The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-05-08
HINTS FOR FARMERS.

the fattening of animals.
BUTTER must be packed while perfectly
fresh. Immediately after the final work
ing it should be put away in the
packages.
The secret tor manurlng the corn is to
keep the fertility near the surface
when applied, and it is rare when another
courSe Is advisable
To increase the yield of rich milk give
cows every day water slightly warm and
slightly sailed; IN which bran has been
stirred ut the rate of one quart to two
gallons of water.
THE soil of a young orchard may
be kept In cultivation until the trees
begin to bear; gram should never he
grown except Indian corn, but potatoes
and root crops are the best
Cows when they expend vitality III
labor eat more, when they expend 1t III
keeping warm they need more food, and
when they either lay on fat, or produce
milk, or grow, need food III proportion.
TNcTURE of iron is practical remedy
for foot rot In sheep. Keep the sheep
horn without injury to the vital parts,
and then make daily application of tine
ture of IRON.
Potash is absolutely necessary to sue
cessful potato growing. The easiest and
best mode of supplying it Is IN the form
of wood ashes. 1t Is furnished also in
soft coal ashes or III well-rOtted yard or
stable manure.
An exchange says that white oak fr-
kins soaked for two days IN sour milk,
then washed out and soaked one day In
strong brine, and then rubbed thorough
ly with salt make the best vessels for
packing butter.
Mr. JOSEPH BARNARD, Hopk1ngton,
\. H., tells the PcOpic that the Z" En-
glish white potato has been raised from
this place from fifty to seventy-five years
and upwards of 100 years on the farm
above, and is the only variety that has
not gradually run out. :"
In some places rats have become Il
great pest III farm houses and barns
COpperas is the dread Of rats. In every
crevice or every hole where a rat treads
scatter the grains of cCpperas and the
result is a stampede OF rats and mice.
But look out for poison.
Ii the soil is full Of angle worms, it
is also, doubtless, lumpy and hard to
pulverize when broken up with the
spade or pillow. In this case draining Is
the principal remedy. An application of
salt, also ashes or sand, for mechanical
effect will prove beneficial
IN the manufacture of butter the
custom has become general after churn-
ing to wash the butter with cold brine of
greater or less strength, not only to
wash 1t once but twice, If the first wash
ing does not remove every trace of but
termilk.
FRUIT trees can be pruned at any
time, provided only small limbs or twigs
have to be cut. The rule should be to
SO prune the trees that no large limbs
would have to be cut Cuts made in
June will heal sooner than at any other
time; but 1t requires more care at that
time as the bark peels SO easily.
Mr.. X. A. WILLARD expresses the BE-
lief that g rOpy" milk is due to weeds,
bad water and bad treatment to cows,
and Professor Englehart once said he
knew it was weed DR. Lehman has
known it to stop when COWS were changed
from good to bad water, and as for
weeds the disease appears at all times
A CANADA correspondent recommends
when butter will not come placing a
small piece of fresh butter in the churn,
which will cause the globules to gather
If that fails, the best way is to put that
cream in vessel and that vessel in an
other containing hot water on the top Of
a stove. Bring the cream to tempcra-
ture of eighty degrees, then churn.
DURING the past winter experiments
have been made by poultry dealers Of
giving skim milk as poultry food The
trial has proven q success. The milk
takes the place of animal food which Is
lacking in the winter, and the result Is
that in warm room with plenty of light
and southern exposure, there ls no dIth-
Guilty III getting ali abundance of eggs.
CHIP dirt taken from under the
wOodpile is known by most to be an eI-
cellent ft rtIllzer for many kinds OF shrub
and trees, and In view of these sell
evident benefits derived from the use OF
decayed wood, farmers can devote a few
DAYS time to no better work than hauling
sawdust for next winters use as bedding
or an absorbent of liquid manure.
The depth to pillow depends upon cir
cumstances and conditions, different
soils and requirements. Nearly all the
root crops require deep blowing anddeep
tillage. In old ground which has be-
come infertile by constant cropping,
deep blowing is beneficial in bringing to
the surface the fresher and richer SUD
soil. On sod ground shallow plowing Is
best for crops whose roots do not pene--
/ trate far into the soil, as in the case Of
corn, etc. Generally, however, deep
cultivation is best, as the soil IS less sub
+ iect to extremes of wet or dry weather
i The small mites that infest chick
/ ems may be eradicated by using plenty
! of sulphur about the chicken house. IL
/ should also be freely scattered In tAt
nests used by the hens. If you have
young chickens infested with these mites
mix a little sulphur with lard and apply
it to their heads and also under theH
wings. Your chicken-house should also
be well cleaned and fumigatpd with burn
ing sulphur, but not when the fowls ar
present. Carbolic acid diluted with
hundred parts of water will also destrGH
the mites that are concealed III the crach?s
of the woodwork about the hennery,
washed or sprnkled with the solution.
A WESTERN farmer, to determine lIe
loss of weight in killing and dreSSln5
hogs, selected twenty hogs that had "a -
fed in the average way on corn, ETC az
weighing about $50 pounds. Ines hIIn"
age in this experiment was trlne Gs.-
one-seyenth OF the live weight. me u