Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-11-23
FARMING ITEMS.

ONION MAGGoTs.-A correspondent
uf the Maine fdrmer, sprinkled white
1,ine sawdust upon his onion bed when
he plants were coming up, and also at
each hoeing, and was not troubled by
the maggot.
Hoo CHoLERA.--The Prairie Farmer
says that the hog cholera is raging in
nearly every county of the State with
great fatality Northern Kentucky is
similarly afflicted. No remedy seems
10 avail in checking its ravages.
4 COLORAno FARM.-There is a farm
in Colorado Is miles long by II wide,
which pastures 3 900 head of cattle, and
5000 sh eep, and last year yielded $50,
40 worth of grain. 1t is worked by
Mexican laborers, who are fed and
managed by officers, like an army.
MANURE AND Ror.--Thc following
item is from an English exchanges:
The potato disease in Hampshire is
confined to the largest sized potatoes,
and exerienced potato growers state
that the natural sized potato is rarely
Effected with disease. 1t is among
crops where the size is unnaturally in
creased by excess of manuring, that the
disease makes most havoc 1t is a
curious fact that birds are fonder of
diseased potatoes than they are of
tuund ones.
PRESERVING POTATOEs.-A cores
pondGnt4 of the Scientific american
says that he has tried the following
method of keeping potatoes for years
with complete success, though in some
instances the tabers were diseased when
taken out of the ground: dust over
the floor of the bin with lime, and put
in about six or seven inches deep of
potatoes, and dust with lime as before
i'ut in six or seven inches of potatoes,
and lime again repeat the operation
untilal are stored away. One bushe,
ofli'ne viii do for forty bushels of po-
tatoes, though more will not hurt them
the lime rather improving the flavor
than otherwise"
SWEET POTAToEs.-EXtract of a let
Ter from a gentleman in Southern
Illinois:
sweet potatoes yield we'll and pay
finely. The same ground should not
be planted to them two years in success
sion, the flies and bugs destroy the
plants. This is our hest crop among
newly planted orchards. One gentle
man, a few miles from here. tells me
he has grown them for market since
1897. This year had / acIes His sales
average 1928 to $50 per acre annually.
How ITO RELIEVE CIToKED CATTLE
i have fattencd many cattle on pO.a-
toes, and always feed them whole, and
occasionally one gets choked. | then
pat the animal in n yard, where there
are bars, which let down, 50 that she
can jump over, bat as high as she w!ll
i.up. then place her about two DDS
rom The bars, with her head towards
them, and with a good whip, well APP
piled, run borrower the bars on the
tuinp, and when she touches the
ground, on the opposite side, The potato
viii! fly out OF her mouth. / have in
formed my Hoighb0rs of this remedy
nIUy OF whom have tried it. and in no
case nave | knowna failure. -14urOH Lee
in RiUal It1nericu9e.
IEEBING AND FEED FOR PIGs.-Mr-
=. q. ~StCaTn, celebrated English
breeder Of pigs, describes his manage
Ncnt Of them "a Follows;
- Pigs cat their food much better
when il is fresh. ] give them variety
Of meal, sHch ~ wheat, maize, barley,
and whatever is most convenient 10 mix
together. l have it all wetted with
tOii water, anu S9it. W nat Is mixed
one day is used the next, thus giving
suilicient fine to allow tie food Slight
~ 10 ferment, and cool sufficiently to
feed with. This is my winter plan, but
in the summer l. mix all with cold
water, and feed with cold feed. Be-
tween meals give them whole maize.
and mangold wurzol or swedcs cut
small, a litt!e coal ANA soil eccasiona'iy,
and allow them plenty of clean water.
N hen pigs are put up fatting, | find
nothing better to feed them with than
barley and maize meal, mixed together
into Stops, water always kept by them,
and Little mangold cut for them oc-
casionally. 1t is very beneficial to
wash and brush them rs often as con-
venient. This is quickly done hy cx-
perienced hands. and will amply re-
pay TO" the trouble. ] am certain that
the cottagers would find their pigs fat
ten great deal faster if they would
wash and brush them, add feed them
with warm food, as often as two or