Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-09-04
RURAL NOTES.

TT is good plan to burn potato vines
after the tubers are dug. That will
dispose of the potato rot fungus if there
is any upon them.
THIS is about the time of the year to
SOW white turnips. There is plenty of
time to secure good crop before frolt
comes.
In France dealers sometimes give an
irritable or wicked horse two ounces of
laudanum in pint of brandy, to calm
its nerves before being shown.
In view of the late ravages by grass
hoppers in the Pacific states, it is pro-
posed to import and naturalize the mi
gratory quail of Southern Europe there.
II is bad practice to pillow up pastures
for re-seeding The older the pasture,
as a rule, the better the grass. If pas
ture fails to top dress it will well decom-
posed manure.
The stems of all fruit trees cannot be
too frequently washed, as by this means
place to many noxious insects, will be
removed, as we'll as moss and fungi,
which absorb the juices and consequently
hasten the decay of the tree.
IN showing how extremely sensitive
butter and milk are to foreign odors,
and how rapidly they absorb them, DR..
Nichols states that he has known
choice pan of butter spoiled by farmer
walking into the dairy room, with his
cow-stali boots OF, covered with animal
excrement.
In selecting an animal for breeding or
fattening, obtain one having large chest
the part containing the lungs, heart
and the larger blood vessels, all of which
have an important function to perform
in the process of nutrition. 1t is well
known among cattle men that animals
with small chests do not fatten readily,
and they are remarkably susceptible to
the influence of exciting causes of dis
Chautauqua Farmer.
PASTURES which are not closely grazed
send up seed stalks early in summer, the
ripening of which exhausts the soil and
plants, and prevents the animals from
reaching the fine grass beneath. BY
passing the reaper, set ten or twelve
inches high, over the pasture as soon "a
these stalks are thrown up, all the above
mentioned bad effects are prevented,
and handsome, even surface of green
heritage is presented to the eye.
ANOTHER enemy to wheat-growing is
cepOf.ed in the shape of weed some.
what resembling cookie. In some parts
OF the east it has become SO abundant as
to cause serious alarm; especially so in
North Carolina, where it springs up 81
simultaneously with the grain, and nearly
smothers it. 1t has a white blow, and
bears numerous pods, in each of which
are four seeds. Inc people have given it
the name of Dutch cockle."
A HEAVY loss in the decay of out
buildings, roofs, gates and fences and
tools, would be prevented in cheap
way by the use or crude petroleum. It
u more etiectual than paint, as it enters
the pores of the wood freely and does
not cost over tenth as much. 1t is
RAPIDLY put on with 8 whitewssh brush
by a common laborer, the only care re-
CURED being to cause the wood to soak
IN as much of the oil as practicable, and
70 spill as little as may be convenient on
the ground.
PROF. HARRINGTON, in summary of
the experiments begun in 1870 by the
Name agricultural college to ascertain
winch has the greatest value as a food
1os swine, cooked or unlocked meal,
says We have, By an experiment