The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-09
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

moisture tends to produce soft, rapid
growth in young trees that continues
late in the season, rendering them liable
to injury from severe cold
A LIBERAL dressing of wood ashes will
renovate an unthrifty orchard most
wonderfully. Bone dust and crushed
oyster shells can also be applied and
beneficial results will soon become ap-
parent.
AN exchange says: We had calf
which refused to take milk or water In
pailful of water we put handful of
bran and bit of sugar. The calf drank
the cocktail " and licked the pail. 1t
grew very fast.
LIZ young fruit trees recently trans
planted blossom, they should not be al
lowed to bear fruit, as it will injure them.
They need all their energies for growth
of wood and should not be allowed to
waste them on growth of fruit.
THE theory that variety of potato is
limited to about fourteen years is not
new, as some suppose, but may be found
mentioned on page fifty Of the
Transactions of the London Horticul-
tural Society" as far back as 1907.
ONE great mistake made in pig breed
ing is in having the breeding stock too
yourg-in breeding the sows too young
before they have become well-grown
and matured and also in buying young
breeding sows instead of full-grown
ones.
GIVE each fruit tree in the garden at
least few shovelfuls of manure, and if
the same treatment is extended to the
| orchard, a good return Will be made.
The way to obtain abundant crops of
| fruit every year is to manure the trees
yearly.
ONE of the best remedies for the cur
rant and gooseberry worm is to sprinkle
the bushes with a strong solution of
copperas water, using gallon Of water
to quarter of pound of copperas, and
applying 1t from wateringpot, single
| application killing the worms as "dead
| as a door-nail."
HENS should not be allowed to disturb
the settlers by laying in their nests.
Broken eggs and bad hatch will re-
suit. If the setting hen cannot be iso-
lated in any way, cover her with an
empty coop, basket or box, being care
full to have her come off every day for
feed, water, exercise and dust bath.
| AN exchange says: "People that have
currant bushes and are troubled with
worms will be glad to learn that COM
mon buckwheat flour sp1inkled over the
| bushes IN the morning while the dew is
yet on, with a very fine sieve, will prove
certain remedy against the ravages of
| the pests, and will cause them to disap-
| pear.
STRAWBERRY plants cannot be multi
| piled from the seed, as there is nothing
certain about it. Acres might be sowed
with the seed, and not berry be obtain
ed worth cultivating, but III good rich
soil a plant will put out runners so that
! fifty good thrifty plants may be obtained
! the first season after planting, and
twenty five hundred the second year.
ALL keepers and feeders of COWS
| should bear this in mind, that a COW
cannot make cud when fed on shorts or
meal alone. These must be mixed with
| longer feed, either in their manager or IN
/ the animals stomach. 1t is not nee
essary to mix these substances before
feeding, as the motion Of the stomach
will mix them sufficiently to form a cud
american CuitiUatOr.
Cows are now in the full flow of milk,
and as July butter is highly priced for
winter use, great care should be taken
with with all the dairy operations.
Among the essentials are pure water,
good food for the COWS, and clean man.
agement of the milk and cream in every
process, from the time of drawing the
milk from the udder until the butter is
packed
A New YORK farmer writes that he
planted eight acres of low, mucky land
with red kidney beans. On the TWEEN
tieth of July, after cultivating the beans
for the last time, purple top strap leaf
turnips were sOwn between the rows
with hand drill. The beans yielded
twenty-one bushels to the acre, and the
turnips were a splendid crop. This,
being his first crop of turnips, is very
encouraging experience.
An Indiana farmer tried four different
fertilizers for melons-poultry drop
pings, well-rotted COW manure, barnyard
manure, and old bones gathered upon
the farm and reduced by placing them in
alternate layers with ashes the previous
year, mixing all literally in the diff
ferent hills, which were eight feet apart
each way, and he says: "Such a crop
of melons as came from the hills that
had the bone dust [ never saw before -
A LONDON gardener planted a straw
berry bed four feet wide across his gar
den, on one side of which potatoes were
planted. These were dug up about the
end of June, the ground leveled and
raked smooth, SO that the runners estab-
lished themselves and formed a new
| bed. The next season similar process
was pursued, and thus a movable straw
berry bed was created. At the end of
three years the original plants were ex-
hausted and dug up, though the bed
annually grows wider without renewal or
transplanting.
To make a complete manure from
swamp muck, says Dr.. Stewart, we
would proceed as follows: Take of sea-
soned swamp muck forty bushels, or one
with it five bushels of wood ashes, 100
pounds of fine bone -four, 100 pounds of
finely ground plaster and throw it into a
heap, in which it will heat and ferment,
and leave it for two or three months
This will be equal to twice it's bulk of
the best COW manure. If night soil
could be added to it, it would be in
creased III value.
GREASE is fatal to all insects life. In
sects breathe by means of small pores
on their sides. Grease or oil that
comes in contact with the insects closes
the pores and stops the breathing.
! Merorriol ointment kills as much nv