The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-04-17
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

CONGRESS has authorized the publica
ton OF 100, 900 volumes on the disease Of
swine.
WooD ashes are one of the best fertiliz-
ers for grass, and are excellent to make
vigorous and thick covering of grass to
the lawn.
THE chinch bug, 80 destructive to the
wheat crop, and the bed bug both be-
long to the same order. yet one has wings
and the other is wingless.
REDUCING all the milk and cheese sold
together with butter, to butter stand
ard, the average product of all COWS in
the country is less than 703 pounds per
cow
GENUINE Kentucky blue grass is APP
pearing as volunteer in Oglethorpe
county, Ga Some farms are being COW
cred with it, and it is roofing out the
Bermuda grass.
LUCERNE, or Alfalfa, is deemed profit
able in Canada, according to the Ottawa
(Canada) School of Agriculture, having
season from April to October. We
shall be pleased to know under what cir
"umstanceS 1t was grown.
Dr.. BOILER, the chemist of the Agri-
cultural department, says Illinois can
supply the United States with sugar by
raising sorghum, the secret of the crvs-
talization of that plant lying simply in
the time to gather the plant.
BARON LIEBIG says: 1.-The ONLY
method by which you can advance aud
develop agriculture is by experiments;
that is the only plan; for there is no
branch of industry SO completely built
up by experiments as agriculture
In France butter is sent unsalted to
market, since III this condition its flavor
and aroma can be best tested. Salt
hides many faults in butter. The whole
sale dealers salt and barrel it up imme-
diately for expectation to England and
Brazil.
The condition of the public roads is
the measure Of the civilization of the in
habitants. Good roads facilitate trade
intercourse, promote comfort and conven-
fence, increase the value of real estate,
add a,tractiveness to the neighborhood
and stimulate individual Improvement.
ONE of the quickest and best remedies
for hce in the poultry house is said to be
( kerosene oil, injected from a common
squirt can into every nook and crevice.
Two or three applications Will suffice to
clean the house, and soon the fowls will
be found free from the pests.
KEEP the stables clean. Clean 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. A
I 1av-ar will Iitl,o,. lor,o,,l =,
larger amount Of food or the animal will
fall off In condition.
THERE is no doubt Of the hurtful
character of corn smut, and the cattle
should be prevented from devouring
stalks affected with it. Where the cattle
are worth more than the labor of saving
them, this may be done by throwing out
smutty stalks by themselves and burning
them.
LAYING hens need good deal of lime
IN order that the eggs may have the
can be given than raw bone, crushed
fine. They are of special value on ac-
count of the fatty matter contained in
their cells. Bought bone meal is, how
ever, to be avoided, as it is apt to con-
tain putrid matter which will sicken the
hens
THERE are farmers who toll all day
and almost every day in the field, when
4 daily half hour spent about the house
and garden In making homo attractive
would add more to their real happiness
than all their toll. For, after all, home
Is the true source Of lasting joys. For
tunate are they who have happy homes
blessed are they who make them
happy.
BUD-vARIAT1oN is fully recognized
now, and new varieties are produced as
well as from seed. Botanists, however,
continue to record examples, the latest
Of which is Fritz Muller, who, writing
from Brazil, says that banana, which
for years produced reddish fruit, one
season sent up a stem which bore yellow
fruit; and he asks whether all the varie-
ties Of bananas may not have originated
in this way? This is the general belief,
as they do not perfect seeds. All the
varieties of sweet potatoes in America
are produced by bud variauon-the
plant not Towering under culture.