The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-09
PRACTICAL HUSBANDRY.

is good wash also.
A GOOD remedy against the scale in
sect is to use suds made of carbolic
SOAP and brush the affected parts thor
oughly, leaving it to dry thereon.
For warts on cows teats: Common
soda, such as they use in making bread,
dissolved in water, and used as a wash,
will sometimes remove the warts, says q
farmer. Another says strong wash of
alum water is cure.
A MODERATE quantity of green rye
will be very acceptable to the horses
1t will have a healthful effect, and will
cool the system as we'll as a dose of medi-
cine. When there are no stones in the
fields the shoes may be removed from
the plow team for time, with benefit
CHARCOAL, pulverized and mixed
with water, is now highly recommended
as an agent for relieving cattle suffering
from any arrangement of the stomach,
such as bloat or hoven, etc. This should
be remembered. There is no doubt of
its efficacy, if abundance of concurrent
testimony can be relied upon.
LARGE evergreens are very much out
of place on the sunny side of a house,
while they form an appropriate screen
and windbreak along the cold and ex-
posed sides of the building. Shadetrees
are often planted to near too our dwell
ings and too thickly, 50 as to make the
house dark, damp and cherries.
THE English dairy farmers get immense
returns from their grass lands by free
use of bone manure. One Cheshire
farmer says that by this he can feed
forty COWS from land that formerly gave
him product sufficient to feed only
twenty. The English farmers believe in
"boning' the grass land especially.
To remove iron taste from new kettles
boil handful of hay in them, and re-
pest the process if necessary. Hay-water
is q great sweetener of tin,
wooden and iron ware. In Irish
diaries every thing used for milk
is scalded with water in which hay has
been steeped.-Chautauqua Farmer.
FRENCH chicken producers find that
feeding the fowls with boiled or steamed
carrots, chopped into small pieces, rap
idly fattens them and imparts an agree
able flavor to the flesh, greatly relished
by epicures, and that fowls thus fed sell
more rapidly than others.-Lndiaraa
Farmer.
AFTER many experiments, certain
and speedy remedy for burdocks has
been discovered in kerosene oil. A
small quantity poured into the heart of
the plant, directly after cutting, leaves
no trace Of their existence save small
hole in the earth where they stood. Re-
fined or crude oil will accomplish the
purpose equally as well.
COLLECT some SCOT from a chimney
or stove where wood is used for fuel,
put into an old pitcher and pour hot
water upon it. When cool use it to
water your plants every few days. The
effect upon plants is wonderful in pro-
ducing rapid growth of thrifty shoots,
with large, thick leaves and great num-
Der of richly tinted roses.
THE practice of washing sheep before
shearing, says an Eastern sheep-raiser,
is very disagreeable and is unnecessary.
Nothing is gained in the price of the
wool; in fact, the usual deduction made
| by wool buyers for unwashed wool leaves
an advantage with the seller. The
practice is both men and sh,ep, and
may well be abolished.
A CALF will draw milk in three min
utes, and the nearer mixer can come
to that time the better. A slow mixer
makes a COW impatient, which often
causes her to hold up her milk. The
strippings" are the richest part, and if
a cow is MIXED quietly as well as quick
| ly there will be more s well as richer
milk, because of the II" strippings. "-Am-
herst Bee.
PLINY NICHOLS says: There is little
trouble in making thoroughbred short
horns weigh 1000 pounds at twelve
months. | have one on hand now that
pulls 1000 at eleven months, and three
others [ weighed to-day, consisting of
two males and one female, their aggre-
gate age is seven months and aggregate
weight 1000, and these are no better
than quite a number [ sold lately.
PROF, SToCKBRIDGE recently said be
fore the State Board of Agriculture of
Connecticut: "The soil is best plowed
when it is most thoroughly crushed, twist
ed and broken, with the sod well covered
On some kinds of land | would have
burrows Tapped an inch, as the Canadian
farmer plow. Let the air and water
have chance to circulate underneath
the surface. Light lands, however,
should have fiat furrow if we wish to
make such lands more compact.
To reiuvenate old orchards, cut out all
the dying wood, and three-fourths of the
suckers, scrape the trunks of the trees
completely, removing all the old, hard,
broken bark; wash with a preparation
of whale-oil, soap and water, pound of
the soap to bucket of water, and give
the orchard, not merely under the trees,
but every part of it, heavy top-dressing
of good barn-yard or compost manure.
If there is any life or productiveness in
the trees this will bring it out.
IN fattening animals the most eco
nomical plan is to fatten as quickly as
possible, because the less amount of food
expended by respiration, the more will
go to the formation of fat. In expert
menting with a pig, Mr.. Lawes found
that 500 pounds of barley meal, given as
freely as it could be eaten, increased the
weight from 100 to 200 lbs in II weeks,
Had longer time been taken in the
consumption of the food, it is conclusive
that good portion of it would have been
expended in the maintenance of the ami
mails existence, and not nearly the
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