Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-09-11
AGRICULTURAL.

THE partial failure of the grain crops
in France has caused farmers there to
utilize the tender portions of forest trees
as forage.
CoLEUs seed sown early in spring, say
in March, will make plants, which, il
properly cared for and grown, may be
bedded out in Juue.
GIVE your hogs rubbing post in
some accessible part of their enclosure.
1t facilitates their keeping clean, and
seems to afford them much satisfaction.
GARBAGE should never be allowed to
accumulate. All that is not fed to fowls
or animals on the place should be kept
in closely covered receptacle and car
ried away frequently.
GOOD feed whether it is good grass in
summer, or good hay and grain in win
ter, with pure water always within
reach, will always give good returns,
whether the outcome expected be meat,
milk, butter or cheese.
In all our cropping and planting we
should remember that the farm is our
capital, and that increasing its produc-
ing capacity means adding to our princi.
pie, while reducing it is taking away
the "means by which we live"
A GOOD country fair, among all its
other merits, is an evidence of thrift on
the part of the farmers of the county.
Apoor farmer cares nothing about them.
He has nothing to exhibit and he dislikes
TO attend, for he is reminded by the ele-
CANT products which his neighbors dis
play what failures he and his farm
are.
BOTTLES trouble horses and colts at
this season. A very little care will pre-
vent them from doing much harm. A
moment will suffice to catch the flies
when they come around to deposit eggs;
and washing with kerosene, will, we
believe, destroy the vitality of such nits
as adhere to the animals legs. A little
prevention, in this respect, will be worth
a great deal of cure.
If moderation is needed anywhere on
the farm, it is in the driving of cows.
A boy or dog that will hurry and
therefore worry the COWS as they are
taken to and from the pasture should be
to put it mildly-attendsd 70. Boys,
do not run the COWS home, even If it is
getting late, especially if it is on the way
to the yard and their udders are full Of
milk.
POTAToEs suffer more from weeds then
any other crop. One weed will take up
and evaporate 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 in considering
the effects of weeds, but it is very impor-
tant. When to late to be killed by cul-
tivation, the weeds should be hand
pulled.
THE Nashville Rural San says: "The
best way to keep butter is to exclude the
air from it and keep it in cool, sweet
place; but the first is most important.
II the butter is in pail, tub or jar,
cover it one or two inches with the
strongest brine, made from the best salt.
Remember, it will not do to simply COW
er 1t with salt; the air will not pass
through the brine. If the package has
tight-ftting cover 80 much the bet
ter.
DILUTED carbolic acid is found to be
complete exterminator of the potato
beetle, and other insects infesting crops,
and it should be used in preference to
Paris green. But it is destructive to
plant life unless it is sufficiently diluted
with water; one pint of carbolic acid to
100 parts of water. This important fact
should be borne in mind, and, doing 80,
there is perhaps no insect destroyer
known.
Mr.. RIVERS, the great English fruit
grower, has found the American Alex
ander peach TO be not only the earliest,
but large and fine in every respect. He
is afraid that the refrigerating process on
board the steamers may be the means of
inundating the English market with
American peaches, and therefore, the
English farmer, to compete against
transatlantic orchards, must select sorts
that will ripen before the American
harvest begins.
ACCORDING to the Maine farmer 8
cultivaror levelled off twenty feet square
OF pen where cows had been yardec
spread bushel or more Of wood ashes
prepared the ground properly, sowed i
In onions watered them lust as the,