The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-01-18
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

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lately produced in Mendocino county,
Cal.
THERE are hogs in Missouri that suck
cows, sitting on their launches to per-
form the operation.
IL Santa Clara county, Cal, farmer
raised thirty-eight tons of pumpkins
and 800 bushels of corn on seven acres,
without irrigation.
PRAIRIE fires in western Nebraska and
the northern cattle regions, set by In
dams, are reported to have burned over
such extended districts as to cause we'll
grounded fears that thousands of cattle
will be starved before the new grass
comes.
The Colorado Cattle Growers Asso-
citation will hold meeting in Denver on
the 18th OF January. 1t will be largely
attended by representative cattle men
from Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas and
New Mexico. They propose to organize
for self-protection.
The first importation of American
meats into Germany, some years ago, re-
suited in failure. The last season S.
600, 900 pounds were imported there of
beef of the best quality, sewn tightly in
thick canvas, and kept while on board
in cases constructed for the purpose, and
kept cool.
THE London Agricultural Gazette says
the council of the Hereford Herd Book
Society have come to decision in all
cases as to the reception or rejection of
entries, and hope to be able very shortly
to place it in the hands of the printer.
| Of trio fn
$50 bulls and 788 cows.
AT late meeting of d committee of
the Suffolk Stud Book Association in
England, it was resolved that entries for
the first volume of the Stud Book should
be closed on March /, and that the list
Of subscribers to whom alone copies
would be issued Except with permission
of the committee) would close at an early
; date.
MEssRs. d. TALMADGE's Sons & Co,
New Orleans, in their annual circular,
report larger area of rice planted than
usual in Louisiana The yield is hardly
up to earlier expectations, but the aver
age quality will be better than last sea-
t son. The crop of 1878 was 5000
, barrels; this of 1879 is estimated at
100, UUU barrels.
The hulless-oats fends are again in
: the field in those sections were live
; newspapers are not taken. The men
! who do not believe in shook farming "
are the ones swindled with this new oats
at $40 bushel. They have been known
in the west among reading farmers fol
; forty years, and discarded as of no prac-
teal value; but that makes no difference
to the non threading farmer, whose cupid
ity tempts him to put faith in oily gam
mon sharks Prairie Farmer.
f The best whitewash for poultry
houses: Into the whitewash pail drop &
tea-cupful of soft-boiled rice, and mix
thoroughly. Then pour into quart o.
, cold water, say ten or twelve drops o.
0 crude carbolic acid. Mix this into the
e rest and swab the interior of your hen
house with it. For outside, use rock
u salt dissolved instead of boiled rice, anC
). dispense with carbolic acid. No othel
+. preparation of whitewash equals this TO
poultry houses.
D. In no other business does filthines
7 and negligence work so much mischief a
2 in the handling of milk. Wooden pail
6 are unfit for use in the dairy, because i
a is next to impossible to keep them clean
y while tin pals are easily kept clean
. Sugar of milk, when dried into a gum
! is very difficult to dissolve and can onl,
9 be removed by careful washing an(
0 scalding. The fumes of stagnant slops
5 when conveyed to the milk, carry witt
z them the seeds Of destruction, which
. readily multiply and destroy it.
8 ONE of our readers sends us the fol
o lowing, clipped from a local paper, ant
:. asks, "Who can beat it" MIR. Ma
- thias Wellendorf, of St. Mary's, Ell
;, county, Pa, has an acre of ground from
:, which he this year produced $50 bushel
IS of turnips, 10 bushels of potatoes, g.
It bushels of corn, II bushels of beans AM
e two loads of pumpkins. The turnips a
y 40 cents a bushel are worth $50; tn
o corn at rs cents, $45; the beans at s.
e SO; and the pumpkins at 81 a load, 81
}. which makes grand total of 5000 as tn
q proceeds of one acre. "-PracticaL Farmer
A "HANDY THING" to have in tn
house is Jar or bottle of lime-wate1
q Pour water over unslacked lime 9TH
3 quantity is not important, as only Gel
n tain amount will be slacked), and cor
N up for use. A spoonful of clear liqui
a stirred into milk, cream or bread spOng
II II in danger of souring, will prevent tina
d catastrophe. 1t also cleanses bottles
A. etc, that have an unpleasant odor
d person who needs milk, but whose dige.
+ ton is so weak as not to manage it, wi
~ find no inconvenience if into glass c
t, the tactical fluid is stirred wine-glass c
is lime. water. The difference in taste
= not perceptible.
E. LIVE HOGS are now worth but froI
81 to cents pound in our market, an
Y yet we are importing bacon and han
" from the east, and it costs the consume
t from Is to Is cents pound. 1t wOul
Sc seem that here is margin for good pro
re its to those who have the means to bu
III nogs and the skill to convert them int
+ the articles abOve-named. That just
at good bacon and hams can be made
OF California as in any other coun ry, h;
~ often been proven by the doing it, an
a yet we have but few regular slaughte
nj ing establishments in the state, whel
er Strengthening is carried on systematicall
.ir and where bacon and hams are cured fl
Sc general consumption. California Pope
" IT may afford crumb of comfort
We American agriculturists who are drea
IL ing the results of overproduction,
know that English writer's like Mr.. Cali
have forcibly summed Up the broad vie
of the present state of matters, whe
10 they tell us that quite one-half of eaC
loef consumed in ENGLAND is of fOreIg