The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-10-31
FARMERS COLUMN.
GRASS CULTIVATION AT THE SOUTH.

Manv southern farmers are diligently adapting
themselves to the new order of things by modify
mo their system of culture. Cotton in some dis
+rIcts is even now regarded as of secondary con-
Alteration, and the cultivation of a diversity Of
crops has be IN entered upon with commendabIe
zeal. An enterprising farmer in Mississippi has
Instituted experiments in raising fruit and in
seeding down portion This land to grass, both
Of which appear to have been quite successful,
His orchard, embracing winter apples, has al
ready become a source of profit, and his success
with grasses has been such as to constitute him
strong competitor with the hay makers of the
North. He has been especially successful in
clover, obtaining luxuriant growth Of three tens
to the acre. Having failed in seeding with small
grain he adopted the method of securing stand
of clover by first planting peas, and then follow
ing up the crop with dressing OF manure. And
this is not an isolated case Other similar exper-
iments in Mississippi are said to have removed
the doubts of skeptcs, and to have confirmed the
most ardent believers in the of cultivated
rasees at the South A writer in The RarGl AtG-
bantam relates an instance OF remarkable success
in the growing of clover, at libby, in Lowndes
County, Mississippi, to which it might be difficult
to find parallel at the North Upon Geld seed
peatedIy produced both grain and hoed crops
since, the clover crop last year a most luxu
RANT one, although the field has never been seed
ed to clover but the one time
MILK FEvRR.-Our correspondent in Pulaski
County, Illinois, describes case of milk fever in
one Of his COWS, the symptoms of which
swelling and heat in one side Of the udder, the
seconded after calving The calf was admitted
to her. but the swelling increased as also did the
febrile.symptoms, result ing in great prostration
and trembling, with partial loss of motion in the
limbs. Though there was no structure of the
bowels or lack of appetite, mild antimonial doses
were administered with epson salts and aromatic
herbs, producing an active cathartic effect. Gold
water was applied to the infammed parts, and af-
forwards mild mercural ointment mingled with
pulverized camphor and tincture of iodine. The
COW has recovered, with par ial loes of milking
capacity in one teat. Our correspondent recon-
mends the reduction of food, and even occasional
neck bleeding, as the calying. time approaches.
No one will deny that great care should be OBJ
served in selecting seed corn to plant. and yet
numbers OF farmers never see their seed corn IN
til it is carried to the field at planting time We
think the beat plan is to place a barrel in cor
Of the crib and throw into it every large and
vigorous ear. Shell off about two inches Of the
large ends in order to get the largest and most
prolific grains This produces a large and heal
thy plant that grows much fas ter than small ones
do
At husking time select the best ears ana place
them where the air will have free access, and the
rain touch them not, and there will be no trouble
in having good seed fer future use.
1t is related of the Rev. Sidney Smith, that,
while on his farm, each cow and calf, horse and
pig, were in turn visited fed and patted, and all
seemed to welcome him ; he cared for their CON-
fort as he cared for the comfort of every living
being around him. H. used to say II am for
all heap Injuries, even for animals w all ami
mails have passion for scratching their back
bones; they break down your gates and your
palings to effect this. Look there is my univer-
sal scratcher-a sharp-edged pole. resting on high
and low posts, adapted to every height. from
horae to a lamb. You have no idea how popu-
Iarft is. have not had gate broken since
put up. have it in a ! my fields"
Many farmers think that when horse is kept
up and feo mostly on hay, that grass will hurt
them: They say that it makes them soft, and
throws them out Of condition for severe work,
al trainers hold to this opinion.
Tnis is a great mistake. Grass is the horses
natural food 1t is cooling, and keeps the bowels
open, sharpening the appetite. Any one can tes-
tify to this who watches an ailing horse. He
will always nibbe grass, which has tendency to
promote digestion and remove al fever.
A nip at the grass each day TO a horse kept up,
is beneficial and he will never lose his speed or
strength from the practice. Every young farmes
should give his animals chance at the grass in
it season 1t is the cheapest and the very best
IoOd thay car have.
This valuable escrlent 80 much priced by all I,
may b. easily kept in Winter by placing the plants
in narrow trenches, on their own roots, drawing
the earth about the plans nearly to the tops,
akfng care that the earth does not enter the crowns
of the plants FIJI in the earth solid "a posi-
bic, ana cover oil safe from rain and frost. Celery
should never be handled except when the weather
and plants are perfectly dry. To obviate the ne
csss1ty of opening the trenches daily, have box
Of sand in the cellar sufficient, to pack celery
enough Tor a week or ten days use. Take the
celery from the trench and carry to the cellar, and
mack in the moist sand by making first layer Of
aortb ab0ut one inch deep then a layer OF celery,
racns the plants just far enough apart not to lay
AGAINST each other, and thus alternating earth and
CELERY until the hoxis filled, having the first and
l,.t LAYERS. of earth Thus you may have this Ge-
licous relish always at hand and of the best quail
ity.
Agriculture is the natural occupation OF man
Tho irst man was a farmer. Eden was an estate
devoted TO horticulture. God commanded the
f,thers Of oar race to cultivate the ground, The
nations Of the earth would starve, were they to