The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-03-20
FARM HINTS.


age hay crop is suited for the growth of
ash.
DO not put too many eggs under the
hens nj this time of the year; from seven
to ten are enough.
The demand for heavy horses far ev-
ceeds the supply, and is likely to for the
next ten years.
SHOULD the frost come out during the
month the truck patch should be mannr-
ed and plowed to save time and labor in
the spring, when the busy season comes
THE chinch bug, so destructive to the
wheat crop, and the bed bug both belong
to the same order, yet one has wings and
the other Is wingless.
KEEP good supply of old mortar. or
crushed oyster shells. where your fowls
can help themselves. and see that the
gravel box is kept full.
To destroy pin worms in horses. give
an injection of salt and water two or three
days III succession, then administer ball
consisting of half an ounce OF aloes and
one drachm of calomel.
BUCKwHEAT is recommended as the
best remedy for the wire worm. Two or
three crops sowed III succession will com
pletely starve them out, as they Will not
eat 1t TO any extent.
MIXED husbandry is what We need.
The farmer who grows something OF
everything adapted to his locality Will
be safer and IN the long run viii save
more than he who devOtes his energies
and land mainly to one or two crops.
IN France butter is sent unsalted to
market, since in this condition its flavor
and aroma can be best tested. Salt hides
many faults III butter. The wholesale
dealers salt and barrel it up Immediately
tor expectation to England and Brazil.
BUCKwHEAT straw, which has hereto
fore been considered of little value. has
OF late been utilized by some of the wes-
tern farmers by chopping it fine and add
ing meal to it. A small quantity fed to
stock occasionally would be relished, no
doubt
If stock of bones can be secured,
pack them IN a barrel with a quantity OF
unleached ashes, and keep the whole
moist but not wet After few months
break up the bones into fine powder.
Tins will possess every ferrilizing quality
OF the best bone dust.
GOOD test of the hardness of any
variety of forest trees is found in the rip
enlng OF its seeds (fruitsl. If a tree does
not perfect its seeds in q given locality.
1t Is good evidence that it IS not suffi-
GENTLY hardy to be generally cultivated
III such sections.
PROF. SHELTON, OF the Kansas Agri-
cultural College, favors September calves,
because, dropped In that month, they es-
cape the trying heats Of summer, can be
pushed during the winter with grain. and
IN spring are ready for grass as soon as it
appears.
EGGS intended for Matching should be
promptly gathered two or three times
day. 1t is not known how much chilling
an egg will bear and still retain the life
of the embryo. But it is not safe nor
desirable to take any unnecessary risks
III the matter
An Indiana farmer asks this pertinent
question: 4" Is it not better to feed corn
to my COWS, every bushel of which will
make three pounds of butter, worth from
Is to 20 cents per pound, giving 81 cents
per bushel for my corn at the door, with
viz Itli vi Inc 1dlItI llldll
to sell It at from 30 to 80 cents and I'M
povensh my farm %
THE raising of thirty bushels of wheat
to the acre will remove from the land
fifty one pounds of nitrogen, twenty-four
pounds OF phosphoric acid and thirty
nine pounds Of potash. This could be
replaced by sixty pounds of sulphate Of
ammonia, III pounds of superphosphate
OF lime and seyenty-six pounds Of chic
ride Of potassium.
KEEP the stables clean. Clear out
the manure every morning and scrape or
card off all filth from the animals. The
stable should be made so warm that the
manure will not freeze at night. Alower
temperature will either demand larger
amount of food or the animal Will fall off
III condition.
While the ground is hard or covered
with snow, the manure heaps can be
hauledtO the fields with the least trouble.
Those who have protited by our hints
for the last few months, Will have the
manure III good condition for hauling
out now; others viii have it lying around
loose and frozen, and consequently use
less Iof some time yet.
THE finest manure is made by turning
the heap over twice. To do
this begin at each end of the
pile, and throw off the manure
to a distance of three feet, building up
the new heaps, and placing the coarsest
manure in the center. Then proceed I'M
til two heaps are made These will soon
heat, and a month or 80 afterward the
process may be reversed and the two
heaps made into one again.
AN exchange says: The rhubarb plant
requires so little labor in its cultivation.
and is at once 80 healthful and delicious,
that every garden should contain n sup
ply for home use. With the exception
OF forklng up in the spring, and working
IN manure once every season, rhubarb
plants require little attention until they
have remained in the same spot five or
six years. At the end Of this time they
should be divided and put in new soil
I'm Powder Form.
Negetlne put up In this form comes within the