Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1884 — FARM NOTES. [ARTICLE]

FARM NOTES.

ftouß imz, whey, and buttermilk a?e excellent liquids for mixing with the soft food of poultry. A eiCK horse, that cannot 'be induced to lie down in any other way, will often take io a bed of clean, bright straw. Value of Apple Pomace.— As a fertilizer my experience is tftxat pomace is only about as valuable as peat muck, and net good for much until it has had the action of the frost and the atmosfhere to neutralize the acid : it.contains. find it a good absorbent ;to put into the hogpen or the barn cellar rafter the acid is ant, and it is useful to spread on low grass lands. My stock eat pomace and it does not hurt them. My experience is that pomace is better (than apples for producing milk.— lsmael Putnam, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. A writer in the New England Homestead, finding that the cut-worms destroyed his tobacco plants as fast as he set them, procured a basketful of chestnut leaves which were young and tender, and, .after steeping these, in water which contained one tablespoonfnl of Paris green to each gallon of water, he plaeed a leaf over the spot where the plants were to be set. The worms ate holes in the leaves and lay in clusters dead, or so stupid that they did no further harm to the plants, which were afterward set out and a fine crop was harvested. The New York Times says one of the most. serious obstacles to successful dairying is wet pastures.! Land that u saturated with water produces unwholesome herbage, the grass is rank and sour, and sometimes the herbage consists wholly of sedges and other coarse plants that iare not easily digestible. Such food cannot produce good milk, and the jmilk made from such food will not make good cheese or butter. But very often tfche coarse, rank food produces disease in .the cows. This is more especially the case with yearlings and young cattle whose digestive powers are not fully matured. Probably more than half oi all the weeds are fur at brought to our farms in the grass seed. Suppose we were given a bushel of clover or timothy w 1 containing only twenty grains of ripple or wild carrot or daisy; how much better to burn it than to sow and go over the fields time after time to pull out the weeds?, It would cost more than ten times Ice price of the seed to get the last ©t thes plants out. It is far better to refuse entirely those seeds “with only .i few weed seeds," and pay a round price for tin se entirely free from them: ■md then < n -seeding down land we should iow plenty of seed, so as to have the sun oo fully occupied with the desired crop.— New Y rk Tribune.