New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-06-23
FARM AND FIRESIDE.
Choice Agricultural Miscellany.

Choice Agricultural Mlbeollany.
The alarmists who croak about the
future of the stock industry owing to
an alleged surplus of cattle, will be
surprised to learn that there has in
fact been q steady decrease during the
last 25 years. in the ratio of cattle to
population. In 1860 it stood at 8l4
head to ], 200 of population; in 1880
the figures were 772, and in 1890 they
promise to be even smaller.
A good pickle for bees is as follows:
Boil Z pounds of SALT 21.2 pounds OF
brown sugar, and ounces OF saltpe-
tire in as much water as will dissolve
IT for half an hour; skim it and strain
it and let it cool. Cat up the beef,
and rub it with salt and pack it close
y in a sweet barrel, then pour over it
the brine and head! the barrel tight.
In June draw off thesbrine and boil it,
skim off the scum,. and when cold re-
turn it and close the bnnghole The
beef will then keep, perfectly.
A correspondence the Farmers Re
view says that when riding over thou
sands ofmiles OF Russian railways four
years ago he Was interested in. the
system Of shrub, and tree planting to
arrest snow at adj points where banks
could form. The trees are planted
twenty-five o,thirty feet from therails
in five to seNsn lines, lines fire feet
apart and the plants foot ana a half
apart in the. rows. The thnae inner
lines are plassted with trees, and the
outer ones. with conifers, or, shrubs.
This systern is said to protect very
perfectly the roads during the.,;ales on
the. steppss, The snow is whirled in
heaps back OF and among the trees
and shrubs, and fails to reach the rails
to a sen,OAs extent.
H. Brown, of Wisconsin, writes:
1.-TWO years ago my corn crop failed
utterly, and l was at loss to know
What / was going to do with my forty
OF fifty hogs. [ had a large crop CT
oats and began feeding them whole.
nsver had hogs do better; never had
hogs grow so thrifty. Last winter l
did the same thing. though l had a
large corn crop. This winter am do
ing the same thing with equally graft
tying results. The so-called cholera is
all around Neon the next farm-but
my hogs never were more healthy and
thrifty"
After a winters rest the shoulders
Of horses are tenderer than usual and
the skin becomes easily chafed and
sore. When this happens the collar
should be examined, as it's ill-6t,
ting or uneven or rough lining is usu-
ally the cause Of the trouble. To
harden the skin wash it wish salt wa
ter morning and evening and rub it
we'll with a rough cloth. To cure CALLS
use lage pads, or cushions on the col
lar above and below the sore, and
dress this with q solution OF sulphate
OF zinc-one dram to hall pint OF wa
ter.
Congress has been asked again to
appropriate $4,000 a year for ex-
perlmental work to each OF the estate
Agricultural Colleges OF them
not even so in name. OF certain pro-
fessors who lately went to Washing
ton to urge this claim some represent
institutions from which the farm and
mechanic arts have received small
show for past liberal favors bestowed
in their alleged interest Until these
schools generally give fairer return
for the large sums OF public money
they have already received they should
not be encouraged" with more.
A Massachusetts man, George W.
Ella, said by the Springfield R publ
can to be "the wealthiest farmer in AL
lenstown," was fined last winter 1890
and costs" for cruelty to animals, he
having provided no shelter for his
large herd of CATTLE" The heartless
owners OF freezing and starving stock
on the arctic Western plains ought
likewise to be amenable to law. AZ
present they are only visited with the
contempt and Indignation of humane
people, and by the great annual loss
es which, happily, reduce their profits
from a business which has been none
to severely characterized as constitut-
ing "a national shame"