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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19

varieties were known, peach and pear
trees we're hardy, and lived quite long
period but with grating and budding
the conditions necessary for success seem
to have been changed. The blight with
the pear and the yellows with the peach
are the great obstacles in the way, while
the borer also does his share of the work
of obstruction.
Compared with the pear the peach
requires clean cultivation. The orchard
should first be plowed and well worked
with the harrow before planting the trees
and the ground kept clean of grass and
weeds. No manure should be used unless
it is in the shape of well-rotted compost,
but mari and muck, that has been used as
absorbent material, is of advantage. The
best fertilizer is either muriate or sui
phate of potash, about POO pounds per
acre, using, at the same time, about 100
pounds of superphosphate. No nitrogen
Gus fertilizer is necessary the first two
years, but after the trees begin to fear 100
pounds of nitrate of soda may be applied
in the spring, while the quantity of pot
ash and superphorphate may be doubled.
The mode of application should be to
broadcast the fertilizer over the entire
surface instead of around the trees.
Something depends, however, upon the
character of the soil and climate. The
borer must be watched and never allowed
to effect a Judgement in the tree, and the
first signs of decay in and portion of the
tree should at once call for the use of the
knife, and as the peach tree responds
well to careful pruning it may be easily
trained to proper shape. Coal oil or
kerosene will almost instantly kill the
peach trees, and should never be used in
the orchard against insects on the peach
trees. Wood ashes and ground bone also
make excellent fertilizers.
While it may be said that peach trees
require nearly the same cultivation as corn,
the pear trees do best when kept in grass.
If cultivated and fertilized they grow too
rapidly, which seems to bring on blight.
The yellows in peaches are caused by
starvation, but the pear trees should not
be forced If the orchard IS in grass it
should receive fertilizers or manure, but
not in sufficient quantity to more than
nourish the grass. The grass crop should
be plowed under when a sod has become
thick, and crop of rye sown on the sod.
The ground should then be seeded to
grass again. The most important matter
in connection with the growing of pears
and peaches is in avoiding disease.
Striking a solution of blue vitriol around
the trees and spraying it in the branches
and leaves is an excellent preventive.
The trees should not be induced to bear
early, as it is much better to allow them
to mature the wood and become firmly
established before being taxed for fruit.
Then, with due precautions against in
sects, and proper care, they will be less
liable to disease and will yield better.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19
FARM NOTES.

Milk sold at three cents q quart pays
about the same net as butter sold for
twenty eight cents a pound, says an East
tern expert.
Let your onions grow until the tops fall,
then pull them up. They should be al
lowed to become dry and be stored in a
cool place.
A crop of buckwheat may be sown now.
1t will make excellent food for fowls,
while the bees will secure late honey from
the blossoms.
As soon as the ears have been taken
from the sweet corn the stalks should be
cut up and fed to the cows in as green a
condition as possible.
To kin moles, an Illinois farmer puts
strychnine in pieces of liver the size of a
hickory nut, placing the pieces at differ
ent points in their runs.
Sheep will eat nearly all kinds of weeds
and may BE made to do good service in
some fields. They should, however,
always be given a feeding of grain at
night.
Destroying beetle is equal to killing
fifty grubs. When meadows become in
tested, 1t is well to turn in the hogs and
let them root They will destroy thou
sands of grubs.
A few trees, evergreons and Towering
shrubs planted among the hives help to
removed the sameness of the scene and
in summer give a gateful shade to the
bees.
In the care of eggs while waiting for
Matching place Is preferred that is
neither hot nor cold, damp nor dry. If
the eggs are to be kept but little while
turning them every day will answer, a box
being sufficient.
For erect growing trees the head should
be formed at about three feet from the
ground; but spreading trees should have
the head five feet high. A tree with a
low head is less likely to be broken down
by the wind, and the branches will then
be able to keep off the scorching rays of
the sun from the trunks.
The brown leaves on strawberry plants
are caused by fungus growth and are
evidence of disease. This fungus, UNI
like most others, thrives in hot temper
ature and therefore some means of shaa-
ing the plants is advised to prevent it.
The spread of the fungus may be arrest
ed by picking off the leaves and burning
them.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19
4 Remedy for the Cabbage Worm.
Rural Record.

