The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-28
FARM NOTES.


and every other calf she has is a heifer,
in ten years the COW and her offspring
will drop forty-one calves. This shows
the rapidity with which farm can be
stocked.
SETH GREEN advocates frog culture.
He says that many farmers have fortunes
in frog ponds, and that little care and
cultivation will produce a crop Of frogs
large enough for family use, after supply
ing the market.
THE Brazilian artichoke has much to
recommend it as a prominent plant for
the interest of the swine, and in no case
should the hog raiser violate the necessi-
ty of growing few acres for their par
ticular special benefit.
AT the next fat-stock show in Chicago,
animals years old and over will be
excluded. Steers should be finished at
most at years old, and the time is near
at hand when a 3-year-old will rarely be
seen, except III the hands of men who do
not progress, or on the plains Of the far
West.
The National LiUe Stock Journal
publishes statement by Prof. Weber,
of the Illinois University, that Dr. Hass'
hog-cholera specific is compounded as
follows: Cayenne pepper, common salt,
calcium carbonate, magnesium, carbon
ate and water That probably any
amount could be made at Is cents per
pound.
A WRITER in the Fancier8' Journal, in
speaking of ducks, pronounces the
Aylesbury and Pekin the best varieties,
the former being noted for its large
white eggs and delicately-favored flesh,
and the latter for the richness of it's
eggs, good constitution and rapid fatten-
ing. The Rouen is pronounced only
slightly inferior in flavor and in quality
Of eggs to the above, natures earlier, and
is harder.
LARGE quantities of sugar beets will
be grown this year in Canada, Maine,
Massachusetts,, Delaware and California.
Between the beet, sorghum and corn the
problem of manufacturing sugar in this
country seems likely to be solved. Per-
haps the planters Of sugar cane in Louis
lama will cultivate the beet, as they could
doubtless raise two crops yearly, like the
Creole planters Of tobacco on the banks
of the Mississippi.
In some parts Of Germany, instead of
smoking meat to preserve it, it is hung
up in a dry, well-ventilated room, and
painted over with wood vinegar (pyro-
hgneous acid), an acid distilled over
when wood is burned in air-tight stoves.
or any other place where there is not
free access of atmospheric air. The
painting three or four times with this
vinegar answers every purpose Of smok-
ing. 1t protects the meat from insects,
fungi, and putrefaction.
A SPECIAL committee, appointed for
the purpose of testing an Ayrshire COW
belonging to the herd Of Wolcott &
Campbell, New York mills, Utica state,
under oath, that she gave eighty-fve
pounds of milk per day, several days in
succession. This, in ali probability, is
the largest product recorded of the Ayr
shire COW, amounting to about thirty
nine quarts. On account of this large
record let no one lightly esteem their
COW which gives twenty quarts per day.
The best soil for sweet potatoes is a
sandy loan. IF sand largely predomi-
mates they will flourish if well MANFRED.
New ground or virgin soil is especially
favorable for this crop. It is the COM
mon practice to SOW buckwheat on new
land for the first crop and then to plant
sweet potatoes for the second. An
abundant crop is the general result. In
heavy loan the vines grow luxuriantly,
but the tubers are generally small, rooty
and of inferior quality. In clayey soil
sweet potatoes will not thrive.
The New York Tribune says : 1T is
folly to keep old sheep. They should
be turned off to the butcher while they
are In their prime. 1t does not take half
SO much to fatten them then. When
they get old and thin, in order to put
them in condition to slaughter, the whole
superstructure must be rebuilt. Four
sets Of lambs are all eve can bear
this will bring her to five years, and this
is an age when, with little extra care,
she will round up to fine carcass. Elk
ceptions may be made when the breed
is scarce, and the blood is more valuable
than anything else.
If TAKEN internally with their food,
sulphur will almost invariably keep all
kinds of animals free from lice. We
have made a practice for years past of
giving heaping tablespoonful once a
week in the feed of each of our COWS,
and the same quantity to about every
ten hens in our flock, and they have
never been troubled with lice in them.
1t may be given in the same proportion
as to size when required in the food of
poultry, pigs and sheep. Sulphur is a
mild cathartic when desired for this pur-
pose, and In small doses seems to have a
general beneficial effect ON the animal
system, something like salt, though, of
course, not of that nature.
AT Zwall, Holland, the municipal gov
eminent have solved the oleomargarine
difficulty by setting apart place in the
public market for the sale of this COM
modify, with a positive prohibition
against exposing it for sale anywhere
alse Much amusement seems to have
been derived from seeing sellers who,
only q short time before had hann 1Ou1