Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
Around the Farm.

A Georgia paper says that bushel Of
cow-peas sown in May on an acre and
turned under, in ninety days will be
equal to twenty-five households Of sta
bic manure.
The farmer is always ready to stand
and talk an hour with a neighbor OF
friend, even in his busiest season. The
merchant that would do this would be
considered poor business man.
Many more grapes and apples, more
in weight, in bulk, and in food value
says a correspondent of the Count,g
Gentleman, can be grown without prun-
ing or unnatural mutilation than with it.
a very handsome lot of yearlings, av-
eragng 837 pounds, were lately sold for
10 per 100 pounds, at the Chicago
Stock Yards. They are intended. for
feeding, and show that it pays to raise
good steers.
1t should be borne in mind that every
farmer who will take the trouble to
keep up tasteful appearance about his
own family but stimulates his neigh
bors to initiate him. Nothing is more
contagious than the desire for garden
ing when once it gets footing.
After while we. shall settle down
not to think so much of size in potatoes
as we are wont to do. We should bear
in mind that perfection Of form, smooth
ness and color of skin depend upon the
SOIL A sandy loan, well cultivated and
manfred with phosphates and potash,
are what the potato needs.
The soil of the onion beds cannot be
stirred too often. There is no success
without wedding thoroughly. No crop
Is surer to the experienced, careful
propagation, none more uncertain to the
beginner, than this. Better for the lat
ter to gain his first practical knowledge
by small ventures, or to place himself
under the direction of those competent
to instruct.
1t is related that, for use on the oc-
casion of golden wedding down East
during the winter, a supply of gilt
edge butter was engaged from a neigh
Dor who keeps crack Jerseys" and
that he slyly exchanged with another
neighbor for Durham butter, which lat
ter passed at the table for genuine
jersey received many compliments,
and added to the local laurels of thrt
breed.
The LIST of May is not too late to SOW
clover seed, especially if it is sown alone.
In many cases this is to be preferred.
The soil should be made as fine and
mellow as possible, and the clover sown
Immediately after the harrow. Then a
long plank, drawn sidewise across the
field, will cover the seed very quickly,
and will leave the surface smooth. In
this way we have had fine growth of
clover and very close and perfect
stand American Agricultu1qst.
Hungarian grass is becoming popular
again, and is now largely and generally
sown for hay. The yield is very heavy,
severtl tons an acre; and, if cut before
the seeds form, it is one of the best of
foods for stock. The seeds are strong
ly diuretic, and if allowed to ripen on the
hay fed to stock, will injure them. 1t
should be grown exclusively for seed
when that is wanted Being an annual,
if sown late, in June, after other crops of
timothy or other forage is known to have
PARTIALLY failed,
Chopped leeks of onions will be found
an excellent raw vegetable food to give
poultry for a change. They will not
eat too much of this if fed to them often;
if thrown out fresh and clean for NOR
ming or evening feed once in while
without other food at the same time).
they will devour it with an appetite.
Its pungency is claimed by many ex-
perimenters to be an aid toward keep
ing the fowls bodies free from lice
the garlicky fumes Of the onion oozing
out through the skin pores after diges-
ton, and the odor being offensive to
vermin. At all events, this is good
tonic, occasionally. as are other arom-
atlcs such as cayenne pepper, &c.--PouL
hW World.