Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-01-01
FARM NOTES.

/ 10 CATCH \ SHY HORSE-If the horse
/ Is shy and hard to catch, take finely.
! grated horse-castor, oils of rhodium
and cummin; keep them in separate
bottles, we'll corked; put some of the
on OF cummn on your hand and ap-
I proach the horse on the windy side.
He Will then move towards you. AS
soon rs you can reach him. rub some
OF the cummin on his nose, give him a
little of the castor or anything he likes,
and get few drops of the oil of rhod-
ium ON his tongue. After this you can
make him do nearly everything YOU
want Treat him kindly, feed well,
/ handle gently, and your victory is GER
tain. Tut Field and Farm.
/ GAs-TAR PAINT FOR WurELs.-Iast
year the Spikes of my wheel.barrow
worked loose, and | tried to tighter
them by wedeing; but the wedges
worked ont, and the wheels were likely
to come to pieces | had some gas tar
handy, and filled the joints with il, and
also dipped the wedges INTO the tar.
All was tight and Staid tight. next
/ painted my wagon hubs with it, both
I the two-horse and onehorse, Milling
cracks and joints thoroughly. This
kept the spokes tight through the re-
mander o! the season. This year
ohout the first Of August one OF my
tires came oil on the big wagon, and |
broke two felloes. Torepair that wheel
cost me 81 10. AS soon rs | GOT that
wheel home from the shop, painted
/ every wheel of three wagons and the
old buggy with gas tar-hubs, spoke
and teloes. They soon dried and the
paint was rs hard as japan, and shone
Ike black paint with varnish. No
more loose tires since. Prairie Farmer.
/ To TELL THE AGE on EGGs.-In a
Baden agricultural journal. Professor
Nessler, of Carlsruhe, recommends a
simple method Of roughly determining
the age OF eggs. An old egg is well
known to be lighter in weight than a
fresh laid one, and AS its size remains
exactly the same, the difference must
be due to diminished specific gravity.
BY dissolving sixty grammes of common
salt III 900 grammes of water, we get Il
! iiuld OF specific gravity 1913, in which
| all new laid eggs will sink to the bot
tom, and all downright stale ones float
on the surface. The older the eggs are
the less salt is required to render the
solution capable of sustaining them:
and when very old indeed they will float
on simple water alone. The date at
which they do this varies considerably.
the professor having observed it on the
SEVENTEEN, sixty-thrd, eighty-third,
eighueth, and one hundred and twelfth
days respectively. OF course this test
of age can not be applied in the case Of
eggs that have been kept in salt or lime
water, or that have been coated with
yarnish, oil, or liquid glass
AMERICAN FARMING. American farm
ing is now equal to any in the world.
Our farms generally are cleaner and
ireer from weeds than foreign ones
with some exceptions-and if we would
use our native fertilizers. such rs bones
and meat refuse and fish guauo; our
native foods, su CHI as linseed n nd cot
ton seed oiI-cakes, instead of selling
them to our foreign competitors; and
also use those artificial fertilizers which
are so cheap and effective, as an aid to
increase our crops, we could excel the
famed English farms in the product OF
the fields We have this yet to do. All
that is needed is intelligence and conf
dence, that the more literally we feed
our soils, the more bountifully they will
reward us with teeming haryests. -
american Agriaeturis
APPLEs IN SAND.-A writer in the Lon
don Garden says that h, finds fruit to
keep best in perfectly dry sand. He
| keeps fruit in this way all the year
round. He has had French crabs two
years old. The Catelac pear has re-
manned sound for twelve months. The
/ fruit must be sound when stored, and
the sand must be quite dry. The chief
advantages Of packing in sand are, the
exclusion Of air currents, the preserva-
ton from changes Of temperature, and
the absorption Of moisture which favorS
decay. Much will depend on the apart
ment in which the experiment is tried,
a dry or cool one being best. This is
not new discovery. The Pennsylvania
Dutch farmers have long practiced this
way o. keeping apples.
How TO RAISE LARGE CoRN.--I have
made q great many experiments with
corn within the last fifteen years. had
fourteen different kinds. and this year
got some of the largest ears ever rails
ed. / always select my seed corn in
the fall, at hu5king time, and III the
sDring | sort them over again. Last
spring ] took no ears that were less
than twelve inches long; then | took of
three inches at the tip end and two
inches at the butt end, and from these
central grains | got ears fifteen inches
long and from fourteen 10 sixteen rows.
Several years ago | selected ears from
stalks that had two ears, but the result
was not nearly so satisfactory as from