An experiment tried by G. G. Young, of
Henry County, o., results in the discovery
that unleached wood ashes prevent the
ravages of the cabbage-worm and the de-
post of eggs by millers. He says; 81
took dry, unleached wood ashes, full
strength and splashed right on top of
each plant, from half to a full shovelful,
determined to kill the worms if it killed
the cabbage (which was sure of total de-
struction in any way, if no better remedy
could be found than was applied), and, to
my satisfaction and almost astonish-
ment, the first application proved a ra-
dical cure, killing almost every worm
touched by the ashes. | took pains to jar
the plants lightly by hitting it with my
foot, to shake the ashes thoroughly be-
tween the leaves, to be sure to make soap
of every worm. The plants were not only
uninjured by the ashes, but started with
new life and energy. The swarm of
millers which had constantly lowered over
the patch seemed to leave in disgust, and
no further trouble was experienced for
several weeks, but rapid and unmolest-
ed of the plant ensued.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19

is no way to freshen the hay when it is
wanted to feed; therefore no more salt
should be put on than the cattle can
safely use. How much they will stand
without injury has never been ascer-
tanned with exactness, but from my ex-
perience l should say that less than a
peck to ton is enough. Probably four
quarts is plenty.
Sometimes il is practicable to use
very salt hay, as an occasional feed, to
good advantage. We had a few acres of
second growth clover that was cut while
very green and juicy. Several days of
of sun and repeated turnings at last re-
duced it to something like hay. and when
big rain could be seen coming up, we
stacked it. 1t weight showed il to be
far from dry, and several buckets of salt
were used. The stack acted very strange
ly, setting down to half its original size,
and we feared it was spoiled. But it kept
frst-rate, and packed as solid as plug
tobacco, though it was very salty. We
put it before the cattle, and they ate
what they wanted of it, having plenty of
other feed all the while. 1t supplied
them with salt as well as with part of
their food. But l prefer to give salt by
itself, and feed by itself when possible.
1--WE tried the plan, so often recon
mended, of putting stratas of dry straw
in the NOV of green clover, only we used
some very poor blue grass hay, several
years old. 1t is apparently a success:
and l think also the dry material alb
serbs some of the flavor of the green
hay, and so becomes palatable, has some
thing of truth. At any rate it was all
eaten up close, which l think would
hardly have been the case had the blue
grass been fed before its use in the Glow
er. Yet the clover was in places slightly
musty; probably too small proportion
of dry material was used.
SIN making clover hay, be not deceived
by any apparent dryness when they may
contain moisture enough to injure the
hay. There is more danger of this while
the sun is hot, when the hay may be dry
enough to rustic, and yet if put in cock
a while, viii appear as it is-damp."
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19
A Good Cow.
Jersey Bulletin.

Many good judges of dairy cattle pass
upon the merits of the animal without
fully understanding why they have made
the selection. They recognize certain
general outlines as adopted to the pro-
duction of milk, and others to the laying
on of flesh How few think that the
bony structure beneath this flesh and
covering is in itself the foundation not
only of the animal frame, but the base
upOn which judgement is rendered The
COW to produce milk is of finer organ
ISM the frame is remarkable for the
sharpness of its outline; the hony pro-
cesses are more prominent thinner on
the edgss, loose in the joints Such
frame presents US with a cow having
lean, bony head, iowls thin and wide
apart; broad between the eyes, the latter
bright, full and placid; horns small and
slender; neck long and tapering to the
head, set on high thin shoulders, sharp
at the top; fore-quarters light and thin,
with a slender, straight fore-leg and
broad knee. carcass deep, full about the
heart, back straight, loosely jointed RIBS,
broad, fiat and thin, sharp on sdges;
vide over the hips and pelvis; strongly
muscled; headquarters broad, strong on
the outside, thighs fat and thin giving
place to a capacious udder; hook broad,
talI long and slender, set on III line OF
the back udder; the quarters evenly bal
anced. extending well forward, not TOO
lop' and we'll up behind, covered with a
soft, elastic skin, not too thin, with hair
very short soft and silky; teats wide and
long, of medium size, yellowish color OF
the skin, especially on the udder, inside
the ears and about the eyes; and lastly,
but not least, large, long and torturous
milk vein terminating in large opening
IN the belly. Built upon this model we
nave COW presenting the much coveted
wedge form light forward and increas-
ing as we pass rearward. If We stand IN
'front.' she grows broader towards the hips
and if We stand at her side she grows
heavier in her quarters. Such COW wlll
-ecrete milk, but when giving milk can
not accumulate fat
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19
An Attractive Tower.

