Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-06-20
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and 9S,12o l12 pounds of cheese, OF
this total, thirty-three counties make
annually $,9SS, 800 pounds of cheese.
IN making flower beds never have it
piled up above the level ct the lawn. Ii
is the surest way of killing plants by
drought. Keep the edge Of the bed
about All inch below the surface OF the
sod, sloptnS or elovating the bed slightly
toward the center.
10 cabbage worms trouble Your
plants For every hundred Of cabbage
take a quarter of pound of black pep.
per and put in box large enough 10
sitt out well. Go to the patch before
the dew is OIL and pepper the cabbage
Two or three times will be sufficient.
ONe of the plainest indication Of uu-
successful farming is IL see manure
going to waste, or unemployed. When
this is seen there is no need OF looking
beyond the stables, and yards TO find
out the condition of the farm, or 10
judge OF the success of its owner.
ruE Science Of Heath says: III farm
ers would avoid suddenly cooling the
body after great exortion, if they would
be careful not 10 go with wet clothing
and wet feet, and If they would not
overeat when in that exhausted condi.
ton, and battle daily, using much frio.
ton, they would have little or no rheu-
matlsm
EVERY family finds more or less bones
accommodating. Burn them with your
wood, and the ashes thus enriched is
one of the most valuable of all ferti'.
izers. Money can not buy any article
which will SO tertilize your soil. Bones
thus consumed will quadruplo the
value of wood ashes, which in them
selves are among the best OF soil en-.
richers.
Ar the Michigan state agricultural
college, last year, n short-horu COW gave
an average OF SIS pounds OF milk per
day for 23l days; m Ayrshire, - :
pounds for 257 days; Jersey. 90
pounds for pa days; and Il Galloway,
15.l pounds for 202 days.
4 MAN nj Madison lost COW the other
day from the effects of eating oleander
buds. Persons in cutting this shrub,
the oleander, should be very careful
not to throw the cuttings into the street
or alleys, for they are sure death 10 the
COW or horse that eats them.
SEVENTEEN live prairie grouse from
the United States recently arrived in
New Zealand, where il is proposed To
endeavor to establish the bird. They
were ensnared near Topeka, Kansas
Twenty-Five were sent, but five died on
the voyage.
How LONG SHOULD Cows Go DRY =
A good deal depends upon the treat
ment which the COW receives. II well
fed, it is unnecessary to dry them of
three or four months before calving.
Yet rs they are pretty generally treat
ed, ii needs all Of their time 10 recruit
their exhausted energies, and gather
strength for the new demand. A COW
giving milk requires double the food 10
keep in the same condition that she
does when dry, Now if properly fed,
rest of one month perhaps might
answer. A COW is better OIL in all re-
spects, If she is kept warm and quiet,
and tolerably we'll fed, than To be
kicked around and exposed to the
weather, even though she may he nj
lowed to go dry twice MS long. Some
farmers seem to think that if their
cows go dry three or four months they
will come out all right. They turn
them out in tho old fields, never feed
them, never see them, do not know
where they are. Cows are not all
alike, do not have the same habits, and
should be managed accordingly. A
COW thin in flesh and run down, should
be dried off early III the season. A
COW strong and in good flesh, may be
MIXED nigh up 70 calving, and she will
do well. IL time is given for the udder
to enlarge and other organs to assume
normal condition, the requirements OF
nature will have been satisfied, and
this is all which should re required.
OATS THE GRAIN FOR HoRsEs. -OatH
are justly advocated rs the grain above
all others adapted to horses, and it is
that, for young horses and those used
on the road, there il probably nothing
equal to oats; but they ought to be
CIuentl OF DTulselJ hilu HOt gTOuild.
In fact, think all grains are better fed
in this way, and il seems strange that
there are no good American oat chush-
ers. They seem to me simple affairs
as have seen them in English staples.
A wheel of perhaps eighteen inches in
diameter, made strong, and having u
perfectly fiat periphery (of steal, /
presume), like a steel tire, having II
face about three inches wide, is turned
50 as TO bear evenly against a smaller
one Of say eight inches in diameter,
having a similar face. These two
wheels are geared TO turn together, and
the oats are slowly fed in by hopper.
Good oats, when crushed, are nearly
round, and as big rs silver three-cent
piece, and the husks are quite incon.
spieuous; poor ones show more husk
than grain and retain more nearly the
form OF the uncrushed oat. Barley
may be crushed equally well with oats,
although harder, and corn, when too
green 10 grind, might well be Thus
treated. II grain be swallowed whole
it is not easily digested, but if crushed
or broken even, il is likely 10 be.
Course faeaI," that is, the cornmeal
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