The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1866-05-04
FARMERS COLUMN,
HORSE HOES.

The fact is, We must give up hand hoe
ing. a good steel-tcothed cultvator, wild |
strong, steady horse, and a careful |
driver, is worth dozen hand hoes among |
either corn or potatoes. dislike 20 see |
man putting round a hill of corn with
hte, going through Set Of motors that |
have been handed dow q from the days be-
fore cultivators were invented. They may
have been useful then, but are now entire
unnecessary. There Is work enough TO
be done on farm withou. wasting time
in such a tedious performance Let the
land be we'll p!owed, and the surface be
narrowed and rolled. until it is as mellow
as a garden before plan,ing and little hand
hoeing will be needed.
| think al improvement. could be made
in The form of our cul tivators If the out
side tooth, that runs nearest the hill, had
straight steel blade with knife at the
bottom turned inside, and little back
wards, so as to cut off the weeds, the chi
tiyator, could be run within an inch of
the Young corn without disturbing It, or
throwing up any dirt. Such horse hoes
or ' scutfles' are used in England among
the rows Of ,urnips, and can be guided
much straighter than anything we have.
With an ordinary cultivasor tooth, or even
with the inverted mould board on the
Remington Horse Hoe it is not easy to
see how close You can run to the hill with
out disturbing it, Harris an 4imeri-
can Agricultarast.
SOMETHING ABOUT CABBAGE.
Near large cities innumerabie quaint
ties OF cabbage are grown aud consumed,
and every means devised 10 obtain the
earliest and finest as the case may be- The
following extract from the 7ribnue will
give an idea of how the matter is managed
10 New York, where maket gardening is
nov quite IN art:
The great cabbage growers about New
York city generally calculate upon TO-,
900 heads per acre, allowing four super>
fetal feet to each plant, hich gives sur
plus of 3 900 for missing plants. We sup
pose the crop may average five cents Il
! head, giving 5000 All acre, which, consid-
eriug ii is 4 second or third crop Of The
season, affords pretty good return. Cab
| hages often follow peas, with which rad
| isles or lettuce has been gown and the
ground from which an early crop OF
potatoes has been taken is often planted
with late Cabbages. The soil for this crcp
must be rich, aud manure used unspar>
iDgly. Hog manure Is not approved in
this vicinity; it is said that it produces
club footed cabbages' The gardeners
prefer rotation for this crop, though we
have known good cebbages grown upon
thesame spot for years in succession. Near
a city there is 90 doubt about the profit
ableness OF the crop; and we believe it a
valuable one for food for cattle and sheep.
1t increases The flow of milk, but does
not improve the quality. Irrigation is
very valuable where cabbages are grown
as they require vast quantity of water as
we'll as manure, with deep tiIage and
thorough cultivation
RAISING CALVES.
We 20 in for raising the calves, parties
ularly The good ones it is begiuuing 10
pay. The best way to do it is undoubt-
eddy the natural one, bat it is too expen
sive OF the present price Of milk, butter
and cheese. For the good of the COW and
the economy Of the process of raising We
say take the calf of Immediately, bat j..
must have its mothers milk for some DAYS
at any rate. 1t serves both as food and
Inediclne. II ought also 10 be given often
and AS regularly as possible, slowly as it
would get it from sucking, otherwise in.
stead OF going 10 the fourth. stomach where
it would 60 naturally fiom the cows
udder, It Will be liable to fall into the
rumen, paunch OF frs! stomach, and cause
a arrangement OF the digestive organs
This important point is toe often over
looked III bringing up calves by hand
We let them 90 to long, TIL they are too
hungry themselves. Feed regu ary three
or four times day at least and begin with
the pure milk of the dam.
Again we are in too much hurry to In
duce them to take solid food. Nature
does MT bring the first and second stcm>
achs into use SO ear y. and il solid food
is taken it goes into them, and if they
are not absolutely weakened in their iunc-
tons, they are doubtless more or less in
jured Prof. Tanner says the best breeders
IN England give their calves liquor food
al least eight or ten weeks. 1t the calves
are of any pure breed it pays to give them
the whole milk most of this time, as a
resort to skim milk is apt to produce
coarseness of bone. The calf must also
have good shelter and sufficient oppor-
tuuty to exercise and develop all parts OF
the body. The treatment of calves is often
cruel in the extreme That won't pay
Massachusetts, Ploughman
THE CANKER WORM.
JAMES TUCKER, of Warren county ILL.,
writes to the Prairie Farmer as follows
Some twelve or fourteen years ago the
caDker worm commenced in one corner
Of my orchard and increased year after
year until they got all over the orchard
and would eat the leaves eff the trees until
they would be a. destitute of leaves in
July as in January and after trying vari.
GUS remedies 10 destroy them finally,
with an inch auger, board hole nearly
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