When the great iron tower, one thous-
and feet high, was proposed some time
ago for the Paris exhibition of 1889, many
engineers doubted the feasibility of the
project, judged from their point Of view.
However, NJ, Eiffel went at the problem
and evolved design which was chosen
and which it is proposed TO execute. On
the eve of accomplishment however,
French "sayant' comes forward with
timely warning of the fearful consequence
es which the building of the iron tower
will entail. lie says that the enormous
block of iron running north and south
would become polarlzed, and that this
polarization will soon invade the whole
column. Then who knows whether the
four lifts, with their continual friction,
will not increase the magnetic influence a
hundred fold? In this case all articles
for mile around will be attracted TO the
tower, and will adhere to it ms n needle
does TO a magnet. If the troops quar-
tered in the Ecole Militaire hard by be
called out to drill, it Will be all in vain for
the commanding officer to shout "En
ayant!' if they are paraded with the col
umn behind them. Then all the houses
in Paris will suffer from st. Vitus'
dance, and, being gradually drawn toward
the Champ de Mars, will finally find them
selves stuck to the tower As for loco
motives entering Paris, it will be found
impossible to stop them Mt the various
termini; they will rush through the city
and dash themselves to pieces against the
center of attraction. These and other
evils, we are told, will follow the erection
of the great Eiffel tower, which might,
indeed, be called the Teufcl tower.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19
IN HANDSOME HOMES.

Lamp shades of plated silk are border
ed by fine Valenciennes lace.
Cut glass is now seen in all the old
English cuttings, which are very fine.
Doilies are now most fashionably
worked in white linen thread or floss
japanese curtains in figured silks are
used for work aprons by young ladies
A large pocket holds the work and
crewels, while bows of ribbon finish the
apron.
Beautiful work for summer is in max
ing the luxurious bed furniture from
Dresden linen, the entire surface of which
is wrought of fagotting and Kensington
stitch in fosstte.
Pretty work baskets are made of a deli
cate sort of wicker in shape of three
legged stand and basket tray. This may
be made as pretty as good taste can
dictate with ribbon, silk, and lace.
Pretty curtains for a ChIppendale bed
are made Of Madras muslin outlined in
gold thread. This would be pretty sum
mer work, and something which will
amply repay one for the trouble ex-
pended.
Charming 3 O'Clock tea cloths may be
made Of colored japanese silk into which
fancy fringe is tied. If the fringe is
made Of washing silk the cloths wash per-
fectly. These fancy fringes are very
easily made.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19
Selecting a Horse.
Prairie Farmer.

Mr.. O. r. Gleason, "Professor of Horse
training who certainly has shown great
skill in subduing and breaking the most
obdurate animals, gives the following ad-
vice:
The question may arise; For steady
hard work at moderate speed, will not
heavy framed, strong muscle animal, with
slight intelligence, like the mule, return
more work for the food, than the one
with higher mental faculties and more
active nerves? Is not there waste of
force, of the power desired, from the
nutriment consumed, in the horse with
highly developed nervous constitution!
Mr. Gleason advises to never select
horse having long ears, lined inside with
long, straight hair. Do not buy one that
is narrow between the ears, and between
the eyes; or that has fiat, round eyes, in
sunken orbits, and whose nostrils are
small and thick; for he will certainly
prove to be a beast of small intelligence,
hard to teach, incapable of remembering,
and liable to be obstinate, Just as stupid
persons are. And do not buy the horse
that is narrow az the top of the head,
bullying between the eyes, and has a
sunken dish-like face between them; for
he is sure to be vicious and treacherous
But take the horse that has short cars,
with short, curly hair beside them; that
is broad between the ears and eyes, with
regular, straight face, and large thin
nostrils; for in him you will find an in
telligent, spirited, yet willing servant,
and faithful friend, if treated rightly.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19
Feeding Hogs.
Planter and Stockman.

