River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-18
FARM NOTES.

If you want your chicks to grow fast,
feed them on oat meal scalded with
sweet or sour milk. Don't make the
feed wet or sloppy, nor give them more
at once than will be eaten up clean.
Only prepare as much at once as will be
eaten before the fermentation takes
place IN it. Where oatmeal cannot be
had, fine cornmeal or cracked wheat
similarly treated and administered will
answer very good purpose.
SOME people make the mistake
of giving the broods Matched by two or
more hens at once to single hen to
nurse. II each hen has Matched but
one or two chicks, then, of course, il is
right and proper to give them all to one
hen. But if each hen has Matched five
or six chicks, she should be allowed to
rear them. That number is nearly or
quite enough for small or medium
sized hen at this time of year.
In nearly all soils ashes are beneficial.
Their action is twofold; they supply to
plants inorganic constituents which they
require, and they act chemically as sol
vents upon other salts in the soil, o. they
neutralize acids, etc. They are more
beneficial on sandy and gravelly lands
than on clay. For plants that contain
large percentage of potash and phos-
phoric acid, as carrots, turnips, potatoes
and cabbages, ashes are an essential
manure.
ONE fruitful source of collie in horsts
is cracked corn. If corn is to be fed,
use whole corn; it is much more likely
to be perfectly masticated than
cracked corn, and its imperfect masti-
cation causes the collie 1t is also I'M
wise to feed grain to hungry horse,
for then large portion is very apt 10 be
swallowed without being properly mas
ticate6. This can be seen in their void
ings. Always let the edge of horses
hunger be taken off with feed of hay
before feeding grain. Half an hour ex-
ira spent in feeding, when on the road,
will bring you home half an hour earlier
at night.
ALL animals fatten better in mild
weather or in comfortable winter quar-
tiers than when exposed to the incem-
ent season. A farmer, DESTROYS of test
ing this, commenced with lot of hogs,
averaging 175 pounds each, on the 20th
of September. He fed them two weeks
and then weighed them, and found that
at the price ruling in that market his
corn SO fed brought him 60 cents per
bushel. He weighed and fed them
again two of the coolest weeks in No
vember, and found on again weighing
that, with pork at the same price, his
corn had only brought him 80 cents.
IF q wound is made on q tree when
it is not growing, it does not heal up
readily, but the wood dies back a..d
leaves a scar for several years. A
wound made while the tree is growing
vigorously commences to heal immedi
atelv, and will usually be covered with
new bark III one or two years; there
fore, when it is necessary to remove
large limb, cut it off in winter a short
distance from the tree, leaving a snag
about one foot long; in the sixth month
(Junel cut the snag close and smoothly,
and the wound will soon be healed
over.
If there is not sufficient rain to keep
compost heaps moist, water should be
supplied, even if it has to be hauled and
poured on them. Decomposition il
arrested when the heap becomes dry.
A few barrels of water from the well
will soon start up heat and decomposi-
ton in dry pile of compost.
TwENTY-oNE cars Of stock and farm
ing implements passed through Bar
lington one day last week, consigned to
towns in western Iowa and eastern Ne
braska.