Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-09
THE HOUSE AND FARM
Farm Notes.

Farm Notes.
Are the farm implements all under
cover, well cleaned and oiled2
There were $4,000 acres Of amber SUI
gar cane planted IN Minnesota last year.
Farmers teams should never'be hitched
near grog shop doors. 1t looks suspici-
GUS.
The cotton crop of187S, in round num-
bers, is 5.197,00O bales allowing $50
pounds to the bale.
Quite number of horses have been
poisoned in Kansas by being fed raw cas-
tor beans.
The agricultural bureau of North Car
olina does not cost the citizens of that
state anything. The bureau of Georgia
has surplus fund of over $4,000.
According to returns and estimates
collected and complied by the agricultu-
raj department in Washington, the pres
ent years crop Of wheat in the United
States yields the enormous total of 1885,
100000 bushels.
There are yearly raised in Vermont:
Corn, 1,699,882 bushels; wheat, 454,7OS
bushels. There are in the state $50 grist
mills worth $1,s50,0oO. The average
price of corn now is so cents per bushel,
while from 1852 to 1877 it averaged 90
cents per bushel.
Cure for Hog Chozera.-A farmer who
has suffered from the loss of over one
hundred hogs this year, has remedy
which he says cures in every case.
My informant is Mr.. G.. W. Baker, of
| Chapman's Creek, Clay county; P. O.
Wakefield. He breaks box of concen-
trated lye into barrel of clean water,
and when the I've is Dissolved, gives it to
the hogs to drink.
Mr.. B. says he had in his feeding lot, a
hog which would weigh 400 lbs, so near
dead that he thought it useless to try to
| save him, but on second thought SAID,
try anyhow. So he rolled him on his
back and poured a pint of the LIQUID
made, tride stronger than that in the
barrel, down his throat, and in less than
an hour porker was on his feet, cracking
corn nearly as lively as ever-Kansas
Farmer.
The money sunk by large farmers dur.
ing the last 10 years amounts to more
than $1oo,oo0,ooo, and it is thoght that
their failures have taught them a valu-
able and much needed lesson. Much of
the success of France, has been ascrlbed
to the subdivision Of the country Into
small farms, which thoroughly titled,
support large population. France
produces more wheat, it is said, than the
whole of the United States. Her crop.
tor 1858 IS represented at 35O,OOO,OOO
bushels, while ours for the same year
was only 24O,000,n00 bushels. The little
farms we'll titled by Or under the direct
labor and superintendent of the owners
ana their wives, sons and daug hters
usually pay the best.
Pastures of the best kind Will produce
more milk of the best quality than any
other feed. A quart of meal, twice day,
is worth something in promoting gentle
ness. Corn ard oats, ground and mixed
in equal quantities, make the most valu-
able meal, and given quantity of such
meal is worth more than any other;
though barley and meal made in spearl-
ing" and meal from making split peas,
and shorts, and ship -stufs, are all held as
| of great value to help sustain the yield of
milking during the winter Live Stock
Journal.
4. J. Dunn of Peachman, VT, has kept
| an accurate account of his dairy expenses
| during the past year, and finds that he
has made and sold Alta pounds of but
ter from IL dairy COWS, besides using
large quantities of milk for his family
and in raising lambs. He figures up an
income of 800 per COW. He received
from % to Sc cents pound for his but
ter. Every farmer should keep an &C.
count of his farm expenses, that he may
know what branches of farming paw him
the best profits, and on what he makes
losses.
Agriculture cannot be carried on by
any rigid rule. The soil of no two fields
are precisely alike, or would be ALL q
benefited by the same treatment. No
two seasons are precisely alike. all is
variety, change. Intelligent farming is
learned to adapt methods to conditions
and circumstances. There are fixed
principles that apply to each condition.
The man who masters principles can be-
come master in practice. Modify all
principles according to soil and climate.
People seem to think that the earth of
farm is capable of oSidizing and de-
stroying any quantity of sewerage or
drainage containing dissolved organized
matter. But all soils have distinct lin
it in this respect, which cannot be exceed
ed with safety. The assimilation of pu-
trescible substances by plants is matter
of time, and until that work is fully COM
pleted the juices of the vegetation are
offensive to the smell. Cows fed upon
sewage grass have been known to Weld
milk which is very different from that
which they give when fed with sweet
grass. Butter made from milk of COWS
on sewage pasture soon becomes so dis
agreeable to taste and smell that it is in
| tolerable.
Directions for Pruning
M. DuBOreuil in q work on nrunino