Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1878 — FARM NOTES. [ARTICLE]

FARM NOTES.

Plant all hardy fruits. Be gentle and kind unto your colts. Clear up stones, stumps and rubbish. Harvest the sugar beets and mangels -leave the parsnips and salsify. Many farmers will buy seeds because they are cheap, and run the risk of half of them being worthless. In many cases they should know that pure live seeds cannot be raised, gathered and sold for such prices. Thus a bid is offered for dishonest practices, and the buyer is as culpable, as the seller. Fultz wheat is pronounced by the American Miller the “best in the market.” Among its merits are: Stiff straw; does not lose any grain in handling; lies so compact that it takes less room in moAv or stack than any other; Weighs when clean sixty-four pounds per bushel, and makes flour ex.celled by none. Mr. Geo. T. Powell, Ghent, N. Y., agricultural editor of the Chatham Courier, dries ten bushels of apples daily in a small building with racks, and heated by a cylinder stove placed horizontally, and the finished fruit looks Avliite and clean enough to eat—which is more than can be said of that dried by sun and dust-bearing wind, and visited by egg-laying insects innumerable. A correspondent of the Practical Farmer says that in the spring of 1877 he planted thirty-five forest trees in his door-yard; nineteen of them standing in ground cultivated for flowers have groAvn, up to this time, from three to six feet; the remainder, in grass, have scarcely started at all, and “it looks as though it would take them ten years to make as much growth as the others have in lavo.” He Avas an old man, and when he came in Avitli a twenty-four-foot bamboo fish-pole and carelessly remarked that that Avas the kind of cornstalks his garden produced in a good season, we never said a word, but walked into the other room and registered a solemn voav never, never to print any more agricultural items if it led men into such mountainous exaggerations as this.— Exchange.

There is no particular reason why a coav that keeps easy is worth any more for that quality. The coav that eats the most, and, as a result, gives the most milk, is the paying animal. It pays to feed all that animals Avill eat and assimilate. This is the season when bran and meal are given to supplement the shortened pasture. It is Avell to remember that meal is fattening, while bran is milk-producing. A mixture of the two is excellent for coavs that are fattening, while at the same time the owner desires to get a good lot of milk. In answer to a correspondent Avho writes that his 3-year-old colt has some Avind-galls or wind-puffs on the hind legs, a little beloAV or in front of the hocks, the National Live-Stock Journal says: “ Wind-galls depend on the accumulation of synovia in the tendinous sheaths. By Avet, tight linen bandaging, and a feAv days’ rest, they may be reduced in young animals, or-when not of long standing. In middle-aged animals, and when they are the result of hard Avork, they cannot he reduced permanently. Blisters may be required for their removal; but after any mode of treatment they Avill return whenever the animal goes to severe or fast Avork.” It may be useless to mention the matter to the person Avho has left things “ lying around handy ” until this time of the year. But avo must say again: Pick up a little, and make- your farm and surroundings attractive, just once, at any rate, and see how it seems. Keep things in place; sleek up; clean, brush out the fence corners; place the tools under the shed instead of lea\ r ing them sown broadcast along the road in front ofc tho barn, or in the fields. If an implement is used up, burn the Avood Avork and sell the old iron before Avintering it several years to alloAV it to decay and fall to pieces before your eyes. A little time siient in keeping things tidy produces a good effect on the children, on visitors, on strangers Avho pass by, and, above all, on the man Avho sees to the Avork.— Rural New- Yorker. Taking into consideration all the necessary comforts to the horse, no better stable floor can be constructed than pine plank, having a fall of two inches in the whole length. There should be a slight inclination toward the middle, and on no account should there be a trough or channel behind, to be a source of spavins, crooked joints, thrush, etc. A slight holloAv may be made, Avell perforated and kept open, with advantage. At the head, place a rack (no crib on any account), have a portable feed box, and board the rack to within one foot or fourteen inches of the bottom with matched boards, planed. Let the front of the rack be about eight or ten inches wide at the bottom, aad twenty inches or lavo feet at the top. This is my form of a rack noAV in use, after trying eA r ery other kind, and is by far the best, as is the floor above recommended.— Veterinary Surgeon.