Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1883 — Agricultural Notes. [ARTICLE]

Agricultural Notes.

A good vegetable garden pays. Get good seed and plenty of it. See well to the ewes and lambs. Don’t use poor tools or bad seed. Exercise mind as well as muscle. Feed and water stock regularly. Care well for all young animals. Are your buildings well painted? . Never breed from senile animals. Grow more small fruits this year. Put your fences and gates in order. Make home attractions “stickup.” Allow no brute to train your brutes. Girls, how about the flower garden? Make tramps work or leave the farm. Plant both fruit and ornamental trees. Give agents and peddlers a wide berth. Bepair and paint tools, etc., rainy days. Industry and econo my produce wealth. Salt and ashes forrnja good dressing for the quince tree. The younger the pigs the oftemer they should be fed. * We have no perfect cattle food. Good hay comes nearest to it. In all cases a cow should be milked regularly and stripped clean. The hay crop of 1882 is estimated at th* value of $372,000,000. The timbered land of Arizonia embrace an area of 5,760,000 acres. It is said that sheep in orchards will annihilate the codling moth. Good com stalks, well cured, are abou equal to hay for cows. There are 3,400,000 acres of United States land for sale in Mississippi. Philip Bitz is fencing in a 7,000 acre wheat farm near Bitzville, W. T. Coal ashes sifted on currant bushes, it is said, will destroy the currant worm. Flowers and ornamental shrubs and trees and beauty and value to the homestead.

Governor Glick, of Kanasas, is President of a cattle company, the capital of which is $1,000,000. Stock cattle are very scarce in Arizonia, and, prices very high, cows without calves ranging as high as $26 Wyoming has a territorial, veterinarian and model law for the prevention and suppression of contagious diseases. The greatest winner on the running turf in this country was Hindoo, and his net earnings amounted to less than SBO.000. They have regular county stock sales in Madison county, Ohio, which have been kept up monthly for over seven years. A man in Georgia yiade s9,ooolast year from 100 acres of watermelons. This year 7,000 acres, in seven counties, will be planted. Parties from the Wisconsin pineries says that the woods are now in better condition for work * than at any former time this year. The Prince of Wales has at Bandring - ham, 105 Shorthorn cows and 29 Shorthorn bulls, which are kept in two distinct herds. It is a mistake to suppose sheep can go a great while without water. They drink little at a time, it is true, but on that account they require water often.