The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-02-18
SEAS0NABLE FARM NOTES.

highest price.
SOME dairymen estimate that butter
milk is worth one-quarter to one-half
more, and others twice as much as skim
milk.
IN selecting bucks, endeavor to pro-
cure one from hardy breed rather than
for size. Cost of keep, care and manage
ment are important items.
WHEN farmer neglects or refuses CO.
operating with his brother farmers he
strikes a blow at the advancement of his
class and becomes his own worst enemy.
Ii Is the experience of old stockmen
that when corn is the highest is Just
when they can least afford to feed
merely enough to keep stock from losing
flesh.
Mr.. W. +. Brown, of Oxford, O.,
shows his appreciation of Sawdust as an
absorbent IN the cow-stables, by sending
SIX miles for 1t and paying 25 cents per
load.
ONE dollars worth of food after the
COW Is dry is worth 81. 80 after she comes
IN. An animal III poor condition can not
digest as much food as one in good con-
dltion.
IF ewes suffer from an excess of milk
or inflammation of the udder on account
OF weakness or loss of the lambs, the
milk should be drawn either by hand or
by substituting an orphan lamb.
MERINo ewes that have been bred to
Cotswold bucks VIII bring forth lambs
that will require cOpious nourishment
lie MerlnO mother is a small sheep
Such cross needs the watchful eve of
farmer
ALsIKE clover is highly praised by
those who have grown it. The vines
often attain length OF five or six feet.
Used Is pasturage it makes a good feed
ing plant. Ten pounds is the usual
amount recommended for seeding an
acre.
IN feeding, farmers should remember
that the measure of the value of q food
is In great degree determined by its
price. If hay is worth SO per ton and
corn the same price, feed largely of corn,
using only hay enough to distend the
stomachs of the animals.
Four pigs one day less than 9 months
old were slaughtered January Sd, at
Major George s. Leland's Highland
Farm, Euclid, O., that weighed, when
dressed, respectively, 80, $50, 2S4 and
26S pound; total, l, las pounds, being
an increase OF over one pound per day
for each pig.
THE brown Leghorns are looming up
as winter layers. 1t is claimed that they
are equal to the heavy-feathered fowls in
that respect. The consideration, how
ever is that they must be kept very
comfortable and have proportion Of
animal food. If exposed and unpro-
tected they are liable to roup, and sick
fowl IS the most improbable thing a
farmer can have.
To make good butter in winter it is
essential that the cream should not
stand too long before being churned.
The temperature of the cream when
placed In the churn should not be lower
than 60 nor higher than So. Sixty de-
grees when the churn is warmed by hot
water IN the winter or cooled in summer,
is the proper temperature, and the re-
suit will be satisfactory.
An experiment in feeding ensilage
made from the husks and stalks of sweet
corn has Just been made at the canning
factory of J. Winslow Jones & Co., at
Bridgton, Me. Eighteen cattle were
fed for four weeks, and a careful record
kept. In eight days the eighteen oxen,
it was found, had gained an aggregate
of 1,065 pounds. The greatest gain of
one pair was 40 pounds, and the next
highest pair 10 pounds.
A FRUIT tree cannot bear a very heavy
rror, of+aua tban pnaa IN +vro ,,,l
in order to obtain an even-bearing tree
the fruit should be thinned very freely
every year; this would secure not only
very even crops every year, but finer
and more superior fruit Birds assist us
IN this matter by picking off the bios
SONS. Thinning is easily done if we
obtain slender pole with a hook-like
knife attached, or even a Goldfish hook,
by which the extra fruit could be easily
cut out
CAREFUL experiments have proved
that corn which is hilled Will blow down
more readily than that which has level
culture This can be accounted for by
the fact that corn roots run very near
the surface, and when hills are made they
are confined TO the small space covered
by the bill; while in level culture the
roots run from one row to the other.
thus enabling the corn to stand strong,
as nature intended, and in no way liable
to be blown down except by winds Of
unusual violence.
WHEN smoking hams, something to
burn long time without looking after
is desirable. Corn-cobs are an excellent
fuel for smoke-h houses, burning slowly a
long time, and if, after the heap is well
under way i'll burning, they are partly
covered with ashes, the time will be pro-
longed Wood viii burn slower if SINH
larly covered. Shayings and sawdust, as
Is generally known, are also good, and if
covered down pretty well to keep the
draft from passing through the heap,
Will last many hours.
4 FARM can be stocked with sheep
cheaper than with any other animals.
Sheep will come nearer to utilizing every
thing which grows on the farm. Less
labor viii be required for getting feed
and stock together. The returns will
come IN sooner and oftener than with
any farm stock except hogs. Less money
is required for sheltering and fencing,
and less labor is required In herding
when outside pasturage is accessible and
preferred. And finally, handsome in
come on the investment can be had with
out the sale Of the animals themselves.
In the case of horn brittleness in COWS.
Hon. Dobusch, of Hoenfort, Austria,
found no good resulting from feeding
bone meal, when the water used from a
spring was perfectly soft. that is without
mineral matter. But upon changing
them to the water of another spring,
Containing carbonate, sulphate and phos-
phata of lime and chlOrate of maonesia