The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-07-02
THE FARM.

--Brahmas are said TO eat more potato
beetles than any other breed Of fowls.
There is no stock on the farm that costs
50 little, that pays 50 well as sheep.
Much Of opposition 10 commercial fer
tilizers-we might perhaps, say all Of it's
the result Of Ignorant and improper use Of
them.
To promote laying, give bones and
scraps Of cooked meat. TO keep the young
chickens healthy, keep the broods separate.
Fowls like newly cut grass; give them
all they want Of it. The clippings from q
lawn mower are just the thing for them
When turkeys are two months old they
cansuccessiully Withstand theseverestweath-
er, if dry, In wet weather they should be
confined in yard under cover.
If you market vegetables, make them
as attractive in appearance rs possible,
Take care in sorting and washing and do not
indiscrim nately mix the good, bad and i'll
different.
DO not leave fertilizers about where
poultry, sheep, brother animals can pick up
fragments, or lick the bags, and do not wash
the bags in water troughs, or ponds, where
where animals drink, as some Of the chem
icals are pois)no
The poultry keeper who succeeds the
best is he who exercises the most judicious
supervision of his flock, allowing natural
proclivities TO take their course, and who
checks the sitting propensities ofaged fowls
by death.
If you will farm, 60 to the top round
be good one. Have good orchard, good
garden fertile fields full barns, improved
cattle, fat hogs, fine chickens, take two or
three good papers, and raise respectable
and intelligent family.
Com loses one.ffth by drying, and
wheat one-fourteenth. So il is much better
10 sell unsheIlcd corn in the fall at 10 cents
than 81 bushel in the following summer,
and wheat 81 % in December than 81 As
in the succeeding June.
There is no occupation which is so sure
of a return for labor as agriculture. The
risk of manufacturers and miodlemen is
three-fold that Of farmers, but their enter
prise is so great that they seldom succumb
10 pressure till il becomes crushing.
If any manure is left in the yard after
springit should be heaped up and sprinkle
Of plaster OF gypsum applied once week to
prevent the escape Of the manuriaI gases.
The plaster fixes or holds the ammonia so
that il is not lost. The pile should be
forked over occasionally and melted to pre-
vent burning
The zebra has been considered one of
the most untractable and untamable Of ami
mails. The acclimation garden manager at
Paris now states that several have been sue
cesstully broken there, and advises their use
by African explorers as best adapted TO bear
ing burdens of any animal known. 1t is
hardly probable, however, that individuals
possessing the necessary tact, courage and
patience TO subdue this animal will be found
in Africa, when taken wild and fully grown
It h 5 generally been thought that wild
Mexican mule was lamb compared to the
striDed feet and long -eared inhabitant Of
Africa.
A well-known horticuturalst says the
objection against watering when the sun
shines on the plants is purely theoretical
one, and appears only in the writings Of those
who have had but little actual experience
Nevertheless, the evening is the proper
time for watering when the best results in
the conversion Of moisture are expected
Actual experience has taught that plants
willing from the effects of heat should be
shaded as well as watered. Experience has
also taught that superficial watering do but
little good. The water given should reach
the roots of the plants. The great objection
to watering under hot sun is that the ey-
halation is so strong that much OF the water
given is quickly evaporated