The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-04-26
AGRICULTURAL.

ROLL and harrow winter wheat SO
soon as the ground is dry enough.
FARMERS are like fowls; neither will
get full crops without industry.
IRON nails thrown into drinking
water will make good tonic for the fowls.
THERE is more profit in a small herd
of stock literally fed than in a large
herd poorly cared for.
CHARRING posts before sitting is con-
sidered beneficial, but immersing the
end to go in the ground in hot coal tar is
decidedly better.
PLANTING of trees and shrub should
be done early, and with as much care to
preserve the balance between top and
root as advised with trees.
FLAX seed sown with feed grain, such
as oats, millet, or barley, is great ad-
vantage to stock. Two quarts per acre
is enough, and cut green for hay. Try
it and see.
The main point in successful tree
planting is to select medium sized trees,
SO as to secure good roots. Keep the
roots from exposure to sun and wind
while hauling, take pains IN setting and
mulch literally.
CHARCOAL is good food to make hens
lay. Burn a few corn cobs, and wet
them out as soon as they are in coal.
Feed TO hens and soon their combs will
turn red, and their busy songs will be
heard, and eggs increased.
A sonr.roN of an ounce of gum aloes
powdered, and large tablespoonful of
common soda, to each half gallon of
boiling water, is said to be useful in
Kidding your cabbage and other plants
| ofinsects, sprinkled from can with very
fine rr~us, or IN the care of but few plants
from rubber spraying bag.
TEraE 10 in the Rural NeaO Yorker, is
sketch OF 4 good winter trough. 1t a
simply trough made in the usual man
ner, hung at each end on pivots, fasten.
ed to upright short posts. When the
animals have done drinking, it can be
swung bottom up, supported by a prop
and the water all runs out, instead OF
freezing and filling the trough, SO as to
require chopping. This is vast i'm,
provement on the old fashioned plug
HOUSES that have stood empty fo1
any considerable period may become
fever breeders when they come to be
reoccupied and often give rise to typhoid,
diphtheria, or other zymotic affections.
The cause is mainly due to the disus8 of
cisterns, pipes and drains, the process OF
putrefactiOn going on in the impure air
in them, the unobstructed access of this
air to the house, while the closure of win
dows and doors effectually shuts out
fresh air. Such houses should always be
thoroughly aired and renovated before
being occupied.
Mr.. MCAFEE, Superintendent of the
University of Wisconsin Experimental
Farm, informs us that for three years
past he has grown lima beans without
poles or stakes, persistent pinching back,
after they reach the desired height
about that of a common bunch beans.
He is confident the crop is very percept-
IDLY earlier, and thinks it is increased
in quantity-the plant being checked in
its growth of vine, expanding its energy
in fruit production. On the farm we
saw some so created that they were well
loaded with fruit.
THE Boston Journal of Chemistry an
nounces that DIR Wittweark, of Berlin,
has made some very interesting expert
ments on the action OF the juice of the
melon (Curica p0pGyG). We find in the
Juice a material which resembles pepsin,
which has the effect of making meat ten
der in very short time, and it makes
milk coagulate without making it sour.
The fresh juice does not act so strongly,
but if it is dried and small piece the size
of pea is put into the milk it coagulates
at once without becoming sour. These
experiments will probably lead to some
useful applications for diaries.
OF sixteen manufactures of oleomar-
garine scattered here and there through
tie country, thirteen, we learn, have al
ready been closed by the pressure of
hard times, though backed with an ag-
gregate capital of $1,800,000, to begin
with, and few if any are running at a
profit. Among the causes that have
contributed to the stagnation in this
greasy business not the least influential
has been the lack, of late, of the liberal
amount of free advertising foolishly &C
corded it by all our dairy conventions
until the Rural entered a vigorous
protest against the practice. At the
late dairy shown in this city the stuff
failed to receive a single puff from any
speaker, and the underhand trickery by
which its managers hoped to profit, like
trickery generally, finally proved iujur-
ious to the tricksters. They cunningly
contrived to introduce q few tubs of the
stuff among the butter from distant
points, and then loudly boosted that
the judges could not detect the imitation
from the reality; but in the every case
the odor of the conglomeration alone be-
trayed it. Some farmers, too, and even
some creameries were, not long since,
accustomed to use good deal of it for
the purpose of adulterating their butter
but the public odium and low prices that
awaited upon detection, have greatly
curtailed this opening for its sale. The
curiosity of the general public also with
regard to the concoction has been nearly
stated, while the low price of genuine
butter of late and the necessary improve
ment in most of it, are also contributing
to the unpopularity of oleomargarine.-
Rural NeaO YORKER
Serious Danger
Threatens every man, woman or child living