The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-12-06


An Oil potato grower says he thinks
ffsysesnts busheI for potatoes as good
il the fall as ssyenty-fye cents in the
spring.
EXPERIMENT With mulch of straw
on a portion of your wheat field Many
who have tried the plan commend it
highly.
EVERYTHING which is ( gilt-edged F."
in the way of farm produce brings the
highest prices-butter, cheese, milk,
fruit, and SO on, through the whole list
of farm products
THE farmer who wishes to avoid an
excess of labor, with improbable result,
viii rot spread a small quantity of
manure over large surface of poor land,
but viii only plsw as much as he can
highly manure, when his income will be
SIS large, and his labor one-hslf saved.
The superiority of Scotch oatmeal is
said to be partly owing to the grain
beng cut rather glazy that is with
a shade of green upon it. Dat straw Is
fir less nourisbing for cattle when The
crop is allowed to stand till it is dead
ripe Early cut oats are heavier per
bushel, fairer to the eye and usually sell
for more money.
WHENEVER horses and COWS are al
lowed a large range of fertile feed all at
once, II Is not tie nature of the animal
to go quietly to feeding, but to run all
over the Enclosure, examine the bound
aries, snatch g mouthfui of feed now and
then as they run, and finally to come to
the yard at night tired, overfull, having
trampled down three times As much IS
they have eaten.
WINTER IL the time when it il most
difficult to produce good colored butter
and free from streaks, and the harder to
come; judicious feeding win help this
! very much. It viii pay we'll, with some
simple apparatus, TO steam or cook the
food, with . little salt through it the
COWS will eat everything mp greedily.
a lump of rock salt should always be
where the cows car have access toit-
Coz. F. ID. CURTIS tells the Weekly
Rural that he should pIefere's COW with
a poor eseutcheon and properly formed
in the body, to one with ever so much
width ard outline q escutcheon ana Z
beeiy and unnilk-like figure. 1t may bs
urged that COW with fine escutcheor
would not have such an inconstant form
but such is frequently theIcase, and al
cows of this style are poor mixers"
THERE are many farmers who bav,
extra good butter cows, and do not knoV
it. They have poor pastures in summe,
and no shelter, and Indifferent feed i,
winter. In the house they have no con,
veniences for making butter, the milk i,
set where there are no arrangements Fl,
keeping il cool in summer, and in tbs
living-room, exposed to the odors q tn.
kitchen, in the winter; and neither thu
quantity nor the quality are any indie,
of what cow can do.
Prs for roots must be made wber,
water will not stand on the bottom thew
are dug three or four feet deep. six fee,
wide, and as long as needed. The roots
are stacked in these. beginning 81 The
end of the pit, and fill two feet of =.
length space of six inches is left ana
another section of two feet is built M
aud on, III each cass piling the roots
up to the ground leve, the space, are
then filed in with earth, and the nj
will present series of sections Of i've
feet Of roots and six inches of earth Tba
roots are covered lightly at frs, ~,
when cold weather Comes put on abont
two feet of soil, rounded and smooth =
carry off water.--[Am. Agriculturist
AK editor with nine unma,,;.s
daughters was recently made Justly :
dignant by the misconstruction his cor
temporaries put upon his able leada, i
Z" The demand for men,