Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-28
Miscellany.

Affects cattle in the eastern counties of
Pennsylvania. 1t attacks the animals
in the right eye, and, although they do
not seem to be otherwise sick, it grad
ually spreads until both eyes are sore
and the animal goes blind.
Asparagus. to obtain the highest
price in the New York market, must
be bleached like celery. To make it
white the earth is thrown over the
beds early in the spring, and the stalks
are cut with long knife. 1t is known
az white grass, and sells for twice as
much as that which grows in the sun
and is called green grass"
There is no practice more o0lec-
honab!e than to go to bed closely
wrapped up in the dust and dirt that
accumulate on the surface Of the body
during the day; nor is there anything
more conducive to sound sleep than a
tepid douche just before going TO bed.
Many bad sleepers become the best of
sleepers by the adoption of this simple
rule.
There is no profit in feeding stock
past It's prime. 1t Is waste of feed and
money. AS soon ~ any animal begins
to fail if should be disposed of. Old
COWS, old oxen, old sows and old hens
form the bulk Of the stock upon many
farms. The young animals are sold
Oft. This is the reverse of what il wise
and profitable.
The northwest is steadily increas-
ing Its number of COWS. Minnesota,
it is estimated, will have Il per cent.
more cows this year than last, and
Iowa Is per cent. This increase is due
to the impetus dairying has received
during the past three Years. Would
it not be well to add to this increase,
by producing more breeding cows for
general farm purposes.
Harness should never be kept in
the stable where manure is constantly
generating large quantities of ammo
MIA. This ammonia is rapidly alb
sorbed by the leather, and the effect
upon the leather is about the same as
would result from saturating it with
strong I've. In word, ammonia rots
leather, and hence keeping harness in
the stable is sure to result in its dam
age, more or less.
The farmers of forty years in the
future will deprecatlngly smile as they
tell their children that we used to try
to farm without draining, and that we
worried and drilled down our teams
ard became prematurely old and
wrinxled ourselves on account of the
uncertainties and difficulties.
Undertaking means warmer and
quicker soil; this means corn up and
pushing sooner; this means earlier
maturity and less risk from frost, and
this may mean u good paying crop in
stead of a nubbiny, soft crop. Our
people are going to gradually work
into Undertaking, and no one was
ever known TO give ii up after he had
commenced.
To remove stumps from field, all
that is necessary is to have one or
more sheet-iron chimneys, some four
or five feet high. Set the fire to the
stump and place the chimney over it,
so as to give the requisite draft at the
bottom. 1t will draw like stove. The
stump will soon be consumed. With
several such chimneys, OF different
sizes, the removal of stumps may be
accomplished at merely nominal labor
and expense.
"A Missouri farmer writes: "As
soon as | find an animal in distress
from bloat, from eating wet grass or
clover. wet it along the back with
cold well water, and also place large
cloth or blanket of several thicknesseS
over the paunch, after being saturated
with all the cold water that it Will alb
sorb, and over that n dry blanket. Ii
the cold water is prowerly applied, one
will not have to wait long for cure"
Jelly made from unripe grapes,
just before they change from green to
purple, is very delicate Wash the
grapes, after picking them from the
stems, in several waters, then put
them in Il porcelain kettle wash them
before putting them on the stove, as
then you will not need to put any Wa
ter with them, and of course the less
water the less time it will take to boil
the juice. Put the grapes when suffi-
GENTLY cooked in a bag made of firm
flannel, and let the juice drain out
without squeezing if possible.
Mr.. Monroe Morse, Of the Frank
lin, Mass, Farmers Club, says he
planted out the past season So. worth
OF choice heads to produce eight ounces
of cabbage seed, but he had better
raise it himself even at $50 per pound
than buy the best in the market at So
He adds: The seed is best grown from
the centre shoot only; but cabbages
that have been highly bred, from solid
heads, often fail to push the central
shoot, something as great mixers
among COWS sometimes have too little
vital force left to produce calves that
can equal themselves.