The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-05
FARM NOTES.

In curing tobacco, it should dry slow
~, and yet not pole burn. Very much
depends on the weather. Rapid drying
tends to produce light colors, which,
usually, are not desirable.
KEEPING sheep is pleasant and profit
able, if attended to properly. Wool is
sure thing every year, and brings cash.
1t has Its ups and downs, but let any
man make up his mind that none but his
wife or his administrator shall sell his
wool for less than fifty cents per pound.
and he will come out all right. So talks
an eastern contemporary.
FROM a late Paris journal we learn
that the French Forestry Department
have arrived at the conclusion that for
ests greatly increase the water supply
wherever found. From close observa-
tons made it is found that rain falls
much ofteneF and more abundantly In
wooden tracts, and that, while the leaves
and branches give back the water Quick
~ to the air, they prevent rapid evapora-
ton from the ground, and are thus favor
able to the formation of springs.
Corn loses one-fifth by drying, and
wheat one-fourteenth. From this the
estimate is made that it is more profit
able for farmers to sell unshelled corn in
the fall at Is cents than at 81 bushel in
the following summer, and the wheat
$l.25 in December is equal to $3.50 in
the succeeding June. In the case of po-
tatoes--taking those that rot and are
otherwise lost with the shrinkage, there
Is but little doubt that between October
and June the loss to the owner who
holds them Is not less than SO per cent
A CALIFORNIAN claims that In seven
years trial, exposed to all possible vicissi-
tudes, and subjected to early and late
planting on all kinds of land, the Ana
hiem Odessa wheat has never been
known to rust. It stands hot dry spells
and north winds before which other
varieties are known to fail, besides
which it has been known to produce
forty bushels to the acre on strong alkali
soil that had failed to raise any other
crop and would not sprout corn. Moth
ing was said about the marketable quail
ity Of the wheat, but if it has standard
value In addition to all these qualities il
looks very much as if it could be intro
duced into Oregon, and especially to the
dry alkaline lands East of the Noun
tains, to good advantage. - Prairie
Farmer.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country
Gentleman believes that every species Of
bird, large and small, is subject to the
gapes. The young of the robin are
often troubled with them. It is also be-
lieved that many chicks thus afflicted die
of starvation, on account of their inability
to swallow. This parasite disease is oc-
casioned by number of small worms il
the THROAT. producing inflammation. The
fowl is oftentimes relieved by the use of
a stiff horse hair or quill stripped OF
its feathers within an inch of the end,
which, when carefully used, will remove
some of the worms. Care and proper at
tention to fowls will ward off the disease.
Pure water, wholesome food and sufi.
cient room for exercise will seldom fail
In preventing its appearance.
SOME time ago we remarked that ar
acre of swamp muck of good quality
three feet deep, was actually worth s25,
600. No doubt such statement is sur.
prising. So was the statement of DR.
Lawes, of England, that a ton of bran
fed to COWS returned more than it cost il
manure. Swamp muck, free from sand,
contains two per cent. or forty pounds O
nitrogen in ton. Nitrogen is worth il
the market twenty-five cents per pound
so that ton of swamp muck is wortl
$10tfor the nitrogen in it. All that il
needed is to work up the muck, so as Il
make the nitrogen available. An acre
of swamp muck three feet deep contains
| $500 tons, and would require eigh
months to draw out, at ten loads day
Few persons realize the value of the fer
tilizing elements of common waste mat
ters which lie under their feet, and the
innumerable tons of matter that may be
available for fertilizing purposes, and
that much of the idle and neglected
materials represent vast amount O.
wealth. american AgricultWiSt
IT has been stated by some of our ag
ricultural papers that one objection t.
the Southern cow-peas for the North il
that the season is too short to admit OF
their ripening seeds. This is one of those
errors that occur from perfunctory exper
;ments The variety of cow-pea called
"Poor Land !" ripened seeds at the Rura
Farm in large quantities by August 18th
This variety is, indeed, one of the bes
for Northern fields. The seeds gernin
ate freely and produce an immense
amount of vine, which completely covers
the earth for space of not less than si1
feet. Those who have tried the mixed
kinds which we distributed last season
and who would pronounce them failure
are advised to try the "Poor Land" I
can be supplied by Southern dealers, anG
perhaps 10y Northern ones as well.-
Rural NeoO- Yorker.