River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-27
AGRICULTURAL.


OF MACHINERY TO EXTERMIN-
ATE RATS, THE PESTS - ADDITIONAL.
CARE OF STOCK AT THIS SEASON OF
THE YEAR THE VALUE OF SHEEP -
THE yALUE OF MANURE - SALT AS A
| MEDICINE. ETC, ETC.
| Joseph Harris says that an excellent
manure for the gardener and fruit
grower is made by mixing two or three
bushels of bone dust through load IF
stable manure and letting the who lie
| fern ent together. The bone dust IN
creases the fermentation, and the heat
ing manure softens the bone. The whole
becomes strong fertilizer if the heap
/ is properly attended to.
We have always thought it paid fair
/ profit for farmers to save their own
seeds. "Time is money" says your
correspondent, when writing upon this
subject. and if he will only go to the
trouble to raise his seed in the future,
he will save both time and money, and
the vexation caused by buying seed
| that won't come up when planted
| suppose you want to cure 20 pounds
of beef nicely without the use of pickle,
this is the way to do it: One pint of
| salt, one teaspoonful of saltpetre, quar-
ter pound of brown sugar; divide the
mixed ingredients into three parts, rub
them into the beef on three successive
days. The meat will be ready to hang
up in one week
The chief solid fat found in butter is
the principal ingredient in palm oil,
while the chief liquid fat abounds in
olive oil and the soluble aromatic oils
make its gilt edge value, are found
abundantly in the cocoanut.
One great mistake in pig-breeding is
III having the breeding stock too young
lin breeding the sows too young, be-
fore they have become well-grown and
matured, and also in buying young
breeding sows instead of full-grown
| ones.
Newly-painted rooms are very I'M
pleasant for several days, but if hand
full Of hay is strewn on the floor upon
which is sprinkled little chloride of
lime, after couple Of hours the often
sive smell will have entirely disap-
peared.
Crude, unfermented manure and
much moisture tends to produce soft,
rapid growth in young trees, that con
tinues late in the season, rendering
them liable to injury from severe cold.
Live stock will require more attention
now as the nights get colder and longer,
and this attention it is necessary should
be given by the owner or some one
with a direct interest in its well-doing.
1t is worth remembering that an ami
NAL in good condition at the start will
keep la good health and vigor on less
food than will be required to bring it
up again if it once falls off and runs
down in flesh.
The value of salt as cure for bron-
chial affection, and ordinary sore
throat, can only be properly estimated
by those patients who, after having be-
come receptacles for troches, pectorals
and cough syrups, find instant relief
by swallowing single pinch of salt.
The disagreeable tickling of the throat,
the hacking cough, even bleeding at
the lungs. is ameliorated by one or two
pinches of salt. Try it, We lovers of
nostrums and patent medicine, and
your throat disease will yield before its
simple touch like magic, your body be
strengthened, and your purse be none
the lighter for the expenditure.-Er.
One of the advantages of keeping
sheep is that qualities of lands and crops
can be utilized by them, which other
wise would be comparatively profitless.
While they are among the most profit
able stock, they actually improve the
SOIL so that more grass and more mon
ey are realized with less labor. A
writer remarks, that q pound of NUT
ton can be raised as cheap as pound
of beef or pork, and is worth equally as
much in the market, and the wool is
extra profit. Use thoroughbred males
of any of the popular breeds, and in a
few years your sheep will be a source
of pride as well as proft.-Er.
If the object be to force pigs from
the time they are born with a view to
making pork quickly, the less exercise
they have the better, but to have
healthy meat, with the right proper
ton of lean in it, they are best turned
out in grass lot or orchard where
they can root or run. The exercise
keeps them healthy and free from
cramp or rheumatism, and the grass
they eat tends to keep their digestive
powers in good state.
Be careful to give the cattle some
dry food when the pastures fail of,
even if it is only run at the straw
pile, and do not neglect to provide |
shelters against storms ana high cold |
winds, now liable to prevail. When |
pumpkins have been raised now is the |
time to feed them, as many are lost if |
kept. In feeding to sows with young |
pigs remove the seeds, as they are
diuretic in their quality and affect |
them injuriously. Pumpkins are very
helpful in starting hogs intended to be
killed for pork this fall, but they should |
have also good rations of corn. This
is a good season for thinning out your
COWS and getting rid of the poor ones.
Lambs should be kept in a pasture |
separate from the older sheep and fed |
some bran or corn and oats mixed, as
they need this help to the growth of
their frames.
Industrious housewives, who are
given to oiling and polishing furniture,
will do well to follow this bit of advice |
from the Prdticdl Farmer:
Dirty or oily cloths or rags should |
not be allowed to lie in outbuildings in
small piles. There is great danger of
spontaneous combustion. If You wish
to know what spontaneous combustion
is, ask your druggist for a bit of phos-
phorus the size of pea. Keep it I'M
der water until you wish to see it burn;
now take it out and place 1t on piece
of dry board or chip of wood; it will
begin to smoke in any warm place;
take it out in the sun of warm day
and it takes fire Immediately, and the
heat from it is intense. 1t is danger
Gus thing to handle. Oiled cloths
from machine shops take fire spontane-
ously in similar way. They generate
heat in warm weather when piled up,
enough to set themselves and the
building in which they are, on fire"
Care of the BUGGY.
We lay it down as an axiom that the