The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-02-14
Farm Notes.

IT is about time for gardeners to be
thinking about establishing their hot
beds.
AN Usage county, Kan, farmer recent
~ killed a two year old hog weighing
1,l04 pounds
IHE best way to protect the bark of
trees from mice, rabbits or farm stock. is
to tie small bundle of dead branches
around the part to be protected Gar
dener'S Chronicle.
The object of the farmer should be to
raise, from a given extent of land, the
largest quantity of the most valuable
product at the least cost, in the shortest
period of time, and with the least per-
manent injury to the soil.
CATTLE will thrive on from two to
eight pounds of molasses per head daily.
In Central Europe large numbers of cat
tie are fattened upon the residue of the
beet root used in the sugar refneries,
also on beet molasses. In cases of cpl
denies cattle fed with molasses are sell
dom attacked.
IN three pens, three hogs, each nearly
full grown, and about equal in weight
and thriftiness, were fed four months as
follows: One pen soaked corn; one pen
/ boiled corn meal; one pen dry corn. At
the close of the experiment, those fed on
dry corn had made the most weight
Producer.
PorATo-BALLs AS SFED.-Plant the
balls in good rich earth, and keep them
free from weeds. The first crop of pota-
toes will be marvelously small, many no
larger than peas; the second crop will be
better, and the third of full size. You
will probably have lots of varieties of
potatoes, and very probable none like
those from which the seed was taken.
GRASS cut six or seven days after it is
out of blossom will produce hay that
contains about 40 pounds in 100 avail
able for food; the fatty matter will be
pale, producing light colored butter. 1t
will require six hours for COW to digest
a meal of such hay. Early cut hay, on
the other hand, will contain about So
pounds of food material in every 100
which will be in better proportion and
better color. and will require but four
hours for digestion.
ACCORDING to the Northampton
Mass Gazette, William 5. Douglass, of
Greenwich, has very extraordinary
COW. 1t is stated that she gave in the
month of June ,392 quarts. The most
she gave in any one day was 80! quarts.
She averaged through the month 46.4
quarts day; at 6 cents a quart it would
bring 1882.
4 CORRESPONDENT writes to the
Massachusetts PL0ughman as follows:
The milkmen near Boston have found a
satisfactory remedy for abortion in cows
in the use of lime. They give it to the
cows by scattering spoonful at time
over their food, two or three times
week; or sometimes they sprinkle lime
among the hay as it is slowed away in
the barn A neighbor of mine, who has
about twenty cows, and who was for
merly much troubled by abortion among
his herd, informs me that for the last
three years, since he has made use of
lime, he has not had a case, and that very
many of his acquaintance have had
similar experience with their herds.
FEED the cows literally. Plenty of
boiled corn and ground feed, with good
hay and fodder makes plenty of milk
A pail of tepid water, well sailed, with
little bran stirred in, will increase the
flow. Breaking young heifers that ere
restless and disposed 70 kick-a good stool