The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-12-13
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the best he mas ever aglehP1S0 Win
Brahmas and Cochins.
Useful SngEeSttOu-
ABOUT half the inventions patented OF
late are farm implements.
TIE Menomites of Manitoba sowed
$4,000 acres o. grain this year.
APRACTIcAL farmer says, cit Is easier
to lead lsbJrers than to drive them.
THE hay crop in England is like the
nav crop here, one of the heaviest on
record.
Bor-FLIEs are new depositing their
eggs on horses. Carefully scrape them
off with a knife.
Two huge armies of grasshoppers have
invaded parts of Italy, and have proven
very destructive to the growing crops.
MANY wet pasture fields could be made
productive by little labor given to sur
face drains and the best drains are those
nearest straight. Do not see how little
fall you think will do, but give all you
can.
GERMAN beet-sugsr manufacturers
offer $40 per ton for dried sugafosets,
deliveTad at their seaports. ~ this
place their culture, preparation and
freighting would leave handsome PITT
to American farmers and ship-own
Cows should not be kept owe
years old and ewes over fve
the time of year to determine b
position is to be made of oldN
whether to be prepared for the b
or continue as at present tor al Ter
year.
FARMERS in England sowing skeni-
Gated wheat are, By the recent Get of
Parliament made subject to a heavy
penalty. The farmers poison their seed
wheat to protect it from birds and in
sects, but the sacred game-birds are apt
to suffer. Hence the penalty.
HIGH prices for the service of bloOded
stock sires have not been confined to the
present century. Ia 1850 Robert Bake
well, the most eminent breeder of that
period, let his rams for about $500 each
season, and in 1870 he let one ram for
81 087. In one year he made over $15,-
600.
The Michigan Farmer gives the
record Of a COW owned by Mr.. John
Heath, near Tekonsha, Mich, thee
quarters Shorthorn and one-quarter
Devon. The daily yield of milk for the
month of May and three days in JUNE
aggregated 2,16! pounds. She was MIXED
three times day.
IT is said farmer who has tried the
experiment so often as to be sure Of his
ground, that buttermilk poured over the
back OF scurvy pig will entirely and
speedily remove the scurf. The remedy
IS simple. Almost every farmer eau
boast OF one or more scurvy pigs, and If
buttermilk will cure it, it should not be
spared.
II is beginning to be understood by
breeders that the confinement of stations
is detrimental to their success. We
have always thought that the daily use
of Hambletonian as an everyday horse,
one of all work, as it were, was one OF
the causes that showed to such great
advantage in his early colts; and twas
upon these his fame was made.
MANY persons are poisoned by contact
with the wild ivy and sumsc, and in
some cases the poisoning is very severe.
To such it may be of interest to know
that DR.. Brown, of the United States
Navy, claims to have discovered a GER
tain remedy for such poisoning. It is
bromide dissolved in olive oil, cosmoline
or glycerine. He used twenty drops Of
bromide to an ounce of oil, rubbing it on
the affected part three or four times day.
and washing it off occasionally with
CASTLE soap.
CORN Loses one-6fth by drying, and |
wheat one-fourthteenth. From this the
estimate is made that it is more profit.
able for the farmer 10 sell unshelled corn
in the fall at seventy-fve cents than at
81 butnel in the following summer.
and that wheat at Sl.25 in Dscemher !.
equal to 81 90 in the succeeding June.
In cases of potatoes-taking those that
rot and are otherwise lost-together with
the shrinksge; there is little doubt that
between October and June the loss TO
the owner who holds them is not less
than thirty-three per cent.
SHEEP dung decemposes more rapidlv
than COW dung, and not so quickly 3.
horse dung. tits richer in solid mafte,s
than the former. The pig being almost
an omnivorous animal, its excreoent.
vary in composition, according 20 Tie
nature Gifts food. It's dung is soft and
compact, and it deeomposes slowly It
is one of the richest kind of animal ma.
nure, but it is alleged that when used
alone as manure IS gives diss0reeal,Is j
aavor to roots. On the Continent Mo {
lung is largely applied to the benn |
core.