The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-09-13
AGRICULTURAL.

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in France has caused farmers there to
utilize the tender portions of forest trees
as forage.
CoLEUs seed sown early in spring, say
in March, will make plants, which, if
properly cared for and grown, may be
| bedded out in Juue.
GIVE your hogs a rubbing post in
some accessible part of their enclosure.
1t facilitates their keeping clean, and
seems to afford them much satisfaction.
GARBAGE should never be allowed to
accumulate. All that is not fed to fowls
or animals on the place should be kept
in closely covered receptacle and car
ried away frequently.
GOOD feed whether it is good grass in
summer, or good hay and grain in win
ter, with pure water always within
reach, will always give good returns,
whether the outcome expected be meat,
milk, butter or cheese.
In all our cropping and planting we
should remember that the farm is our
capital, and that increasing its produc-
ing capacity means adding to our princi-
pie, while reducing it is taking away
the "means by which we live"
A GOOD country fair, among all its
other merits, is an evidence of thrift on
the part of the farmers of the county.
A poor farmer cares nothing about them.
He has nothing to exhibit and he dislikes
to attend, for he is reminded by the ele-
CANT products which his neighbors dis
play what failures he and his farm
are.
BOTTLES trouble horses and colts at
this season. A very little care will pre-
vent them from doing much harm. A
moment will suffice to catch the flies
when they come around to deposit eggs;
and washing with kerosene, will, we
believe, destroy the vitality of such nits
as adhere to the animals legs A little
prevention, in this respect, will be worth
great deal of cure.
If moderation is needed anywhere on
the farm, it is in the driving of COWS.
A boy or a dog that will hurry and
therefore worry the cows as they are
taken to and from the pasture should be
to put it mildly-attended to. Boys,
| do not run the COWS home, even if it is
getting late, especially if it is ON the way
to the yard and their utders are full of
milk.
POTATOES suffer more from weeds then
any other crop. One weed will take up
and evaporate a good deal of moisture
from the soil, and rob the crop of what
it greatly needs. This loss of moisture
is not often thought of in considering
the effects of weeds, but it is very impor-
tant. When to late to be killed by cul-
tivation, the weeds should be hand
pulled.
THE Nashville Rural Sun says "The
best way to keep butter is to exclude the
air from it and keep it in a cool, sweet
| place; but the first is most important.
If the butter is in pail, tub or jar,
cover it one or two inches with the
strongest brine, made from the best salt
Remember, it viii not do to simply COW
er it with salt; the air will not pass
through the brine. If the package has
tight-ftting cover SO much the bet
| ter.
DILUTED carbolic acid is found to be
a complete exterminator of the potato
beetle, and other insects infesting crops,
and it should be used in preference to
Paris green. But it is destructive to
plant life unless it is sufficiently diluted
with water; one pint of carbolic acid to
100 parts of water. This important fact
should be borne in mind, and, doing 50,
there is perhaps no insect destroyer
| known.
Mr.. RIVERS, the great English fruit
grower, has found the American Alex
ander peach to be not only the earliest,
but large and fine in every respect. He
is afraid that the refrigerating process on
board the steamers may be the means of
inundating the English market with
American peaches, and therefore, the
English farmer, to compete against
transatlantic orchards, must select sorts
that will ripen before the American
harvest begins.
ACCORDING to the Maine farmer a
cultiyator levelled off twenty feet square
of pen where COWS had been yarded
spread bushel or more of wood ashes,
prepared the ground properly, sowed it
in onions watered them Just 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.
IN packing apples for market, a COM
mon mistake is made in not pressing the
fruit compactly into the barrels. The
jar on the wagon and car settles the fruit,
and then, when it is handled, it bruises.
We saw the difference between good and
poor packing in Chicago, last week, in
apples of the same variety picked from
adjoining orchards One commanded
80 cents more per barrel than the other,
simply from the way in which they were
packed. 1t is by paying attention to
these minor details that the fruit-grower
A MISSOURI farmer statistician has fig
ured out the following relating to dogs
and sheep: ain thirty-two counties
10,602 sheep have been killed by dogs.
The number of dogs in thirty-two coun-
ties is estimated at 462,000 A hog will
thrive on the food necessary to support
an able-bodied dog, and at the end of the
year weigh 200 pounds; thus, if the food
for these 49,, COO dogs went to the hogs
it would make 90, 400, 900 pounds of pork
worth, at 6 cents pound, $5,500,000-
nearly twice the value of all the school
houses in the state, and more than twice
the amount used by the state for school
purposes"
S. W., BARNERvILLE o., inquiries in
the number of July 10th how to etrid of
| lice on his Berkshires. In answer, I
would say he must get rid of his Berk-