The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-03-18
FARM AND GARDEN.

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! AGRICULTURE IN CHINA-The China
men who. walk over bridges built tvs
| Thousand years ago. who cultivated the
cotton-plaT,t centuries before the country
was heard Of. who fel the silk worm be
fore Solomon built his throne, have fifty
| thousand miles around Shanghai which
is called the Garden of China. and which
| has been titled for countless generations.
The area is as large as New York AMI
| Pennsylvania combined. and Is ali mead
| ow land. raised but few feet above the
river lakes. river CANALS complete net
work of wafer communication the land
under the highest tillaee; three crops a
year harvested population 81 dense that.
wherever you look, you see men and
women in blue pants and blouse, so nu
merous that you fancy that fair or
muster is coming and all hands have
turned out for the holiday.
To CURE KICKING Cows. Cows says
contemporary, seldom kick without
some good reason for it. Teat> are some
times chapred. or the udder tender:
harsh handling hurts them and they kick
Sometimer long and sharp fngernails cut
the teats, and sometimes the mixer
pulls the long hair on the unde., while
milking. Shear off the long hairs, cut
long 6nger-nails close, battle chapped
teats with warm water and grease them
well with lard, and always treat cow
gently. She will never kick unless some
thing hurts her, or she fears repetition
of former hurts. When handled gently
COW likes to be MIXED. When treated
otherwise they will kick aud hold W
their milk.
Milk FEVER sometimes when
in high condition, get down with the
milk fever. when the calf is about three
DAYS old, which often proves fatal. Laud
anum has proved the best remedy in
some very bad cases. given up as lost
1t is given in large doses, from two to
three ounces. Some may think this is a
very heavy dose. but we have given the
largest dose, three ounces. and some of
our neighbors have tried the same with
verv beneficial results Oil is the worst
medicine. as it makes them terribly sick
The animal is mostly in great pain, for
which laudanum works wonders. As
soon as the cnw will eat, give her turnips
or apples, which will open her bowels,
and put her in the right condition.
LIME IN SoIL.-There is said TO be car
rieG of from the soil nine pounds of lime
II twenty-five bushels of wheat, nine
pounds in fiftv hushels Of oats, and fifteen
norndS in thirty eight bushels of barley.
There are thirty five pounds of lime in
two tons Of clover "nn HIM ired pound
n twenty i've bu heels of turnins, and
two hundred and seventy pounds in nine
tons Of potatoes. Some soils contain an
abundance of lime tor tho usand years
while other soils require IN occasional
application of lime as fertilizer.
EXTRAORDINARY PFC. -Perhans one
nr the l,rg g. Rigs in F ,glan1 if not in
the worll. is now the property of Mr..
Bovd. of Rrelcn Worcestershire. who
purchased It of neigh or. when three
months old at lis Gil. This wonderful
animal is now twenty two months old.
measures nine feet six inches from he
end Of the nose to the tip of the tail, FIVE
feet around the neck. nearly nine fee:
around the body, and stands four feet
high.
TURNIp YIELD.--A correspondent of
the Cnandn Farmer furnishes that ma
per with some statistics with reference to
the WELD Of North Wellington. The
yield Of one lot was l.l5O 7-s bushels to
the acre. and another 23Tf bushels
These were purple tops. grown in drills
eighteen inches arart. and the roots about
seven inches in the drills
CABBAGE FOR CowS.-Mr Birnip, Of
Springfield says: There has been no
complaint in regard to taste. Coarse ont
side leaves will favor milk. hut when the
whole head Is fed. no unpleasant result
follows Several of the milk farmers in
this vicinity have now adopted the cab
bage as a sniling cron. with great salts
faction. Care should he taken about ex-
cessive fee ling, as have known two in-
stances where valuable COWS have died
from, orar.fnolinr with O. hha ne ~