Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-09-18
AGRICULTURAL.

class OF city agricultural editors. Once
q countryman enquired of him whether
he put guano on his potatoes. He repli.
ed that ne preferred butter or gravy.
GA FEW years hence" says Mr.. Jo-
seph harris, =" American Cotswold sheep
will be shipped by thousands and tens
of thousands every week to England.
There is no reason why they are not
now shipped in large numbers, except
the fact that they cannot be found. We
do not raise enough of them, or feed them
we'll enough"
WHEAT requires "a fine and mellow soil
it Is best if compact below and roughish
on the top. If there are any clods, these
should be brought up from below by re-
peated harrowings and broken by the
roller or disk harrow. If they can not
be broken up completely they are better
on the top than below the surface. A
roller will break many.
P0TAToEs suffer more from weeds
than Any other crop. One weed will
take UP and evsporate 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 i'll con-
sidering the effect o. weeds, but it is
very important. Waen too late to be
killed by cultivation, the weeds should
be hand pulled.
WE venture the assertion that the man
who takes sufficient care of his stock
from their infancy till ready for the
market, providing for their proper and
necessary feed and shelter in the varying
seasons to keep them always growing,
healthy and thrifty, that his profits will
be Is to 80 per cent greater than those of
his neighbor on similar stock which re-
ceives the ordinary care given by the
ordinary farmer.
THE digestion of horse is governed
by the same laws rs that of man, and,
as we know that it is not best for man to
20 at hard work the moment a hearty
meal is eaten, so we should remember
that horse should have little rest
after his meal, while the stomach is
most active in the process of digestion.
Many good horse has been ruined by
injudicious haste in working him with
a full stomach.
OvER-FAT stock at our fairs is not AZ
popular as premium animals as formerly.
Visitors and purchasers also prefer ami
mails in good breeding condition. The
English breeders are coming to see it,
too. A recent issue If the London Live
Stock Journal says: st is not asking q
good Judge too muchto give the prizes to
the best shaped snim.ls in good breeding
condition, rather then to animals that
are more suitable for fat stock
show"
SLEEPS pelts can be tswed and not
tanned. Tawing is done by scraping
the flesh side of the pelt clean from all
flesh or fat, then shrinking it with q
mixture of finely ,owdered alum and
salt in equal parts. Two skins are then
laid with the fesh sides together, or q
single one doubled lengthwise and rolled
UP for week or ten days; then opened,
scraped and washed and rubbed dry
with piece of chalk, and worked and
pulled until the skin is soft.
MUCH has beer said about getting
down to hard.pan" in financial matters.
The farming of this country needs to get
on this basis as we'll, and this will not
be until crops are grown with the dis
tinct understanding that their growth
has taken from the soil something that
must be replaced before we can know
whether the crop is profit or a loss.
Selling crops year after year without
manuring is quite as bad in farming as
doing business on huctuating and de-
preciated currency in money matters.
The Philadelphia Bulletin says that
one desirable feature in regard to ban
tams is that they are eminently useful
pets, for they are invariably good layers
of eggs, no matter what the breed, and
their plump bodies are most delicious
eating. The surplus stock each year can
always be disposed of at fair price, if
one has any hesihncy in serving them!up
on the table, and thus they prove them
selves more than self sustaining. This
is more than can be said of most other
pets.
A GOOD remedy for lice on cattle is
water in which potatoes have been boil
ed. For every one OF your cattle take
two quarts of water and eight middle
sized potatoes cat in half. If you have
ten cattle you must take eighty potatoes
and twenty quarts of water. When the
potatoes are soft take them out. Get a
large sponge and battle them freely on
a warm day. Comb them with curry
comb, and you will be astonished to see
the effects of the potato water.
On the subject of keeping eggs the
following has been contributed to a
country paper ~ would say that the
eggs could b. kept the year round,
Pack them in box with oats lends
DOWN nail ever on nicely when full
then take another box four inches larger
each way, put about two inches of plas:
ter in the bottom of this box and fill