Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-04-26
FOR TIE FARMER.

A growth with the calves is greater
object than fat, food that will produce
muscle and bone is mere desirable
than one which produces flesh. There
fore oats and bran are esteemed better
food Tor growing calves than corn and
bran.
The yield of cheese from Jersey milk
is said to be surprisingly large. 1t is
at least twenty per cent, greater than
the yield from average milk. Olly
eight pounds of it are It quired to make
a pound of cheese, when it requires
ten pounds of other milk,
Sometimes horsemen are at loss to
know Just what feed is good for horse
soon after be has been driven on the
road rather briskly. Let them stir a
quart OF oatmeal in pail OF water
and give that. 1t will refresh him and
prepare the stomach for more solid
food.
The commissioner of agriculture bias
done good thing in inviting DR.. ID. +
Salmon to Washington to conduct a
series of experiments upon incubation
as a means of preventing the spread
of contagious diseases of farm stock.
DR.. S lmon has peculiar qualifications
for work of this nature.
Liebig, the great agricultural chem
list, said "a certain mass of gold and
silver circulates in the world, and the
art of becoming rich consists in know
ing the way to divert from the main
stream an additional brook 70 ones
own house. In like manner there cir
culates, in the air and in the soil, re-
latively inexhaustible quantity of the
food Of plants; and the art of the farm.
eg consists In KNOWING and using the
means ofrendering this food available
for crops"
The particular point about feeding
calves is to see thst the milk is sweet
and not too much skinned until they
have been brought gradually to the
poorer article, and als) to see that the
drinking vessel is sweet and clean. Moth
ing will bring on the soours quicker
than old, stale and sour milk left over
in the drinking vessel It is also a
good thing to see that the calf IL not
fed too much at one time. Three or
four, or even more, feeds day, with a
small quantity at each feed, is far bet
ter than full supply and Overlooking
the stomach at one time.
Give the turkey a chance TO hide
their nests somewhere in the vicinity of
the building, and they will do so. An
old box or barrel turned on the side,
and partly covered with brush, a pile
of brush or corn fodder around an old
stump, few boards and br ush ar
ranged in a fence corner, and other
arrangements of like nature will de-
ceive the most suspicious old hen.tur-
key into the belief that she is outwit-
ing you. 1t the eggs are removed from
the nest as fast as laid the turkey will
lay thirty or more eggs before she takes
notion to sit. Always leave two or
three nest-eggs in the nest TO keep the
hen from forsaking it.
An Illinois farmer, in a communica-
ton TO the Germantown Telegraph,
says that fresh, clean hog lard, rubbed
three or four times on any kind of warts
on horse or cattle, will remove them on
three or four applications. ! have re-
moved the warts time after time, and
had never been able to find the wart
for the fourth application. II l should
send the Latin name for lard and tell
men to pay 90 cents to the druggist for
about 2 cents worth of good lard, this
remedy would be oftener used. For all
wounds and bruises, cracks on cows'
teats, etc, it i, better than any patent
liniments or ointments.
The practice Of breeding yearling
ewes in the fall following their first clio
Is becoming too prevalent 1t dwarfs
the growth, enfeebles the constitution,
and reduces the weight of the fleece;
and the chance OF raising feeble lamb
is but poor return for the certain in
jury done to the lock. When young
eve produces lamb it is far better to
put it on a mature eve, which may
have last her own lamb, because it in
lures a young eve more to raise than
to produce lamb; she may outgrow
the effects Of giving birth, but cannot
supply the waste resulting from nourish-
ing her offspring ,-Liue Stock Journal
The theory of perfectly clean dairy
vessels is as vel known as it ever can
be. Yet otherwise neat women wash
the milk pals and wipe them out with
the milky dishcloth, from the water
that had done service to vegetable
dishes. Rinse out milk vessels with
warm loot hot) water and the hand;
then wash with not water and the cloth
that will bear the test OF smell as well
as sight. Scald thoroughly, and if there
are many vessels, in several waters,
wipe en- towels that would make your
glasses shine, and heat a moment by
the fire before putting away. Our liza
bility to sudden dust storms is an OBJ
lection to their being set out in the sun
shine and outer air, by way of final
sweetening.
There is no profit in keeping hog
until it is Is mounths old, and al.
though such an animal may possibly
reach the weight OF 4 0 pounds, the
heavy weight will not compensate for
the food consumed. A pig farrowed
ia April and slaughtered about Christ
mas, will more than return his cost,
for it must be taken into constellation