The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-07-13

DR.. j. @. Bishop, Secretary.
THE Agricldturalist for July contains q
large amount of excellent matter. +" Ogden
Farm Papers, is continued, and is both racy
and sound reading. Also, I" Walks and
Talks on the Farm" The Agracahurdlist
is indispensable to every well read farmer.
We make up a column of notes for our
readers from its editorial pages.
HAY-TEA.-Steep some outlay in boil
ing water for two or three hours pour off
the water and give it to the animal to drink,
either warm or cold, as thought best. 1t
is a capital thing for horse, COW, calf, sheep,
or pig. Clover hay is best.
MEASURING CoRN.-E. B. Hill, Jasper
county, Illinois, gives another rule for
measuring corn in the crib-which is to
take 4,032 cubic inches of ears for q bushel
of shelled corn, equal to three half-bushels
of 2,6SS cubic inches to a bushel If any
one likes that bushel. the rule will do for
large western ears.
MEASURING CORN IN THE CRIB.-
S. Fuller, Of Greenyille, ILL.,, gives a rule
for measuring corn in the crib as follows !:
Multiply length, height, and breadth of the
crib in feet together, then by Al and divide
by ten the result is bushels of shelled
corn. This may do for some localities, but
as ears and shelled corn bear as many rela-
tons to each other in quantity as there are
localities and sorts, the safest way Is to
reduce the contents of the crib to cubic
inches, and take 1850 of them for a bushel
Of cars.
... NfUEn IN A SILgs JNy A r. NTC A 9 80
20. j." wants our opinion as to whether
orchard grass would succeed in Arkansas.
We do not doubt of their success ifsown
on suitable soils. Red-top needs..a moist
soil, and all the rest need soil of fair quality
at least.
CoTsWoID VS.. SoUTII-DowN SHEEP.
tWhy do Won recommend Cotswold
sheep instead of South-Down ," asks a
New England farmer. as not South Down
mutton better than Cotswold I've
think it is better. But we cannot sell it at
any higher price. At the "NVest End" of
London there is a class of e~picures that will
have no mutton but South-down, and they
will pay two cents a pound more for it than
for Cotswold or Leicester mutton. But
here, asyet, there is no difference made in
the price. Mr.. Lawes's experiments
proved that the English farmers could
afford TO sell Cotswold mutton for two
cents per pound less than South-Down
and this before the recent great advance
in long wool. We recommend Cotswolds,
therefore, because their wool is in great de-
mand at high prices, and because a pound
ofmutton can be produced from a CotswOld
at a less cost than from any of the South
Down breeds.
A DRAIN WANTED.-A" Subscriber"
wants a method of divertinga flow of water
from a cut in a hillside where O road passes
through it. The water constantly oozes
from the bank. There is no help but dig
giug a drain along the upper side of the
road until the springs are cut and the water
carried off in a covered drain where it will
not overflow the road in winter. In similar
places, drains have had to be cut seven feet
deep to intersect the flow of water, which
is necessary to make a perfect job.
FENCING pAsTURES.-"Inauirer"
wants to know if we think it economical to
fence a farm into fields in order to pasture
cattle therein on clover or peas.-We do
not. If special crops are grown for fodder,
Ill Is far more economical to cut and carry
these crops to the yard or pen where the
cattle may be fed, and thus save manure
aud the expense of fencing, and prevent the
waste of feed by ~trampling under foot.
CLOVER AS A observation-disclosures
gator" Hampstead county, Ark, asks if
when clover is used as a fertilizer it should
be used exclusively for that purpose, or
should meadow and pasture come in rota-
ton. Where the soil is poor, and clover
has been sown with a special view to a
green manuring, we would pillow in the
whole bulk {; but when the system has be-
come established the clover is mown and
lightly pastured and assisted with gypsum
and lime, and becomes only an aid to the
general course Of manuring.
Pros ON CLovER.-"M. B. r." Wind
sor, Mo-, asks the following questions /:
First. Will hogs injure the clover or the
trees if permitted to pasture in an orchard +?
Second. Will kitchen-slop fed to fattening
swine make the pork soft, and should they
be finished off on corn in the ear and cold
water? Third. How can he prevent a
young heifer from kicking? Hogs do
sometimes gnaw the bark from young
trees in orchards, and if the clover is eaten
close they will often kill it by biting out
the crowns of the plant. Kitchen-slop is not
SIT food for fattening swine, excepting given
sas a drink only ; they may be finished of
0n eorn-meal made into mush and fed cold,
and yield the flrmest of pork. A young
hester may be cured of kicking by gentle
treatment and avoiding anything that will
frighten OF ~irritate her.
Familiar Talk about Plaster.