The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-04-30
FARM AND DAIRY NOTES.

else, regular and judicious feeding. are
all important factors in milk supply.
ANDREW SPRAGUE, of Easton, Me-.
raised 200 bushels of very large sugar
beets from forty square rods of ground
SAwDUsT is too dry to be valuable in
manure or composts. Burn the sawdust
to convert it to ashes and use these
which contain all there is of value in the
sawdust.
IT is said by careful men that it is
most profitable to grow for beef those
animals that can be turned off at two
years old. Greater age will give weight
but at much increased cost.
PROFESSOR ROBERTS tells us that fifty
bushels of wood ashes per acre increased
the yield of grass more than any other
manure, while ground bone improved
the clover.
IHE use of manures in which potash
and phosphates are the only ingredients
seems to be the only preventive so fal
known for scabby potatoes. Barnyard
manures and guano aggravate the trou-
BILE.
To prepare night-son for use on land
mix it thoroughly with any dry absorb
ent, as powdered charcoal, dry muck,
road dust or sifted coal ashes, SO that ali
Jumps may be broken fine, and then APP
ply it as any other manure.
CABBAGE is best given to poultry
whole, hung up by the stalk. At first
it may not be touched, but when one
fowl begins to peck at it the rest will be
tempted to keep on until little remains.
Being suspended, it does not waste or
become polluted, and it will remain in
| good condition to be eaten at will.
The most substantial walks and car
riage roads are first excavated to a depth
of foot or more, then small or broken
stone placed at the bottom, smaller ones
on these, then gravel and tar mixed.
coarse sand and tar on this, and usually
an inch of fine gravel at the surface.
When there is hard, gravelly subsoil
and good natural drainage less excava-
ton is required.
PIsTILLATE varieties of strawberries,
says the Rural NeaU YORKER, are in
creasing in number. Is this due to the
fact that, in making crosses, pistillate
! flowers are used for the seed bearers in
stead of emasculated perfect lowers +? If
pistillate flowers are placed beside per-
feet flowers away or protectedfrom other
! kinds, of course, if the pistllates bear
fruit, the pollen was furnished by the
| perfect flowers. But the tendency of
such breeding will probably be still
| further to increase pistillate kinds, which
is not desirable.
MARCH and early April are recognized
as q critical time for the profitable man
| ont Of n loi,x, loc
and after maternity, when the mammary
organs ought to be at their fullest activ-
| lty, the flow of milk is checked by poor
feed, it will be injured for the whole
season. Good food and plenty of it at
this time allows the COW to recuperate,
and leads to generous supply of milk
certain to be increased when she is
turned to grass, and likely to keep
steady thro' the season.
| GRAPE vines can be grated, although
grating has not been much practiced in
| this country. Various methods of
| grating have been recommended, but
/ the following is probably as good AS any:
/ The old vine should be cut off below
| the ground early in the spring, and be-
! fore the sap has started, and cleft in the
same manner as an apple or pear stock.
| The cutting is prepared and inserted in
the manner usual with other CRAFTS. The
stock is bound up and the earth re-
placed. The cutting should have one
eye left above the ground.
| THE bad odors common In cheese fac
tories, and often undetected by persons
habltually in the room, are largely
caused by spilled whey soaking thro' the
floor or at least getting into cracks.
Some dairymen are even stupid enough
to bore holes in the floor to allow the
whey to escape to the ground beneath.
there to putrify. The whey vat ought
to be cleaned often, and patrons should
make it stringent rule that whey is not
to be left over twenty-four hours in the
vat If they understood how valuable
it is for calves or hogs they would prob
ably be more eager to get it.
YOUNG calves will thrive well if kept
in shed together and well fed. The
shed may be fitted literally, but it will
be necessary to feed them well. Bran
and oats, with little corn, will be the
! best food for them. Give one pint day
| for those under a year, and quart or
| two daily for yearlings. Costiveness in
cold weather should be carefully guard
ed against, and, if necessary, half pint
of raw linseed oil, or pint of hnseed
meal, should be given with the food as
remedy. Flax seed ground and mixed
with corn or oats ground or unground,
is good appetizer, and keeps the calves
III good condition. While on milk,
whether sucking the COW or on the pail,
| let it suffice for drink No cold water
in cold weather
THE history of a COW raised on the
farm of the late Erastus Ellsworth, East
Windsor Hill is remarkable The COW
Is about three-fourths Durham and the
other fourth is of no particular breed.
On April Is, 1877, she gave birth to
twins, one male and one female; March
10, 1878, she gave birth to triplets, two
males and one female; making five calves
in eleven months and three days. On
July, 1879, she gave birth to twins, both
males; October Z, 1880, she gave birth
to triplets, two males and one female:
making ten calves in three years, five
months and twenty-oneday The calves
have all been of good size, healthy,
perfect in form, and have been raised on
the farm.
AT a recent meeting of prominent
farmers and cattle-breeders on the Is
land of Guernsey, it was decided to es-
tablish a new herd register, on the
principle of admitting all animals of the
Unknown pure native breed. This is
in opposition to the herd-book based on
the selections of committee. 1t is in
hands that command the full sympathy
of the Guernseymen; and as nearly all
animals will probably be eventual y en-