Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-04-27
FOX FARMERS.

MANURE. If scarce work it into the
hills where it will soonest do the most
good. Broadcasting will do if you have
enough 70 cover the ground, but all
should h. worked in for the best re-
suits.
BURNT ConN.-Burnt or charred
maize, or Indian corn, is the "old
woman's" remedy for non-laying hens.
The old ladies called it "parched !"
corn hundred years ago. 1t was not
fed to the hens steadily, 'but only occa-
sionally, and with good effect.
SUCCESSION Never fail, during the
planting season, to follow up one plant
ing with another every two. or three
weeks, of such things as will be needed
from the garden. Corn, tomatoes,
beans of all kinds, lettuce, radishes,
squashes, cucumbers and melons, will
need to be planted in succession if the
table supply Is to be kept up through
the summer Save your water supplies
and draw on the spring as long as pos
sible.
FRUIT PICTURES beautiful
pictures of frui. and flowers the tree
pedddler exhibits; and how glib his
tongue. He knows all about fruits and
flowers, and we wonder how long took
him to learn so much. His beautiful
fruits make our mouths water, and he
plies us with such delightful descrip-
tons that our purse-strings are loosen
ed, and-and-alas.
COOKED FooD for stock has about
played out; not that with proper man
agement it will not, in some instances,
give satisfaction, but nature did not
intend them to have cooks, and ex-
cessive fat is abnormal and hurtful to
both men and beasts. The use of so
much grease is the origin of many
dreadful diseases. Education will
teach us to eat less hog, and that with
less fat.
MILK FOR TOULTRY.-Our readers
need not fear that we are now going to
put it out of their power to raise poul-
try by prescribing milk for their diet.
Some breeders are now urging it, as
they urge something new as soon as
they see that it does not kill the fowl
We say that fat hen is fat hen, and
a healthy rooster Is a healthy rooster,
whether so on the food nature presented
or on that of mans getting up. The
last may be, but the first we know to be
good.
BUTTER BEANS. Easy, quick growth
in good soil, but delicate and often get
"nipped in the bud' by insects, frost
and hot sun. If planted first in bot
tomless boxes they may, with good
handling, be greatly forwarded. If the
vines are so luxuriant as to grow very
dense, they will do less bearing.
MANY FLOWERS. 1t is serious fault
to undertake to keep more flowers than
you can manage. Begin with few
and increase the number as you learn
your aptitude and ability to manage.
If you have a taste and fondness for
work you will soon find it out and
derive much satisfaction from the as
soclatiOn.
The following from the American
Architect regarding the corrosion of
lead pipe by lime is we'll worth noting:
IA scientific investigation has recently
been made into matter which many
plumbers and others have had presented
TO them in various ways, but which has
been hitherto unexplained. 1t seems
that in Germany the underground tele-
graph wires are often carried through
lead pipes, and in renewing some wires
in one of the large cities the pipes were
found to be corroded irregularly, the
points of greatest corrosion being after
ward ascertained to coincide with GER
tain places where the cable passed in
contact with lime water or cement
Taking this circumstance as point of
departure, Dr. Rossel has studied the
action Of various substances upon lead,
and finds that, while carbonated lime
exercises no action on the metal, the
hydrate, as it exists in mortar, attacks
it with considerable energy, and if
moisture is present sheet one thirtieth
of an inch thick may be eaten through
in year. The lead is converted in a
basis carbonate, which flakes away,
leaving holes and indentations. This
corresponds perfectly with the phe-
nom non, with which many plumbers
are familiar, of the corrosion which
takes place in traps or lead-lined tanks
into which plastering mortar is allowed
to fall. We have in mind one case
where a cistern of considerable size
lined with lead and exposed to the
dropping of particles of lime from the
plasteripg overhead, was eaten through
year after year, to the great perplexity
of the owner and his plumber, who
could find no explanation in treatises
on chemistry for such action"
Lufplliyent Farming