The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-10-02
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES

injuries in trying to fly down from bjol
perches.
CHICKENS are always healthier wbe
they have plenty of sand and gravel
about them
CLEAR up swamps and lowlands
Grub up brier roots and stumps and
when dry burn.
One cannot reasonably expect to raiso
strong and healthy fowls if they are kent
III starved or neglected condition
GROUND black pepper sprinkled Or
growing cabbages when the dew is nm
will, it is said, free them from worms
THE best rule both as to the quantity
and time is to give the fowls good meal
III the morning, and the second shortly
before going to roost.
A WRITER in the C0untly GcnHc,gg,
thinks that bark-bursting, or sap-burst-
ing, is the result of flow of sap late !,
the season, during warm weather, tn,
late to form layer of wood, ana ts
frost of winter, finding it in a l,rmf
state, causes ice to form under the harb
bursting it from the wood.
A HORSES hoof is of the same natur.
as horn. If you desire to know the ci
fects of applying hot shoe to a horse,
hOOf, place your comb on a hot stove for
a minute or two, then let it cool. and So,
how easily it will break. A hot shaa
makes hoof brittle instead of tough.
Potash dissolved in water, or I've from
wood ashes is the best wash for shrubs
and large limbs of fruit trees. White
wash should not bc used, as it closes fh,.
pores of the bark, which should be kew
open IN order to insure a healthy tree
Potash or I've answers every pUrpn..
which whitcwash would, with none at1s
objections.
CIsTEKSs should be protected thai
there will be no danger Of freezing
Some who have large cclIcrS build acis.
tern of brick, stone and even of wood IN
one corner. A CIStCTn of some kind Is
almost Indispensable and as Their cost
is but little, many who are now compelled
to set out Il barrel, paIls and tubs at tine
approach of every shower may he saved
all this trouble.
A TON of wheat when carefully humeT
leaves 2S.2f pounds of ash, while q tom
Of straw Will leave 90. Is pounds, and p.
ton of chaff 1907 pounds. To know
this is of interest to the wheat grower
as it teaches the importance of returning
the straw to the soil, and great care
/ ought to be taken of the chatf for ono
pound rs a fertilizer is as much as three
/ pounds of straw, containing SIX times q,
much mineral manure as the grain itsc
I THE second cropof clover for seed eau
7 be cut with the ordinary reaper some
/ prefer to attach short frame of strips
! strips of wood covered with cloth to the
/ cutting bar of the moving machine, the
/ clover being gathered upon the cloth and
raked off. This makes Il much lighter
cutting machine. The straw and chat
are useless for hay, and need not be pr
served from the weather. They may Ne
used for litter III the barn yard or stable
Potato rot appears rs Il black decay
ing matter upon the surface of the tUhers,
which has Il disagrccablC smell. II ths
potato is cut into, the black appearance
Is sometimes seen penetrating III spots
or strcaks. The cause IS fungus growth
which Just now appears only at the sur
face, but III time it viii penetrate deeper,
The best thing to do IS TO sprinkle the
potatoes with air-slakcd lime, which de-
stroys the fungus. This may hc done
when the crop IS gathered. II sill
prevent the spread, if ii cannot rctors
the injured trlbcrs.
ADAM SCoTT, prominent Maine
sheep breeder, last winter fod &o
wethers, aud, to learn bow rapidly rhoy
gained in flesh, selecting two. which be
weighed every month. On January T.
they weighed respectively 100 and 1876
pounds, and continued To- gain steadily
down to April II, when they weighed
$50 and 40 pounds each. They were
fed on one and Il half pounds of corn
daily, with all the hay they could eat.
The total cost for feed WAS seventy cents
per month an increase of about twenty
cents per month for each sheep over the
value of food eaten
4 FARM is not complete without pi@.
and pigs are at their best IN Il fcldm
which they have green food to pick, aud
field is often the most profitable when
it is growing good crop Of tender
clover The green fool the pig get
acts as a corrective to their feed at the
trough. Pigs that are Getting clover On
. grass can be fed COru without the INJURY
it would do them were they confined
closely i'll pens and deprived of green
food. When the grass is short = feed
of fodder corn is important, and
young pigs, as such green food increases
the milk and keeps both sows and pigs
III a healthy condition.
/ A CORRESPONDENT of the RuH'
HoD,c says: | learned one or two things
about butter last spring One Of them
is that butter of all kinds should either
be made stiff and set away in q cool
. place or if not made SO stiff should be-
should be put away in gallon or hat
gallon jars and either scaled up or tmch
paper told letter paper will do) brusho
over with the white of an egg fastened
securely over the top. Before sealing
them mp, however, it's we'll to pnt about
half a tcacup Of sugar over the top oi
each, but if made thick enough they Viii
not need it. In canning fruit tbs
should always he done, as ii prevent
them from molding, providing they are
not moved and lolted around.
4 HANDY combination rake and
scrapCr for the stable can he made rs fo..
lows: Select Il hardwood stick, tiitcen
inches in lcngth, four inches wide, AMI
an inch and Il half thick; bring it 10
triangular shape III cross-fcction by SHAY
ing it down one side TO n thin edge
Bore six or eight inch holes into the
/ unshaved side, to the depth of two inch
cs, and insert III them sharpencd hard
wood pins, that willproject three or tnr
inches. \ handle, Of the desired lcngt.
is then made and inserted, and bra"'