The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-05-28
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Farm RdEings.

cultivated We'll while the plant is small.
Two stalks III Il hill are enough.
\ FARMER says 81 have been III the
habit of measuring my hay III the NOW
before pressing it and after twenty-five
years experience find that | do not get
Il tom, or even half of II III 21G feet,
but that it takes from 400 to 800 feet,
according to the size and depth Of the
NOW and the t~inencss and ripcness of
the hay.
\ VERY intelligent fruit-grOwcr lately
told us that, rejecting hat grapes always
seemed to flourish on soils Of volcanic
origin, he assumed it was attributable
10 the sulphur present, AID determined
to try that substance as Il fertilizer for
them, which he did with very satisfac-
tory results. Encouraged by this, lie
made Il mixture Of lime, salt and sulphur,
aud applied it to his peach trees with
surprisingly good effect.-Amcrican
Farmer.
WHILE cattle are fed on dr. hay during
the winter they will keep i'll better health
il liberally supplied with s~ucculent roots,
such as beets, turnips, ETC., than they
will fed on meal daily. Igenerally feed
beets to mich cows,a as [ can raise a larger
crop of that vegetable at the same expense
than any other. | have planted beets on
the same land for twenty years with as
good results the last as the first season.
l SOW the mangel-wurZel and sugar
beet seed.
WHY some peas boil soft and others
hard, has long puzzled farmers and
housekecpers. The question seems to
have been explainedhy Prof. Ritthausen,
who has examined samples Of peas of
these different characters, and has found
that the hard boiling peas contain a large
excess Of potash and sulphate Of potash,
but Il large deficiency of phOsphOric acid
AS compared with the soft boiling peas.
[ was also discovered that the boiling
Of soft boiling peas i'll water ilnpregna-
It'd with lime tended to harden them,
while hard boiling peas softened readily
when cooked III distilled (pure) water.
In practice farmers find an application
OF lime to the land produces hard boiling
peas probably by liberating potash and
fixing phosphoric acid III the soil, and
housewives find by adding soda to the
water hard boiling peas may be cooked
soft.
\ PRACTICAL stock nan gives his expe-
rience i'll breaking colts, as follows GA
good and cheap breaking rig is made
with two hickory poles, three feet longer
than sulky shafts, and a little thicker;
bolt them to the axle (yOu need but two
wheels ; let the poles project three feet
to the rear of the axle !; have two holes
bored in the end thus projecting, about
eigh1 inches apart ; tit To these poles
two bows, similar TO OX-bOws, and long
enough to come within ten inches of the
ground when the shafts are i'll proper
position for driving; these need only be
used when you have a colt that IS dis
posed to rear up. Whenever the colt at
tcmpts to rear up, these bows stick in the
ground and el~fectualiy prevent him from
doing so. Always use a kicking rope O
strap put it on after the colt is i'll har-
ness; it IS two ropes fastenedt to the check
bit they run over the head same as
Kimble Jackson check the run through
the ferret of the saddle and along the
back to a point just back OF the hips,
where two rings, eight inches apart, re-
ceive the ropes, which are passed down
to the shafts, near the cross-bar, where
they are made fast ; when so arranged,
every effort to kick throws up their head
so that it IS impossible for them 10 kick,
and if they lay down or fall, they cannot
break the shafts, they being hickory
poles. The colt must go ahead or back
ward, and it is almost impossible to up
set, the shafts being back of the axle,
SO as to have 10 weight OF the colts
back"
Domestic Ec0,OmY.
AFTER windows are fresh and free
from all dust, rub them with old, soft, /