The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-04-19
AGRICULTURAL.


throw night slops, wash water, etc. An
immense amount of the very best of
fertilizers can be made in this way.
PURE air and water are of even more
Importance than exercise in the care of
young animals. They are often huddled
together in houses altogether in houses
altogether insufficient in size, and in
which the atmosphere is almost con-
stantly impure from the product of
respiration.
MOST of the diseases of cattle are
caused by wrong treatment-too much
tead at one time, too little at another,
600 rich at one time, too poor at another.
Ii cattle and horses were fed, and water
ed, and used properly there would be
| little disease.
To clear cistern water add two ounces
| powdered alum and two ounces borax to
a twenty-barrel cistern of rain water
that is blackened or oily, and in few
hours the sediment will settle and the
water be clarified and fit for washing,
and even for cooking purposes.
If, after the wool has grown to some
considerable length, sheep or lambs be-
come annoyed with lice or ticks, wash
the lambs in strong decoction of tobac-
co. Another way is to take a pair of
bellows and inhale tobacco smoke; they
blow the smoke with a considerable
force among the ticks. This will prove
instant death to them.
THE liquid Weddings of animals are
worth more-good authorities say one
sixth more-pound for pound, than the
solid excrements, and they are saved
with greater care by the best European
farmers and gardeners. All the leaks in
the stable are not in the roof; those
often in the floor are quite as objection
able and are the cause OF great deal of
waste.
CONFINEMENT and want of occu pa
! ton are among the chief causes why
fowls eat feathers. The former is often
inevitable in winter, but the latter can
be avoided by burying some of their
grain food in sand and allowing them to
hunt for it, which will afford them
pastime and healthy occupation. Give
them some green food, fresh meat two
or three times week, burnt bones,
oyster shells, charcoal, clear water and a
clean hennerv, and if all this doesn't
cure them of the habit, wiring their
necks for they are incurable.
THOUSANDS Of pigs are lost every
year because there is no record kept of
sows were bred. We have also known
COWS to drop their calves and mares their
colts, tied up in the stables, for the
same reason. Only year ago friend
of ours lost valuable mare and colt in
this way, and it proved a very serious
loss to him, too. A record should be
kept in all such cases, and it should in
clude not Only the time of service, but
the date Of parturition, SO that glance
would show when to exercise the proper
care. Once is enough to make the nee
essary calculation, if it is put upon re-
cord in the proper manner.
IT is folly to keep old sheep. They
should be turned off to the butcher
while they are in their prime. 1t does
not take half so much to fatten them
then. When they get old and thin, in
order to put them in condition to
slaughter, the whole superstructure
must be rebuilt. Four sets of lambs are
all eve should bear; this will bring
her to five years, and this is an age when
with little extra care, she would round
up to fine and full carcass. Excep-
ti0ns may be made when the breed is
scarce and the blood is more durable
than anything else.-Nea0 York Tribune.
SPEAKING of tanning with the fur on,
an English writer tell the Country that
, he has cass skin, pliable as kid, free
from smell and the hair still clinging
firmly, which two years ago was dressed
, according to his receipt, which he says is
equally safe and unfailing in all such
cases: Nail the fresh skin tightly and
smoothly against the door, keeping the
, skinning side out. Next, with broad
bladed blunt knife, then scrape all loose
pieces of flesh and fat, then rub in much
chalk and be not sparing of labor; when
the chalk begins to powder and fall of
, take the skin down, fill it with finely
ground alum, wrap closely together and
keep SO for two or three days; at the end
, of that time unfold it, shake out the
? alum and the work is done.
IT is the opinion of some of our best
breeders that the impure mating of 8
hen, if but for once, renders her forever
afterwards cross. This view is urged
by Wright, our greatest authority on
poultry culture, by Burnman, one OF
the first of our American writers and
breeders, and receives assent from DR..
Miles in his valuable work on "Stock
Breeding" Felch, on the contrary,
whose strain of light Brahmas is unsur-
passed, contends, after years of expert,
ence, that there is no ground for the
opinion. Being somewhat incredulous.
| instituted the past spring the following
experiment: NV pure light Brahma;
and brown Leghorns had run together
all winter. February 1st | removed my
light Brahma cocks, and in three weeks
put fifteen brown Leghorn eggs under a
sitting hen. repeated this at intervals
of seven days for four weeks, when L re.
moved my Leghorn cocks and returned
the Brahmas. Three weeks after this ]
set fifteen Brahma eggs, week later
fifteen more, and so on, till as before
had four hens engaged in the work Of
incubation. The first brood in each
case furnished two or three chickens
whose purity there was some sligh1
reason to doubt. The others, and there
were over fifty of the light Brahmas
show not the least mark of impurity
But, says one, it will crop out; just give
it time. Most certainly | shall do so
/ shall keep the Brahmas and breed from
them, and if it does crop out | shall SET
it, and will as certainly report.
The Illinois Agricultural Report fur
nishes statements from three counties
/ giving an account of the gradual intro
R duction Of the Canada thistle into tha
e state, and of the mode by which small
matches wara 6oStrova6 One pnuptx