An Iowa farmer put up twenty l-year-
old hogs for fattening, and for the first
twenty days fed them on shelled corn, Of
which they ate SO bushels. During this
period they gained 1877 pounds or upwards
of 10 pounds to the bushel of corn. He
then fed the same hogs on dry cornmeal,
during which time they consumed ~
bushels, and gained 535 pounds or II 2. to
the bushel. The same hogs next fed four
teen days on cornmeal and water mixed,
consumed 5519 bushels and gained 731
pounds, or 1875 pounds of pork to the
bushel. He then fed them fourteen days
on cornmeal cooked, and after consuming
As bushels of the cooked cornmeal the
hogs gained 799 pounds or very nearly
fifteen pounds of pork to the bushel of
meal
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19
Preserved Potato Fruit.
Field. Farm and Stockman.

A German contemporary, as new idea,
states that potato culture is likely to re-
ceiye a new impetus there sence the plan
of selling them peeled, sliced and dried,
like certain fruits, seem to hit the tastes
of the export market. The drying of the
potatoes can follow the period of the des-
location of fruit. The method obyicates
decay and termination OF the tuber, and
occupying a less volume transport will lie
cheaper and less difficult The potatoes
are peeled by machinery, next carefully
washed sliced into rounds and left for
twenty minutes in a strong solution of
salt. The brine induces frmness in the
slices and prevents their changing color
thus securing what sulphur does for
fruits. Later the cuttings are left to
drain, placed in the drying apparatus on
hurdle shelves, and submitted to a tenn
perature varying from 17G0 to 194' Fab
renheit. They must remain little lon
Ger in this hot bath than fruit. Before
using, the slices have to be stepped twelve
to fifteen hours in water, when they will
become as fresh and favory as new po-
tatoes.
1t seems strange that so practical a
people as the Germans should saturate
with salt before drying, necessitating
soaking before cooking. If they had our
best Yankee evaporators the drying could
be successfully carried out without salt
ing, Salt-saturated vegetables or fruits,
and the salt again soaked out of them, no
longer retain their flavor.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19
Brush in the Pastures.
Coleman's Rural World

To think of going into the woods to
cut brush or timber during the hot wealth
er of August is not inviting. 1t is, how
ever, conceded that it is the best part of
the year to cut brush and prevent its
coming up again. Timber cut when in
full leaf is thought to dry out and season
better. Some advocate cutting the trees
down and letting lay untrimmed, claim
ing that the leaves continue to perform
their functions of evaporating the mois-
ture in the cells of the wood, and by this
means more completely remove the water
than will be done in much longer time if
the leaves are removed.
If possible, after the threshing is done
and other work out of the way, try and do
some clearing OF land where it Is needed.
Doubtless many of the farms of our read
ers have some acres of valuable land if
cleared of the brush and put under Guilt
walton or seeded TO grass, which now is e
source of no revenue. Many are the
pastures, too, in which there is altogether
too much brush and shade. Not only
does this growth prevent much grass from
growing, but what does grow ia not as
nutritious as it would be if all useless
Vegetation would be removed We be-
lieve we are entirely within bounds when
we say that the pasture land of Missouri
is not affording one.half the amount of
pasturage it is capable of affording If
put in the right condition.
BY choosing the earlier and the later
parts of the day and the less oppressive
days, much of this work can be done at a
time when 1t will do the most good, and
without much difficulty. 1t needs little
nerve and Yankee grit, but so does work
of all kinds in hot weather.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19
Whom Animals Roar.
Chambers Journal.


