The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-23
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

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A FOUL suggestion-feed your
chickens with charred corn. 1t will i'm
prove their constitutions.
a CALIFoRNIA man says: Bore a hole
in tree, fill it with quicksilver, stop it
with putty, and it will clear the tree of
all worms and insects. --
He is dull farmer who lets his men
use dull hoes in the garden or cornfield.
Fifteen minutes at the grindstone will
save an hour in the field.
THERE are three classes of Yorkshires
the, large, middle and small. They
are all good, and are long established
breeds, pure white in color.
AN orchard should never be planted in
clay soil unless the latter is under
drained, after which it becomes one of
the best soils for apples and pears.
WHY do millions live on their farms
year after year, raising weeds and bram-
bles, and few of the coarser vegetables,
when the choicest fruits would grow al
most as readily. 32i J uaiT
A GEORGIA gentleman says that when
he has had his first crop of melons he
clips the vines six inches from the root.
New sprouts grow, and there is a second
crop finer than the first.
THE following is said to an antidote for
blight in pear trees: One quart of
Stacked lime, one quart of bone phos-
plate and one ounce of sulphur
lsprinkled under each tree. 1ln1.
A FARMER who has experimental with
poultry, well rotted COW manure, barn
manCre and bone dust for melons. re-
ports that the best yield was obtained
when the bone dust was applied.
The greatest blessings come in dis
guise. A Mississippi planter had ten
acres OF poor cotton washed away, and
the water cut into O hill and revealed an
old churn with Sc, 900 in gold in it.
GIVE the currant worm a doseof helle-
bore this year, and you will have few to
trouble you next year. Dissolve one
ounce in pint of hot water and add il
to a pailful of cold water. Apply with
whisk broom.
POTATOES, or any other root crops,
may be grown In young orchard. 1t
would not do any injury to grow corn,
but grain crops should not be attempted.
They take from the soil the very ele-
ments which the trees require.
POTATOES, or any other root crops.
may be grown In young orchard. 1t
would not do any injury to grow corn.
but grain crops should not be attempted.
They take from the soil the very
elements which the trees require.
PULvERIzED fresh lime is recommend
ed for driving earth worms from lawns
and killing the moss which sometimes
takes the place of and prevents the
growth OF grass. Mix the lime with its
bulk of fine soil. There is no doubt of
its efficiency in those respects.
Potash is an excellent fertilizer for
the grape vine. Fork in around the
roots few pecks of wood ashes. Cow
dung contains large portion of potash
and but comparatively small amount of
nitrogen, consequently it is a better
fertilizer than horse manure for the
grape vine.
A MONGREL sire of any kind of stock
should never be used. If farmer is
not able to purchase a thoroughbred
alone, he should get others to unite with
him and make Joint purchase, dividing
purchase price and cost of keeping
When that is done no neighborhood
need be without such a sire.
IT is said and we see no reason to
doubt it, that if a cucumber vine is
trained to run up a stake on which
few stubs of limbs have been left along
It's whole length, the crop will be enor-
nous. BY this plan the vines not only
occupy less space, but are afforded OPP
portunity to follow their natural habit of
climbing up instead OF running on the
ground.
MIX little sulphur with salt and
feed occasionally to sheep. 1t will eff
fectrally destroy sheep ticks. The same
remedy applied to cattle troubled with
lice will soon rid them.of vermin. The
use OF sulphur with salt well repays the
trouble of keeping supply for cattle
and sheep. If q mixture of one part of
sulphur with seven of salt be freely ap-
piled there will be no trouble with YER
min.
The most profitable method of rearing
cattle is to give them all the food they
can digest well from their birth ND to
the day of their slaughter, if reared for
bullocks. But if for making oxen and
bulls and COWS for breeding, then feed
no more than to keep them in prime
working and breeding condition. An OK
may be too fat or too poor for good work
and so may bull to get first rate off
spring or COW to do well in the dairy
or as breeder.
In reply to an inquiry as to how to
prevent SOW from eating her young,
correspondent of the Country Gentle
man recommends giving them "say half
pound of pork or scraps from the
packing houses or blood and waste from
the butchers two or three times before
and on the day they farrow. Since
have adopted this plan l never lose any.
Last spring my man neglected one of the
sows and she ate up twelve pigs. This
spring she has ten, and is one of the
quietest and kindest of all the mothers"
FARMERS who are at all interested in
the dairy will acknowledge that the
flavor of the milk from COWS which have
good clean water, plenty of shade, and
good pasture, is very different from that
found in milk from cattle that are
obliged to drink slough water and Craze
on pasture land where there is any
amount of wild onions growing in the
grass. The same thing is noticed in
eggs. There is a vast difference in the
flavor of eggs from hens fed on clean
sound grain, and kept on clean run,
and eggs from hens that have access to
stable and manure heaps, and eat all
kinds of filthy food.
AN old man who has had much ex-
perience in handling and dealing in
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