Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-06-12

legs and is worth two Cochins on the
table. but the Cochin is a bird that
lives where the Dorllng viii not thrive
50 It seems the customers must be
educated. Give them quality and
teach them that the color OF the legs
and skin have nothing whatever to do
with the excellence of the fowl for
eating-Mirror and Farmer.
Give horses bucket Of water too
with their feed. as men do when they
eat. Why not? A horsemsn saws Of
this plan in Norway when feeding
horses. that in that country you never
see broken winded horse. and II Is
because horses are allowed to drink
while eating, the same as men do
He adds: Our horses. let them be as
thirsty as get out must still eat their
dry fodder. their dry hay and oats and
corn, with nothing to wash them
down. But in Norway every horse
has a bucket of water beside his man
ger. and, as ne eats. he drinks also
1T is interesting to see how the Nor
wegian horses relish their water with
their meals. Now they sip a little
from the bucket, now they eat a
mouthful. then another sip. then an
other mouthful, just like rational, hui
man beings. You never see a broken
winded horse in Norway, and the ma
tives say it is because they serve
water to the animals with their feed"
New Hampshire Farmer.
Wheat and hogs, hitherto regarded
by the farmer OF the Mississippi valley
simply as food products, have as
sumed a new commercial importance.
In brief. wheat and hogs spittle will
produce rubber In an article entitled
Rubber made from wheat" William
IN. Walsh, writing in reference TO this
matter in the Technical World maya
zine for January, says; The import
ance of the discovery can hardly
be overestimated, coming as it does
at a time when the world is anxiously
asking from where its future supplies
of rubber are to come. In half a
decade, it is said, the annual consump-
ton of the elastic material will be a
least 10000 tons Even 100000 tons
is regarded by many as conservative
estimate. But, continues the writer
in the face of the fact that SO many
men have failed in their attempts to
produce similar proGact how can
we at all certain that the new prod
uct will realize our expectations?
There is usually a specific test for the
genuine as against the spurious In
the case of cereal rubber, the test is
INFLAMMATION. This is a process of
hardening, through the Introduction of
sulphur, to enable rubber to resist the
acton of heat and solvent chemicals.
But three substances, so far as is
known. can stand this process-they
are natural rubber, gutta percha and
the new product known as cereal
rubber.
Prof. S. A. Forbes favors the de-
struction only of the English spar
row which he brands as the outlaw
bird He believes that the only eff
ficacious method of destruction is to
destroy the eggs as rapidly as they
are laid Winter birds were found
to be more largely useful than the
summer birds, as they destroyed
noxious weeds, while the summer
birds live more largely on insects.
he meadow lark was found to be the
most useful of all birds on the farm!
Of the 238 specimens killed in various
portions of the United States it de
veloped that 73 per cent of their food
was insects and the remainder grub
worms and caterpillars. The meadow
larks upon a square mile are worth
$500 to the farmer. The robins were
found to have eaten II quarts of
caterpillars to each "a quarts of
fruit.
Oats are not used as extensively
as wheat for poultry, yet no grain Is
superior. There are undesirable por-
tons of oats, such as chaff, hence UNI
less they are fed more plentifully at
each meal than wheat they will not
prove satisfactory. Oats should be
fed three times week by way of
variety, allowing a pound to 10 hens,
and the hens should have a plentiful
supply of grit when oats are fed. as
many objections to the use of oats
may be traced to the lack of grit
When using ground grain, oats should
always be added as they render the
mess more valuable and palatable.-
Mirror and Farmer
German papers publish a method of
preventing potatoes in cellars from
rotting on which Consul-General
Guenther of Frankfort reports: 1T is
claimed that the potato fungus causes
rotting This fungus, if present on
some potatoes in the cellar, spreads
to other potatoes and causes rot. A
solution of one pound of chloride of
lime dissolved in IS gallons of water
is used for washing the potatoes by
means of a broom. They are then
spread out to dry. Through this pro-
cedure the spores of the fungus are
killed.
The flling of an ice-house even the
small one on the farm, requires a
great amount of heavy lifting when
done by hand. A simple and efficient
horse elevator is described by a
writer In the Rural New Yorker. Two