The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-12-11
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A LIGHT soil, littleshady, and made
rich with well-rotted stable manure. is
the place for pansies
BUTTER tainted before it goes to
the churn, no possible after cure car
make good or keep it fit to eat until
winter.
CoTToN-sEED meal is hard to digest
and ought not to be given 10 breeding
cows or to young stock OF any kind.
For mich cows try g. meal ground
from corn and oats and mixed with
bran and you may find n better flow
OF milk than rom any other.
IT is best to cut up corn before the
stalks become hard and dry Fodder
as well as hay may be injured by wait
ing until 1t Is too ripe.
II young pigs are over-fed they
suddenly stop eating, become con
vulsed and squeak and drop dead. T.
is bad rule to give pigs all the food
they will eat.
A PROLIFIC SOW in Ohio, four years
and eight months OLD, has had nine
htters, aggregating the great number
OF 1862 plgs. She is of Chester White
STRONG unbleached muslin is excel
lent IN place OF glass in poultry houses
or chicken runs, and is much less ex.
pensive.
WHEN the chicken bones are thrown
out with the table refuse, it is, per-
haps, best to have the children chop
them up with an old hstchet, as the
hens are so fond OF them that In their
eagerness they swallow them haphaz-
ard.
SAND is not substitute for gravel
in the poultry yard. The hens usual
ly pick up the sharpest and most irreg
ular pieces. When oyster shells are
provided they should be broken into
pieces the size OF grains of corn, and
not ground to fine powder.
THE flesh of chicks fattened on buck
wheat flour mixed with milk is very
delicate in flavor. Oatmeal comes
next; and after that barley meal. In
dian corn should be given sparingly
TO fowls being prepared for market.
PASTORAL pursuits have been the
largest factor of Australia's CONNER
cial pl osperity. The stock landed by
the first feet, in 1888, consisted only
OF bull, tour COWS and calf, one
stallion, three mares and three colts,
with a few coarse-wooled sheep, pig
and goats; in 1885, ninety-seven years
later, there were Teckoned TO be as
many as 100000 horned cattle, l.
100000 horses, $4,000, 0C0 sheep and
100000 swine.
THE Colorado Field and Farm says:
Sheep men are not throwing up their
hats yet. They are complacent. 1t
is well. There is no good in booms,
owing to the reaction that invariably
follows. Twenty cents at home for
good half-year wool and $3.50 for
ninety to one-hundred pound mutton
is good enough. It may not satisfy
those who wait a good chance to sell
out but it must he remembered that
what is to the interest Of speculstors
is not always to the interest Of legiti-
mate business.
FARMERS in Great Britain are turn
ing their attention to ensilage as q
part of the winter feeding of sheep. 1t
is hardly probable that ensilage will
entirely supplant the use of roots
there, since root crops are the great
fallow crop of Great Britain in the ro-
tafon. Again root crops, especially
turnips, may be fed in the fields, thus
obvIsting the great cost of gathering,
topping, pitting and feeding out. In
the United States this forms the great
obstacle to their use. Ensllage, how
ever, gives succulent food, so much
needed in winter, and it viii undoubt-
eddy be found quite as valuable here
ac thera