Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-01-01
AGRICULTURAL.

CHOPPED onions, with a little ginger
mixed in, is said to be q sure cure for
chicken cholera.
THOSE intending to plant out an Usage
orange hedge should pillow the ground
now, so that the sods will rot, and keep
the soil mellow with the cultivator until
the plants are get out.
PRoFEssoE SHELDON, in his new work
on dsiry farming, assumes that $50, O0O,-
900 gallons of milk are annually made
into cheese in England, and 550,000,0 900
gallons to butter. The quantity of the
former product made is 5000 tons, and
of the latter SO, 2S5 tons.
LAST year thousands of choice cattle
died from what wss supposed by many
10 be corn smut poison. This year there
was probably as much smut on the
corn ~ last year, yet we have not heard
of single death from that cause this
year.
THOROUGH undertaking and the use
of clover, manure aud superphosphates
have, at least, doubled the entire product
of the soil in some of the best farming
districts. Again, the infusion of the
best blood into our herds of cattle, sheep
and swine, has produced great change.
TWELVE quarts of milk day is quite
common for Kerry cows--the smallest of
British breeds--but several cases are on
record where they have given when
flush, during period of several weeks,
RS much rs twenty-five quarts, of quail.
ity, the London Live Stock Journal says,
"inferior only to that of the jersey"
A FARMER cannot work his farm
safely without knowing all about his
soil. Every field should be studied IS
to the effects of certain methods with
fertilizers upon it, Then the owner
can act with reasonable certainty. The
plan of experimenting with fertilizers
should be followed up in successive
years until the character of each field is
known.
WHEN once you have determined to
tatten an animal for beef let the process
be as quick as possible. Any stint in
feeding at such times will tend to make
the meat tough and dry. Stalled
animals will fatten more readily than
others and younger animals require
richer food than older ones In winter
fattening do not forget that much de-
The warmer the cattle are kept the less
food will be needed.
10 find the number of tons in long or
square hay stacks, the following is the
rule: Multiply the length in yards by the
width in yards and that by half the
altitude in yards and divide the product
by 10. To find the number of tons in
circular stacks: Multiply the square of
the circumference in yards by four times
the altitude in yards, and divide by 100.
The quotient will be the number of
cubic yards in the stack. Then divide
by 10 to get the number of tons.-Mic,.
sgon Farmer
HENRY STEWART, of New York. saws
1t Is pretty certain that potatoes are
worth twenty-five cents bushel to feed
to hogs, cows or horses. They contain
10 or 10 per cent. of starch and some
sloumlnoids; . pounds of starch are
worth pound Of oil or fat for feeding.
Potatoes are cheaper for stock food at
twenty i've cents bushel than cotton.
seed meal Is at twenty-five cents q ton.
As raw stsrch is only partially digested
IN an animals stomach, potatoes ought
to be cooked. If it will pay to cook
nything it will pay to cook potatoes.
HORSES may make 8 noise from vari
Gus causes. They may suffer from
thickening or an liberation of the
mucous membrane, or from paralysis of
the muscles of the respiratory organs
Inc same apparent result of be caused
oy peculiar affection Of the larynx,
and many horses are what is technically
termed high blowers are very noisy
"ithoIs being unsound. 1t is often
nice question whether rsce.horse who
Is noisy Is affected in such q manner as
Q interfere with his speed when hard
Pressed Saturday Reeieag.
THERE is no better base for compost