The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-07-19
AGRICULTURAL.

corn draws from the soil thirty-six time,
Its own weight of water.
A TEAsPOoNFUL of coal oil to a GAL
Ion OF water will exterminate all the in
scots that lntest garden plants and beau
tiful flowers.
A HORSE fork should Re in every
barn. In the hurry of haying, the cost
OF horse hay fork may easily be saved
IN one week, by rapid unloading.
HE common method with manure
now is, to keep it as near the surface,
and to intermingle it with the soil, as
much as possible.
Mr. LAwEs' experiments have proved
that pigs store up or utilize 20 per cent of
the ory substance OF their food, sheep II
per cent, and cattle 8 per cent.
COAL TAR applied hot to roof will
cure it of leaking. Take an old broom
or tie rags on an old broomstick, and use
this Tor spreading the tar over the de-
sired places.
A RUN in g good piece of grass will
greatly help the calves. The more they
are pushed, without over doing it, during
the first years growth the better the
mature animal will be.
To have fine velvety turf, the mow-
er must be frequently used, usually as
often as once week. Use the sickle in
| corners near trees and shrubs, and other
places not reached by the mower.
IF farmers were as careful to save
their oats, hay, fodder, ETC., in the best
possible condition, as they are to hav e
their food properly prepared, the cattle's
food would be made more palatable.
IT is useless to say that good crops
| come from luck. 1t is not so. The Sc
cret is in selecting the seed with care,
draining the fields, keeping out the cat
tie and having sound fences. Thrift is
what honest men thrive by. Rogues
have luck, if getting along only is luck.
TREES have no business in farmer 8
vegetable garden; that is to say, tree
valuable in its proper place. The fruit
garden, is itself not less important or
valuable than the vegetable garden, but
the two do not go well together.
THE average qulltity of pure milk
needed for pound of cheese is ten
pounds. 1t varies during the season,
and also in proportion to the amount
of cream in the milk. A smaller guam
tity of rich milk than of poor is required
to make pound of cheese.
AS soon as the upper portions of the
straw of the cereals become yellow, no
further increase takes place in the
weight of the seed. If the grain be not
cut down soon after the appearance of
this sign, its quality deteriorates and its
weight diminishes.
To make a wire fence hog-proof, it
must have five or six wires strained very
tightly, and have posts not more than Is
or at most "a feet apart. a good post
and rail, or board fence is preferable to
wire fence excepting where timber is
very costly, or where the snow drifts
badly.
A MARYLAND farmer thinks he has
found "sure cure for Canada thistle"
1t consists in sowing the land infested
| by them with buckwheat early
in the spring, allowing it to grow till it
is in full blossom, turning it under and
again reseeding with the same grain.
The last crop is harvested when ripe.
| w HEN VIC l1CISH SUOWS SlPuS Vi SHY
ing at ian object, do not beat him, but
lead him up to it, allowing him to stand
and look, as he comes closer; and after
he examines it a few times he will not
fear anything of the kind again. In
passing by hedges with colt, throw in
stones and stop him until he takes no no.
tice of the noise.
| THE american AgricuIturist suggest
that when sheep are turned on to the
grass daily allowance of salt should be
given. A tesspoonful for each sheep is
sufficient. The safest way to give the
salt is to provide lump of rock salt in
a convenient sheltered place, and leave
it so that the sheep can go to it when
they wish. Salt prevents indigestion,
and greatly discourages parasites in the
| lntestlnes.
SLACK one peck of lime, and while
hot and at the thickness of cream, add q
pint of linseed oil and quarter of pound
of dissolved glue. Let it stand half q
day before using. This for interior walls
is far superior to simple lime and water
1t is also frst-rate for outdoor work
though expensive. For buildings
fences, ETC., slack clean, fresh white
lime under water; add pound of sui.
phate of zinc to every peck of lime, and
half a pound of salt.
| ONE-YEAR-OLD grapevines, set this
spring, should not be allowed to grow
more than one shoot. Remove all 9th
ers, reserving of course the strongest
If other vines were set, these should not
be allowed to bear, as if it is necessary
for them to become thoroughly estab.
lished and prepare for fruiting. Keep
all shoots tied up to stakes or trellises
On old vines the fruit will be greatly
improved by thinning after the clusters
are set, leaving only two punches to 8
shoot.
FROM experiments made in Scotland
to determine the results of q change OF
seed on crop of oats, it was found the
| crop grown from seed which had been
newly brought into the district yielded
46 bushels per acre. and weighed 45
pounds to the bushel; while upon the
same land the crop grown from seed
which had long been sown in the neigh,
borhood yielded only "a bushels per acre
and weighed but 80 pounds to the bush.
ell. An analysis of the two crops shows
that an acre of oats grown without 8
change of seed produced 500 pounds OF
substances valuable as food, and ali acre
grown with change of seed, 1,404!
pounds.
In regard to the various methods
suggested for destroying the cabbage
worm, Prof. Riley says that few liquors
will prove more effective than hot water
iudiciouslY applied, though one pound