The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-01-28
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES,


sulphur III said to prevent the loss Of
sheep and tape-worms.
TUBER-RooTED begonias are said to
need no artificial heat, light, nor water
during the winter.
BEES should be fed their winter stores
early, SO that it may be capped over. TIC
cap the honey the bees must secrete the
necessary wax, which they cannot do
when the weather is very cold Uncapped
honey gathers moisture and becomes I'M
wholesome as food.
In nature we never dealwith pure
water, but with water holding in solu-
non various matters either derived from
the air or from the soil, or generally
from both. These substances modify,
ana Id most instances enhance the solv-
ent power of water, and through this
power vegetation is supplied with the
elements of its growth.
BEES winter much better when they
are crowded onto few frames of comb,
dying IN less numbers and consuming
less heat. The explanation is the econ
omy OF heat. The small space is easily
warmed, and the bees are not irritated
by the cold. Cold brings overeating,
dysentery, and if the bees cannot fly,
death.
TRUMAN A. COLE, of Solsville, N. Y,
who has what is believed to be the only
hero OF HolderneSs cattle In the country
which has been bred in-and-in, saws
after twenty-eight years of such work his
ANIMALS are remarkably uniform and
vigorous, and average 800 pounds of
fancy butter and a $50 calf per COW
yearly.
STABLE manure is preferable to any
other fertilizer. No farmer can afford
to waste his manure. All of it should
be saved and utilized. In many cases
farming would be more profitable if less
land was cultivated, with higher fertili-
zation. One acre highly MANFRED should
pay better than three but half MANFRED
and half cultivated.
WHY will grass not grow under our
trees? Mr.. Paul Bert has shown that
green light binders the development of
plants. Plants enclosed in green glass
frame wither and die as though they
were in darkness. NJ Regnard finds
that plants specially require the red
rays. If sunlight is deprived of the red
rays the plants soon cease to thrive.
A GERMAN manufacturer has figured
out automatically thatin windmills the
most servlceable wind is one that blows
at a velocity of twenty. three feet a Sec
ond. The fans Of the windwheel revolve
with nearly double the velocity Of the
wind. The lowest number of days in
| the year that the wind is serviceable is
$50, and the greatest number is $50.
In Denmark, in the management of
the dairy, rape-cake, oats and wheat
bran are reckoned as frst-class butter
foods, palm-nut cake and barley as Sec
ond-class foods, while linseed cake, peas
and rye are classed in the third class.
By the employment of first and second
class foods, with cut straw, hay and roots,
an abundance OF butter is produced
throughout the winter.
LINsEED cake is said to be useful in
moderate quantities for mich COWS in
keeping up their condition, and also en-
rlching, to some extent, their milk. It
is fattening food, and should not be fed
literally to mich COWS. In nutrltive
value 22.3 parts Of oil cake are equal to
100 parts of good hay. When used jul
dlciously with other feed it is certainly
beneficial and will not destroy the but
ter particles IN the cream.
JUDGE BARLOW, of New York, states
that he would not use Paris green in de-
stroying the potato beetle because of the
danger of getting the soil full of the
poison. He would shake the bugs of
the vines and kill them. He would let
no one go over his farm with gun until
he knew that what was shot was destruc-
tive. No one should kill an insect unit
he knows what it is. cit is best" be
says, "to comply with nature, and fol
no man more than the farmer. We are
III the habit of killing every insect We
see, yet we could not exist without the
| insect world"
THE Massachusetts Agricultural So,
ciety concludes that salt as manure has
the property OF Fastening the maturing
of all grain crops; that wheat on sailed
land will ripen six to ten days earlier
than on unsalted land, all other condi-
tons being equal. That it increases the
yield from 25 to so per cent. That il
stiffens the straw and prevents rust and
smut. That it checks, if it does not en-.
tirely prevent, the ravages of the chintz-
bug. The quantity used may be from
one hundred and fifty to three hundred
pounds per acre; but the greater guam
! tity is the better.