The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-09-18
AGRICULTURAL.

wheat were sold in the United Kingdom,
against 133, 900 quarters for the same
period in 1879. This is straw as show
ing something Of bad English harvest.
For the week ending August 80, there
was sphipped from Atlantic ports, 4, 500,-
900 bushels of wheat. For the six weeks
ending Aug. 80, the exports of wheat cx-
ceeded those for corresponding period
last year by 9,970,0 900 bushels.
CULyER's STATION, IND, Sept. s.
Q.-Is corn and oats mixed AMI
ground together good grain feed for
sheep? If SO, in what proportions should
the two kinds be mixed2 J.F.
A.-Yes; in the proportion of one
bushel of oats to one of corn. 1t is bet
ter ground coarse, since sheep grind
their food perfectly.
A party of English farmers arrived
from Liveryool at New York on Septem-
Der 6, en- route to Galveston, Texas.
They were 76 Ill number and have bought
lands IN Texas, ranging in quantity from
so to 160 acres each. 1t is the advance
guard of an exodus from England, of
farmers who have made up their minds
they cannot stand the extortion of land
lords, who have based the value of their
land at rates not warranted, i'll this day
of quick and cheap transit of products
from one part of the world to another.
CHILLICoTHE, ILL, Sept. 3.
Q.-1 Please inform me how many
sweet potato plants are required for an
acre? 2. Which is the best soil, over
flowed (sandy) bottom land or upland
sandy prairie9 H.H.
Al. In ridges feet apart, the
plants l6 inches in the row, it will re-
quire S.l66 plants per acre. This is the
usual distance at which they are plant
ed. If the ridges are 81 feet apart and
the plants 21 inches in the row as some
times planted the number of plants re-
quired will be something over 1000
plants. 2. Sandy upland prairie.
GRAZING IN COLORADO.
All over the cattle range in the noun
tains any where in the state can be found
hundreds of acres of wild oats, and hors
es that ran out all last winter brought
out new hair . month earlier, and were
much fatter than driving team which
had all the barley and hay it could eat
so much for it's quality. Several kinds
also OF tame grass are found in the noun
tain ranges. Wild [ shall call them.
The red top flourishes splendidly.
The grazing fields of Colorado are too
we'll known to need an introduction. The
'gramma" or bunch grass is better than
clover for milch COWS as it makes much
harder, more solid butter. The butter
from bunch grass will be quite yellow all
the year round, is tough, solid and sweet,
and so hard even in July and August
that it requires all the strength of an
average woman to properly wash and
salt eight pounds at time by hand. It
will keep, when we'll made, for two years
and be sweet and eatabie still. New
York men in tho dairy business after see
ing and eating butter here last week, said |
they would give it up, Colorado was far
ahead
FIsTULA.-A. J. H., Hallecd, Nev.-Q. |
have 4 valuable horse which got hurt
in the witheres. back of where the collar
works. He sustained the injury by run
ming under shed, and striking this
withers against tho top Of the door. 1t
is swollen on both points of shoulders, ON
top, and broken open on one side, and
kind of watery discharge comes from
the wound. | have be3a informed that
it Is iistala, bat not knowing / ask for
Information and treatment; the horse is
otherwise in fine condition, the wound
does not appear to bother him at all. By
answering this, you will greatly oblige a
constant reader of your valuable paper.
A.-By means of small hard rubber
syringe, clean out the cavity by injecting
clean water, morning and evening; after
each cleaning out, inject by the same
means, portion Of tincture of iron. If,
in the course Of ten to fifteen days, no
preeeptible Improvement isapparent, it
may be necessary to lay open the whole
cavity, by means of narrow bladed,
probe pointed histoury, when, after hav-
ing removed all decaying portions of tis-
sue or bone, the wound should be dress
ed thrice daily with oakum or tow, soak
ed in tincture of aloes. Sometimes cases
of this kind require cutting more than
once,