The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1867-08-14
A G R &c ULT u r AL.
THE FARMER.


horticultural and general farm news is
made up from the Farmer, monthly
magazine published at Richmond, Va.
Loss OF CuD "A correspondent OF
the Prairie Former gives the following
remedy for loss of cud:
Near my residence are lead dippings.
lr the Summer of 1915 one Of my cows
fell into one of its prospect holes. After
several hours misery was found and drawn
home upon a sled she did not chew her
cud began to lose appetite the sweat
upon the rose dried up; eyes began to
sink and look sick; aud failing fast.
| decided upon the Ices Of the first COW
that any wife ever owned. believed taat
the COW had lost her cud, and how to get
it, or prepare another, for an hour, was
at my wits end. Just then the last cow
came home; quietly put her into the
stabIe-caIled in neighbor and went to
milking Shortly the cow raised her cud
-chewed it-swallowed il and raised IL
again. My friend, with one hand upon
the horn of the COW, the other quickly and
firmly upon her throat-myself with q
rope tied her head-drew the tongue with
one hand, and with the other took the
cud from the cow-cut it in hslves-rs.
placed one half, aud the other half put
into the throat Of the sick COW.
10 twenty minutes the cud was raised
and chewed. In three days tie COW was
upon her feet.
APPLYING MAsURE-A writer in the
Rural american says:
Within the last seventeen years have
purchased and put into good cultivation
three different farms. The land Of each
was said TO be worn out when m ade tho
purchases. Until recently, when manur.
ing land, my practice has been invariably
to cover the manure With the plough.
never allowing it to remain long on the
ground before ploughing in. Ii the land
is to be farmed in corn, or other hoed
crops that root deep. continue the prac.
tice OF ploughing in the manure. II is
put in heaps and spread as poughed 10.
Wheat, and all small grain roots near
the surface, and require. the manure
nearer the top than when covered with
the plough. ] manure my wheat after
p!oughing, spreading it after the wheat is
sown and harro wing in together. think
the "hsa; stands the winter better and
grows stronger. than when the manure 10
covered with the plough. Il should be
we'll rotted, so that it viii! mix freely with
tho soil. II the land is faow, it should
be broke up deep, the manure ploug bed
in very shallow, and the wheat put in
with drill.
| never spread manure to remain on
The surface, unless il be land laid down to
grass, or under fruit trees. When il is
,hus applied to the surface. it should be
dors in the winter or very early in thu
spring, so that the rains may soak ito
virtues into the found before the sun has
T. much Influence. In hauling manure on
land after it hss been ploughed, care
should be taken to cross the field as much
as possible in roads. so that they may bo
ploughed again before sowing.
APPLE TREES FROM SEEDs.-A writer
in the English Horticultural Reviep says
: that in 1902, he collected some apple pips
Of the best varieties Of eating apples, and
'owsd them in his garden. During the
first few years those which came up were
greatly reduced in number by several &C,
ciden,s, and afterw ards bv being removed
10 another garden at an unfavourable
period ofthe year, all but three trees were
killed, and these much retarded in their
growth. Of these three plants. one pro.
duced fruit in the twenty third year Of its
age, and proved to be aparticular juicy
and we'll favored fruit. which keeps to the
end Of November. The second tree fruit
ed the twenty-fourth year. 1t is sweet
fruit, but not remarkably good. The
third tree produced fruit in its twenty'
sixth year, and proved to be an excellent
fruit; the tree is very productive. and the
fruit keeps remarkably we'll. He seems
well satisfied with bis results in raising
seedlings, and says that, although the pro
cess is slow, il is the only true way Of or.
iginating new varieties. The writer above
mentioned. says tina, few years ago he
raised nectsriue by seed, which frui,ed
in its seyenth vear and t,,nad o,, 10 IA