Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-01
FARM NOTES.
Fern, Rakilsgs.

did best were the large popcorn, a ten
rowed variety, and the Mayard, six
teen-rowed kind. Rice and Shaker corn
are also well thought of by my neigh
bors who have tried them.-G. Ho,Oard,
Galend, H.
A GOOD and wholesome harvest drink
Is prepared by mixing oatmeal in water,
In proportion of three or four ounces of
the meal to gallon of water. Oatmeal
possesses peculiar aroma and acts as a
stimulant, and is Strengthening to the
system. Water alone often induces ad-
ditional Precipitation, passing through the
pores as through colander, Very cold
Water should not be drunk except very
moderately when the body is very warm.
AN Indiana farmer tried four different
fertilizers for melons-peultry drop
pings, well-rotted COW manure, barn
manure, and old bones gathered upon
the farm and reduced by placing them
In alternate layers with ashes the pre-
yious year, mixing all literally in the
different hills, which were eight feet
apart each way, and he says: "Such
a crop of melons as came from the hills
that had the bone-dust I never saw be
fore"
The Michigan Farmer says: If you
desire to get a large yield of rich milk
give your COWS every day water slightly
warm and slightly sailed, in which bran
has been stirred at the rate of one quart
to two gallons of water. You will find
that your cow will give 25 per cent. more
milk Immediately upon the effects of it,
and she will become so accustomed to the
diet as to refuse to drink clear water IN
less very thirsty. The amount of this
drink necessary is an ordinary pailful at
time, morning, noon, and night.
HENS fed on clean, sound grain and
kept on clear grass run, give much
finer-favored eggs than hens that have
access to stable and manure heaps, and
eat all kinds of filthy food Hens feed
ing on fish and onious flavor their eggs
accordingly, the same as COWS eating
onions or cabbage, or drinking often
sive water, impart bad taste to the
milk and butter. The richer the food
the higher the color of the eggs. Wheat
and corn give the best color, while feed
ing on buckwheat makes them colorless.
making them unfit for some confection-
cry purposes.
MANY OF our readers have never even
tried the experiment of planting corn in
drills. We are much in favor of the
plan from experience, and should feel
sorry if obliged to go back to the old
system of checks OR hills. We are now
using corn drill which drops grain
every fourteen inches and covers. The
drills are four feet apart. This is for
Blount's corn. For varieties that do
not grow so tall and sucker less, three
and one-half feet would be sufficient
width for the rows. It islands to
reason" that four kernels planted four
teen inches apart viii grow and develop
better than four kernels planted to-
gether We doubt if the extra labor in
eultivating is enough to be taken into
account.
By all accounts from that quarter
enormous amounts Of commercial fertil-
izers were this year used in the Southern
States, especially in those that touch the
Atlantic-more even than ten or twelve
years ago. At that time thousands of
planters ran heavily into debt for these
means of restoring the fertility of the
soil exhausted by the reckless cropping
Of the improyident days OF slavery, and
it took many of them years of anxiety
and economy and the sale for song of
many of their acres to get rid of the
load they had thus imprudently placed
upon their shoulders, while not few
slipped from under it either through the
bankruptcy court or across to Texas.
1t is to be hoped that the experience of
those bitter days has taught the planters
lesson of prudence, for this is needed
even in well-doing. As for the dealers,
trust them to look out for their own in
terests without prompting.
In rearing calves, after fortnight old,
skim-milk may be gradually substituted
for new milk, by adding tablespoonful
OF haxseed, well boiled, to their allow
ance mornings and nights. If flax
seed is not to be had, then
substitute oil meal. Steep one-quar-
ter of pound of this in boiling
water, and add to each gallon of skim
milk fed to the calf. As the animal
Increases in size, gradually increase the
quantity of faxseed or ol-meal Take
special care that the milk be sweet, and
feed it blood warm. After a while, oat-
meal or fine middlings may be added to
the milk, and, as the calf gets to be two
OF three months old, Indian meal and
wheat bran, mixed half and half, may be
used instead Of oatmeal and middlings !;