Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-05-03

At Columbia especially the bluegrass
pastures have been greatly improved
by feeding cottonseed meal to the
steers pastured there. Under scien-
tific methods it is probable that we
can produce beef as cheaply on high
priced land as on lowpriced land.
NOTES.
Celery blight is always much worse
in hot, rainy weather, and is also pro-
NOTED by heavy dews. The only
treatment worth while appears to be
thoroughly to spray the young celery
plants during muggy or rainy weather
with a bordeaux mixture of the
strength Of four pounds each copper
sulphate and lime to so gallons of
water. 1t usually affects the largest
plants, killing the outside leaves, but
as cool weather comes on most celery
plants are able to outgrow it, and a
good crop is often had, even when the
disease has been very severe. Keep
your celery well hoed, says the Rural
New Yorker, and cultivated all the
time, and il troubled too much cut off
and burn the whole affected foliage.
Any means of protecting celery from
dew or rain during warm weather
would have a tendency to diminish the
plant.
In many parts of Europe and here in
America quite an industry in smoked
goose hams has been worked up, says
the National Provisioner. Goose hams
are luxury, and they are not dear.
considering the holiday price of prime
geese. The goose ham is worth about
80 cents apiece, and each ham weighs
about twelve ounces. 1t makes the
smoked ham come to about 40 cents
pound. These tiny hams are cut
and trimmed SO as to look much like
Westphalia ham, and are thoroughly
cured, so that they can be kept any
where and for long time. They are
lean and can be sliced. The Wand
has delightful taste and the flesh is
not hard. There are hundreds OF
thousands of smoked goose hams sold
in this country annually, largely to the
Hebrew trade.
Fish is very acceptable food to the
hens, and those living along the sea-
coast should take advantage of it's
plentifulness. The dry ground fish
may also be used. and even the sailed
article is excellent, provided it is well
soaked so as to remove all of the salt.
Ground fish is very cheap, and is fed
in connection with ground meat, or
mixed with ground grain and made in
to a dough. 1t serves as change.
and although some maintain that nsh
imparts a fishy flavor to eggs and to
the flesh, it is doubtful il it is sufici-
ent to be recognized by any but an sx-
pert.
There is no need of digging dah!la
roots until the tops are injured by the
frost. Then cut the tops near to the
ground and dig on dry day, storing
the roots upside down in boxes in a
dry, cool place, so that they will cure
WELL They may be kept over winter
in any cellar free from frost where
potatoes can be safely carried over
bulbs upside down is so that the sap
cannot gather in the hollow stems
and cause rot of the crowns.
An ounce of green bone should be
given at night to eacn fowl in connec
ton with the other food In the sum-
mer the bone alone should be given, as
| the hens can secure enough other
mood on the range. In the winter
| give a grain meal in the morning.
nothing at noon, and bone and grain a.
night. OF course variety should be
food before fowls. Make them scratch
! for all they set. Give them a little
feed in preference to grain. Never keep
! less at meal rather than too much.
When it comes to intensive culture
of the soil the Japanese seem to take
the lead. According to experts who
have investigated agricultural condi-
lions in Japan there is nothing in the
of agriculture that ever approached
/ the scientific skill of the Japanese
husbandry II all the 14.995.000 till
able acres OF Japan were merged ineo
one field a man in an automobile
travelling at the rate of 90 miles an
hour, could circle arabic Japan in IL
hours,
A warm nest in winter and a COO
nest in summer should be the rule Il
adopt. II was once supposed thst
hens preferred a damp location ii
summer. which led many to believe
that eggs required sprinkling If they
/ would hatch we'll, but it is now know
that hens select damp places simpl;
because they are cool. but in the col,
season the hens prefer a warm, snus
: nest, and II it is dry, so much the bet