The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-02-28
FARM HINTS.

II is said that the hog crop will be
short half million 10 million head this
season.
MERISo sheep feed in hocks while NUT
ton sheep separate almost as much as
herds of cattle when feeding.
To make chicken coop-Get store
goods boxes (about lsx3O), put strips the
short way, about three inches apart Be
sure TO put In floors.
OF all the products OF the soil none are
SO prolific III seeds as weeds; 60, 900 seeds
have been counted upon one mullen
stalk.
PERSONS using nitrate of soda as a fer
tihzer ought to bear in mind that. Of all
fertilizers, it is the easiest washed out
from the soil.
THE Duchess Farmer saws: Ii farm
ers would plan recreation for their wives
and families they would remove one cause
of gloom and sickness from their homes.
II trimming off branches thew should
be cut close to the trunk, so that no dead
stumps shall dishgure the tree; also
that the bark may readily grow over
THE United states has nearly four
times the acreage in crops than are given
III the agricultural returns for Great
Britain.
4 CORRESPONDENT writes: Last
season | kept the striped bugs from my
cucumbers by saturatlng ashes with
kerosene and applying handful in a
hill.
A WRITER in the Garden says that if
potting soil is placed for day or two in
the hen yard every particle of it is dug
over, and all the grubs and eggs Of In
sects are picked out.
ANY of the cereals may be cut at the
roots when the kernel is in the milk, and
the seed Will ripen just the same. show
ing that at that time all the elements for
protecting the grain are in thu plant.
ID. NJ. CLOUGH, of Canterbury, \. H,
has just slaughtered seventeen hogs,
weighing. dressed, 5000 pounds. The
hogs We're fattened with corn, every kerr
mel of which was raised on his farm.
For 1879 Nebraska gives the largest
average yield of corn per acre, amount
lug to forty-five bushels, and Colorado
the largest average of wheat, amounting
to % bushels per acre.
CALIFORNIA cultivates Brazilian arti-
chokes, which yield four hundred bush
els to the acre. They are fine for stock,
but are difficult to get out of the ground
when once established.
OUR domestic feeces are still cheaper
than foreign wool can be imported, since
the staple has advanced in Australia
South America and in England High
prices for wool must prevail here for
some time to come.
BUCKwHEAT straw, which has hitherto
been considered of little value, has of
late been utilized by some of the western
farmers by chopping it fine and adding
meal to 1t. A smallquantity fed to stock
occasionally would be rehshed, no
doubt.
ALL scars made by pruning off large
branches of trees should be painted or
tarred, or otherwise protected from the
rain. Many fruit trees become hollow,
or fall into premature decay, from the
rain penetrating through old sawcuts
made IN pruning,
The sugar product Of the world is not
increasing as fast as the demand The
amount consumed per capita IS each year
increasing. In this country the amount
consumed per capita is larger than any
other, and il estimated at nearly forty
pounds
Mr.. CHARLES L. SHARPLEss, Phila-
delphia, has sold to I. S. Cooper, Coop
ersburg, Pa, the fawn-colored Jersey
heifer, by Chelten Duke, out of imp.
Black Bess-price 300. Chelten Duke
was the bull, and Black Bess one of the
COWS, Of the Centennial Prize Herd.
MENTION is made of an Illinois apiarv
of fifty colonies kept by man who, hav-
ing had the good sense to cultivate
home market by offering honey at mod
crate rates, has found the demand 80
rapidly developed by this iudlcious
means that at present it runs beyond the
supply.