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

cred hens and hair of the slaughtered
hogs, should be scrupulously added to
the compost heap II, on entering the
village grocery, you smell old brine or
putrid fish. offer the merchant to take
the nuisance off his hands. They will
make valuable addition to the CON-
post If there is wooden or paper mill
or tsnnery in thevicinity, these esta b.
lishments will furnish much refuse for
composing.
IT is said on good authority that beef
keeps up as high as it was seven years
ago. This shows the necessity of farm
ers who wish to increase their profit
making use of superior bulls to cross on
their common stock. Among the best
for the purpose of beef are Shortborns,
the Herefords, and the Devons. Bulls
of these highly superior breeds can be
purchased now at very low prices, and
farmers make a great mistake in not
availing themselves of these where they
are not alredy supplied. A Shorthorn
bull crossed on Texas or any other
equally inferior COW, gives calf worth
double, and sometimes thrice the price
of that got by common bull.
MUCH nonsense is circulated in re-
gard to the rapid loss of fertility OF
dairy farms, by reason Of the carrying
away of the phosphates in the.milk. Now
LOCO pounds of milk contains about
four to five pounds of phosphates, of
which nearly the whole is phosphate of
lime. Of this, less than one-half is phos
phoric acid, which may be taken as the
yearly consumption, in this way, of each
COW. AS whest bran contains % per
cent. of phosphoric acid, it needs only
that about $50 pounds of bran be fed to
each COW yearly to replace the draught
upon the soil. There are few dairy
cows that are fed less than this quantity
of bran or some feed equivalent to it,
and it ia pretty certain very little, if any
phosph oric acid is really taken from the
soil of the dairy farm. On the contrary,
to say nothing of the natural supply in
the soil, which slowly becomes soluble,
there is good reason to believe that every
well-kept dairy farm becomes gradually
richer in phosphate each year.
A NOVEL system of agriculture has
for number of years been practised on
a farm in Hertfordshire, England. The
owner, Mr.. Prout, instead of harvesting
the crops himself, divides the fields into
lots when the grain begins to ripen, and
the crops are sold upon their roots at
public auction. No live stock is kept,
and the fertility of the soil is entirely
kept up by artificial manure. For the
thirteen years since 1866 the average
expenses of running the farm have
yearly amounted to $l6, 800, and the net
income for the same period has yearly
averaged l6 per cent. of that sum, or
81 GAO. 1t has thus proved decided
success, while numberless farms cult
waited by the ordinary method have
been barely able to pay expenses, and
many have run behind hand.
THE present is probably the best time
to scrape and wash pear apple trees, in
order to dislodge the numerous insects
that are concealed under the bark and
under the crevices of the wood, as well
as to remove the fungus clinging to the
barks and large limbs. A preparation
of whale-oil sosp, in the proportion of
one pound of soap to feur or five gallons
of water, has been found to be remedy
for these pests of fruit trees Some,
however, apply preparation of carbolic
acid, sulphur and lime, freely diluted
with water, as equally effective, and as
being also aprotection against the blight,
and generally adding to the health of
the trees. Perhaps the latter may prove
the most eficacious. 1t is easy to give
them trial, and we have no hesitation
to say that the result will be highly sat
isfactory. We have often used the
whale-oil soap in the manner suggested,
with the best Effects Germantown Tee
graph.
THE cheapest plan of erecting green
house, says the Germantown Telegraph,
is to dig out pit in side hill where
the upper end will be just above ground
and the lower end two or three feet
above ground, where the door must be,
with two or three steps down for an
entrance. Wall up, roof the wall, and
cover the whole with sash, as in hot
beds the sash having more fall-say
three feet in width of ten, the house
being fifteen by ten. Erect in this the
stand of shelves, and when it is time to
take up the summer flowers, bulbs, etc,
store them here. The glass should be
covered with thick straw mats, which
can be removed even when the weather
ia coolest in clear weather, tor an hour
or two at midday, to get the warmth and
influence Of the sun. At such times
ventilation also should be attended to
by slightly opening sash or two. No
ire is needed. Nearly sll readily
Towering plants viii bloom, and there
will scarcely be week during the winter
that bouquet may not be gathered If
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