Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-25
AGRICULTURE.

10 remove warts lTOUl II COW > LSdl,
take a bottleful of soft water and putin
to it as much alum as the water will dis
solve, and wash the warts twice a day af-
ter milking. They will o disappear
under treatment.
An annie bedding of fresh straw will
do much to induce a tired horse 10 lie
down and rest. Clean grooming and an
occasional washing will also encourage
restfulness and improve the appetite and
health. Overlooking IS not Judlcious,
and will not restore flesh lost by hard
work and want of 0 mfortable rest. To
prevent gals, the harness should be
washed and kept soft with castor oil.
CURING hay in the cock is preferable
to sun-drying. The sweating and fer
mentation improve, and prevent heat
ing in the NOW or stack. The writer
prefers to put up hay, after the dew is
off, in moderately large cocks-four
feet wide and high-after it has lain
spread in the sun for one full day. 1t
may thus stay safely Tor week, II ne
cessary, and a hay-cap will protect it
from u twenty-four hours rain. The
day that it is drawn in, u man should
start early and open the cocks, TO get a
final airing for two II three hours before
it is taken up.
RECENT Investigations threaten TO up
set some popular notions. 1t has long
been supposed nat early cut hay Is
more valuable than that cut later. II
the judgment of the COWS were a test,
there would he no question about it.
They will leave the riper hay and even
refuse to eat it at all, if they "a pro-
cur that which Is cut earlier. In the
writer's dairy the milk falls off more
thar 10 per Cent. when the young hay
is changed for that cut two weeks later.
This is sufficient 10 support the general
opinion, in spite Of chemical analysis,
which go To show that ripe hay is heav-
Ter, more bulky; and contains more nu-
trltious substance than tina cut earlier.
Perhaps the operations of the chemist
a extract more nutriment from ripe
hay than can the cows stomach; but rs
young hay feeds more prohtably, it
seems best to cut early.
The DEMAND Fol SHORT-uORNs.-A
correspondent Of the Ohio Farmer
writes: The demand for shorthorns in
Ohio is good. Young males are rating
from 500 to $500 to farmers, for the
purpose OF crossing on natives and
grades, and to those who buy to use in
thoroughbred herds at a much larger
sum. Breeders say thatthe inquiry for
young animals Of both sexes never was
greater, while the number Of young
males suitable for use is really scarce
a result explained by the great demand
for this class within the last few years
IN the improvement OF western cattle.
Hundreds Of young bulls and females
but many more Of the former-have
been shipped to Texas, Colorado and
New Mexico. Another reason for the
scarcity is the demand for our beef
from abroad. This demand is confined
to first quality, and this had induced
many to grade up their cattle. The
improvement III this respect Is mani
fest, and has done much to develop the
shorthorn interest.
/ HAVE found the following way to
tighten wagon tires to be successful:
Apply leather rings between the shout
ders on the outer ends Of the spokes
and the corresponding portions of the
felloes, which may be done as follows:
Procure a number of small pieces OF
leather, from an inch and "A half or two
inches in diameter, with q sharp knife
and compass, or with Il cutting punch,
make round holes in the centers of
these pieces. and make a straight cut
from the hook TO the outer edges OF the
pieces, so as to form open rings. The
holes must be made of a size that will
nicely fit the tenons on the outer ends
Of the spokes. Place a fulcrum on the
top Of n hub, on which place your lever,
with its short end under the felioe, near
"A spoke; lave an assistant bear down
on the other end sufficiently to raise the
felloe and expose the shoulder and
tenon of the spoke. open your leather
and tit it nicely around the tenon, hold
ing 1t to its place while your assistant
relaxes the lever by a blow or two upon
the tire. Having repeated the process
with Il sufficient number of spokes to
make the tire all right, trim Oft the pro-
jecting leather even with the surface Of
the spokes, and your task will be done.
If your pieces of leather should be
spongy, hammer them down some be-
fore using"
FREQUENT CAUSES or DISEASE IN PICS.
The disease which affect these ami
mails generally originate from their be
ing kept in loathsome and uncomforta-
bic situations, inhaling the most iniec-
tious exhalations, and being at one
time stinted with food, and at another
fed to the extreme. The hog, although
wallowing in the flthiest mire, and
sometimes fed upon the most disgusting
food, both animal and vegetable, and
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