The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-10-25

HINTS FOR oCroBsR work.


HINTS FOR OCTOBRR WORK.
FALL WHEAT-wiere the soil and season adj
nit of it, wheat may still Ice sown the early part
of this mouth. This may be done upon rich,
well-drained soil, in the Middle and Southern
States. Late sowing helps us to escape the fly,
but brings danger of the nudge and rust. These
latter may be avoided, (while We escape the
frst) by stimulating the crop to qnick growth
by selecting midge-proof varieties, and by pick
ling the seed. For all such late sowings, gen
erous dressing of some active ammoDiacical fertii
izer should be given. Ammonia il needed now,
and pure guano conveys this to the roots; $50
pounds per acre may be applied
PICKLE FOR LATE -SowN WHEAT is made by
dssolving ounces of sulphurate OF copper tblue
vitriol), to every gallon of water needed. Put
two bushels of wheat IN tub or barrel, and
pour the above named solution over it, 30 that
It shall be evenly distributed through the grains.
Stir the wheat thoroughly, and tnrn it ont on
clean barn floor. Then stir in enough dry new
ly-slaked lime to cover every grain.
RYE may be sown all this month; bnt the Ia
ter the sowing. the more seed should be used.
For q soiling crop in early Spring, SOW three
bushels per acre.
FALL PLOwING.-Ground for oats should be
Fall-plowed, and left ridged, that the cnltiva-
tor or harrow may fit il for seeding, in early
Spring. The land for early potatoes should also
be plowed, and maRured Spread the manure up
on the plowed ground, and leave until Spring,
then plow il under.
QUITTING CORN should not be delayed Ev-
cry days delay after corn is fit to eut, greatly
damages the fodder, the value of which is no
small item.
STACKING CORN FoDDER.-We prefer to stack
our fodder, rather than put it under cover. 1t
is too bulky for the barn, and if well stacked,
will keep in good condition. We make small
stacks, holding five or six loads, and one of these
may he brought into the barn, as it may be
wanted during the Winter.
HORSES that are still pastured, should have
acme extra feed, to keep them IN good condition.
The late growth contains too much water to
make sufficiently nutritious feed. Besides, the
changing temperature makes increased demands
upon the system, which must be met with an in
crease of food.
MILK COWS cannot be kept up to a profitable
condition on pasture alone. 1t will pay well to
give them two quarts of feed daily. 1t is wise
plan to begin Winter rations on the first of Oc-
tober. They not only give more and better
milk now, but come into the Winter stronger,
and in better condition.
FAITTENING PIGS shoud be pushed on as rap
idly as possible, before the cold weather. A
pound of fat now, costs less than that made next
month, and that costs less than the same made
in December. Remember that cold weather
wastes fat.
MODERATELY fat animals are the most profit
able. Every excessively fat animal has been fed
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When an animal is ready for market, sell it; il
there is feed left, buy some more lean animals
and feed them. 1.-THE nmble sixpence" brings
the profit.
YOUNG FALL PIGS should have plenty of milk
and if the food is made "milk-warm," they will
thrive the better for it. Small potatoes, boiled
and mashed in SKINNED milk, with little bran,
will make them grow rapidly. Feed little at
Q time, and often. The young pigs stomach is
very small, and overlooking causes Indigestion,
and prevents growth.
PoULTRY.-Cull out undesirable fon Is, and
keep only good ones. Pure-bred fowls
profitable in their way, other pure bred stock.
Feed young pullets with boiled potatoes, NASH
ed in the water they have been cooked in, and
mixed, while hot, with corn meal and cracked
wheat. Feed this warm, and every week, give
some of the "Imperial Egg Food, with some of
Bowker & Co.'s meat and bone flour along with
the food. This will give eggs all through the
Winter. The culied fowls may be cooped, and
fed on scalded SKINNED milk, with corn and oat
meal, for three weeks, when they will be as fat
as they can be made; to feed any longer, is a
waste of time and food. This food makes sweet
and white flesh and fat. When fed for market,
give only corn, which makes the yellow fat SO
mach desired by the poultry dealers.
BLACkBERRIEs and raspberries should be SO Sc
cnrely tied to their stakes or trellises, that they
will not be broken down by the snow. If tender
raspberries are to be laid down, it should not be
done until just before the ground freezes.
CURRANTs AND GoosEBERRIEs.-Prune as soon
as the leaves fall, thinning the bushes where too
thick, and shortening the new growth half or a
third its length. Make cuttings of the prun-
ings Of this seasons growth, about six inches
long, and set at once; cover the cutting bed with
straw or leaves when cold weather sets in.
GRAPE VINES should always be pruned in the
Fall, as bad weather, press of other work may
interfere in early Spring. As each vine will re-
quire to be pruned according to its condition, no
general rules can be given. The canes that
grew the past season. will not bear fruit again.
The buds upon these canes will next Spring
form shoots, upon which the fruit will be borne.
The primer should be able to see what the vine
will be, to decide where he wishes fruit bearing
shoots, and must leave buds to produce them,
cutting away all the other buds, canes which
bear them. As this will remove q large share of
the wood that the vine has made during the
past season, the novice is timid, and fears that
he 10 doing wrong, but in most cases, the danger
is in leaving, rather than removing, too much.
CLEAN OUT THE BARN-YARDs-At this season,
every particle of manure should be taken out of
the barn yards, and the surface scraped clean.
There 10 leisure to do this now, which cannot be
had in the early time of Spring. Instead of
wagon box, use loose plank for bottom and sides;
these may be removed or turned over one by one
from behind, without stopping the team, and the
manure dropped along a row through the field.
One hand should remain in the field, to spread it
on each side Of the row, and he can cast it
twelve feet on each side, the rows may be IS
feet, or a rod and half apart. If each load is
dropped in line 90 feet long, there will then he
20 loads to acre or, If 160 feet long, 10 loads
to the acre. Two wagons should be used, one
going to the field, while the other is being load
ed in the yard; two men can be loading while
one is drawing, unless the haul is q long one and
it is an easy matter to lift the double-tree from
the empty wagon to the loaded one.-CoRdensed
from the Americaa 4gricuitNrist.