Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-12-13
A FEW GOOD THINGS.

Give the old fowls generous feed with
some meat, 10 take the place of insects,
which are now scarce; they are growing
their winter coat of feathers and need
attention.
Osts make the best grain food for
young stock, and especially for calves
and colts. If ground and fed with tur-
nips (cooked) the young stock will thrive
on such diet.
The farmer is usually too busy in Oc-
tober to think Of going into the woods,
but if he could fiud time 30 cut his wood
for home use, he would find it much bet
ter than if cut in md winter.
4 correspondent of Field and Farm
says that of thirty COWS dehOrned, last
winter, twelve aborted and five died. He
says that the remainder were not worth
tWo-thirds their former value, and did
not give more than half as much milk as
before.
Sunhowers are used in Wyoming Ter
ritory for fuel. The stalks, when dry,
are as hard rs maple wood, aud make
not fire, and the seed neads with the seed
in are said TO burn better than hard coal.
An acre OF spnfowers will furnish fuel for
one stove for year.
Often dairymen are puzzled 20 know
why their butter has bad flavor when
they heve been careful TO keep il from
anything that would faint is. The trouble
is with the salt. While the butter was
carefully guarded the soIt was not, and II
absorbed odor which spoiled the butter.
II not already done PIT the winter ap-
pies in the cellar at once where the tenn
peraturo is low aud even. 1t would pay
well for fruit growers 10 arrange cold
stoI age rooms for their fruit. An even
low temperature is what is wanted, and
the frpit should be put into il rs
soon as taken ftom the trees.
cultivator has been patented by Mr..
Samuel p. Cunningham, OF Iuka, Ark.
Ii has a regulator wheel which may be
nd listed TO determine the depth to
which the ploNshare shall cut, and also
literally TO serve Is fender, to prevent
the crop being covered mp by the earth
thrown up, beng especially designed for
use in cultivating young crops.
If wanted for use during winter, onions
are best stored in dry loft provided
with q stove TO keep out the FROST. A
TEN perature of forty deg ees suits them.
If they are not TO be used until sprin"
they may be piled in the open air in
shady spot, and after being frozen solid,
covered with litter enough to keep them
from thawing easily when they will usual
~ come ont in fine order in the spring.
If the butter maker would thoroughly
please his patrons and secure from them
the highest prices going, his butter must
not only be of good quality but uniform
ly good IL will not 80 do TO furnish
poor article one month out of the twelve,
Of even ono week out of the fifty-two.
When butter is 80 evenly superior that
customers are able to detect no apprecis-
BILE veriation in it, the maker should be
getting fine price.
Cleanliness in the dairy is one OF the
most essential points in butter making.
We have au idea that if the consumers OF
the article could STE, in all cases, the
surrouu iings of the dairy in which the
butter is made, that is placed before
them, aud smell the doors in which il Is
manufactured, that lots of it would be
left uneaten. We have ar idea, too, that
much OF the short life of butter Is attri-
b utGAle to the fsct that these elements Of
decay are impaired to il a. it passes
through he dairy or factory.
The only conclusion we can draw from
the experience Of feeding mileh cows,
with sucouleut food and silage, said Prof.
Lloyd in his paper at the British Dairy
Conference, IL that the water that exists
naturally in vegetable issue has special
effect upon the animal, and cannot be
adequately repiaced By the water drum
in the usual way. In my opinion IL see ms
that ia vegetable matter there is an in
innate union between this water ehemi-
cal and the constituents of the vegetable.