Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-12-22
FARM NOTES.

FARM NOTES.
Maud S., the phenomenal trotter, has
been turned into pasture to rest. She
has travelled over four thousand miles
this year and won over thirty thousand
dollars. and her season was only half
finished when she WAS retired on ac
count of a sprained leg.
Fowls require to be provided with
suitable shelter, fully as much as any
other stock, as their nervous system is
very susceptible to outside influences,
and any change, even in the manner of
feeding, or change of hours for feeding,
or change in kinds of food fed, will af.
feet them.
Every family who have home and
keep house should have few hives of
bees. Nothing of so little cost will yield
greater profit. Nothing is nicer and
more healthy than dish of honey on
the table at meal time. 1t is a luxury
and substantial one, and may and
should be found at every farm house,
especially.
When people see horses head
drawn up by the bearing rein, and see
him stepping short and champing his
bit, tossing his head and rafting the
harness, they assume that he is acting
in the pride Of his strength and fullness
Of spirit, whereas the animal is really
suffering agonies of pain, and is trying
to gain by these movements momenta-
ny relief.
The following was said before The
Bee Keepers convention, held recently
at Lexington, KY, by Mrs. l.. Harrison;
Bookkeeping, although laborious en-
ployment, demands no great outlay of
strength, at one time. 1t embraces the
performance of many little items,
which require skill and gentleness more
than muscle. The hand of woman,
from nature, habit and education, has
acquired an ease of motion which is
agreeable to the sensibilities of bees,
and her breath is seldom obnoxious to
their olfactories, by reason of tobacco
or beer"
1t is one sign of good farmer if he
prizes manure. 1t does not require a
good farmer to raise bountifui crops on
farm already rich, but the art lies in
duce good crops every year without
losing its fertility. A man may make
money from his farm while he is waste
full, for he is constantly running his
land into debt. Good farming consists
of such management as will make the
farm produce the best possible results
without deteriorating the soil. This
can only be accom- plished by rigid
economy in the making and using Of
manure, and by such systematic ro-
tation of crops as will be the least ex-
haustive to the soil.
Whatever hog medicine contains n
good proportion of charcoal is presump-
lively a good medicine. 1t may be
possible for quaokery to so combine
charcoal with other ingredients that the
efficacy of this remedial agent will be
destroyed, but i. would, we believe, take
regular double barreled quackery to
destroy 1t under any circumstances. 1t
| is most useful medicine by ITSELF and
worth more than any other one ingre-
dent that we ever put into medicine,
1t benefits the hog system by absorbing
the Injurious gases within, and its alb
sorbtive powers are SO great that 1t will
absorb about eighty times more gas
| than its own measurement. 1t is to
this quality that it owes its efficacy
when given to bloa.ed animals, and
nothing equal to it was ever given or
has ever been discovered in such cases.
Few of our readers are doubtless
aware how magnificeniIy it acts in
human complaints, and to such it is
recommended in diseases of domestic
animals, and especially Of swine, with
Just ~ much confidence of its being a
success as when given to human beings.
One beauty about it, too, is that it can
do no harm, something that cannot be
said of many of the nostrums which
are recommended by avaricious com
Founders of medicine for animals, IL
it is given in too large doses it simply
acts as catharlic, and that is the end
of it.