Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1883 — Farm Notes. [ARTICLE]

Farm Notes.

There are 160 square rods in an are, and there are 301 square yards in one rod. This gives 4,840 square yards in one acre; 5 yards wide by 96 Byards long is one acre; 10 yards wide by 242 yards long is one acre; 20 yards wid j by 121 yards long is one acre 80 yards wide by 60|£ yards long is one acre; 80 yards wide by 80%yards long is one acre. Adam Neff, sr., of, Fremont, 0., has the prize poker sans contradiction. It is a white Chester improved sow, qpd has a power of reproduction of her kind that is somewhat startling. The first litter embraced twelve pigs, all of which were raised; the second little numbers thirteen, and nine attained porcine majority; and now this indomitable animal has a litter of seventeen, with a prospect of raising all. Brushing and carding stimulate the vital action of the animal, and therefore bring an increased flow of milk. If the brushing is done daily, only a little time is required to keep the animal clean.' An old broom is often the only implement needed, if abundant litter is used. Give the cattle, horses, and other farm animals a good supply of bedding, and use the brush as necessary to keep them neat and clean. Professor L .B. Arnold says ths points in favor of dairying are: First a dairy farm cost 10 percent less to operate than graingrowing or mixed agriculture; second, the annual returns average a little more than ther branches; third prices areneareuniorm and more reliable, fourth, dairying ex hausts the soil less; fifth it is more secure againest changes in the season, since the dairyman does not suffer so much from wet and frost and varying season, and he can, if prudent, provide against drought Chicago Herald. We do not say this hastily,but with the conviction derived by feeding late-cut timothy and bright oat straw. With four feed-racks in your yard —two kept filled with timothy, one with prairie hav and one with bright oat straw the latter was consumed firsthand the other neglected until the last vestige of the oat straw had disappered. It was the instinctive act of the urchin repeated. He took his cake, pudding and pie first, and reluctantly finished off his dinner on the drier and less palatable bread and butter. Our late-out hay was merely a “fill-up,” to give their digestive apparatus the necessary distention so needful tq ruminants, and thatjis about all late-cut hay - is good for, anyway. H. M. English, of Marietta, Pa., has found the following remedies useful in destroying or repelling some of the insects which infect fruit The peach grub is excluded from the trees by spreading on the bark near the roots a mixture of fresh cow manure mixed with lime. Bark lice on raspberry canes are effectually destroyed by a wash of lime and sulphur, applied early in spring. Borers in apple trees are to be followed with wire, and they are excluded with a heavy coating of lime wash. Peach grubs, after they obtain possession, are taken out by following theminthe;r burrows with a pointed knife. Curoulos are destroyed by jarring, but most persons neglect it,or do not per. form it thoroughly, The practice of hanging corncobs saturated with gas-tar, in the trees has proved a failure.