The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-01-30
AGRICULTURE.

WHAT PLASTER WILL Do.-A farmer
IN Wisconsin who has used gypsum In
his farming operations for a long time
gives his experience, and we quote a
portion OF what he says. 81 have lived
mere twenty years and used plaster,
about seventy i've pounds 10 the acre.
make at least one-third more clover TO
the acre than can be brought without
plaster. You can see the difference In
the growth as far as you can see the
clover. One application will do for two
years. Our land is Burr oak openings;
was new when | came here and not con-
sidered good for grass, but splendid for
wheat land. There is no sand, some
call Ii clay. 1t looks like ashes when
dry. raise clover, keep three hundred
sheep, four cows and eight horses and
colts, all on q farm of two hundred
acres. | have about sixty acres under
the pillow, and twenty-five of timber;
make all the anu | can, and think
my land richer than when | bought 1t.
l al raise more grass than when 1t was
new, and more corn on a clover sod
when | sowed plaster on the clover than
when II was new. Perhaps il will ruin
1t in time, but as long as | a raise big
crops Of crops of corn and clover and
feed to stock and hogs, | think / will
risk IL. Last year | raised AL bushels
of wheat on nineteen acres, and 600
bushels of wheat and oats mixed, on
twenty-three acres. The lat er will
clean out about One-half wheat, which
will sell as No. 2, as a few small oats
will be left in IL. On sixteen acres of
clover sod | had l 800 bushels of corn,
of the yellow dent variety; stalks left
on the field. You will think that is
poor farming, but we think it will not
pay to cut them, because there Is so
much to handle for so little feed.
WATERING HORSES. A work horse
watered regularly three times a day can
safely be allowed to drink as much as
he wishes, if the water be good and Of
moderate temperature. If the horse
seems very thirsty and disposed to drink
rapidly and in large quantity, 1t is we'll
10 check him after drinking a little, al
lowing him to slack his thirst by sew
eral separate draughts rather than by
One. A horse much heated should not
be allowed TO drink at will. When it
can be done conveniently, the comfort
of the horses will be increased by hav-
ing water in the field and giving them
drink once or twice during each half
day in hot weather. Several farmers
who have tried it speak highly of the
plan of stirring a little oat of corn meal
IN the water %desingned for work horses.
1t is better to do this a few hours before
the water is to be used. Thus in the
morning, the meal may be stirred In
water given the horse at noon. Care
should be taken to keep the vessels used
from becoming sour.
MICE AND BEEs.-During the winter
mice are sometimes troublesome guests
in the apiary, especially If the hives
are surrounded by straw in which they
can harbor. The best preventive is to
have the hives SO tight that they can
gain no admittance. For the sake of
ventilation it is not well, however, to
have the entrance closed air tight.
Therefore, fasten a piece of wire gauze
over the entrance OF the hives that may
be in the cellar, or that may be buried
In the ground; this will exclude mice
and admit air; and over the entrance
of hives that are covered with boxes, as
mentioned above, fasten a piece of tin
about a quarter of al inch above the
bottom board so that the bees can just
pass under the edge of 1t, while the
mice are excluded.
CAYENNE pei p1r, sprinkled around