The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-01-10

HE average size of an Irish farm i,
twenty acres.
IHE best feeders have decided that i
pays to raise artichokes for hogs.
A MAN in Easton, Me-, has this yes,
harvested 10000 bushels of potstoe.
from 10 acres of ground.
HE rain annually pours into the soil
quantity of nitrate of ammonia fully
equivalent to three pounds per acre.
AT a recent potato show in England
where nearly l, 400 plates were shown
large number were of American ysrie.
ties.
BUCKwHEAT is one of the most stsnle
articles of poultry food. 1t is very fat.
tenlng, an egg producer, and very much
relished by poultry.
GUINEA fowls will keep all bugs and
insects of every description off garden
vines. They will not scratch like other
fowls, or harm the most delicate plants
MACHINES for shearing sheen and
milking cows have not proved successful
These processes are best performed in the
old-fashioned way.
ONE hawk has destroyed for Mr.,
Charles Gillen, of Chester county, Pa
over thirty chickens in one month. Il
is of the kind called the long-tailed
pheasant hawk.
HERE Is rare specimen of the proIits
OF horticulture worth striving for. TIE
originator of a new white outdoor nraue.
suited to our climate, is said to have sold
the copyright" of the same for $40, 900.
OATS should be bruised for an old
horse, but not for young one, because
the former, through age and defective
teeth, cannot chew them properly; the
young morse can do so, and they are thus
properly mixed with saliva and turned
into wholesome nutriment.
A GOOD test of the hardness of anv
variety of forest trees is found in the
of its seeds (fruit). If variety
does not perfect its seed in a given
locality, 1t is regarded IS very good evil
dence that it is not sufficiently hardy to
be generally cultivated in such sections.
The product of a scrub COW by a
bull will be half-blood
This, coupled with thoroughbred bull
would produce three-quarter blood.
The nextcross would be q seveD-eighths,
and next tifteen-sixteenths.
THE land office at Washington never
was so busy as it is now. As much land
has been sold in the last four months as
was ever disposed of previously in
year. The purchasers are nearly all
actual settlers.
The RurGl Messenger, published at
Petersburg, Va, has received the follow
ing about farmer in Dinwiddle county,
that state: He seeded last fall a lot
of four acres, on which he put four
bushels and three quarters of seed, and
he threshed out OF the straw made on
those four acres 1874 bushels of wheat"
FA8TEN short piece of log chain
say FIVE or six links-by means of
light strap to his leg, just above the knee
Tin the stable, of course), and see how
quick the paving horse will leave off the
habit. In most cases few days will be
sufficient to effect cure.
THIS is good season to haul the wood
to the house fer the whole year. 1t can
then be cut for the stove and fireplace
IN stormy weather, when nothing else
can be done. 1t will make the women
folks pleasant to have plenty of good,
dry fire-wood cut and put away for the
year.
IT has been many years since we have
had rs propitious time for reducing
or distinguishing mortgages. Farmers
should indulge in no unnecessary luxur-
les till the farm is relieved Of blister,
and creates many heart,pang besides.
Get the farm free, then keep out of debt,
and all will he serene