The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-26
FARM NOTES.


not desirable and are produced by rapid
drying. In curing tobacco endeavor to
LET it dry slowly, taking care, however.
that it does not pole-burn.
WoRMs IN HORSES destroy pin
worms In horses. give an injection of
salt and water two or three days IN Sue
cession, then administer ball consist
ing of an ounce of aloes and one drachm
of calomel. N Y Herald.
EXERCISE FOR Fowls. new way Of
furnishing hens that are confined in a
small space with an abundance of exer-
else is recommended by an exchange. A
piece Of meat is suspended by string,
Just SO high that the fowls will have to
make good jump to reach it. We sup
pose other kinds of food might be thus
placed, and no hen would be without
tie incentive to take the necessary exer-
else while eating her daily food.
Asserting FRu1T.-yireat injury has
been done by the careless way In which
some growers put up their fruit It pays
in the end to give close attention to as
sorting, and those who mark their grades
honestly and put their names on their
packages viii soon obtain the highes:
prices. It may require years for fruit
raiser to establish reputation, but when
this is accomplished he will always OBJ
tain ready sales and be able to command
good prices.
SALT TO POULTRY. We clip the fol-
lowing useful hints: Hens often have
habit Of biting and pulling at their feath-
ers, and greedily eating them until then
bodies are bear This practice it is be-
lieved, is occasioned by want OF salt, as
when sailed food is given them, they
make no attempt to continue the habit
Salt pork chopped fine and fed twice
week, has been adopted with success,
while others put a teaspoonful of salt
with two quarts of meal or shorts moist
ened, well mixed, and feed it about twice
every week. Fowls, like human beings.
to be healthy, must have certain allow
ance of salt.
CoAL FOR PANT--Suel Foster, OF
Muscatine, writes the Iowa Homestead
as follows: 'Iet me again recommend
this article for old wheels, new wheels,
wagon wheels, buggy wheels, wheel bar
rows, etc [ have used it several years,
and know it is the best paint ever used.
This year my buggy needed painting
some of the spolzes ratified, and some Of
the woodwork about the bed ratified
little, md when my man was ta1Ting the
wheels Of the big wagon, the two-horse
spring wagon and the one-horse spring
wagon, he gave the buggy coat all over
running shafts, dash board, in
side and out, all over, and now the old
rattle-trap looks and runs like a new
buggy, runs as silent as midnight hour.
and shines as black as black jet glass
bead Try it; it saves half the cost Of
setting tires; that is, they will not need
setting half as often"
SAVING SEED CoRN.-We frequently
have the vitality of our corn killed by
early frosts, and consequently get poor
Stand of corn the next season. The pre-
ventive is, as soon as there is danger of
FROST to go into the corn1ield and select
the ripest and fairest ears, and plenty Of
them. Save only ears that have small
cobs and deep kernels. Either braid it
up by few husks left on each ear, or
make scaffold in the loft Of some build
ing, where a good circulation of air can
be had. A scaffold can be made by nail
ing sticks from rafter to rafter, and then
laying small poles on. When the corn is
first put up, do not lay it too thick, as
the cob may not dry out, and it may
heat and spoil. Spread out thin.-Co,1
try Gentleman.
MAKING CLAY SOIL FERTILE. In the
Maine Farmer is related the experienced
of Jonathan Weston i'll making clay soil
productive. He says his soil was "a
stiff, hard clay; now it is clay loan and
yields good crops. After blowing the
hardest and poorest acre in my field,
which I did soon after haying, / told
boy and French horse that when they had
nothing else to do it would be their bust
ness to haul sand on to this land. / do
not now recollect, but think we hauled
one hundred and fifty or two hundred
;1r horse loads. The next spring, wifi
q heavy cultivator, I thoroughly mixed
this sand with the clay, and, without
shovelful of any kind of dressing, sowed
it to oats and grass seed. The result
was beyond my most sangtline expecta-
tons, yielding an average Of two tons a
year, with the exception Of the first and
last, for the next eight years, after which
| plowed again and applied the same
remedy to the other side Of the furrow.
Now, after the liberal application Of sand
for so many years my hard clay was dis
solved, ard have in place of it good,
mellow loan. And instead of cutting
eight or ten tons of hay, as formerly, I
now cut in good seasons forty tons. For
the last twenty years | have sold as much
hay on an average each as the farm cut
when I commenced, and yet I have
never purchased $50 worth of manure"
WHAT AN OLD FARMER SAYs.-This is
the advice of an old nan who has titled
the soil for forty years: lam an old man,
of three score years, during two
score of which I have been a tiller Of the
soil. | cannot say that am now, but |
have been rich, and have all / need; do
ut owe q dollar, have given my children
y good education, and when I am called
away, to leave them enough to keep the
wolf from the door. Ny experience has
taught me that:
|. One acre of land, well prepared and
we'll cultivated, produces more than two
which receive only the same amount of
labor :lsed on one.
2. One COW, horse, mule, sheep or hog,
well fed, is more profitable than two
kept on the same amount necessary to
keep one well.
3. One acre Of clover or grass is worth
more than two of cotton where no grass
or clover is raised.
4. No farmer who buys oats, corn, or
wheat, fodder and hay, as rule, for ten
wears, can keep the Sheriff away from
the door in the end.
5. The farmer who never reads the pa
pers, sneers at book-farming and i'm
always has leaBy roof,
poor stock, broken down fences, and
of bad seasons"
6. The farmer who is above his bust
ness and intrusts it to another to manage,
soon has no business to attend to.
Z. The farmer whose habitl1al beverage
is cold water, is healthier, weather. and
wiser than he who does not refuse to
drink.
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