Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1892 — Farm Notes. [ARTICLE]

Farm Notes.

The.px-eyed daisy will overrun the clover field unless extirpated, and it may be necessary to go over the field •and pull them out by hand. The fodder from the early sweet corn is one of the best foods that can be used for milch cows. The fodder is improved if cut and stored in the barn, so as to be kept clean and bright. If cut up with a cutter cattle will eat every ■portion of the stalk. Mowing keeps down the weeds and destroys them. If a grass plot is mowed in the summer, and the dry grass burnt over after frost, the weeds can be kept out. If weeds appear in the pasture early in the spring before the grass makes head way ► cut them down. At this season all stubble should be ’ cleaned off. ** Keep up the cultivation with the cultivated crops until they are made. In many cases one additional cultivation given in good season will materially increase the yield, while it will aid in destroying the late weeds and leave the soil in a better condition for the next crop. ) Corn in the glazing stage makes the best fodder. If, cut when the ear is hard the stock is then certaSextent) woody, and if cut very young, before the ears are formed, the stalk abounds in water and is lacking in nutrition. When the ear is about filled and beginning to glaze the cutting of the corn at that stage arrests the nutritive elements in the stalk, and the fodder is then equal to hay, being fed to stock with the ears on the stalk or cut up in a cutter. The depth of drains and their dis-^ t tance apart should be regulated by reference to the thickness and order oi the substrata, no less than by the character or textnre of the supersoil. It the upper bed is retentive, and of such depth that the drains can not be cut completely through It, the best system to adopt will be shallow drains at close intervals; aqd, on the contrary, a previous material should have deeper draina at wider intervals. If a comparatively thin bed of clay rests upon a porous substratum, the drains should be cut into the latter or through it, according to its depth; and they must, in anV case, not be too far apart Rub black walnut Lxrxntxr.,. -r an' - wood finished in oil, w'V-clcih slight * moistea led with kerosene oil, w lemovo scratch , I and restore polish.