Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1886 — Page 8

FARM NOTES.

It is not he that sows but he that manures that gets the big crop. Illinois fanners are taking the lead in improving their lands by tile drainage. Memorial-trees planted on birthdays grow into living and lasting monuments. If the farm is small plow deep and manure strong. If the farm is also poor manure more. The floor of the hen-house should h$ dry if colds and cramps in the poultry are to be avoided. A correspondent of the Breeders' Gazette thinks it unwise to feed ensilage to breeding cattle. Meat smoked with corn cobs will have a better flavor than any other burning substance will give it Are we lawyer-ridden? Every village swarms with them, and they make a living by “hook or crook,” says Home and Farm. The Grange is represented generally by men in middle and advanced life. Why should it not be as good a place for young men ? Many injurious insects arid their eggs will be destroyed by raking up all the dead leaves and weeds in the orchard and burning them. If you happen to have wood ashes the kitchen garden is a good place to apply it as a top-dressing. If leached for making soft-soap it is still valuable. Water house plants only when they require it This may be from two to three times a week, depending on how fast the soil dries out in the pots. An attorney, formulating a set of rules for renting land, wisely adds, as seventh and last: Above all, be easeful in selecting your tenant There is more in the man than there is in the bond. A farmer of North Belgrade, Me., says three bushels of plaster on grass land are as good as six. He would apply it just after the ground becomes bare in the spring and just before a rain if possible. To supply any lack of vegetable matter in the soil there is no readier or cheaper means than the plowing under of some green crop. Manuring with rye is an excellent way to ameliorate and enrich a garden. Professor Caldwell says that succulent food increases the flow of milk, but does not necessarily increase the proportion of water in H. The flow is greatest in June, yet $e milk is no poorer than at other tim*. Carlyle has said: “Ovg grand business is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.” This truth is eloquent in agriculture. The man who sees clearly what to do and does it is prosperous. Assist yourself in spring work by bringing up all odds and ends, square at once, see that all tools and implements are in order, and especially that the plows are sharp and well scoured. Then, when plowing time eomes, go to work with vim.

It you want to get the good-will of * your hens, says the Prairie Farmer, feed them dry, hot corn at night. Heat the corn in an iron pan or kettle in the oven, and stir occasionally. No matter if it gets a little charred. It won’t do any harm to give warm water, either. If a plow or other steel implement lias become very rusty, make a mixture of half a pint of oil of vitriol poured slowly into a quart of water, and applv to the rusted metal. Wash off with vi ator, and scour in the usual manner. It is better, however, not to let any implement get rusty. Every bed of asparagus should be manured in the fall or sometime during the winter. The more thoroughly this manure is mixed with the surface soil the better. Mineral manures are best applied in spring after growth begins and after the heavy rains which might wash them away have ceased. Speaking of ensilage, Professor Arnold explained that succulent food in winter is a means of saving animal force, which must otherwise go to properly prepared food for digestion. Mr. Hiram Smith, the great dairyman of Wisconsin, gives emphatic testimony to the great value of clover ensilage- for winter milk. An agricultural exchange says there is a strong conviction among intelligent and experienced breeders that "hog cholera” is clearly traceable to prolonged and excessive feeding of corn. In that section of this country where hogs are fed most upon this fat-pro-ducing food, there the disease is more prevalent. The hay crop of 1885 in the United States amounted to 38,000,000 tons. The largest crop ever grown in this country was that of 1888, which amounted to 46,864,000 tons. The total value of the crop of 1885 was $361,000,000. The exports covered 11,142 tons, valued at $204,705. The cost of transportation, commission, and insurance for the exported product was $lO per ton. In the separation of wheat plants any number may be secured up to several hundred from a single grain if, after the plantß are set out and multiplied, they be again divided. In such an experiment a single grain of wheat onoe produced over 80,000 heads, which contained 170,000 grains, making sixty* seven pounds of wheat Large fields cannot be treited in such manner, but it demonstrates what can be done with cultivation. ▲ correspondent of the Norik Britiok jiariouUttrioi, writing from a 4Mdet where calves are generally reared by hand, eaye: *1 rear #nnoally about twenty-fire calves on fire cows; I have been giving half milk, along with iactina and bruised mk*. H'ki* stummi

