The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-06-21
RURAL TOPICS.
INFORMATION FOR THE HUSBAND.
MAN AND HOUSEWIFE,
Stock-Breeder, Poulterer, Nurscrymaa,
and Housekeeper.
THE FARM.
Hungarian Grass.

Farmer Messrs. Dewey Stewart, OF
Oswego, Mich, give the following in
relation to Hungarian grass;
We recommend sewing one bushel pei
acre between June 6 and 10; cut it as
soon as in the milk, sure. If your land
is of such character as to be dusty at
the time of cutting, rake by hand, as
the horse rake will take up too much
dust. Cure it thoroughly in the cock.
Be careful and do tits as it contains SO
much sap when it is cut that if not thor
oughly cured it will mold in stack OF
NOW.
We have raised and fed a great deal OF
Hungarian graas to horses, and if well
cured it makes the best hay known to
US. We found also that our stock would
always leave good timothy or clover to
eat this. If fed literally it is surpris
ing how it will fatten them. With a
good land and a favorable season you
should get two tons or more per acre.
We are inclined to the opinion that it
is the cheapest and best Lay farmer
can raise for all kinds of stock. OuI
experience with it has been on sandy,
gravel1y and loamy rich soils.
Frost kills 1t easily, and for this rea-
son We sowit right after June 9Th. as we
sometimes get little frost the first part
of June. Generally it is ready to cut in
sixty days after seeding,
Special Value of Clover
AS subsoiler, says A. B. Barrett in
the American Cuttirdtor, clover is al
most perfect. 1t keeps the subsoil
where it belongs, and the fertility
where it should be; works on all kinds
of soil, and is good for all kinds of
crops. 1t subsoils the field better than
any pillow, and gives hay enough to pay
for Iall labor. By opening up the sub
soil the clover plants give other crops a
better chance to range IN search of food
and water, a benefit that must be re-
cognized by all. 1t is the only crop
that leaves the soil richer after it has
been harvested, and it has taken farm
ers long time to appreciate the exact
extent to which this goes. Many still
believe in turning the green clover I'M
der as the only means of benefiting the
soil from the crop, but in doing this
they are still clinging to old forms. The
roots of the clover plants do the soil
more good than the green stalks, for
the latter when turned under will often
supply the soil with such an excessive
amount of plant food that succeeding
crops can not utilize it. A great deal
VI tHis plaHe loou Will be
washed away by the rain and drains, and
entirely lost. Such wasteful practices
should not be adopted on any soil
where good catch of clover can be OBJ
tanned. Exception may be made to
such poor soils where only very
scanty clover catch can be obtained.
Worn out soils suffering greatly from
lack of plant food can frequently ac-
comm odate all of the green clover that
is turned under without washing it.
Farm Notes.
YOUNG animals increase with less
food than aged stock.
PIGS raised in clover makes the
sweetest meat. They may be finished
off on corn.
A PLENTIFUL crop of sweet corn for
fodder will greatly increase the flow of
milk in August and September.
CALVES being fed sour milk should
not havei grass; hay is better as long as
they are fed on milk of any kind,
DANGEROUS bulls should be de
horned. And it would do well to take
the horns off those that are not danger
Gus, to be in fashion.
THE young farmer who possesses a
good capital of brains and industry will
succeed. even if he starts barehanded
and without dollar.
ACCORDING to Edward Atkinson the
annual production of eggs in this coun-
try equals in money value the country S
annual production of iron.
CREAMERY butter is usually better
than dairy butter, for the reason that it
is made with greater skill and care; but
there are diaries that fully equal cream
cries in the quality of the product.
EXPERIMENTS at the Illinois Station
show that lair dried corn contains about
IL per cent of water. Fully eighty
pounds in the ear, after husking, were
required to make lbushel of shelled
corn.
ALsIKE clover will stand wet and sue
coed better in moist ground than red
clover. Its blossoms are much es-
teemed by honey bees. But it has never
succeeded as we'll for general culture III
this country as other varieties.
TRAER Clipper: Here is an estimate
of what corn can be raised for per
bushel. 1t would be we'll for some
farmers to study we'll these figures, IS
there is a store of information in them.
The estimates are made by various
yields per acre. The estimate is as fol-
lows: Sixty bushels to the acre, Is
cents; fifty bushels to the acre, 10 cents;
forty bushels, IS cents; thirty five bush
els, % cents; thirty bushels, 80 cents.
IT is usually estimated that so per
cent; of the manurial elements in the
food consumed by cows Is voided in
their excrement. In DR.. Golfers expe-
rments, eighth report, New York J.,
fully 80 per cent. of all the fertilizing
constituents of the food consumed was
avoided, and, if properly preserved,
may be used to maintain the soils fer
tility He found that, at the usual
prices for commercial fertilizers, the
amount ofplant-food in the daily ex-
crement Giquid and solid of we'll fed
cows was worth over 10 cents, or over
$50 per year. The daily food of these
cows cost 1ii cents per head. Thus
nearly three fourths of the food was
got back in the manure.
The ORCHARD,