Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-01-19
FARM NOTES.

Nine hundred and fifty-three women
own farms in Iowa and only eighteen
are carrying mortgages.
Have fruit on your table all the year
round. 1t will pay in health, which
is wealth. Raise it on your own farm
An English naturalist has sent
large number of ferrets and weazels
to Australia to use in discriminating
rabbits.
Do not depend upon any one crop.
Have something to keep you reason
ably busy the year round, and make
everything pay at least small profit
Whenever a farmer gets labor
saving implement for himself, let him
think il something to save his wife
from kitchen labor cannot also be Sc
cured.
There is no question that the great
majority Of our people who live in the
country do not enjoy what they might
in the way of horticultural comforts
and luxuries.
In these days of advanced agricul-
ture the Importance of fully stocking
the farm is well understood. But in
many cases there is the extreme of too
heavily stocking.
The early bird picks up the worm,
50 don't wait for others TO lead in every
new enterprise. At the same time
don't rush into an enterprise simply
because it is new.
Many town and country butchers
now try out the fat in refuse suet and
common tallow and mix it with hogs
lard, which is sold to their customers
rs pure article.
10 crops. no stock; no stock, no
manure; no manure, no crops. But
don't, when you have raised a forage
crop, sell it, but feed it to live stock.
and then have manure and have crops.
A good farmer, who takes no paper,
may become better when he employs
means to cultivate his mind, and he
may find, also, good farm paper the
best investment he can possibly make.
In many parts of the West farmers
are discussing the utility of feeding
wheat to the hogs instead os corn.
Care should be taken in feeding that
mastication and digestion be complete.
The water which dairy cows drink,
if impure will spread its impurity to
their milk, and the quantity and quail
ty of the food also makes its influence
felt upon the quantity and quality of
the milk.
Pumpkins for cows have best effect
when fed before very cold weather,
for there is less absorption of animal
heat to warm the mass, forty or fifty
pounds, that a cow will take into her
stomach.
1t ought to be settled beyond dispute
hat it pays to provide good shelter
for all the stock on the farm. The
surest plan, as far as possible, is TO
provide for this ahead OF tue time when
1t may be wanted.
The turkeys of Egypt are said to be
superior to those of any other country
in Europe. Though the original stock
was obtained in this country, differ
ence of climate has served to change
many of their characteristics.
A beautiful and enjoyable flower
garden does not call for general out
lay of cash or for journeying to dis
! taut lands to make selections. Some
of the oldest and most common flow
crs have never been surpassed.
No less than forty-hye persons in
Great Britain and Ireland raised to-
| bacco in 1857 on plats ranging from
two acres downward. Nearly all har-
vested their crops in good condition,
and were pleased with their expert
ments.
Poor sheep are always hard to win
ter, and there IS really no necessity
for their getting poor-in fact it does
not pay. While it is not necessary
that they should be fat, yet it is neces-
sary that they should be kept in good
condition.
There are no less than 700 COM
mercial ogg-hatchery establishments
in Egypt, which ''turn out about r.
600, 600 young birds annually. Coun-
try people who have 10 incubators OK
change eggs for newly Matched chick
ems, giving two of the former for one
of the latter.
A covering of fine. well-rotted ma
nuro placed over the strawberry rows
! viii serve as mulch and protect the
young plants. In the spring the so,u-
uble matter will be Appropriated by
the growing plants as soon rs the sea-
son shall begin to open, thus causing
them to push forward rapidly. Spring
work Of 'manuring them will also be
saved.
For some reason that does not APP
pear to be generally understood, few
persons succeed in raising oak trees
from acorns. Many state they are more
successful in raising trees from hickory
and walnut seed than from acorns.
Nearly all the experiments in raising
beech trees from seed have resulted in
failure when the nuts were planted in
| prairie soil
Greater progress has been made in
agriculture, spice and fruit raising in
the island of Ceylon during the past
few years than in any period since it
had been under the control Of the Eng
lish. 1t is said to be the cheapest place
in the world to live in. Unhulled rice