Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-04-14
FARM AND HOME.

Philadelphia whose aggregate weight
was 16,575 pounds. The Germantown
Telegraph says they were 4 years old,
and cross between the Durham and
Attorney.
IT is lamentable that SO few farms
have a supply of small fruits. Many
farmers never have berry of their own
raising, while the most hardy and gen.
orally the best fruit, the common red
cherry, isnot at all plenty.
A NORTH room in house properly
ventilated, is q better place to keep
milk in the summer than half the So
called milk cellars in the country. To
obtain the most cream and best results,
milk should stand thirty-six hours be-
fore skimming.
A co. OPERATIVE dairy farmers asso-
citation in New South Wales comprises
about 500 producers, who supply about
5000 kegs of butter per month, besides
other products for sale. The company,
in 1881, sustained the wholesale prices
of butter at rate of from % to 90 per
cent higher than it was the year pre-
vious.
Poor care, shelter and food will in
few generations make scrubs of the
finest pure-bred stock, and chickens
are no exceptions to the rule. Pure
boed scrubs are little better than ma
| tives, and the farmer who raises either
will always be poor. Breeding the best
stock, and keeping it in the best man
ner possible, pays the largest.
EXPERIMENTS prove, says the German
town Telegraph, that in order to insure
the best growth of grass seed it should
be very slightly covered with earth.
When covered to the depth of an inch,
only about one-half of the seed will
terminate, and if covered with two in
ches there will be no growth. The
kinds thus experimental with were red
and white clover, timothy and orchard
grass.
KEEPING bees in the old-fashloned
box hive is entirely out of date. The
| trouble with it is that the internal eco
nomy of the colony can not be regu-
lated, but the bees must be left to do
pretty much as they please. 1t is a
| fact often preached but seldom prac-
ticed, that bees need management and
care the same as horses, cattle or poul-
try, or any other kind of farm stock.
EGGs are an article of cheap and nu-
trious food which we do not find on the
farmers table in the quantity which
economy demands. 1t is probably be-
cause they do not understand how valu-
able eggs are for food. One pound of
fresh eggs is worth as much for food as
two pounds of beef. They are easily
digested if not damaged in cooking, and
may be eaten with impunity by chill
dren or invalids.
A CORRESPONDENT says his fowls have
white scales on their legs, and asks what
viii cure it. The disease is known as
scaly leg or elphantis, and is occasioned
by damp fowl houses or exposure. 1t IS
caused by minute parasite which bur
rows under the scales of the fowls leg.
The best way of removing them is to
grease the legs with mixture Of sui
phur and lard several times. Some use
kerosene, but this is liable to make
their legs sore.
MosT poultry-keepers know that fowls
possess an individuality, and that they
could tell their feathered pets among
strangers as readily as they could tell
Their own horses, among drove of
strangers. ept every one, however,
would be willing to swear to the ldenti-
" OF chicken as OF horse; and yet
N u q case n connecticut, woman test
lhed that she knew her turkeys by
their walk, their countenance and their
manner of roosting."
HE Larvae OF small spotted insect
caileu tne lacy Dlrd leeds upon the
aplls anu otiief insects, deVourlng vast
numbers OF them. Inc lady bird Is
lne gardner RI. lrlend, and they should
I'VE IL ~ Hilieu = y can pe avoided.
lncse li.tle peeeies are usually red or
olanse yel,o", WIN sillall Diack spots;
~ Oily sffnfee8 spots,
slsll 10y ;s = ihan az inllne.s Ihey
s.o mas been laid to them 81
srhich they. were entirely innocent.
NOTHING will better nron,ote a GOOD
Weld of wheat oats or barley for I'M
stance. next to an apnronriate fort;I;zar
than the use of y roller in nnIyer;g;,,1
the lumnv soil and s.ttI;ng tho III
about the nlant roots After o,,, ra;mu
spring our fields of snrinpino Grain viii
naturally become cloddy as dTv wealth
er approaches. and evenness az Growth
and ripenine NAV both he nromoted Nv
using tie roller. In new lands where
stumps are troublesome sbort rolIers
with strong heavy frames arc n Ua,f
able