Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-03-05
AGRICULTURAL.

tanning consists wholly IN aptness to
labor and strength of n uscie.
COMFORTABLE stables save fodder. If
we'll housed the cattle don't require so
much hay to keep up the vital heat
A New YORK firm has in operation a
hog-scraping machine which does the
labor of twelve men, and is capable of
scraping $500 hogs day.
THE first volume OF the Clydesdale
horse book, published in England, con-
tainS the pedigrees of 1,044 horses
foaled before January l, 1870, and
history of the breed.
The urine of all animals. especially
those that are highly fed, is more valu-
able as manure than the solid excre-
ments, and should be carefully saved
by suitable absorbents.
TURKoMAN horses are said to be I'M
surpassable for endurance, and thus,
although not handsome, are coming
into nigh favor for military purposes.
They are mainly of Arabian blood.
TWENTY-FIVE American thorough
breds are now in training in England,
for the events of the coming season, Of
which Mr.. p Lorillard has nine, Col.
Sanford nine, and the Duke of Hamil-
ton seven.
RED clover hay safely housed and
well cured is the best article for sheep.
With supply of this, and an OCCASION
al sprinkling of corn, sheep will keep as
fat and as we'll as on good pasture.
SANDY loans are best adapted to
grain-growing, as a general rule, while
grass. either as meadow or pasture,
tlourishes we'll on clayey soils. This
should be regarded in making selec-
tons.
CLUB root in the cabbage family is
produced by the fungus. The only
known method of avoiding it is to de-
stroy all diseased plants when setting
them, and to plant only on soil that has
not been occupied by cabbage or tur-
nips two years previously.
A BARREL of plaster should be kept
in handy place in every stable and
manure cellar. Where this is used
constantly there will be freedom from
the usual strong odor of stables and fer
menting manure, and saving Of val
liable material which would otherwise
escape.
A SILVER cup is awarded yearly to
the individual who sells the greatest
amount Of i've stock in money value,
in Wellingoorough market, England,
from December to December. The
winner for 1878 was Mr. j. l.. Wright,
whose yearly sales were over 5000.
A wATER-PRooF leather boot, is quite
as uncomfortable tight as rubber, for
some persons. A little meats foot oil
only ittle--apphed occasionally in
time of need, repels wet for the present
and still leaves the leather soft and
pleasantly porous for ordinary dry
weather uses.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOOD AND
BAD Cows.--In the last number of the
Monthly Bulletin, published under the
auspices Of the American Jersey Cattle
Club, is an account Of the yield of a
dairy of grade and thoroughbred Jer-
sey COWS in Maine, which goes to prove
ali that we have said regarding their ex-
cellence orbutter. The owner of the
herd is Mr.. c. NJ. Gowell, of BOwdoin
and he remarks that they entered upon
their years work with very lettle or no
rest, some Of them not having been dry
for years. Their average product
for old and young COWS was 3O6
pounds during the year. No attempt
was made to feed high but the aim was
simply to furnish them good and
wholesome supply of food; TO keep
them warm IN the wiIter, and, IN fact,
comfortable all the year round. Now
considering the fact that in the address
of Mr.. Garder, the president of the Min
nesota Dairymens Association, the
statement was made that the average
Weld of Minnesota COWS was only 81
pounds year, it is easy to estimate the
state. Were 1t not for their increase, ii
is evident tnat no matter what the price
OF hay and grain, they must be Il con-
tiuual source of loss to their owners.
Ten cents per pound Mr.. Gardner esti-
mates the average price of their butter,
or Il total for each COW of $50 a year
lust about what the shreWd butter
makers of the Iowa creamerics, who
get % and so cents pound for their
product, get from their COWS IN a single
month. The American Jersey Cattle
Club are doing noble work in then
efforts to disseminate the Jersey stock
in its purity, and next week we shall
speak more particularly OF Their field
and their labor,
CLYDEspALE AND PERCHERoN HORSES
ARE They WHAT WE WANT Are
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