The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-05-17

Farm and Garden.
When 10 Use Roller.-A correspond
ent of the Rural World says:
II may seem like presumption to at
tempt to tell a man when and how TO
use a farm implement, but no man
knows thing until he learns it. A
very mistaken notion prevails as to the
effect OF rolling land. The most COM
mon one is that it packs the soil. This
is never true except where the surface
is smooth and the soil fine, and then
perhaps only an inch deep. Usually the
land to be rolled is uneven and rough,
as the pillow leaves it, or is lumpy, as
after the harrow. The roller will crush
not too hardy, and the Jumps, although
crushed, have buoyed up the roller so
that an examination shows that the
loose soil is not packed-only the Jumps
are crushed.
But to roll directly after the pillow is,
above all, the proper time to do it.
Even when the soil is apparently dry and
hard and comes up in chunks, there is
little dampness in it that enables q
heavy (weighted) roller to crush it /; but
if it be delayed six hours, and even three
sometimes, it dries out so rapidly that
it is past cure. A very foolish idea pre-
walls among many that it tends to form
crust and bake. This can never be
the case, because, first, one cannot roll
land at all that is wet enough TO bake
and, second, soil will "run" and crust
more not rolled than il it is.
Of ell
the roller in the field with the pillow,
and always "roll up" before noon, and
again before night, except on damp,
cloudy day.
Second, roll all plowed land, no mat
ter what use it is to be put to, except
fall blowing for spring crops.
Third, always roll before the harrow,
and then keep rolling and narrowing
until the soil is in condition, no matter
if it is packed with continual tramping
if it is dry. IL may be crushed to pow
der under. the horses hoofs and be all
the better.
Fourth, il the crop is planted and is
up (if CORN foot high, or if nothing is
planted and the soil is nothing but
mass of hard Jumps, stand steady, watch
the weather closely, so as to let nothing
interfere except the observance of the
Sabbath, and as soon after q shower rs
the soil will not stick to the roller, put
it on, weigh it down, have q change Of
teams, if necessary, and do not let the
roller stop at breakfast, dinner or sup
per, till darkness stops you; thus by
"striking while the iron is hot" !. e.,
rolling while the Jumps are wet, you
will have mastered the situation.
The text is, roll roll your meadows,
your wheat, your corn, your turpips,
your fresh blowing and your fallow and
if you are in doubt how to subdue an
unpromising seed-bed, roll it. Finally,
during blowing time, do not lend your
roller for over three or four hours at
any time.
An Experiment in Feeding Horses.-The
London Omnibus Company use six
thousand horses. To economic in feed
is an important matter, and has led to
several tests, the result of which is re-
corded as follows:
To each of three thousand Of their
horses they gave daily allowance Of
ground oats sixteen pounds, ground hay
seven and one-half pounds, and cut
straw one and one-eighth pounds-the
hay and straw being cut into pieces
about half an inch long, and well mixed
up with oats in little water, and so
making twenty-six pounds of food for
each horse. And to each one Of their
other three thousand horses they gave
daily allowance of whole or unbruised
oats nineteen pounds, and uncut or
whole hay and straw thirteen pounds,
without any water, in our old.fashioned
way, making thirty.two pounds of this
food for each horse. And what was the
RESULT Why, it was soon discovered that
the horse which was fed on the twenty-six
pounds Of ground oats remained in as
good condition, and could perform
just as much work and do it Just as well,
too, as the horse did which consumed
thirty.two pounds Of food as afore said.
thus showing saving Of six pounds Of
food per day in favor of bruised oats and
cut hay and straw, which, if valued at
five cents per horse per day, amounted
to a saving Of the neat little sum of $500
per day.
Extracting Hong.-At the Iowa
Bee Keepers Convention, Mrs. Upper
said: have used the extractor on comb
not week old, and no comb broke
down. DO not extract from comb con.
tanning brood, believing the brood to be
far more valuable than the honey.
Took from six hives 400 pounds Of