The Osceola times., 1879-01-18
SOUTHERN FARM AND HOME.
AssucuLruRAL NOTES.

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An old potato grower says he think
fifty cents a bushel for potatoes as gO0t
in the fall as seventy-fve cents in thu
spring.
Experiment with mulch Of straw
on a portion of your wheat field. Many
who have tried the plan commend II
highly.
Everything which is "gilt.edged y
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,
will not spread a small quantity Of
manure over large surface OF poor land,
but will only plow as much as he can
highly manure, when his income will be
an large, and bis labor nearly one-half
saved.
The superiority Of Gcotch oatmeal is
said to be partly owing TO the grain being
cut rather glazy"-that is with shade
of green upon it. Oat straw is far less
nourishing for cattle when the crop is
allowed to stand till it is dead ripe.
Early.cut oats are heavier per bushel,
iairer to the eye, and usually sell for
more money.
Whenever horses and COWS are allowed
a large range of fertile feed all at once, it
is the nature OF the animal not to 60
quietly to feeding, but to run all over
the inclosure, examine the boundaries,
snatch mouthful of feed now and then
as they run, and finally to come TO the
yard at night, tired, Overful, having
trampled down three times as much as
they have eaten.
Winter is the time when it Is most
difficult to produce good colored butter
and free from streaks, and the harder to
come judicious feeding will help this
very much. 1t will pay well, with some
simple apparatus, to steam or cook the
food, with little salt through IL; the
cows will eat up everything greedily. A
lump of rock salt should always be where
the cows can have access TO it.
Colonel F. ID. Curtis tells the Weekly
Rural that he should prefer "a COW with
a poor escutcheon and properly formed
in the body to one with ever 80 much
width and outline Of escutCheOn and q
beefy and unmilk.like figure. 1t may be
urged that COW with a fine escutcheon
would not have such an inconsistant
form; but such is frequently the case
and all COVE of this style are poor milk.
ers."
There are many farmers who have ex.
ira good butter cows, and do not know it.
They have poor pastures in summer and
no shelter, and Indifferent feel in winter.
In the house they have no conveniences
for making butter, the milk is set where
there are no arrangements for keeping it
cool in summer, and in the living room,
exposed to the odors of the kitchen. in
winter; and neither the quantity nor
the quality are any index of what COW
can do,
The best fodder corn is that grown
thickly in drills-so thickly that no ears
are developed. Let the ground be rich ;
let the cultivation be thorough; cut up
when the tassels are dropping their pol
len; let it wilt on the ground; tie in
small bundles and set in small stacks,
binding firmly at the top, and also half
way down. Then let it stand as late as
possible before carrying to the barn. II
the crop is planted early it may be cut
up 30 early as to get perfectly dry, If it
has no ears Farmer and Fruit Grower.
The hog cholera cure men are about,
as numerous as the lightning rod men
used to be. Our readers are cautioned
against investing, notwithstanding the ap-
parently demonstrative evidence offered
by the vendors. The so.called hog
cholera is not one disease responsive to
one kind OF treatment, any more than all
the ills that human flesh is heir to is.
These patent nostrums are therefore
frauds, intended only to benefit the
pockets of the makers just as cure.alls
must in the very nature of the case be.
-[Journal of Agriculture.
There is no particular reason why a
COW that keeps easy is worth any more
for that quality. The COW that eats the
most and as result gives the most milk
is the paying animal. 1t pays to feed all
that animals will eat and assimilate.
This is the season when bran and meal
are given to supplement the shortened
pasture 1t is well to remember that
meal is fattening, while bran is milk
producing. A mixture of the two is
excellent for cows that are fattening,
while at the same time the owner desires
to get good lot of milk.
Many farmers throw away the old
brine in beef and pork barrels and fish
packages. Sometimes they pour it on a
grass patch or under a tree and kill the
vegetation with 1t, they should pour Il
on patches of burdocks or thistles, or
around trees that are worthless. 1t il
better, however, to use il for manure, in
VIII ch case it should be applied with
Judgment. 1t may be applied to as
paragus beds, or ounce trees literally,
but to other things srsringly. Ordina-
rily TIE best disposition to make OF ii is
TO pour it on manure or compost heap
and allow IL to be absorbed.-[ Exchange.
Pits for roots must be made where
water will not stand on the bottom; they
are dug three or four feet deep, six feet
wide and as long as needed. The roots
are stacked in these, beginning at the
end Of the pit, and fill two feet OF its
length; space of six inches is left, and
another section of two feet is built up,
and so on, in each case piling the roots
up to the ground level, the spaces are
then filed in with earth, and the pit will
present series of sections of two feet of
roots and six inches of earth. The roots
are covered lightly at first, but when
cold weather comes put on about two
feet of soil, rounded and smoothed to