as other stock, and therefore should
not be confined exclusively to solid
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