Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-10-09
FARM HINTS.
KEEP accounts.
GULL your fowl tlocks.
RAISE your own feather beds.

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KEEP the best pullets for layers next
season.
WHrTEwAsH the poultry houses before
cold weather comes.
LOOK out for supply of gravel before
cold weather sets in.
The north side of tree is said to
furnish the strongest timber.
RooFING-FELT is generally liked by
those who have used it in the poultry
house; 1t is claimed that the strong odor
of tar keeps off vermin.
AN exchange says coal ashes do wei
as fertilizer for tomatoes. Make your
ground half soil and half coal ashes and
the result will be surprising.
MAKE the soil your savings bank, sad
remember that rich farms make ,ich
farmers, and poor farms make pocr
families.
The English agricultural Gazette is re.
sponsible for the statement that game
cock was recently sold for $500. Who
says poultry don't payS
THE average stride of the horse at a
fast gallop is twenty-four feet; that of
the trotting horse, at his highest speed,
seventeen feet.
SMALL farms with good cultivation
y cid better revenue than great estates
lily cultivated. Ii may perhaps be bet
ter put by saying that every farm, large
or small, should possess good farmer.
MOLD is indispensable in every soil,
and healthy supply can alone be pre-
served through the cultivation of clover
and grasses by the turning in of green
crops, or by the application of composts
rich in the elements of mold.
He who would have healthy hogs
should give them variety of clean,
wholesome food, pure water, good natu-
raj or artificial shade to protect them
from the heat, and place to root in the
soil.
SHALLOW blowing operates to impov-
erish the soil, while in decreases produc-
ton. Subsoiling sound land, that is
not wet, is also eminently conductive to
increase production. Deep blowing
greatly improves the productive powers
of every variety of soil that is not wet.
A Mr.. CHAUNoEY EDMuNps, OF Ed
mundsburg, Mich, states that peach
leaves or turnips boiled in water, to
which an infusion of peach leaves is add
ed, is preventive, as well as a sure cure
for cholera, and now the question recurs,
what is the use of the turnips anyhow.
THERE is more in the feed than in the
brced--the fowl that has been well fed
and well cared for from the shell to
Strengthening time, will make the best
table meat; if you want chickens that
will be good eating after they are dead,
see that they eat well during their lives.
IT is with people as with trees. If you
| lop of their finest branches into which
they were pouring their young life
Juice, the wounds will be healed over
with some rough boss, some odd excres.
ence; and what might have been grand
tree, expanding into liberal shade, is but
a whimsical mishapen trunk.
AN old poultry raiser, who believes in
milk for fowls, says: cts meat and
drink both. Some of the best chickens
| ever saw were raised upon the free use
of milk with their food. Hens lay as
we'll, or better, when furnished with this
than upon any known article offered
them"
THE result of late experiments in
England show that l5i quarts of milk
of short horns is required for pound
of butter. The same amount was pro-
duced from 10! quarts OF Ayrshire milk,
81 quarts of Galloway milk and 81 quarts
of Kerry milk, the milk being produced,
AZ nearly rs possible, under the same
conditions.
FoR the cleansing of outbuildings,
sheep barns, cow stables and hen roosts,
as well as pig sites, there is no renovator
or purifier like lime. A coat should be
spread over the inside OF these buildings
at the close Of the summer season in
order to destroy all vermin or eggs that
remain secreted in the crevices and
cracks, ready to prey on the animals
when they come home to their quarters
in the chilly autumnal nights.
Sow the grass seed on the wet ground
at any time of the year that is con-
venient, it does not matter much when
Red clover wants to be sown early in
spring; but timothy, red top, blue grass,
white clover, lawn and orchard grass can
hardly be sown amiss. The land really
should be pastured when the seed is
sown. Hogs, however, are bad on all
such land the first year unless the pasture
is very large and the number of hogs
small.
HOG manure is an excellent fertilizer
for corn, and even if it is carted to the
field in the fall and placed in a pile,
exposed to the storms of winter, it will
not suffer in comparison with fresh
stable manure in its effects. Where the
hog manure, which was made up largely
of sods that the swine had worked over,
was used, the corn is fully as large again