Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-18
AGRICULTURAL.

New Orleans.
REPORTS from the peach-growing pen
insuIa on the Atlantic coast indicate
the yield this year will be the largest
ever known.
THE United States exported $51,752,-
O6S worth Of bacon and hams last year,
the greater proportion of them going to
the United Kingdom.
SALT FOR STRAwBERRIEs.-Salt is of
great advantage in strawberry 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 quantity of fruit.
AN experiment IN feeding mich COWS,
conducted by Prof. Villeroy, of Berlin,
between the Hollanders (Holsteins) and
the Devons, resulted in producing rs. 50
quarts of milk for 100 pounds OF hay
from the Hollanders, and 1913 quarts
from the Devons, from the same guam
tity of hay. Barno Ockle in Wauken-
felde also made a comparative expert
ment between Ayrshires averaging SOC
pounds in weight, and Hollanders aver
aging 1016 pounds in weight. The
smaller consumed $50 pounds Of hay
to 100 pounds of live weight; whils the
Target breed consumed 2S.10 pounds of
hay to 100 pounds live weight.
Loss OF SHEEP BY DoGs.-According
to the returns of the department of
agriculture, the direct losses OF sheep |
owners by the rayages of dogs reach a
million OF dollars annually in wool and
mutton, and the indirect loss in the re-
preston Of sheep husbandry, and the
consequent waste Of a large percentage
of the grass crop is still larger. Reports
from $40 countries, representing about
one.fourth of the sheep of the United
killed during 1874; and even these
returns are not complete. In some of
the states the loss is from four to
eleven per cent. of the whole value of
the sheep kept. In this state the loss
is comparatively small, though larger
than it ought to be. This should not
bear against dogs generally, but only
''sheep dogs" a tribe without ancestry,
blood, or the meanes kind of pedigree.
SoUAsHEs.-At a recent agricultural
meeting in Salem, Mass, the following
practical points we're brought out with
reference to raising squashes. First
if squashes were planted in season to
give a full crop one must fight the
small striped bug and the large black
bug. Keeping the vines sprinkled with
fine plaster Was the best way to protect
them from the striped bug. A sningle
at each bill for shelter for the black bug
at night and a trap from which to take
him IN the morning was the best known
way to protect the vines from his
depredations. Some thought much, if
not all, that has been charged to mag
COTS and borers should be charged to
black bugs. Farmers in the vicinity Of
Lowell and Lawrence prefer to plant
after the Goth of June, with the ex-
pectations of smaller crops, but no
trouble from bugs, borers or maggots.
HOG C%HoLERA.-A farmer writes to
the Nebraska Fan er that he has been
watching this dreadful disease for years,
and has found that wherever the fol-
lowing rules were observed there has
been no disease: keep the hogs clean
inside and out. Do not feed rotten,
nasty feed, that is not fit for even a hog.
Give him Il dry, clean place to sleep,
and corn cobs for a bed. They are
much better than hay or straw, for they
absorb the moisture and do not sweat
the hogs. l think sprinkling sulphur
on the cobs occasionally would be a
good thing to destroy fieas and other
insects. Give hogs plenty of wood ash
es and charcoal mixed with salt. Give
some stone coal occasionally, the more
copperas in it the better. l have talked
with quite a number of hog men of late
that practice the above in the main,
and they say they have never lost a
hog from the cholera"
HINTS ABOUT RURAL HoMEs.-Happi-
ness is the grand aim Of life, and to Sc
cure its fullest blessings we must cult
vate the miEd and all the graces OF the
spirit. We always associate leisure, in
nocence and peace with rural life, COM
bined with the kindred joys which COM
petence and contentment bring. AL.
most our first thought of a country
home is one of pure air, green earth,
gentle breezes ladened with the breath
of many flowers and whispering pleas
ure, and where every shade
promises cool and sweet repose. The
thought OF a rural home is full Of prom
ises Of the fond ideal and Of cherished
meditation. Every person Of sentiment
reverts to the country with pleasant an
ticlpatiors; it is a feeling inbred in our
very natures. Fields, meadows, and
groves, singing birds and fragrant flow
ers, running brooks and grazing herds,
are ever the delight Of mankind