The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-03-26
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

CHARRED corn is one of the best
things which can be fed to hens to make
them lay. 1t must be fed as a regular
diet but III limited quantities each day
To meet with success in TRANSFORMING
the tulip tree from the woods, plant the
roots only leaving but an inch or so of
stem.
PUSH the farm manure business this
winter, save every drop of the liquid.
somehow or other-they say commercial
manures are going up this spring.
CABBAGE is best given poultry whole,
hung up by the stalk. At first it may
not be touched, but when one fowl be-
gins to peck at it, the restw be tempt
ed to keep on until little remains.
IT Is said by careful men that it is
most profitable to grow for beef those ami
mails that can be turned off at two years
old. Greater age will give weight, but
at much increased cost.
To heavily feed COW of small milk
ing capacity Is very poor economy
Rich food will produce good results
when fed to COWS that give large quanti-
ties of rich milk.
THERE is no probability that milking
either heifer or COW before she calves
will do her any harm, while neglecting
or Directing to do it may do serious in
jury.
a LARGE watering trough, filled from
the well, boxed around the sides and
ends, with four inch space stuffed with
leaves, and having board cover for the
top, freezes very little.
CoRN chaff from shelled corn will
make an excellent packing for ice.
There viii be no danger of its heating.
1t should be rammed down in the wall
space, as it is light, and otherwise would
be too open.
REDUCE as far as you can the amount
OF fencing upon your farm, and put up
that which IS necessary to keep up ia
good substantial order. Fences at best
are dead capital, great and constantly
recurring expense.
ENsILAGE was practiced by increasing
numbers during the past season, and the
fodder is now being used with varying
comments. Like all new things it
causes opposition, but the prevailing
testimony appears TO be quite favorable
to it. Some complain of the cost of the
silos pronounced seelows), but the OBJ
lection is as powerful against barns,
which often burn with all their contents.
This result viii not be common with a
stone underground silo filed with moist
grass or corn fodder.
4 FARMER who is not able to care for
his stock III the winter had better dis
pose Of them before winter comes on,
and not let the poor brutes suffer and
die In the cold. The COW which gives
you and your children milk deserves bet
ter treatment. 4 shelter can be built of
q few rough boards that Will answer in
our mild climate. while hay could be
laid aside for such emergencies, and it
would be economy to the farmer and
blessing to the poor dumb brute.
NOTHING speaks more favorable for
farmers temper and sef-control than to
see HIM surrounded by animals which
like HIM. Farm hands should never be
allowed to yell and scold at COWS, horses
or any other beasts; much less TO i'll
treat or whip them into obedience.
With slow and gentle movement, a de-
cided but mild voice, and above allnever-
failing patience, all living beings are
much better controlled than by harsh
and despOtlc treatment.
INDIAN corn is very fattenlng, and viii
not do for an exclusive diet for fowls;
they want a variety and must have some
animal food. Finely broken charcoal
has been found good for turkeys, in the
proportion of one pint TO the feed OF
four, with their corn meal, boiled pota-
toes, and oats. These fed in this man
her showed a decided improvem ent in
weight For pigeons the best gular
food is the small field pea, occasionally
varied with cracked wheat and corn.
DWARF trees are made by the Chinese
by cutting of the tap-root as soon as it
has other rootlets, and replanting in a
shollow earthen pot or pan where the
end OF the tap-root may rest upon a
stone. Alluvial clay is then put into the
pot IN bits Of the size OF beans, and Just
enough in kind and quantity to furnish
scanty n0urshment. Light, heat and
water are allowed only sparingly-
AmeT'icuD CuitUatOr
NERAIIN upon fowls and pigeons are
more injurious in the winter, when the
birds are housed so constantly that they
cannot use their own means TO abate the
nuisance. i quantity of loose, dry
dust should be always found III every
poultry house, so that they may take an
occasional dust bath, and, if this be
found not sufficient, drop little flowers
OF sulphur over the dust, or even if any
| fowl is found not to do we'll with this
means, rub its head and neck feathers
with an ointment made Of sulphur and
/ lard.
/ TUE commissioner OF agriculture says
/ that from the information received from
/ mis- correspondents IN the state the lamb
I supply next season will be very short and
/ high IL value. This is the result of the
severe winter, which caused many lambs
to freeze to death and great numbers to
starve, because the necessity to use dry
food alone did not give the ewes a suf-
fcencv of milk for the sustenance of
their lambs. Boston, he says, being the
| greatest lamb market, will therefore be
forced to pay dear for such meat to 60
with the green peas on which the hub
/ of intelligence feeds.
A National Blessing.
I From the Philadelphia Recor1.l
+ The nineteenth century above all 9th
/ er ages has been noted for its many III
yentious: it has given us the steam pow
! or n, - tA9,tsoud-f0T1 a,,7,IicatiOnc tbe