Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-04-28

larger proportion or the fruit being of
superior quality and of higher market
value. r. Prairie Farmer.
Farm House Dangers.
Clean out the deadly privy vault
AVID FIJI il up and get galvanized pals
TO use instead says a writer in the
Michigan Farmer. Who knows but q
streak of sand or some stratum of
loose soil runs direct from your privy
vault TO your Well? There may not
be one in thousand. but yours may
be that one. Did you ever think OF
this? Yes, thought of this, and we
got the pals, and dug new well
and bricked il up with brick impervi.
Gus to water, all laid in cement from
top to bottom. A hole is bored In
the bottom of this well about ten
feet deep, and a galvanized iron pipe
extending down deep in this hole. and
this is where we get our water. No
surface water can get in unless there
is stratum leading from n distance
down deep into it, This we can't
help, but we can guard against inn
ih'bidtt SuIlbuHulhBS.
Mangel- Wurzels.
For the first time in my life am
feeding to my pigs and calves few
mangel-wur2els, l wish | had planted
four times as many. | planted twelve
rows, ten rods long, which was quick
ly done with my corn planter. The
ground not being naturally weedy 1t
was but little more work to care for
them than to care for so many pota-
toes. An unfavorable season gave me
only sixtytve bushels, but with no
apples or potatoes to feed it is pleas
ing to have little something to feed
that does not call for cash | know
of nothing else that | could have
planted on the same ground, that,
together with a little milk, would
make so many square meals. -
W. w. Andrews, Otistield. Me.
To Cure Hams.
The Hon. j. L. lrby, well known
and very enterprising farmer of Lau-
rens county, who enjoys the dis
tinction OF having raised more cane"
on less ground than any man in the
state, and who has also achieved soma
success in raising dark horses for
racing purposes, has kindly furnished
the News and Courier, for the bene-
fit of his fellow farmers who are in
terested in the matter of curing hams,
a plan OF his own devising for that
purpose, which has the merit Of be-
ing very simple and inexpensive, and,
and cannot fail.
1t is as follows: When the hog Is
Killed the hams are literally buried In
salt, After lying in salt for Ave
weeks they are taken out, sponged
of with boiling water and placed In
a cage, the bottom and top of which
are made of tongued and grooved
flooring, while the four sides consist
of closely woven wire netting. The
hams are cured by the smoke passing
the netting, which excludes the ty,
which is the greatest enemy to hams,
and protects them from rats aod
mice as we'll "The best way to make
smoke" Mr., Irby says, Is to build u
fire on the ground with hickory WOOD.
1t viii fill the smoke house wit
smoke, and this will soon permeate
the cage. The hams are left In the
cage until they are wanted for use.
| originated this plan. and was gem
erous enough not to patent It. 1t has
been tried by me, and is complete
success" :
That is commentator enough, sure
ly, and as the arrangement Is simple
and cheap. any farmer can try II for
himself The distinctive feature OF
the plan OF course. is the wire netting
To shut out the fly that deposits It's
eggs on the meat and SO spells 1t
eventually. We should think that the
cage" would be improved by making
Its bottom large enough to admit of
hanging the hams in it free OF each
other. AS Mr.. irby's arrangement is
complete success" for its purpose,
however. 1t scarcely needs or admits
OF improvement. The main object OF
all the molasses and pepper and borax
washes used and recommended by
other experts heretofore has been to
drive away flies and insects. II is
enough II they can be kept away by
mechanical means. The smoke will
do the rest. Charleston News
Courier.