The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-09-14
RURAL TOPICS.
INFORMATION FOR THE HUSBAND
MAN AND HOUSEWIFE.
Some Practical Suggestions for the Farrner,
Stock Breeder, Poulterer, Nurserymas.,
and HOusekeeper.
THE FARM
Agricultural Notes.

1
A machine has been invented for
| COMPRISING bran into cakes for con-
venience of transportation and feeding.
| It's nutritious quality is not injured by
| the process, and in time bran cakes NAV
| become staple articles Of commerce.
In the Eastern States the question is
| being raised, Is corn a failure?" At
| the West the only source of anxiety is
what shall be done with the immense
surplus of corn.
My experience during several years, &"
| says Professor Stewart, has shown that
sweet corn in the roasting ear stage is
| the richest butter making green food
| that can be given to COWS; next comes
| peas and oats grown together and cut
when the pods are just beginning to
| form and the oats are in the earliest
| bloom; later, millet cut when the head
is just emerging from the sheath will
make the early fall green feeding.
| With all this fodder Of the richest kind
| available, shcIld be added some rich
grain food. Corn meal is the standard
for quality of butter, and. in small
quantity only on account of its richness
III nitrogen. Any COW that Will not paw
in the extra yield of butter for four
quarts of corn meal daily, given in two
meals should be discarded from the
herd. There are some cows, however,
which will probably repay the cost of
half this quantity of food, and are I'M
able to digest more than that, which
may be excepted from this general rule;
but every COW in the butter dairy should
yield ten pounds of butter week for
the first twelve weeks of her milking to
be considered a good COW"
Our exports of butter do not increase
N he - nf Ea
son that Americans are becoming pro-
digiOus butter consumers, and there is
a growing demand for the best quality
that can be made. The home merket is
the best in the world and it is continu-
ally becoming better.
Little Denmark annually exports TO-
5000 dozen eggs, mostly to England.
And America annually imports millions,
though there IS no country in the world
where eggs can be produced so cheaply.
Give the American hen a fair chance
and she will supply all our home needs
and produce a surplus.
Farm implements not properly housed
and cared Tor are vastly more damaged
by exposure than by use.
Professor Budd says: ITO grow big
currants and lots of them system
should be adopted of renewing the bear
old exhausted canes close to the ground
and traininga like number of new canes
that sprout up from the roots. thus
transferring the bearing fruit to young
and vigorous growth. Two or three
crops Of fruit are as many as the canes
should bear before renewed. Not more
than SIX canes should grow from the
same plant"
Ho0rds Ddrymnn says: 1--WE have
one set of agricultural journals that are
continually posing as the self-sacritic-
ing martyrs of the peeled, gOuged, and
left half-for- dead farmers. If car
toon was made to fit the thought they
parade each week, it would represent a
pair of jaws Just ready to close on and
crunch the poor, robbed and peeled
farmer, and themselves trying to pull
the poor people away ere the jaws shut
and crushed the farmers and farming
forever. We have a mild suspicion that
such journals are demagogic.
Throughout the great corn belt many
farmers of the more thrifty sort have
adopted the practice of cutting and
shocking a portion of their corn for the
sake of the fodder. When seasonably
cut it affords a large amount of nutrl-
tious fodder, worth very nearly as much
as clover or prairie hay. To supplement
any shortage of the haymow corn fodder
is very valuable.
Secretary Rusk, it IS said, is preparing
to write a book on diseases of horses
and cattle, and he promises that it Will
be practical rather than theoretical.
The Sussex, n. Y, Agricultural
Society offers premium of 500 for the
fastest walking farm team-single half
mile, to be driven to a common farm
wagon. The coming farm horse Will
have a get there" walking gait.
A we'll known sheep farmer says: Il
have seen field which has been used
as a pasture for colts and calves till
about one-third of it was covered with
golden-rod and blackberry vines,
changed to fine grassy sward in three
years by putting III few more sheep
than it would keep in good condition,
giving them extra food to make up the
deficiency"
Sheep Will thrive on plants that cattle
do not like and horses will not eat. 1t
pays to keep a flock OF sheep of the
breed best adapted to the land.