The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-02-07
FARM NOTES,

AFTER cnlckeils are month old cracked
corn and wheat screenings are better for
them than dough.
BoNE-DUsT is a lasting manure. and
viii continue to fertilize plants for wears.
when not ground too fine
4 CROSS between fine-blooded light
Brahmas and partridge Cochins will pro
duce the largest fowls known.
Loss of appetite, thirst, diarrhna.
general weakness and blueness of the
comb are the principal symptoms of
chicken cholera.
STAAsFURT salts, night soil, and all
manures rich in chlorine, when applied
to land on which tobacco is raised iniure
the combustibiity of the leaf.
You've stock fattens much more readily
than old stock Pigs, when they have
attained their growth, fatten at less
cost than when older. The same is true
of steers and all other animals.
RACK feeding Of horses is wasteful.
The better plan is to feed with chopped
hay from manager, because the food is
not then thrown about, and is more easily
chewed and digested.
Thick lime whitewash, thinned with
a strong detection of tobacco stems, APP
Piled to fruit trees, Is recommended as
a preventive against rabbits and other
animals gnawing them during the winter
season.
SUMMARIZED water is regarded as q
fruitful source of cholera, diarrhea and
other diseases III chickens. Be this rs it
may, cool, fresh water should always be
supplied. Stagnant water, containing
organic life, is especially to be avoided.
For scabby legs i'll poultry, take equal
parts of lard and kerosene oil, and thick
en- with sulphur into a paste. This
should be rubbed upon the legs until
the scabby parts come off, when they
should be smeared with sweet oil.
CATTLE like a change of diet occasion
ally, as men do. Keeping cattle on hay
or straw alone is little like living
on bread, or potatoes, or meat alone,
with nothing except that one dish.
Therefore feed some roots, as well as hay
and meal or shorts. If you havn't the
roots on hand, be sure and have a sup
ply next winter.
The Land and Home says that the
canker worm, which attacked an orchard
of over 5000 trees III Ontario county, \.
T., last year, were brought to the ground
dead in few hours by showering the
trees with mixture of two pounds and a
half Of Paris green to 200 gallons of wa
ter. A force pump threw a stream high
above the trees, where it broke into
spray and sprinkled every part
In nearly all soils ashes are beneficial
They are twofold; they supply to plants
inorganic constituents which they re-
quire, and they act chemically as SOL
vents upon other salts in the soil, OF
they neutralize acids, etc. They ar
more beneficial on sandy and gravely
lands than on clay. For plants that con-
tain large percentage Of potash and
phosphoric acid, as carrots, turnips, po-
tatoes and cabbages, ashes ere an essen
tai manure.
MANY little farms well titled, with many
industrious, sober farmers to till them,
constitute the highest degree of agricul-
tural prosperity. The greater number
of persons who own land in any COM
munity, the more interest viii they take
in it's improvement. People who rent
land as rule care nothing for the soil
lItN WOIh, ilItiIti tlI1lII " Ilhl 1t w
Weld them; but man who owns land
wants to see its fertility and productive
capacity kept up, not alone for his own.
but for his children's benefit, who Will
inherit it after him.
To TEST the richness Of milk, procure
any long glass vessel-a cologne bottle
or phial. Take q narrow strip of paper,
just the length from the neck to the bot
tom, then mark it off with 100 lines at
equal distance; or into fifty lines, and
count each as two, and paste it upon the
phial, 50 as to divide it into one hundred
equal parts. Fill it to the highest mark
with milk fresh from the COW, and allow
it to stand In perpendicular position
for twentyfour hours. The number of
spaces occupied by the cream Will give
you its exact percentage without any
guesswOrk.
A COUNTRY woman says: 1.-The wise
man, IN enumerating the time and sea-
son, made no mention of the time to
skim milk; yet, nevertheless. there is a
time-a right time, tOo-and that is just
as the milk Is beginning to sour III the
bottom Of the pans. Then the cream is
all at the surface, and should at once be
removed-with as little milk as possible
If allowed to remain until the acid
reaches the cream, it impairs it IN quail
ty The house or dairy maid who
thinks to obtain a greater quantity by
allowing the milk to stand beyond that
time lahors under a most egregrious mis-
take.
CAREFUL observation OF the growth of
crops viii enable the farmer to ascertain
the wants Of his soil, while by the appli-
cation of few general principles he may
be led to the general improvement OF his
lands. If, with good sun exposure, his
crops wear a pale green, he may safely
infer n lack of nitrogen: If the straw is
soft and too weak to bear the head, it
will teach him that his soil is deficient In
available potash; if he has good growth
viii find, by the applicationo of phOsphates,
that the yield Of grain will be largely IN
creased, though while growing his crop
may not appear to be benefited.
SFocR fattened from birth will make
the best profit when slaughtered at two
or two and a half years old Good judg-
ment, care and skill are required. Only
those feeders who exercise these quail
ties can make the business. The west
has certain advantages that ought to be
counterbalanced by better system In
the east. With us, the feeding of cattle
must be reduced to as near science as
possible. 1t is said to be an established
fact that the young animal takes the
least amount of food to make a pound OF
growth, and all things being equal, each
succeeding pound Of growth or live