Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-01-06

Work, frien IS work!
' ARlOUS FARM NOTES.
BITING NORSFS.

The habit of horses biting ard snap
ping at everything within reach is often
the result of teasing and tormenting
II Is pernlclous hSblJ. 20 say the least
one that should be broken up If possible
1t Is said that horse may be cured by
hllng small bag made of loose cloth
full OF Cayenne pepper and letting him
bite and chew ali he pleases.
HAY. sEED FOR FOWLS.
Hay seeds, or sweepings from the bars,
make excellent feed for young chicks,
says a writer IN the Mirror. Ii should
be fed as variety, being given once
day. 1t would not be out of place to
grow crop OF buckwheat for the hens
also, especially If bees are kept. Any
thing that can be used to afford variety
should be given, not only to the chicks but
the adult fowls as well.
OLIVE CULTURE IN CALIFORNIA.
1t is stated that NJ. Elwood Cooper, of
Santa Barbara, Cal, has Sixty acres in
bearing olive trees. He sets out many
acres IN olives every year, but as 1t takes
ten years for the trees to come into bear
ing 1t will be we'll into the next ceutury
before he has the thousand acres in bear
lug. Besides being the most extensive
olive grower, Mr.. Cooper is the largest
manufacturer OF olive oil on this side of
the Atlantic.
GROW AND EAT MORE FRUIT.
This is just what the farmers of this
country should do, and yet the great ma
jurity largely neglect fruit-growing and
depend mainly upon meats and coarse
vegetables, OF, i'll vulgar parlance, "hog
and hominy." Plant fruit trees, there
fore, DO it well, and give good after-care
and culture, and You and your family
will ere long be abundantly rewarded
with an article of diet which, when sound
and ripe, can only be conducive to
health and longevity.
THE GOLDEN -HoUFED GUERNsEYs.
An admirer of the breed says that one
of the most interesting features of Guern-
sey cattle, rarely seen upon others,
are the golden hUof of those which have
white hair down to the feet. 1t is rare
that such hoofs are not yellow, and in
tense golden ones are not rare. This at
tTactive feature Is apt to be overlooke ed
In fact, we have rarely seen it alluded TO
in print. 1t is only another indication of
the general richness of color of the ami
NAL promising, of course, golden butter.
sHEEP KEEPING in THE SOUTH.
A Southern journal repeats what ha,
long been believed and asserted by many
when it declares chat there is no portion
of our country where sheep husbaudry
can be more prOtitably conducted than
on the mountains and table-lands of the
Virginias, Carolinas, Tennessee, Northern
Alabama, Georgia, and in Northern
Mississippi" If the people of the regions
mentioned would kill all sheep killing
dogs, and pay attention to sheep, they
could make wool growing very profitable
GIVE THE ROOTS ROOM.
1t is in print that Professor BurrilI
traced a root of a two year old grape vine
thirteen feet; Mr.. Satterthwaite, OF
Pennsylvania, has roots of a tweI,e-year
| old peach tree fifty feet from the trunk
Mr.. Thomas has found suckers a common
locust forty feet high at distance of
sixty I've feet, and the roots of peact
tree eleven feet high, twenty fl ye fee
away. In planting trees, vines, etc, il
| is therefore necessary to give the roots
''ample room and verge enough" to no
| ouly penetrate the earth, but also tC
| spread ont widely,
| SMALL FLoCKs OF SHEEP.
An exchange Pertinently remarks thai
because men on the plains, or better ye
in the mountains, can afford to follow
wool raising, as such, for the reason tha
| hey can herd them together in larg,
| focks, it does not follow that the ordi
nary run of farmers of their CONSTANT,
diminishing farms can do the same thing
| Myriads of farmers can fud profitable
use for small flock of sheep because
rightly handled, they can be made to earI
| their own living without cost, or yer,
| much care to the owners. They do no
need, cannot keep, and have neither room