Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-08-08
FARM NOTES.

There are many reasons why stock
farmers should be men of good'breed-
ing.
Burnt corn or charcoal once dav
should be given to hogs afflicted with
Scours.
Bean growers in Western New York
use bean vines for stock food They
are considered best for sheep.
Can we cure weeds with such care
that they will make better fodder than
the best grasses poorly cured?
win any farmer kindly tell good
reason for stepping on the seed POI
tato after it is dropped in the hill or
drillp
The Massachusetts legislature has
passed an act forbidding the docking
of horses tails, with penalty of fine
and Imprisonment for violation.
The future home Of the baled-hay
industry lies in the Northwest. 1t
Will follow wheat to the point where
the best product can be produced
State Eutomologist Liutner, Of New
York, says tine destruction of vegeta-
ton by insects was not so great before
the Introduction of the English SPAR
row as it is now.
The Worden grapeis becoming quite
as popular as its parent, the Concord.
1t is earlier than the latter. hardy. and
fruitful to a degree which will please
any one who tries it.
In Niagara County, ~ Y, farms
sold at 500 per acre fifteen years ago.
They can now be bought at from $40
to $50, and almost every one in the
county is for sale.
Florida has $l2.O0O,000 invested in
the orange business, and the sales this
year were fourth of that bic sum.
Ten years ago the fruit was a luxury.
Now everybody eats oranges, which
are almost as common as apples.
Three hundred and twenty-five sheep
were killed in one county in Tennessee
in one week by dogs, but the owners
had to make the best of it. The dogs
were there before the sheep came.
Recent sales of Jersey cattle show
that bottom prices have been reached
and the reaction from an uuheal thy
excitement is at its zero. 1t is "A time
for farmers and dairymen to pick up
stock.
The Nebraska State journal observes
that Ebay, when properly baled, is u
very nutritious and palatable food. -
That's good as far as il goes, but what
kind of mauger do YOU advise for a
man with a delicate appetteP
A Lewiston, Me-, farmer says he will
give s. cord for kiln-driea sawdust
to put on his lands. He uses dry saw
dust as a bedding for his cattle. 1t
absorbs moisture, is dry, warm and
comfortable, and it becomes valuable
fertilizer.
One heaping tea-spoonful Of pure
Paris-green To- a palful of water for
the potato-beetle, on one pound to one
barrel Of plaster if intimately mixed,
will kill as we'll as larger quantity of
the poison, which is liable to injure
the leaves more or less.
In England, Rye grass, rape and
btlitl AtA ~ lfhtAIt7 a. = bAttAE tpbiilAhs
Little is said about these plants here
IA good many wise men wonder why
not 1t should be remembered that
corn is a wonderful crop in this coun-
try; while in England it is merely a
plant to be experimental with.
If you would have fine melons, dig
wide holes; then mix liberal guam
uty of old farm manure with the soil
as it is returned. Compact the soil
and plant all the way from dozen to
70 seeds, if you have plenty, and thin
out TO two or three. Have the hills for
vatermelons 1OXl0 feet; muskmelons
exc.
An Austin inventor has devised a
steel corn husker which, drawn by a
team, picks mp and husks the corn at
the rate OF eight to twelve acres "a day,
according to the capacity OF the team.
The team and machine move astrlde
the row, one horse on either side. and
every ear of corn large ar small ia
picked up. Corn husking can now
done just as thrashing is, lasting bu.
few days.
Last wear we picked out six OF our
best hens and put them into small
pen with a good rooster. We set 81
eggs from this pen and 48 of them
halched. This year we have tried Sc
lecting eggs from several yards whore
several ROSTERS run with large tlucks
of hens. The result is very disap-
pointing, as large portion Of the
eggs prove infertile. Hereafter all our
eggs for setting will come from A
small pen of our best hens mated with
rooslen Of good form and breed. 49,
Rural NcU Yorker.
Sweet or ripened silage can only be
made from fully grown and mature
fodder, the grain of which has begun
to glaze. The juices of such fodder
are more than water, and these Juices
when the fodder is cut are so charged
with starch, etc, that they tend 10
preserve the fodder, and fermentation
can not 20 as far or attain SO high a
degree Of heat as when less mature
fodder. is sliced. The filing can be
more rapid with mature fodder aud as
good or better results secured.
In the common practice Of buying
cream by the gauge" it is supposed
that tho prnduct Of cream m butter ia