The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-10-16
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

figs Will fatten nearly as fat on
potatoes this month as on corn next.
They do best on cooked feed, and the
gram ought to be ground.
LATE experiments have shown that
seeds thoroughly dried are much slower
IN producing plants than the undried.
while the crops yielded are considerably
greater.
GRASS seed may he sown few weeks
after the grain. Thrifty growing tim
/ othy OF the gram If sown as early ms the
wheat crop, and clover seed is best
sown in the spring after or with the last
\ snow.
THIS month offers the most favorable
time usually for the painting and repair
of farm buildings, and putting them in
! order for the winter. \ great part Of
this work may be we'll done during this
month by the farmer and his boys
IMPLEMENTS put away for the winter
should be painted or protected III some
way from the action of the air aud mois-
ture. Paint or varnish for the wood
work, and Il varnish of two thirds resin
and one-third mutton tallow is excellent
for protecting IRON and steel.
PLowING for spring crops NAV be
done ut any time where the soil is not too
light and not likely to wash during the
winter The ground should he left
rough to be subjected to the fullest ac-
ton of the weather, freezing. thawing.
wetting, driving, etc. Should crop OF
weeds come up, it will very likely pay
to harrow and pillow again.
\ LITTLE extra feed brings cattle and
horses to to the beginning OF winter in
good order. The tops Of carrots, bcets
and turnips may he fed To good advan-
tage, and there IS a great deal of sweet
ness in the October pasturagc. Where
much corn IL planted. there will always
be soft ears and nuhbins, " which are
best feet to horses and pigs.
The sowing Of a bushel of oats per
acre. with the winter wheat, has often
proved material benefit to the wheat
crop. Tie oats grow more vigorously
than the wheat and aid III catching and
holding the snow. The oats act as a
protection or mulch to the wheat The
little food the young oat plants draw
from the soil Is returned during the
spring when, being killed by the winter,
they rapidly decay.
RIDGE blowing of stiff clays is often
OF GREAT benefit. IT is done by turning
the burrows two and two together. so as
to leave the land uniformly ridged. The
ridges must rmup and down the slopes;
otherwise, III heavy rains, water will be
held Ivy the ridges until it breaks
through somewhere, when there will be
dangero of a " wash ont This system of
winter following involves blowing again
in the spring. but shows its good effects
III the crops.
CoRS fodder 10y which we mean the
stalks after husking not the leaves OF
the corn merely stripped Off, should be
bound i'll bundles, probably best done
with willow wlthes, aud stacked up SO ms
to shed ram. Large stacks, well set and
firmly bound, may be left III the field
until needed for feeding, without injury
to the fodder. In fact, it is often
brighter anel better when treated i'll tllis
way than in any other. In stacks, OF IL
sheds, it il likely to heat and mould. I'M
less it eau be more thoroughly dried
than we can bc sure of having it.
AFTER the roots have been re
moved from the field the sheep
should lie turned in that they
may pick UP the small, imper-
feet roots and the scattered leaves This
will accustom them to the change Of
food that must soon come. If early
lambs are not desired, then rams must
kept from the ewes. or otherwise be
aproned or " Drafted" IT IS an impor-
tant matter that the ewes that are to
bear lambs should he well fed. and be
gin the winter i'll good condition \
little grain fed TO the ewes now will do
much to insure strong lambs.
EXTRA mixers should he kept to
breed from, their milking qualities
alone emitting them to the preference.
1t it quite as necessary to raise the
calves of good mixers, in order to have
another race of good mixers, as it is TO
raise the colts of good trotters in order
to have fast horses. Extra dairy COWS
are always in demand. 1t is certainly to
be regretted that more care is not taken
to improve the milking qualities of our
COWS, and it is also a source Of regret
that SO many of our farmers are in the
habit of disposing of SO many of their
yorInC calves to the Butchers