The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-05-26
Mcrg ron RARMERs.

old farmers that sheep do very well amongst
cattle, but csttie do badly amongst sheep.
TO prove it, let the farmer take the fodder
left BY the cattle, even when part of it had
been trodden under their feet, and if the
sheep are notvery fully fed, they viii eatit
upvefv greedily: then let him take what
his sheep leave and offer il to his cattle, and
he will find they won't taste it, ii they can
get anything else; or let him turn his milk
cows in sheep pasture, and be will find
them fail IN milk. Cattle do well where
horses pasture. In proof of this, every far.
mer must have seen that cattle will eat the
litter of horses even if fully fed, but horses
won't eat what cattle leave, unless com
PEELED to do 30. But horses and sheep will
do well IN some pastures, especially the
horses. 70 prove this, LEI. the farmer turn
out the sheep from their yards. turn in his
horses. and they will eat up all the sheep
have left, even the litter around the racks
A SEED HUMBUe.-When man buys a
new variety of wheat at its weight in gold,
il is quite natural that be should take the
greatest care in the preparation OF the soil
in which he plants it. He selects the best
spot Of ground he has, with the best ex-
posure, and watches il continually after it
has come up. Let q weed start near the
grain, it is Immediately pulled up, which
gives Q very beneficial cultivation to the
plant. And when the grain is ripe the
heads are cut of with scissors while they
are moist, 30 that not kernel shall be lost;
they are placed in handkerchief, and the
threehing is done on parlor table, by rub
bing them in the hands. The crop being
weighed and measured, calculation is made
hat rf.a iaFa a Eof ltan IL
kerchief gives such yield. large field
say an acre--would give so much. Then
the calculator goes on to estimate the in
crease over the present production of wheat,
were this variety sown instead. Could any
thing be more unfair +?
LICE ON CATTLE.-A recent writer says:
eff little salt be given TO cattle every day
for two weeks it will be sure to kill every
louise upon them. It is the best way inva-
riably to kill lice upon calves. If they get
so they will not eat any salt, give it to them
With mess of something. Cattle are sell
dom troubled with lice if they are sailed
once in week during the year."
Cows WITH ScoUR.-An English remedy
is: .sGive her one pound EPSON salts, with
two ounces of ground ginger, and one
pound treacle in quart of warm ale
After the pbysic has operated, follow up by
q continuous course of nourishing food,
such as oil cake" Thoroughly physic the
cow, and follow with nourishing food, will
apply in most cases.
CHEAP PorAToEs.-A correspondent OF
the New England Farmer tells the following
story of potato culture. "a fire had run
ever a lot of low meadow and burnt off all
the vegetable matter to a white sand. Near
by was a quantity of old spoiled meadow,
or fresh hay in sacks. A poor man in the
neighborhood got from his friends guam
tity of small potatoes from the bottoms of
the pens. for little or nothing. These he
scattered broadcast over the burnt tract, and
covered them with the old hay, which cost
him nothing but his labor: they had no hoe
ing, and in the fall he raked off the hay and
had the land covered with nice, clean pota
toes. and nothing to do but to pick them up.
TRAHsPLAHTING, PRUNING AND WATERING
TREEs.-Many newly set trees perish by
the large evaporation through the bark be-
fore the leaves expand. This is the only
way that moisture escapes from them during
this period ; and as there is but little cir
culation, and the roots are torn and feeble,
there is but little moisture absorbed through
the roots. Watering at the roots is cons
quently of little use at this time--indeed,
the roots are sometimes soaked and rotted
by too much watering before circulation
equalizes its distribution. Hence, it is i'm
portant to wet the bark of the stem and
branches, which may perhaps be most con-
veniently done by thin and light sheathing
of straw kept properly moist. The same
end has been efficiently accomplished by
merely washing the bark several times
day, without the aid of any covering
Trees, badly wilted, and affording little
promise of living, have thus teen induced
to grow finely, when no other treatment
could have restored them.
After the leaves are expanded, everything
is changed. The leaves throw off moisture
rapidly, the circulation is rapid, sap flows
in it at the roots, passes up the wood of stem
and branches into the leaves, elaborated
Juices are sent down through the balk, and
new wood and new roots are rapidly formed.
There should now be plenty OF moisture at
the roots. to supply this rapid consumption:
yet it is rarely advisable to apply water
A we'll worked, mellow soil will furnish il
best. If water is poured in at the foot OF
the stem, there is too much of it and set
Ting the earth and causing it to harden and
bake, there is too little of it in short time.
This constant succession of flooding and
drouth is extremely unfavorable. If water
must be applied. take of tie top soil, pour
in the water. an then cover up again with
well pulyerized earth. But the best of
all means for it's supply is, to provide
broad. deep bed of mellow soil. in which
the tree stands. This win furnish regularly
At all times Just what is wanted and no more;
and holding il ike a sponge will contain a
large quantity-many pailfuls within the
reach of the roots of young tree-withoui
soaking or flooding the eoil.-Coant'y Gent
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