Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-07-08

the stronger shoots One-thltd. The app
pearance will be greatly improved there
by.
A Nebraska farmer, who has been ex-
perimenting with blue grass, concludes
that Northern Nebraska will prove TO be
one of the finest tame-grass countries in
the world.
England buys S19,252, $50 out of the
S20, sos, SPA worth of bacon we export; of
hams 81, 454, $50 worth out of the S3,23I,-
506 nearly half of the S3462, 53S of pork
and about one-third Of our surplus lard,
Weed and hoe the onions, peas and all
of the garden vegetables, harrow the pota-
toes again. replant the corn and com
mence blowing it the very day it is large
enough. Keep the ground which the
crops occupy free from weeds, loose and
mellow.
To give horse medicine take long
necked bottle, raise the horses head,
thrust the bottle into his mouth and while
the liquid Is running into the throat rub
the nose of the bottle vigorously against
the roof of the mouth pretty well back,
This done, most horses Will swallow
nicely.
The cattle of the Indian Territory and
Texas are said to be ready for the trail,
and it is estimated that the spring drive
Will reach 100000 head. The drive will
not be ms it has been heretofore, through
Western Kansas, but viii be along the
national trail, just over the State line in
Colorado.
A cold, damp soil, with a hard imper-
yious subsoil, is not suitable for garden
and before it can be properly utilized
should be we'll drained. For garden pur-
poses, if tile drain has been laid, the
trenching system is best for such soils
Any method that permits it to rid itself
of surplus moisture, and allows the air
and heat to enter, will he beneficial.
The same care in the selection for seed
should be made as with the other plants
ProdUctiveness, maturity and form are
fully as important as size. All plants in
tended to produce seed for another sea
sons crop should not only be selected but
planted away from other varieties Sweet
corn growing in the neighborhood of field
corn will be r1ined for seed the succeed
ing year.
At this season the milk is often flavor
ed with onions or will garlic. The only
I
by pulling them up, or allow the garlic TO
grow until nearly ready 20 seed then cut
ting it down TO do this the COWS must
be kept out of the pasture Tor awhile. 1t
requires work to eradicate the pasture of
these weeds but il must be done if odors
in the milk and in the butter are TO be
avoided.
An Ohio amateur gooseberry grower
succeeds in growing very fine fruit both
i'll size and quality, on a cool, clay soil,
keeping the plants open in the center by
pruning. When they start into growth
in the spring he Immediately disbuds to
prevent them from becoming too dense,
and thus admits free circulation of air.
He mulches heavily during the summer,
With this treatment he is little troubled
with mildew
The wheat produce of Wales in 1885
was 1879, 917 bushels, at an average rate
22.65 bushels per acre The wheat pro
/ duce of Scotland was 1,S93,501 bushels
at an average rate of 34.S3 bushels per
acre, as compared with 2,34s,2G bushels
I in 1854, when the average rate per acre
was 84.17 bushels. The average rate in
/ 1885 exceeded that of the estimated ordi-
nary yield per acre by 1,4S bushels, or 4,5
I per cent.
/ Chickens are valuable outside the ques-
| ton of eggs and flesh. A full-growu hen
will yield from two and one-half ounces
to four and one-quarter ounces of feath-
ers and down. The feathers serve for
bonnet decorations, the ornamentation of
military shakos, and for busters, The
averaged sized feathers are employed for
beds and holsters the down for pillows.
But the latter classes are not held in an
much esteem as the same from geese and
ducks. When the feathers are plucked
they are placed for a short time in a
bakers oven sitter the bread has been
withdrawn, to kill the insect germs before
they are sent TO market.
With the use of movable poultry quar-
tiers some poultry can be kept IN confne-
ment in small grounds to as good advan-
tage almost as when they have a free run
on a farm. For dozen hens make a
structure ten feet long and six feet wide.
Four feet Of one end should be boarded
up. rooted and fitted with floor, feeding
and other Conveniences; the remainder
should be only two feet high, and made
of lath or narrow boards for a yard, but
/ without a floor This structure may be
easily carried by two men, or it might be
/ fitted TO move on rollers. It should be
located on a grassy patch and moved
( every day or two.
/ All trees and shrubs should be properly
1 labeled. The labels that come on the
/ trees from the nursery should not be re-
/ lied on as the names soon wash Off. Sheet
zinc cut in the form of o long tapering
I wedge makes tho best cheap label we
/ know Of, being understandable. easily ap.
piled and can never iniure the tree if
rightly put on. This is done in the
easiest possible way by,merely coiling the
+ tapering end around n small branch sew
+ eral times, and thus it win yield to the I'M
crease Of size. The writing may be done
/ with a common lead pencil, and will i'm
crease in distinctness with time.
i It is 20 the small rose in China that We
f owe the most marked advance toward the
modern standard. The tea rose had the
+ habit Of blooming not annually alone, as
did an known in Europe before its intro
ductiOu but continuously, or in monthly
crops. This habit Of the China rose wa.
taken advantage of and artificially hybri
I died with other larger growing sorts
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