The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-07-05
AGRICULTURE.
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THE old queen always goes with the
swarm.
MANY fine horse is ruined by driving
him too fast Immediately after hearty
meal. If the journey must be resumed
without delay, the horse should be
driven very slowly for half hour or
more, when the speed may be safely in
creased. A good horse is too valuable
an animal to ruin by injudicious haste.
HENS do much better when allowed
free range outdoors than when confined.
In France it has been found that with
fowls allowed considerable freedom
twenty Fer cent only of their eggs fail
to hatch; with less freedom forty per
cent failed, and in close confinement
sixty per cent were not Matched.
COLLECT some SCOT from chimney or
stove where wood is used for fuel, put
into an old pitcher and pour hot water
upon it. When cool use it to water
your plants every few days. The effect
upon plants is wonderful in producing a
rapid growth of thrifty shoots, with
large, thick leaves and great number of
richly-tinted roses.
IF, after wool has grown in consider
able length, sheep or lambs become
annoyed with lice or ticks, wash them in
a strong decoction of tobacco. Another
way is ID take pair of bellows and in
hale tobacco smoke with considerable
force among the ticks. This will prove
instant death to them.
ASPARAGUS must be allowed time to
grow its foliage, and prepare nourish-
ment for next years crops. From not
understanding this, many exhaust their
beds by cutting too late. The old rule
to stop when green yeas conae is a good
one. When cutting ceases, let the tops
grow; their shade will keep down the
small weeds, and the few large ones
that may appear are to be pulled by
hand.
The CultiUGtor says of squashes ::
"The seeds of the different varieties are
apt to mix when planted in close proxim-
ity, and hence it is rather hard to get
pure seed, the seed-growers often being
too careless about the location when they
have seed. Unripe or partly decayed
squashes are often fed to stock and
make good fat. They should, however,
have the seeds removed first, as these
have diuretic effect very injurious to
COWS.
THE original Southdowns were the
purest blood of any English sheep.
their improvement was accomplished by
judicious selection from various hocks.
Great symmetry of form has been
attained, large size and fattening
qualities By reason of their purity,
they have stamped their fattening
qualities more certainly upon their off
spring than any other English breed.
Lord Walsingham's flock is the most
celebrated.
WE learn from the Western Rural
that French chicken-producers And
that feeding the fowls with boiled or
steamed carrots, chopped into small
pieces, rapidly fattens them and imparts
an agreeable favor to the flesh greatly
relished by epicures, and that fowls
thus fed sell more rapidly. The expert
ment at least is worth trying here. If
spring chickens could thus be increased
in weight and SAVIOR in few weeks both
producers and consumers would be
| benefited.
CATILLoN, a French Psychologist,
| found that the addition of from seven 20
eight grains of glycerine to the daily
ration of lot of guinea pigs increased
the effect of their food 50 that they gain
ed from One-tenth to one-ffth Of their
weight in given time, while a second
| lot fed on the same ration, but without
| glycerine gained nothing; when the
dose of glycerine was changed to the
second lot they gained in weight, and
| the first lot gained nothing. Large
doses of glycerine, however, cause de-
rangement of the digestive organs.
A GENERAL western practice is to
plant corn on stubble land. The in
creasing use of artificial fertilizers has
shown that we may often ignore rota-
tions, and repeat the same crops when
we desire to do so. English farmers are
depending less upon " rotation" and our
farmers are losing faith in the necessity
for it. Experience is showing that we
can supply the soil with the elements
needed to grow any crop whatever
without regard to its previous condition,
and that as good and profitable crop of
corn may be grown upon stubble as upon
sod.
WEneed to double our mum Der of sheep.
Let no one indulge single fear of
an over production of either mutton or
wool. Could our focks be tripled or
quadrupled they would add not only to
the comfort and healthfulness of the
people, but to their intelligence and So
briefly, as we'll as to the productness of
every field used as s sheep pasture. We
hope that every farmer who reads this,
will at once consider how much his in
terests would be subserved by adding a
score of sheep to his stock. These fur
nish choice food, and their increase and
feeces are always in demand, and that,
too, at fair prices. Chicago Drover's
Journal.
No quarter should be given to the
insect pests which remain year after
year simply because we permit them.
The potato beetle exists SO plentifully
because some careless farmer actually
breeds myriads of them. Many fields
of potatoes were abandoned by them last
year, and the neighboring country was
thus stocked for this year. This is one
insect that might be abolished by
combined effort of a year or two.
Another is the cattle gad-fy, which may
be found now in the backs of the cows
and oxen in small humps or tumors,
called MARBLES. The grubs may be
squeezed out of these tumors through
the breathing holes aud destroyed.
Otherwise they will escape, change to
flies and continue the mischief.
The desire for large animals is not
always judicious. With cows it is
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