Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-03
FARM NOTES.

Ahm NUIES.
IA Vermont farmer recommends the
use Of sawdust as a bedding for cattle, to
keep them clean and absorb the liquid
manure. An experience of twenty wears
in using on large farm shows that it
does not injure the soil, being freely APP
piled in this way. Some soils, no doubt,
would be improved by the addition Of
sawdust; others might be injured some-
what for time until the sawdust decay.
ed.
A moderate quantity Of green rye
will be very acceptable to the horses. It
will have healthful effect, and will cool
the system as well as dose of medicine.
When there are no stones in the fields,
the shoes may be removed from the pillow
team Tor time, with benefit. Hurry up
the work during this month so that as
the midday heat increases next month,
some leisure may be taken.
Cows that have access to water at all
times will drink often, but little at a
time, and return to their feeding. Cows
deprived Of sufficient supply Of water
fail in milk and flesh; and when they are
allowed to fail, not only in milk, but in
condition, also, it is almost impossible to
bring them back to their proper yield of
milk and condition of flesh, at least with
out extra expense and trouble.
A farmer says: "Four years ago my
farm was fearfully infested with rats.
They were SO numerous that / had great
fears of my whole crop being destroyed
by them after it was housed; but having
two acres of wild peppermint that grew
in field Of wheat, cut and bound with
the wheat it drove the rats from my prem
ises. I have not been troubled with them
since, while my neighbors have any guam
tity of them.''
Fresh manure produces but little effect
when applied to crops, but when it is well
rotted it then contains much valuable
soluble matter, absorbable by plants. In
fresh manure the most important con-
stituent Of it's soluble portion is potash,
and it contains but small proportions Of
ammonia and phosphoric acid. Rotten
manure, on the contrary, yields to the
solvent action of water, large amounts of
nitrogen and phosphorus acid.
The following is a good recipe for
worms in horses: Powdered poplar bark,
two ounces; powdered sulphur, four oun-
ces; salt, three ounces; mixed we'll. Di-
vide this mass into twelve parts, and mix
one with the food every night. This will
not only remove worms, but also tone up
the digestive organs, so that the parasite
cannot find feothold. Three parts
wood ashes and two of salt, a table
spoonful fed daily with the feed, is a
simple and efectual remedy.
In recent discussion of the profits of
wheat-growing in England, the curious
fact was developed that the product of
the straw has become, in that country,
more important than that of the wheat.
This is not because the yield of wheat, in
proportion to the straw, is less than for
merly, but is due to the tact that straw is
now SO extensively used in chopped food
for animals, and enters into so many
manufactures that there is demand for
all that is raised, and it brings good
price.
Robert Vanvoorhis, a Washington coun-
ty (Pa) wool-raiser, has just clipped from
205 sheep 1904 pounds of wool, an aver
age of over Is pounds. All the sheep were
ewes with two exceptions two bucks,
one Of which was a yearling. Half of the
ewes were also yearlings This enormous
clip, at 80 cents per pound, will realize
81, 156.40, an average Of $7.72 per head.
Mr.. Vanvoorhis is the champion sheep
man, SO far as heard from
Dust young cucumber plants freely
with mixture Of ashes and plaster or
air-slacked lime, to keep away insects.
Unless seeds to be saved, cut away all
that are large enough to use, whether
wanted or not, to prolong the bearing.
In sowing for pickles the last of this
month or the first of next, il is as we'll to
SOW in we'll MANFRED rows, as in hills
putting in twelve to twenty seeds to the
foot, to allow enough for the bugs When
we'll established thin out the vines to a
foot apart, and let them spread out on
each side of the row.
An old farmer says: sIf I had the
choice Of one fertilizer only, should Sc
lect genuine guano, and if my gardens
soil was heavy, / should require nothing
to mix with it; but if light and hot in its
nature, should covet some common salt.
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salt for dry soils, and spread over the
surface during damp weather at the rate
Of, say, two ounces per square yard, will
increase the value of any crop to which it
is applied. To destroy slugs, half the
quantity, or less in dry weather, will be
found highly beneficial.
Lard and kerosene are good to keep
lice from calves; sulphur mixed with salt
is good. to drive ticks from sheep. Calves,
like all other animals, should be kept
growing from youth to maturity. Here
is one place where the profit comes in.
There is always loss Of time and feed,
and more, too, by allowing young animals
to 'sstand still'' for six months or more OF
the year. Sheep are we'll clothed and
need shelter from the snow or rain, and
perhaps from the strongest wind, but cold
agrees with them. Feed them well; give
them plenty of water in small focks;
keep them dry.