Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1880 — Farm Notes. [ARTICLE]

Farm Notes.

Cows have a great liking for celery, and in Austria the leaves are fed to them, cut and mixed with bran-mash, and are said to produce a better quality of milk than any other feed. * Twenty-four whole potatoes planted in as many hills, with a handful of bran in each, will give a yield of three pecks, and the same number right alongside of them, but without the bran, wul yield only half a bushel. Many a fine horse is ruined by driving him too fast immediately after a hearty meat If the journey must be resumed without delay, the horse should be driven very slowly for a half hour or more, when the jspeed may be safely increased. In small gardens tomatoes should not be allowed to lie on the ground. Put down small upright posts and draw wire horizontally through holes in the posts, or nail on strips of wood instead of wires. The fruit will be earlier, and Jhere will be more of it. The New York Timet says, during the last ten years the “large farmers” of the West have failed for $100,000,000, and have now learned the lesson that France long ago learned, that small farms well tilled are by far the uoert profitable. Thb forms of France yield, on an average, per acre, three or four times what our rich lands at the West do, and all because they are properly tilled. Here is hope for our poorer men; homes not having thousands of acres surrounding them, but such an amount as can be properly cultivated, made homelike, and paid for.