Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-04-05

| county to obtain larger quantity or
! land. There are cases in which this Is
wise ambition, but such instances
are not nearly as common as is the
wish to obtain larger farms. Under
the present conditions of agriculture
our famers, as a rule, already have
more land than they can cultivate to
the best advantage.
| AS things are now, and as they are
| likely to be for a long time to come,
the profits Of farming are to be in
creased by securing larger crops per
acre rather than by tilling a larger
number Of acres. Most Of the farm
ers who wish that they had more land
now own considerable areas which
have not yet been brought nearly up
to their limit Of profitable production.
In these cases the owners will find 1t
much more profitable to manure their
present fields more literally and cult
vate them more thoroughly than it will
be to spread their work over large
number of acres.-Farm News.
A Woman and Her Poultry.-Last
fall l began my poultry experience
with eleven barred Plymouth Rock
hens and thirteen pullets, reports Mrs
G. l.. Hale In Farm and Home. They
began laying in December. From jan
uary LIST to May list they laid 1924
eggs. 1 sold lightweight dozen for
sol. 10. I fed small potatoes, turnips,
beets, and pumpkins, boiled with cab
bage, in the morning, and twice a
week at night chopped apple and cab
bage, with pepper or ginger mixed
with beef scraps or tallow, mixed with
hot water or milk | gave them two
quarts Of corn, thrown into leaves
and chaff from the barn floor, gave
water twice Il day. and pounded all
the bone and earthenware / could
find. At last they began to pick the
feathers out. hung piece of salt
pork in the house that stopped the
trouble. This is one woman's expert
ence. took all the care of them
myself, and feel well paid, as my hens
are tame, and / can pick them up any
time.
Perennial Plants.--It has recently
been shown in scientific paper that
the reason why some plants appear
as ANNALS and others as perennials,
Is simply because of the strain on nu-
triton, which annual plants make. In
perennial plants there Is not the same
draft, and a little nutrition is left to
Ia hnn in ~
way continues the same individual
plant from year to year. If the ami
mails are prevented from Maturing
seeds by having the flowers cut off
early, they become perennials, and
make buds at the base just as those
recognized as perennials do. Peren-
malls indeed are scarcely such any
more than those recognized as ANIMALS.
The potato, for instance, makes new
tuber, but all the rest Of the plant
dies: and this is said to be true, in the
main, of all plants-even the straw
berry, as there Is nothing about the
plant, more than one year, that Is
truly living.-Meehan's Monthly.
Homemade Measures.-It takes but a
little time to nail together several
bushel or half-bushel measures. The
former are the more convenient. A
standard bushel contains 2,150 20
cubic inches, hence box eleven and
one fifth inches wide, eight inches
high, and twenty-four inches long,
inside measurement, contains one
bushcl The bottom should be on the
inside and firmly nailed in place, as
shown in the engraving. Cheats, one
inch square, should be nailed across
each end two inches from the top.
The sides should be of half inch clear
stuff, the bottom of the same, and the
ends of inch stuff. All the boards
should be planned upon both sides. The
box will cost about Is cents when
materials for several are obtained at
ono time They will be found almost
as convenient to handle rs basket,
and IL there are several they will prove
convenient to hold apples or other
fruit or vegetables, and to set away
full In the cellar until the contents
are needed A half-bushel measure
should of course be one half the
length Smaller measures are as readi
ly made, but would not need the
end cleats.
Eighteen Tons of Potatoes Per Acre
1t is reported from France that Nj
Egasse Of Archeyilliers, in the de.
partmcnt of Eure ct Loire, produced
IN average crop of eighteen tons OF
potatoes per acre, on forty acres. The
tons were what Americans call long
tons" of 2.2i0 pounds. This result
was attained by heavy manuring. the
: land having received, in addition &c
f0rmyard manure, Il dressing of PSI
pounds of SupcrphoSphate, 224 pounds
each OF Sulphatc of potash and nitrate
of soda per acre.
ontario carried off the honorS fol
/, honey at the worlds fair. Her ex
hihts have taken twenty awards, as
against twenty eight for all the Unitet