Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-04-03
wheat out of sight.

was done on one year old roots.
/ A healthy food for growing pigs may
! be made OF boiled potatoes, with corn
meal and bran added. in proportion of
| five pounds meal and ten pounds bran
| to bushel of potatoes. The latter
should be boiled to consistency Of this
/ paste.
The estimated cost of hauling 100
bushels of grain in wagon over ordin-
I airy country roads is 60 cents mile.
/ This fact illustrates the necessity and
money value of good roads. The diff
4 ference in cost of hauling is immensely
in favor Of the good road.
1t is not advisable to spread coarse
stable manure full Of bedding on
mowing-land in winter or any other
| time of year. Such manure as that is
suitable only for ploW-land. Top-dress-
| ing for meadows should always be in
fine. well-rotted condition, and be
| spread evenly-not left in heaps.
The Northwest says that any COM
muuity which raises good draft horses
will be found prosperous and progress
sive. When half dozen OF ten good
teams are put upon the market and
bring into the neighborhood from 49,,
600 TO s. 600, it helps erybody in it
and drives the wolf from many a door.
d. w Kurtz, in the Colorado Farm
er, computes that there is a loss of
100000, 900 per annum in the United
States caused by the horns of cattle,
in the death and damage of cattle,
/ horses, sheep, and swine, and the loss
of food it takes to feed the horned in
| excess of what ii takes to feed the
| hornless animals. Besides this, there
! , an average of 200 human beings per
annum killed directly by maddened
horned animals.
There is a possibility that careless
readers seeing so much in the papers
about abandoned farms Just now, will
think that some sudden depression or
disaster has oyertaken agriculture.
This is not so. The abandonment of these
farms has been going on, in some cases,
for half century. The general break
ing out of so much newspaper talk
does not imply that the causes are re-
cent. Agriculture of 1SS9-90 is not
necessarily under a cloud because of
farms that were abandoned anywhere
from ten to fifty years ago.-M b.
Farmer.
Professor Ladd, of the New York Ex-
pertinent Station SAYS: Zone half of
the money now expended for CONNER
cial fertilizers is wasted from a proper
lack of knowledge as to their use and
the needs of ones soil. With the tons
of nitrogen everywhere about us, con-
shutting four-hfths of all the air, it
seems there should be no need Of pur-
chasing this most expensive of all the
fertilizing constituents required in
plant growth aud l believe the time
will come when by a proper system of
crop rotation and cultivation we shall
be able to draw our needed nitrogen
from natures bountiful supply"
The low price of beef and dairy pro-
ducts is causing more attention to be
paid to sheep, which in consequence
are growing scarcer. There is another
reason in the great amount of labor
herd of cows make, whether their milk
be sold direct, or made into butter or
cheese. The old English rule was that
the keep of eight sheep equaled that Of
one COW. Sheep are. however, more
delicate feeders, and will not thrive on
coarse stalks as well as cows will.
They are also close feeders in summer,
and on old pastures live where a herd
of cows would starve. On the other
hand, sheep in winter will not eat the
butts OF cOrnstalks rs closely as will
cattle.-AmericaR CUitiUdt0r.
Professor Sanborn. at the New York
Farmers Institute, said: LESS than
a cent a ton a mile for freight, the
Suez Canal. the revolution of steam
ship transportation. and the penetra-
ton of the iron horse and of farm
tools into all quarters of the world
have made the earth competitors in
one market. 1t is not now the East
against the West, but Americans against
the against cheap labor, newer
fields, and a lower order of living. Our
brainy farmers will hold their own
order OF living and free homes against
the world, but ouIy by greater appli-
cation of their own intelligence, of
capital and labor, in higher order of
farmiug-in extensive farming each
acre being handled on the intensive
plan"
A practical dairyman writing to the
n. \. Times says a mistake is often
made in the use of hot water in clean
ING dairy utensils. Hot water makes
milk curd insoluble aud hard and
tough, so hat when utensils are scald-
ed before they are thoroughly cleaned
from the remains Of sour milk. the
curd is solidilied in the pores of the
wood and becomes a permanent agent
OF mischief. ANY alkaii dissolves curd
of milk; and after first well rising the
utensils, and especially the churn. with
cold water, ISOLATION of common soda
or SaIeratuS Carbonate Of pota~h) may
be very u,efuiIy employed to complete
the removal of all traces of the sour
milk. Then another riusiug with cold
water and followed bv scaldiur with
boiling water9uda finishing dashing of
cold water. always pure viii complete
the work
History Will have 10 Get ID pretty
carly in the morning and hustle unrfi
away into the MIGHT to i .Ii,I.a,. All, .s