Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-09-09
NOTES FOR FARMERS.
How the Granger Can Make His
Labors Rebound to His Profit
Items of Interest About Fruit


of peaches since 1870.
THE Nebraska Farmer speaks highly
of grass wheat" as being exempt from
pinch bugs, and that 1t is becoming pop
ular in the State.
GIVE your hogs rubbing-pOst in some
accessible part OF their inclosure; 1t FAC
ilitates their keeping clean, and seems to
afford them much satisfaction.
COMMON soda, such as they use in
making bread, dissolved in water and
used as a wash, will sometimes remove
warts, says a farmer. Another says
a strong wash OF alum water is good
cure.
GREELEY was one of the superior class
of city agricultural editors. Once
countryman inquired of him whether
he ever put guano on his potatoes.
He replied that he preferred butter or
gravy.
A REFRIGERATOR car leaves Council
Bluffs every Monday and Wednesday
mornings over the Chicago and North
western Road for Chicago. 1t fills up
with butter, eggs and vegetables before
il reaches the city.
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spring | procure a quality OF cedar
boughs and scatter them plentifully in
and around the hen house. This is all
that is necessary, as the odor OF the &C.
dar keeps away the lice"
THE Westchester Republican has this:
"a plum tree on the property OF John
J. Parker, in West Goshen township, is
Joined at the root by a peach tree,
which is making good progress and does
not interfere with the other trees
growth"
JUST before the Judge of the Police
Court passed sentence he was stopped
bv the prisoner, who remarked: You
remind me of the crops, Judge"
"Why?" asked his Honor. "Hou are
looking fine" was the response. The
Court didn't belle his looks.-Agric'oltur-
!a,
WHEAT requires a fine and mellow
soil; it is best ifcOmpact below and ro-
guIsh on the top. II there are any
clods. these should be brought up from
below by repeated borrowings and bro
ken bv the roller or the disk harrow.
If they cannot be broken up completely
they are better on the top than be-
low the surface. A roller will break
many.
If moderation is needed anywhere on
the farm it is in the driving of cows. A
boy or dog that will hurry and there
fore worry the cows as they are taken
to and from the pasture should be
TO put it mildly-attended TO. Boys do
not run the COWS home, even il it is get
ting late, especially if it is on the way
to the yard and their udders are full OF
milk.
PoTAToEs suffer more from weeds
than any other crop. One weed Will
take up and evaporate a good deal OF
moisture from the soil, and rob the crop
of what it greatly needs. This loss OF
moisture is not often thought of in con-
siderIng the effects OF weeds, but 1t is
very important. When too late to be
killed by cultivation, the weeds should
be hand-pulled.
THE digestion of a horse is governed
bv the same laws as that of a man, and,
as we know that it is not best for man to
90 at hard work the moment a hearty
meal isseaten, so we should remember
that horse ought to have a little rest
after meal, while the stomach is most
active in the process OF digestion. Many
a good horse has been ruined by indu-
dicious haste in working him with a full
stomach.
We venture the assertion that the
man who takes sufficient care OF his
stock from their infancy till ready for
the market, providing for their proper
and necessary feed and shelter in the
varying seasons to keep them always
growing. healthy and thrifty, that his
profits will be p to 30 per cent. greater
than those Of his neighbor on similar
stock which receives the ordinary care
given by the average farmer.
PROF. FARMIyGToN, in q summary OF
the experiment begun in 1870 by the
Maine Agricultural College, to ascer-
tain which has the greatest value as food
for swine, cooked or uncOoked meals,
saws: 1--WE have, by an experiment
which has been continued from three
10 four months of each OF the nine years
since ITS beginning, obtained evidence
that all the money and labor expended
in cooking meals for swine is more than
| thrown away.
THE .igricdtrjSt says: "When hogs
are put up to iatten and fed on dry corn,
it is the practice to give them but little
water; but they require some. 1t would
impossible for hog to live for weeks
without water or other drink when feed
ING on dry corn, although when fed on
new soft corn, very small quantity OF
water will be sufficient, and possibly, if
the corn is very soft and unripe, water
might not be indispensable"
CARROTS seem to have some peculiar
effects on the health OF horses, render
ing the skin especially glossy and
healthy looking. For milCh cows car
rots are valuable for the golden tinge
and richness which they impart to the
butter They are also more nOurishing
for cows than turnips are. In feeding
carrots, care should he taken that the
pieces are not cut in such shape as 10
choke the animal. Cut large carrots
lenthwise, not across.
SLEEPS pclts can be tawcd and not
tanned. Tawing is done by Scraping
the flesh side OF the pelt clean from all
flesh or fat, then sprinkling it with
mixture of finely powdered alum and
salt in equal parts. Two skins are then
laid with the flesh sides together, or a
single one doubled lengthwiSe and rolled
up for a week or ten days; then opened,
scrapcd and washed and rubbed dry
with piece OF chalk, and worked and
pulled until the skin is soft.
! OvER-FAT stock at our fairs is not pop
ular as premium animals as formerly.
Visitors and purchasers also prefer ami
mails in good breeding condition. The
English breeders are coming to see it,
too. \ recent issue of the London Lire
Stock Journal says: at is not asking
good Judge too much to give the prizes
to the best shaped animals in good
breeding condition, rather than to ami
mails that are more suitable for fat
stock show
4 GOOD remedy for lice on cattle is
water in which potatoes were boiled.
For every one of your cattle take two
quarts Of water and eight middle-sized
potatoes cut in half. II you have ten
cattle Won must take eighty potatoes and