Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-10-13
Interesting Information and Sug-
gestions together With Some
Statistics that Must be Of
Value to Farmers.
Facts About Fruit and Stock Raising
Poultry-Yard Fences Quality OF
Cows MIlk-The Calls Start in
Life-Tender LaUbs-Seed
Wheat, Etc., Etc.
AGRICULTURAL.

Orchards need lime and ashes more
than manure to produce healthy bark.
If corn is to be used for fodder, cut
it before the ears are fully rioe-when
the kernels are glazed.
Linseed is, perhaps, Of ordinary food
the one most similar to milk in com.
position, and hence a desirable arti-
fetal food for young animals.
A piece of zinc placed on the live
Goals in hot stove will efectually
clean out a stovepipe, the vapor pro-
duced carrying off the SCOT by chemical
decomposition.
The bnll is half of the herd. Thus a
buli of the best milking strain of blood
used even in small lot of dairy COWS
greatly and at once improves each of
his get.
The inner kernels of wheat spikelets
are always smaller than the outer ones,
and they are later in ripening. In
establishing any new variety of wheat
from cross breeding, the outer kernels
should alone be saved for seed.
The OK contains, in proportion to its
weight, a larger amount of nitrogen
and a much larger amount of phos-
phoric acid and lime than either the
sheep or pig. OF all the animals raised
on farm, the pig contains least of all
the important ash constituents.
According to the Vermont Watch
man. Mr.. II. Woodruff, of Rutland, has
raised upon two acres of land 1881
bushels of oats, weighing S7l pounds to
the bushel, from seed sent out by the
agricultural department at Washing
ton, but which originally came from
Hamburg, Germany.
The COW that chews her cud while
being MIXED, and pays little or no at
tentlon to the mixer, Is in calm state
of mind, and can be said to be 'per-
fectly gentle" or very like it. But if
she quits this work and keeps one eve
twisted backward all the while, some
thing Is evidently wrong. 1t indicates
that either her treatment or her tenn
per Is not of tirst-rate order.
No Chinese farmer ever sows a seed
of grain before it has been soaked in
liquid manure diluted with water and
has begun to terminate; and expert
ence has taught him that this opera
ton not only tends to promote the
growth and development of the plant
but also to protect the seed from the
insects hidden in the ground
According to the last report of the
commissioner of agriculture it appears
that 100000 persons in the United
States are engaged in agricultural pHr-
SUITS The total value of farms and
farm implements is $13, 461 200, 433, or
two-thirds of the productive wealth of
the nation. The value of farm pro-
ducts and live stock for 1873 was {, 000,-
0O0,OOO of mining and manufacturing
products.
Sheep do not iElpoverish land. Rug
god canyons and mountains slopes at
present not available for other use UNI
til better roads are built to market
may be utilized long way in advance
of the march of Improvements. Time
will surely enhance the value of these
possessions as surely as roads, settle
ments and school houses draw nearer
to them. And, in the meantime, the
hardy pioneer need wait but short
time their coming.
The large eating capacity of a good
dairy COW is proverbial, which will be
easily understood if we make cursory
examination of her production. Sup
pose COW weighing 900 pounds yields
5000 pounds of milk in nine months,
this milk would contain 7S0 pounds of
dry matter, counting 81 per cent. water.
Here She yields 81 times her own
wheight in milk while the dry sub
stance in the milk is twice that in her
own body.