Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-05-09
AGRICULTURAL.

good article of whitewashing car be
made by Stacking two gallons of white
lime in five gallons of hot water, in
which one pound of rice has been
boiled until it has ali dissolved. Cover
closely while lime is Stacking. Add
one pound Of salt; use hot
THE English dairy farmers get i'm
mense returns from their grass lands by
a free use Of bone manure. One
Cheshire farmer says that 10y 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 es-
pecially.
As regards its fodder value, Prot.
Storer says that from analysis, buck
wheat straw, when mixed in small pro-
portion with richer kinds Of foods,
mi hit, like other straws, be usefully
employed for feeding animals in many
cases, especially if 1t were previously
soltened by steaming or soaking.
II, after the wool has grown 10 con
siderable length, sheep or lambs be-
come annoyed with lice or ticks, wash
the lambs IN strong decoction of to-
bacco. Another way is to take Il pair
of bellows and inhale tobacco smoke
with considerable force among the
ticks. This will prove instant death to
them.
A CORRESPONDENT, writing from Gull
ford, Conn.,, protests against classified
ton of the oriole among mischievous
birds. He says that he has frequently
seen them tear open the nests OF apple
worms and devour them and thinks
that birds with pluck enough to destroy
such disagreeable pests ought TO be
iostered rather than destroyed.
A FEW warm days will often tempt
the farmer 10 doIl' his tlauncls and take
his chances ON the rheumatism or II
hard cold, rs it may turn ont. The
same feeling assails the housewife, and
she takes up the carpets, opens tie
windows, and stores the stoves in the
barn Tor the summer. A week of cold
winds, or iour days rain dispels the
illusion, and cold feet, blue noses,
coughs, sore Threats and Group among
the children are the rewards of Il haste
much more ambitious than wise.
Tie top Of II fruit tree, to secure the
best results i'll color and flavor Of the
fruit, should be kept open 10 the admis-
sion of mir and sunlight. II some
branches grow too fast for the harmoni-
Gus balance of the tree. pick out the
buds at the end and thus force the
growth into the other branches that are
not SO thrifty. Five years of cultivation
and watchful pruning and vow will new
or have occasion To remove large
branches. 1t is Il terrible loss to tree
to allow branches to attain large size
only to be slaughtered.
A sAoING may be effected in the con-
sumption of oats Tor horses by simply
soaking them in tepid water Practl-
cal experiments which have been made
show that 10y this method the rations
for each animal may be reduced one
third. Horses whose teeth have seen
their best days masticate the grain in
it's ordinary condition insufiiciently, and
younger animals often eat so greedily
that the greater portion of it is swallow
ed whole. This waste may be obviated
by the simple method recommended,
which SO far sOftens the grain that it Is
more completely mastcated and d.
gested, and consequently yields more
nutriment Three hours is 4 sufficient
length Of time to soak the grain, proyi-
ded the water is not too cold.
FERTIIIzEp EGGS. Many persons who
pay high price for choice chickens
are troubled by Their ncighbors watch
ing them when they take eggs to mar
ket, and SO and buy them cheaply. and
in that way easily get into the best
breeds. One who has paid dearly, and
wants TO get something back in good
price FOR his eggs or chickens, wishes to
know how he will head such neighbors.
The only way is not to throw fortified
eggs upon the market. Allow the cock
TO resort only with the special breeding
hens, and use all their eggs for setting,
for special customers and for eating at
home. When eggs for the ordinary
market is the object, 1t is claimed that
the mail chicken is II useless piece Of
property, as the hens lay better and are
less inclined to set when they have no
attention from their male companions.
--Des Moiaes Io'oal Stute Register.
THE LIVE CATTLE AND FRESH MEAT
TRADE. The impetus given to the great
stock growing interests of the country
by the foreign demand for live cattle
and fresh meat-a movement scarcely
three years old premises at no distant
day to develop into enormous proper
tons, and to become regarded rs one
Of the many remarkable phenomena Of
this age and time. But not only has
this movement greatly stimulated INTO
activity the one and principal industry,
but it has had reflex influence on II
bali dozen other related Ones and has
in fact opened new horizon for the
great corn, hog and cattle lands of the
west and south, and notably that part
of them known rs the "blue grass re-
gion" which, whatever to the contrary
may BE said, is not confined to Ken
lucky, but embraces areas of land
quite as large iii the states Of Ohio, In
diana, Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa. II
bad begun, ten years ago, to be suspect.
ell that the stock interests Of the states
named would nc2er be able to compete
with the chpap beef az Tpyns and CHI