Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-05-14
THE FARM.

Ing wagon WllteiS, sta'iiS that y VIZ
tires and spokes better than anything
else that can be used.
"YEARs ago / was told by young
Scotchman that il would feed my
sows plenty of sulphur for several days
previous to narrowing time, as well AS
occasionally afterward, would have no
trouble. In an experience OF fifteen
years / have found it to work like a
charm"
CORN FOR SEED.-Use only grains
from the middle OF the car, rejecting the
butts and tips. Our experience has
been that ears from the butts are short
and thick, while those from the tips
have fewer rows and thin stalks. The
grams from the middle of the ear have
larger germs and more substance to
nourish the sprouts.
TAPE WORM IN CUCttMBERs. The
dietetic reputation Of cucumbers is bad
enough already, but it is likely to be-
come worse now that DIR. Leidy of
Philadelphia has discovered that they
are liable to be infested with tape worm.
At a meeting of the academy of science,
Philadelphia, he exhibited specimen
of tape worm taken from the inside of a
large cucumber. 1t is said to have had
all the characteristics Of a true tape
worm, but belonged to an unknown
species, the peculiarly being that the
ovaries, containing the round, yellow
eggs, are confined to the anterior ex-
tremity Of the segment. -BCstOn Journal
Of Chemistry.
PASTURE IN SPRING.--Great care
should be exercised IN making the
change from hay to grass diet. When
cattle are driven to the pasture in the
morning and brought home at night,
any deficiency Of food in the pasture
can be supplied at the barn, but when
cattle ale sent to the pasture during the
summer they are not ordinarily sup
piled with hay. II driven there early
they are half starved for few weeks,
while, if turned out late on rank grass,
they will. it driven directly from the
barn, suffer greatly rom the derange-
ment Of the digestive organs which will
follow such radical change. A good
plan is to turn cattle into home pas
ture for few hours day for two or
three weeks, feeding also hay; they will
thus be prepared for living on grass
alone, and, having become accustomed
by moderate exercise to walking, they
will drive more readily than ii kept in
the stable until time to start.
ABOUT EGas-We have seen dvspep-
tics who suffered untold tormcnts with
almost every kind of food no liquid
could be taken without suffering; bread
became q burning acid; meat and
milk were solid liquid fire; and we have
seen their torments pass away and their
hunger relieved by living on the whites
of eggs which had been boiled in bub-
bling water for thirty minutes. AT the
end of " week we have given the half
yolk of the egg with the white, and upon
this diet alone, without hud of any
kind, we have seen them begin to gain
flesh and strength and quiet, refreshing
sleep. After weeks Of this treatment
they have been able, with care, to begin
other food. And all this without taking
medicine. Hard boiled eggs are not
half so bad as half-boied ones, and ten
times as easy to digest rs raw eggs,
even in egg-nogg. -Indidna Farmer.
APPLICATION OF AsHEs.-Ashes are so
valuable fertilizer for most all soils, es
peciplly for light, dry and sandy soils
that they can hardly be applied amiss
put on at almost any season and in al
most airy manner. They are highly
valuable as a top dressing for grass
lands, for small fruits, for Indian corn,
applied alone; and likewise from
most important ingredient in the COM
post heap. Twenty bushels of leached
and ten of unleached per acre, form "a
good dressing for lands. Experiments
at tie Maine state college farm show
that ashes were more lasting in their
effects on grass than any other iertiliXer
applied. The soil was strong clay
loan. We have been general rather
than definite In speaking Of the guam
tty OF ashes to be used per acre. Be
fore having been eached, wood ashes
contain about eight and one-half per
cent. of potash, possibly one or one and
a half per cent. may be left, and some
other soluble matters. 1t is true that a
few SOILS may be SO changed with pot,
ASH that crops growing on them will
Lot be markedly increased by an appl-
cation of ashes of Quartity above spec-
fled, but as also stated most soils will
be grateful for their presence.-Rlanter
and Grange.
TRAISING SADDLE HoRSES.-Some re-
cent inquiries from Il correspondent on
this subject we submitted to Captain K.
\. Jennings, of this city, who favors Us
with the following reply In answer
to the questions ON training saddle
horses, by +. T., must not say that it
is n good rule to use first class saddle
horse in harness or vice versa. and
horsemen all know that to use trotter