There Is an almost universal belief that
the lion roars when he is hungry, and in
a wild state when in search of prey, but
the writer ventures to assert that, like the
bears hug, and other almost proverbial
expressions of the kind, the idea is alto
gether erroneous. Probably certain
verses in the Bible, more especially in
the Psalms, such as "The lions roar
ing after their prey" etc, and
passages of similar nature, have
given rise to this impression. But
let it be asked, would so cunning
an animal as the lion, when hungry
and in search of his dinner, betray his
approach and put every living creature
within miles of the spot thoroughly on
the qui viYe by making the forest echo
again with his roarings Assuredly not (;
for more certain method Of soaring his,
prey he could not possibly adopt All
quadrupeds, more especially the deer
tribe, well know and dread the voice of
their natural enemy. Even domestic an
imals instinctiyely recognize and show
fear on hearing the cry of wild beast.
In India the sportsman when out
in camp during the hot weather
months often finds himself far
away from towns and villages in
some wild spot in the depths of the jun
gle Here the stiffness of the night is
constantly broken by the call of various
creatures inhabiting the neighboring for
est-tho deep, solemn boot Of the horned
owl the sharp call of the spotted deer, or
the louder bell Of the sambur. But these
familiar sounds attract no notice from
the domestic animals included in the
camp circle. But should panther on
the opposite hill call his mate, or a Prov
ling tiger pass along the river bank
muttering his complaining night
moan, they one and all imme-
diately show by their demeanor that
they recognize the cry OF n beast
of prey. The old elephant chained up be-
meath the tamarined tree stays for mo-
ment swaying his great body backward
and forward and listens attentiyely. His
neighbor, a gray Arab horse, with pricked
ears, gazes uneasily in the direction the
sound apperred TO come from, while the
dogs, just before lying painting and
motionless in the moonlight, spring to
their feet with bristling back and lowered
tail and with growls Of fear disappear
under the tent fly.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19
Curing Glover.

Ell. Wing, of Ohio, in writing the
Country Gentleman upon curing clover
says: THE man who is curing very green
clover, especially in e Sery weather is
often tempted to put it into the barn be-
fore it is very dry, and rely on salt 10
save it. Salt will save 1t if enough is
used but what will the cattle say: There
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19
Peach and Pear Culture.
Philadelphia Record.

J he peach tree requires cultivation en-
ITely different from that needed for the
pear, yet where the orchards are side by
''ae the same treatment is usually given
o2th. In former days, before the new
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19

The tidy red ants which are such nui-
sance in many pantries, may be easily
driven away if kerosene is freely used.
Those who have been troubled with them
know that they always come i'll lines, com
ing through some crevice in the wall or
floor, and following one after the other
in regular order until they reach the shelf
above. If kerosene is turned the entire
length of the line, also on the place'where
they come in, the floor, etc, they will soon
depart. You may need TO repeat this n
few times, but it is an easy and effectual
method of getting rid of them. Leave
the door and windows open awhile, and
the scent of kerosene will soon be gone.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19

Newtown and Flatbnsh, n. ", have
passed bylaw taxing each funeral that
enters the town 81.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19
CORN CAKES.

Crate raw, green corn that is young and
tender; to two cupfuls of grated corn
add two tablespoonfuls of milk or cream,
and three well beaten eggs; salt to taste,
and add tablespoonful of melted butter
and three heaped tablespoonfuls of flour,
Drop in spoonfuls on a hot, buttered
griddle: brown one side and turn care
fully with broad griddlecake shovel or
turner"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19

A matrimonial engagement with West
Point student is not necessarily binding
says Mrs. Grundy.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19
An Eye TO Business.

"Can any of you tell me why Gottfried
Muller is not at SCHOOL," said a teacher
to her scholars few weeks ago. Up
went little hand like jumping jack.
"Wellj" was the interrogatiye response.
''Please, ma'am," answered little boy,
with a rapidity that almost took away
his breath, his fathers dead and Uncle
Pete's got the job"
ut Is not, perhaps, necessary to say
that the relative referred TO was a rising
young undertaken. That boy ought to
be successful as a man. He has an eye
to businese.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19
CHEAP TEA CAKE.

one cup of sugar, one cup of milk,
three cups of -four and one-half cup of
butter, two teaspoonfuls of baking pow
der, one teaspoonful of caraway seeds
and two tablespoonful of currants.