The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-07-12
AGRICULTURAL.

from one acre than fifty from two.
A BREEDER of poultry says: " Every
spring | procure a quantity OF cedar
boughs, and scatter them plentifully In
and around the henhouse. This Is all
that is necessary, as the door OF ceoar
keeps away the lice."
The Congregationoist wants to know
the effect of using sawdust as a bedding,
as regards manure. We presume 1t
would not iniure the manure materially
for cultivation, but it is one OF the worst
things in the world in manure used as
tOp-dresslng.
A DAIRYMAN recommends putting
down butter in stone jar and covering
with brine. He then puts the jar IN a
box little larger than the jar itself,
and covers it on all sides with salt an
inch or two in thickness. He claims
that the butter thus kept is better when
six months old than when first put down.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country
Gentleman says he kept off the squash
borer by pouring a solution OF salt
peter on the hills, made of four table
spoonfuls of saltpeter in pail of water.
We must say we should fear that the
vines would quail under such dose
worse than with the borers, but it might
be tried on vine or two, half as strong
as the above.
SOME one informs us that saltpeter, as
much as will lie on a silver tlVe-cent
piece, put in pail of milk, will destroy
all taste of garlic. 1t is said, also, that
if COWS are turned out into the garlicky
pasture just after milking, for half an
hour, the butter will acquire no bad
taste. A half hours daily pasturiDg
will soon finish the garlic.
To make good harness polish, take
of mutton suet two ounces; beeswax six
ounces; powdered sugar six ounces !;
white Iampblack, one ounce; green or
yellow soap, two ounces, and water, one
half pint. Dissolve the soap in the
water, add the other solid ingredients,
mix well and add turpontine. Lay on
with sponge and polish off with a
brush.
PROF. HARRINGTON, in a summary
of the experiments begun in 1870 by The
Maine Agricultural College to ascertain
which has the greater value as food for
swine, cooked or uncooked meal, says
We have, byan experiment which has
been continued through from three to
four months of each of the nine years
since its beginning, obtained evidence
that all the money and labor expended
in cooking meal for swine is more than
thrown away"
WHEN we tackle horse for hosting
heavy weights of hay, or other goods,
by means of ropes and pulleys, it is well
to study the harness on the docks in
New York of horses that spend their
lives in that harbor you viii find the
traces stif-is there wood inside of
them?-with the whiffietree wrapped in
wool skin close to the horses launches,
and supported by light strap over the
loins. Then there will be nothing dang
ling about his legs. A horse of charac-
ter soon comes to understand his trade
and work at the word with next to no
bossing.
IN regard to the production of butter
correspondent of the Ohio Farmer
says that he feeds his COW on all the good
hay she can eat; one bushel of turnips
and four quarts of bran each day, keeps
her in comfortable quarters and never
allow her to drink very cold water.
During three months ending March 20
from her milk were made 103 pounds
and Is ounces of butter. She has a calf
fourteen months old, and is giving more
milk now than during the winter. Her
owner feels assured that he can produce
from her 500 pounds of butter per an
mum. The milk is always scalded when
taken from her, which operation is be-
lieved to improve the quality and in
crease the yield of butter. The breed is
not stated.
No farmer need expect to gather fruit
many seasons without manuring the
orchard well. This point is often over.
looked. Every third year good coat
of barnyard manure should be applied.
Bone dust and ashes are excellent. In
western New York it is the habit to feed
fruit trees we'll; here we starve them,
and the result is New York supplies our
great markets with fruit when we ought
to do it ourselves. Several times a year
we unfold to our readers the great
secret of large fruit crops-manure,
manure, manurel and we shall keep on
in that line if it takes lifetime. Ap-
pies at So barrel and pears at Sc are
more profitable than milk at &c a quart,
butter zoe a pound, or corn at SOC a
bushel.
USE the plOw in the poultry yards. If
the premises are contracted spade up the
earth thoroughly, so that the birds can
have spot of fresh earth to run upon
or burrow in as the weather grows warm
er. IL the fowl house floors are not
boarded over these should also be clean
y scraped and similarly dug up, spade
deep. And the same process may be
gone over again and again to advantage
for the next three months. The benefit
from this is two fold-the newly-turned
up earth is filled with worms that the
fowls will devour with gusto, and the
top earth that has been living exposed
for months, may thus be turned under,
after the soiIing it has been subjected to
by the presence of the birds upon It's
surface all winter. The spading or
ploWlng OF the grounds outside of the
henhouse (where the runs are inclosed
by tencing) is necessity in the spring
anG summer And the stock will
quickly show their appreciation of this
measure, Tor their accommodation by
rolling and tumbling themselves in mel
lowed soil and thus cleaning their bodies
and underfeathers Of the vermin that
may frequently have accumulated dur
ing the laying season. Nothing can be
more grateful to the fowls at this time
than this simple provision for their COM
fort. And where their range is limited
to close quartes, the frequent turning