Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-03-22
FACTS AND FIGURES.

In single week recently, New
jersey dairyman lost twenty-five COWS
from typhoid fever.
49, England has nearly one sheep for
every acre OF territory, while the
United States has one for every thirty
| four acres.
- Farm ers trying to make a living
off worn-out lands must stop selling
their calves and pigs, and sell fat oxen
ana hogs instead, and they will soon
see an improvement in the fertility of
their land and in their bank account.
DO not put lime in the manure
heap, for it destroys the salts OF am
monia, and by compelling it to take
the gaseous form drives it off. Lime
will rot manure very quickly and do
its work well, but it will be at the ex-
pense of a loss of nitrogen, which is an
ingredient in ammonia.
"A writer says that he has never
failed to cure garget by the use of beans.
he feeds one pint of bean meal, mixed
with other meal, for four successive
days, and has found that quantity suf.
ficient to cure the worst cases. Re
thinks if COWS were fed with bean meal
several times year, they would never
be troubled with garget.
The total value of live stock i'm
portations to the United States in 1881,
was So ,675, 518. A large per cent. of this
amount was on Scotch cattle imported
to the country. Polled Angus cattle
constitute the largest ard greatest val
ue OF animals imported. We are pay
ing to European raisers a very heavy
tax on imported blood.
Ninety out of every hundred
who have used ensilage report in its
favor. A majority of them say that
the cost of keeping is greatly reduced,
and that cattle fed on ensilage, especi-
ally mich COWS, do better than if kept
entirely on hay. But we make some
allowance for the natural inclination of
people to approve their own work.
There are about 600 creameries in
the state Of Iowa, and the Weld of but
ter is estimated at 100000 pounds
per annum, which at 25 cents per
pound amounts to $25 100000. The
cheese product is 100000 making a
total of $27, 100000 from that branch
of industry alone. Iowa has one-thir-
tieth of all the mich COWS in the
United States.
Father Clarkson, the veteran Iowa
farmer and agricultural editor, advise,
farmers to hold on to their hogs and
cultivate all they can, for there is a
large shortage in the state. The pres.
ent winter has been disastrous to
young pigs, and the incoming crop has
been nearly swept away. 1t will re-
quire two years to recover from the
present deficiency under favorable
circumstances, so there is good assur.
auce of high prices for hogs until the
close of the year 1854.
The young carp distributed by Mr..
Shaw, the MINI. state fish commits.
sioner, year ago, are beginning to
show up. j. NJ. Holland, of Henry,
putseven very small specimens in a
pond covering about an acre, and a
week ago one was taken from under
the ice which weighed three and one
half pounds. A few days after two
others we're taken which weighed two
pounds each. In northern Iowa are
countless numbers OF ponds where
these fish can be grown with great
profit. It only requires water ten or
tifteon feet deep and that there be no
other fish in them. They are prolific
breeders ana rapid growers. They at
tain weight in three years of fifteen
pounds and are of excellent quality.
-Roup is brought on by damp, cold
and unclean quarters, or through in
fiction. Give warm, clean, comforts.
BILE quarters. Separate sick from well
ones. Feed warm food with chlorate
OF potash lone teaspoonful to every five
hensl three times day. Crushed corn
and oats mixed with barley water is
good, also q moderate amount of
onions and cabbage. Battle the head
of diseased fowls with glycerine aud
oil, and with a sharp knife open the
pustules that have formed and let the
matter escape. Be careful not to let
such matter come in contact with
sore or raw place on your hands.
The glucose factories in Iowa have
not been as remunerative as was ex-
pected, bu. on the contrary the msjor- |
ity of them have been financial fail |
ures. 1t is said that the Davenport |
works are tho only ones in the west, |
with perhaps three exceptions, that