oouea ana prepared m tne usual way before mixing.” Farms are schools, the best of all in which to learn much that concerns farming. They are the only schools worth naming, so far as acquiring practical knowledge in farming is concerned. Teaching by object lessons is effective. The things we see, the things we do, are better remembered and better understood than the things we hear or read about. Learn the practice of farming on a good farm. Mr. Edward M. Teal], in the Breeders' Gazette, upon feeding ensilage to cattle, says: “When fed to bulls it makes them sluggish and indifferent, and in the majority of cases of service the bull fails to get the cow in calf. When fed to cows long in calf, say one to two months before Calvin?. I tie calves have the worst kind of scorn .--, and in a large majority of cases the calf dies.” Mr. J. J. H. Gregory makes the statement that the corn plant has the power of getting its nitrogen from the air. We have, therefore, but to supply potash and phosphate to the soil. For three years the experiment has been tried upon the poor-soil plots of the Rural Grounds. No matter how large the quantity of potash and phosphoric acid used, we can not get a good crop without nitrogen.— liural New Yorker. Many farmers fear, says J. W. Pierce, that if manure is left spread on the surface for any length of time it will waste by evaporation, but I anysatisfied by a careful study of the scientific aspect of the case, as well as by my own observation, that there is no appreciable loss in this way by the exposure of unfermented manure, and that the only possible loss of any amount is by washing off from very hilly land, when the ground is frozen, and that this loss is seldom great. Speaking of preparations for killing lice on cattle, Professor A. J. Cook thinks a decoction of tobacco, upon the whole, gives the best satisfaction. This is easily made by turning hot water on any kind of tobacoo. The cheap stems answer as well as any other kind. Were it not for the eggs one application of this would always suffice. He has often found it unnecessary to use it more than once. The work of washing An animal is quickly and easily performed.

THE HENS FOR FARMERS.

H a farmer keeps hens chiefly for the purpose of supplying his own table with meat and eggs, he will do well to raise birds that belong to one of the large breeds. The choioe will lie between the Brahmas, the Cochins and the Plymouth Rocks. There are no objections against any of these breeds. The light Brahmas have been most favorably known for over thirty years, and for general merit they are not surpassed by any of the newer breeds. The light Brahma fowl meets every requirement of the farmer. It is a very handsome bird, and is an ornament to the premises. It is a contented, home-loving bird, not inclined to wander about and get into mischief. It is a large bird, and furnishes a tine roast. If its flesh is not quite as tender or delicious as that of some of the French fowls, it is at least very good. A Brahma fowl is easily dressed, and when plucked presents a fine appearance. The eggs of the Brahma are large and well formed. Though they bring no more in the market than small eggs, they are of much greater value, as their size and weight indicate, Brahma hens of suitable ago, if they have warm quarters, will lay during the entire winter. They are patient sitters and good mothers. They are not as greatly addicted to scratching and making havoc In the gardens as fowls belonging to the smaller and more active breeds. Being heavy, they never attempt to make long flights. They can, if it is desired, be kept in an ordinary farmyard without making any additions to the fence. They do not suffer when kept in partial oonfinenent. They will thrive, gain in weight, and produce eggs when kept in a yard or building, provided they are supplied with suitable food, water, and materials for forming the shells of eggs. If Brahma fowls are not the favorites of breeders, the cause may be found in the circumstance that they are no longer novelties. Breeders, like nurserymen, prefer to raise and sell new things. They can obtain higher prices for them, as they are desired by amateurs, while they have little competition. Light Brahma fowls are now well distributed throughout the country. Birds of pure strains or their eggs can be obtained at comparatively low in-ices. It is to the advantage of farmers who have nothing but mongrels on their places to obtain a supply of them. Many farmers think that tney cannot afford to keep animals of pure blood. They acknowledge their superior value, but they have not the money to purchase them. Very few farmers are so short of means that they can not raise money to pay for a sitting of eggs. It takes several years to raise a flock of improved sheep or a herd of pedigree cattle. But a nock of fowls of pure blood can be secured in one year at the expense of a few dollars, 'fhese fowls will be conducive to pleasure as well as profit It will cost no more to keep them than an equal number of common fowls, whose flesh and eggs are greatly inferior. The farmer in any town who makes the first start in keeping superior fowls can generally make money in selling birds or their eggs to the neighbors. If one farmer makes a new departure in keeping fowls his neighbors generally follow his example, ana in most cases they will purchase ’-breeding stock from him. Eggs of light Brahma hen* obtained very early hi fits mssSS will pshaw tokens that will lay eggs during the next winter. Few fanners who hare kept superior fowls a tew years are dissatisfied with th<- result or are willing afterward to <iw Mmiwnp barn-yard chickens.—

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