The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-02

THE greatest profit always comes from
early feeding, and it is retained by full
feeding afterwards.
By growing a greater variety crops
we diminish risk from untavorable sea-
sons, since it is not often that season is
unfavorable to all crops alike.
A GOOD remedy against the scale in
sect is to use suds made of carbolic
soap, and brush the affected parts with
it thoroughly, leaving it dry thereon.
ONE bushel of corn and oats ground
together and fed to poultry will produce
fifteen pounds of flesh. How many
pounds of pork would the same quantity
of food produce.
The manure of COWS and pigs resists
decomposition for a longer time than
that of the sheep and horse-both the
latter being dryer than the former, and
decomposing more readily in the soil.
SALT is of great advantage in straw
berry culture. From six to eight
bushels to the acre sown at the time of
blossoming will be found beneficial. 1t
kills grubs and keeps the ground moist,
increasing yield and quality of fruit.
COMMON purslane chopped up and
mixed with scalded corn-meal is excel
lent green feed for fowls that are con-
fined. Corn and oats ground and fed to
poultry is very fattening. After chicks
are month old cracked corn and wheat
screenings is better for them than dough.
EARLY lambs may be pushed forward
by giving them little cows milk. They
will soon learn to drink this from pan.
The milk should be given warm from q
fresh COW, quarter of pint to meal.
Do not overfeed any young animal; that
retards instead of assisting growth.
AN agricultural exchange says, to kill
ticks on sheep, throw in the barn yard a
few small, thrifty, second-growth fiji
trees. The sheep will eat the leaves and
small twigs greedily, and often strip of
all the bark. The ticks will all leave
the sheep in few days, the strong odor
from theoil of the fir driving them away.
A SUCCESSFUL dairyman feeds his
cows night and morning the year round
and in each feed puts teaspoonful OF
salt. He considers this method of salt
ing COWS preferable to the usual one of
and thinks his method adds largely to
the amount of milk given.
Two weeksago thirty good sized shoats
were quartered upon three acres OF
ground which is about equally seeded to
alfalfa and clover. At this writing the
grass has gained upon the pigs, and the
pigs have gained amazingly. This is our
way of solving the problem of how to
raise cheap pork.-Kansas Agricultural
College Pepper.
ROLLING the meadows with a
heavy roller will level the surface by
reducing the hummocks, sinking stones
and sticks or roots, and compact the soil
about the roots, and so strengthen the
grass. A light dressing, 100 pounds of
nitrate of soda per acre, for instance,
will encourage the growth and add
largely to the yield.
The richest food is not always the
cheapest for mich cows, though too lit
tie food, however, is even worse than
too rich food, fair mean being the best.
A butter cow cannot be made cheese
COW by change of food, though food to a
certain extent influences the milk pro-
duction. For quality of. milk select
proper breeds; for quantity, good mixers,
and feed well, but not with too much
highly concentrated food.
FRESH manure produces but little
effect when applied to crops, but when it
is well rotted it then contains much
valuable sniuhln matter absOrbable by
plants. In fresh manure the most I'M
portant constituent of its soluble portion
is potash, and it contains but small
proportions of ammonia and phosphoric
acid. Rotten manure, on the contrary,
yields to the solvent action of water
large amounts of nitrogen and phosphor-
ic acid.
LARD and kerosense are good to keep
lice from calves; sulphur mixed with
salt is good to drive ticks from sheep.
Calves, like all other animals, should be
kept growing from youth to maturity.
Here is one place where the profit comes
in. There is always loss of time and
feed, and more, too, by allowing young
animals to "stand still" for six months
or more of the year. Sheep are well
clothed and need shelter from the snow
or rain, and perhaps from the strongest
wind, but cold agrees with them. Feed
them well; give them plenty of water in
small focks; keep them dry.
AN old farmer says: elf l had the
choice of one fertilizer only, I should
select genuine guano, and if my gar
denis soil was heavy, should require
nothing to mix with it; but if light and
hot in its nature, / should covet some
common salt. Guano alone, or mixed
with one-third of salt for dry soils, and
spread over the surface during damp
weather at the rate of, say, two ounces
per square yard, will increase the value
of any crop to which it is applied. TIC
destroy slugs, half the quantity, or less
in dry weather, will be found highly
beneficial
PROF. CAMERON, of Edinboro', says
that while the milk of individual cows
varies very much in composition, the
mixed milk of a herd of cows keeps
quite constant in composition. The
solid matters in such milk rarely sink
lower than II per cent. The milk OF
fifteen cows was daily examined during
whole year at the suggestion of the
Royal society of Sweden, from which il
was found that the solids never sink tc
lis per cent, and only on four occa
sions were they lower than II per cent
The average was 1913 per cent. The
proportions of the various elements Of
milk fuctuate, that of the fats most
that of the ash least.
The Walworths.
The terrible tragedy in which one Of
the oldest families of New York state
was involved has not been forgotten