The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-11-08
FARM NOTES.

IRON is found in the ashes of all plant
that are used for human food.
A LITTLE method is worth great dea
of money on the farm IS elsewhere.
MANY farmers who use plaster have
found its good effects more apparent
when salt is added.
ATTEND to the cellars by cleaning and
whitewashing them thoroughly before
the winter supplies are put in.
Hoes may be kept from measles
trichinosis, ETC., by mixing a handful
of good wood ashes with their food twice
week.
GERANIUMs that are dug up from the
flower bed this fall can be hung up in
the cellar on nail, and start out green
in the spring.
IT don't matter what man attempts
attend carefully and constantly to bust
ness.
Fowl houses and yards should be
well drained. Low, damp grounds are
very unhealthy for chickens. Ahill-side
is the best location for q poultry house.
VASES that are to remain outside all
winter, especially deep ones, should have
the soil removed from them, as the
action of the frost will swell and crack
them.
THE soil should be fed SO that in turn
may feed plants, fer in proportion to
the richness of the soil, either natural or
artificial, in just such proportion may
it be made to yield heavy crop.
PLANT plenty of hardy bulbs this fall
-hyscinths, crocuses, tulips, narcissus.
etc., and they will reward you next
spring with their fragrance and bright
colOrs.
THE best butter that is made in France
for expectation to England is not sailed
but at the final washing is simply wash
ed in strong solution of salt in place of
pure water.
A SLOW mixer makes cow impatient,
which causes her to hold up her milk
The strippings are the richest part, and
if cow is MIXED quietly, as well as
quickly, there will be more, as we'll as
richer milk.
Mold is more necessary in every soil
than farmers suppose, and supply can
be preserved by tie cultivation of clover
and grasses, or pes vines, and turning in
of green crops, or by the application Of
composts rich in the elements of mold
VERY few farmers keep an account Of
their crops, thong they are commencing
to wake up the Importance of such
transactions. If we do not look into
such matters it is not strange that farm
ing does not pay.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES can be lowered in
d cold pit. On the approach of cold
weather, remove them to the pit where
they viii bloom freely until early winter.
They bear considerable frost without in
jury.
A BELT of forest trees seven or eight
rods in width has been known to COM
pletely stop the devastating march of
the chinch- bug in travelling from one
wheat field to another, the cool, dam
soil Of such places forming an impossible
barrier to their progress. This is anoth-
er argument in favor of tree belts on
prairie farms.
We have kept many an hundred BUSH
ell of apples simply by picking them care
fully in the fall and burying them in
shallow pits in the open ground, cover
ing over with straw, and four or six
inches of earth over that, in about the
same manner as we preserve turnips
from frost through the winter.
IN all cases where insects of
any kind infest trees a good drench-
ing of water, with one pound of potash
to eight gallons of water, two or three
times week will kill the last one. The
same amount of copperas dissolved in
eight gallons of water and applied in the
same way will dispel all insects and has
a tendency to make the tree hardy.
LATE experiments made in Germany
on the cooling of milk before it is set for
the cream TO rise show that while there
is no essential difference between its
cream rising capacity in the one instance
over the other Excepting that the pro
cess of souring is longer retarded in the
cooled milk, the butter made from cream
from the cooled milk keeps far better
than that made from the uncooled.
INDUSTRY, enterprise and intelligent
observation is what makes the good farm
err Such a man uses every means in his
power to keep his land fertile, by clean
cultivation, rotation of crops, and the
application of such manures as may be
adapted to the special wants of the crops
he cultivates. He does more, he reads
the best journals he can buy, having ref
erence to their practically in agricultu-
raj art.
HARNESS that has been soaked with
water will dry hard, unless it is dressed
while damp with some kind OF non-drying
OIL First wipe off the harness with q
eponge, and then with a cloth kept for
this purpose, You can apply the oil or
dressing thoroughly. A coating of
water roof dressing given now will be
useful, but the harness should be thor
oughly washed and made perfectly
clean.