The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-01-30
FOR FARMERS LEISURE MO.
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The average farm in Ohio con.
tains Ill acres.
One firm in Ottowa paid out $685.
600 for hogs, in December.
, Grant county, Kentuckey can
boast grange of colored farmers.
Pike county, Indians, produces
$500, 600 worth of tobacco.
A man in Paulding county had
Is sheep killed by wolves one night
last week.
Pike county farmers complain
that cholera is rampant among and
rapidly reducing their hogs.
The Executive committee of the
Iowa State Grange of Patrons OF
Husbandry have decided to establish
q large reaper and mower manufac.
tory in Des Moins.
Mr.. John Conner, of jackson town
ship, was recently visited by mid
night middle men" who stole from
his barn forty bushels of wheat and
two bushels of clover seed.
On the morning of the 18th J.
Wetstone, Of Van Buren fell from g
hay NOW and struck on a tooth OF
8 horse rake, which penetrated his
body about five inches, just above
the rectum.
A bee raiser in New England is
said to have patented an invention
for the protection of bees frem the
attacks Of the honey moth, which
enter the hives at night and rifles
the stores. The idea arose out OF
his familiarity with the daily rout-
inc not of bees only, but of hens.
The best grasses for a pasture are
timothy, orchard grass, blue grass,
red top, with red and white clover.
Which grass to choose depends
much upon the soil. Upon rich
limestone lands timothy, orchard
grass, blue grass, and red clover
may be sown the quantity of seed
would be six quarts of timothy, and
six quarts Of clover. The blue grass,
if it succeeds, will not show much
until the others run out, which will
be in three years. Upon most soils
red top and timothy should be
chosen. Twelve quarts of timothy
and one bushel ofred top would be
proper quantities.
The National Crop Reporter pub
fishes final estimates of last years
crop of oats and hay in the States of
Illinois, indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Min
nesota, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee,
and Wisconsin. The estimated to-
tai production of oats, in 1872, was,
in round numbers, 192,300,O00
bushels, and the falling off from this
in.1873 is placed at 10 2-10 per cent.
Indiana shows the heaviest loss and
Tennessee the heaviest gain. The
estimates Of the hay crop give an
average falling off from 1872 to 1873,
Of6t per cent the total yield in the
above States, last year, being near
ly ten million tons.
The proper feeding of horses has
much to do with their condition and
Likewise with their remaining sound.
Foed should be Proportioned to
work, and also be of the best oality.
Hay that has been much heated in
the stack is above all things to be
carefully avoided, as from its power
full diuretic properties, it dibilitates
and creates thirst and moE-burnt
or heated oats are equally produc-
tive of mischief. Hay which is pro-
duced on dry upland ground is the
best. Indeed, We are far from
thinking that rich meadow hay,
finely scented as it is, and apparently
80 full of nourishment, is fitted for
any description of horse that is re-
quired to go fast, and it is quite GER
tain that thousands of horses are
destroyed annually by the effects of
hay and water. The latter cannot
bo too soft, aud when not so should
be given with a small portion of bran
in it.
HELPS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.
To Remove Rust from Cloth