The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-09-06
FARM AND HOME.
Farm R0Ein0S,

| LII. hoi0o iOI La J-uudhlIS anu iOI
tree-planting are opposites. Make hay
while the sun shines. Plant trees when
the sun does not shine.-Grange Jour-
nal
THE best lucerne seed comes from
the South of France, and is known un-
der the name of Province; the color is
uniform. The best red-clover seed is
raised IL Hanover. Weste7n Rural.
AT a meeting of the Western New
York farmers Club, member reported
that in 1874 he used $50 pounds of phos-
phate to the acre on field of barley,
and secured AZ 7-1O bushels per acre,
against 2S IT bushels where the phos-
phate was not used. In 1875, on two
rowed barley, he raised 40 3-S bushels
against 25 So on land not so manured.
-Erchamge.
A New YORK farmer goes wild over
Guinea hens. He declares that each
one will keep an acre of potatoes clear
of bugs, and will answer every purpose
of barometer in predicting storms.
He also says that they will not scratch,
and lay more and better eggs than the
common hen.-NeaC Hampshire Farm
| er.
| We are highly pleased so far with the
long-drill plan of gardening on the
farm. 1t reduces the work of wedding
and tillage to a minimum, the chief part
of the labor being done by horse instead
of hand power. All kinds of garden
vegetables look and thrive just as well
in long drills as they do in tiny beds.-
Western advertiser.
IT might almost be said that the more
civilized (and, therefore, the more So
ciaD a people the more animals they
keep in tame and domesticated state
Savages have scarcely any, and with
them every mans hand is against his
neighbor. With the tanning of animals,
and with affection for them, social life
increases. .--London Lire iStock Journal.
A FARMER of Goshen, N. Y, makes it
easy for himself, uncomfortable for the
potato-bugs, and fattening to the toads,
by employing the services of a large
number of the latter in his potato patch.
He has constructed a pit, into which the
toads retire when not on active duty, and
at regular intervals they are let out to
devour the bugs, which they do very ef
fectively.-C Chatham Courier.
To THROW cured maize fodder out in
the cattie-yard, or to feed it in the stall
as hay is fed, is highly wasteful. It cam
not be fed alone or as an adjunct to hay;
to use it proftably it must be finely cut
and well mixed, or alternately with maize
or cotton-seed meal, bran, or some SINH
lar material. Maize meal and similar
articles contain too much albuminoids,
| fat and starch for healthy and economical
cattle food; maize fodder contains too
little of these, and too much coarse fiber;
the two should be mixed.-Prof. Samuel
| W. Johnson.
A COMPOST heap is a good thing on a
farm when it is properly managed, but
when, as in one instance we recently OBJ
served, it is allowed to become covered
with mass of weeds it's value is very
rapidly decreased. It is bad enough to
let weeds go to seed anywhere, but one
of the worse of all places is on the COM
post heap. If ripening there they will
not remain where they fall but will be
carried to various parts of the farm and
scattered into the soil, under conditions
very favorable to their termination and
subsequent growth. The farmer will
find weeds enough to fight, if he does
not take pains to scatter their seeds and
hasten their development
EVERY horse-owner should become ac-
quainted with the pecuiarities of his
horses hoofs and the special needs re-
quired in each case. He should be COM
petent to make suggestions and judge of
the nature of the work done. A stumbling
horse may often be cured of the habit
by judicious shoeing, and one-half the
horses little lame are made SO by the
work of the farrier. The weight of the
shoe is a matter of much importance.
A carriage horse for light driving needs
shoe OF much less weight than dray
or omnibus horse, and yet the same class
of shoes is often applied to both. But
few have any adequate conception of the
amount of muscular force expended by
the horse in carrying his shoes. A
| hot q
Paris omnibus horse in his days work of
four hours, and with shoes weighing two
pounds, lifts weight on their account of
115, 200 pounds-Mirror and Farmer.
| Domestic Economy.