The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-08-22
FARMERS COLUMN.

when it is best to sell farm products had
best leave his pen and go into trade, as his
knowledge would enable him to accumu-
late millions in the purchase Of these
farm products. la other words it is i'm
possible for any man to predict with GER
tainty future prices.
The safest rule for the farmer we be
lieve to be to sell when his farm pr oducts
are ready for market, especially if he
need money with which to pay his debts
or make purchases or Improvements. Of
two farmers, one following this plan, and
the other invariably hold ing for higher
prices, we believe the first will be the
better off at the end of score of years
He who sells early saves wastage, shrink
age, storage, risk of total loss from fire or
other cause and has the use of his money
at an earlier period.
There are cases when the prospect for
improvement in price is so good, that the
risk in holding is but slight. But if any
farmer feels himself obliged to act on one
unchanging rule, we would advise him to
make it that rule, to sell as soon as the
product can be got to market in good
condition. Western Farmer
WooD ASHES. from the wood Of
the hickory, sugar maple, elm, etc, con-
tain about so per cent. of potash COM
pounds, consisting chiefly of combinations
with carbonic acid and silica, while the
ashes eff pine wood will rarely yiel d more
than 90 per cent. Ashes saved from
clearings often contain earth, mixed with
them in gathering the remains from fires.
When wood is used for burning lime, the
ashes are often put into the market large
~ mixed with that substance. Sifted
coal ashes are sometimes used to adulter-
ate wood ashes, and the fraud can be hard
~ be detected by the eye.
Leached ashes also retain portion of
potash, usually in combination with silica
or phosphoric acid. These compounds are
slowly soluble in water, and theI efore ARE
not removed in teaching, but they are
valuable, especially to grain crops and
grasses. Ashes, whether leached or IN
leached, should never be suffered to go to
waste. Even coal ashes may be used to
good advantage en- still clay soils. Their
effect, however, is more mechanical than
chemical
VALUE OF GREEN Corn FoDDER.-.We
have just read the tistlmony of still anoth-
er man who does not have very high
opinion of the value of green corn fodder
as food for cattle. Yet to- day two farm
ers from different neighborhoods have
told US of the dried up pastures, and that
the only COWS in their neighborhoods that
keep up their flow of milk are those fed
green corn. When any one will show US
any mode by which Western farmers can
more cheaply and certainly provide greer
food for their cattle during such dough
as this, than by sowing and drilling eacf
spring an acre or two with corn, we will
advise farmers to adopt that better way
AS it is we are very glad we time ant
again urge our readers not to forget tn
corn sowing last spring = Western Farmer
ives GRAPE IN THE SOUTH The edi
tor Of the Rural Albanian says :-"W
have had the Ives in full bearing only twt
years, but from that short experience, w
consider it grape of very great promise
The vine is remarkably healthy and Wig
orous; bunch large and very compact
fruit large, black, sweet and vinous, wit
peculiarly tough skin. This latter quail
ity makes it valuable for transbortatiol
to distant markets. 1t commences ripen
ing with the Concord, but does not attai
perfection until the Concord is gone, an,
should be permitted to hang many day
on the vine after appearing ripe. It
not equal to the Concord in size an
beauty Of appearance, nor is it SO GOO
for the table; but it is superior in keep
ing qualities, and for distant transporta
ton, and probably for wine" or
CORN IN CENTRAL MINNEsoTA.-A fe
years since corn was considered 4 yer
uncertain crop in most parts Of Minnesot
The st. Paul Press says that in one sec
ton in Hennepin Co., north of Minneapo