The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1880-03-25

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oDBs AND ENDS roR FARMERS
Tho fowl house should Be warm, ye
ventilated. $3.50
Keep your fewls under rs even ten
peature q possible.
Egg for sittiag shosld be from healthy
adult birds, mot related.
}, Ashes or saltpetre, II applied in time
! win hold the onion maggot IN check.
;. The Paris Society Of Agriculturist.
, wants . 10 per cent. duty laid on agri.
: cultural products for the protection Of
French farmers.
Ewes sometimes need assistance in
parturition. They should be carefully
watched, and II anything is wrong help
should be promptly given.
l The Wisconsin Senate recently passed
bills appropriating 81 900 to the North
ern Wisconsin Agricultural Society,
and $500 to the State Horticultural So
ciety.
A correspondent recommends an oint-
ment composed Of equal parts of lard
and gxnpowder - . remedy tor
scratches in horses, 10 be used daily un-
til cured.
It 10 good plan 70 cut scions for
spring grating the lirst open spell, and
bury away in earth. Tho reason why
90 many fail with spring gafting is they
cut the scions too late.
At . recent agricultural meeting in
New Haven the production of sorghum
was discussed, and it was stated that
several farmers in the State are to try
the experiment on an extensive scale.
Mr.. r. A. Tilden, Of Norwich, Con.
necticut, has . Durham bun calf, Ia
months old, wefghin 40 pounds, which
in the last 80 days has gained 80 pounds
In weight-an average 5 l-2 pounds
daily.
A lady correspondent of the Detroit
Post watered her tomato plants with .
weak solution of copperas Zone pound
to eight gallons Of waterl with the re-
suit that the fruit was two weeks earli-
er than on plants not % treated.
Grating wax may be made by melting
together four pounds Of common rosin.
two pounds Of beeswax and one pound
Of tallow. II toJbe used in the orchard
in cool weather, add . quarter Of q
pound more of tallow, or q little raw
linseed oil.
The practice Of chewing bones, sticks
and old pieces of leather BY cows i IN
indication that their systems nsed some
thing not furnished in their food, and
frequently bone dust fed in small quan-
titles at first with meal, will supply the
need.
To avoid abortion in cowa, wher
about at frat to bring forth, give each
one . box-stall with plenty of straw,
light and air, and moderate rations of
rowcn and roots. Overlooking and
neglect of proper care previous to par
turition are frequent causes Of ahor-
ton.
A successful potato grower advocates
planting potatoes cut to single eyes on
ly, and reports yield of 4SS bushels of
Early Rose to an acre, and large bush. |
81 yield from twenty-five eyes Of anoth-
er variety, planted in hills three feet |
apart one eye to the hill.
A correspondent Of the Country Cen
tleman asserts that his corn has been |
earlier and the yield larger since he
abandoned the practice Of planting !,
pumpkins with the corn. He thinks The |
increase in the corn crop has moro than /
compensated for the loss Of the pump /
kins. =
According to experiments 80 tho IN.
tarIo School Of Agrior" 49,. 1C.roao,
=! """s ~''~ .rth of bone dust to
- ~ manure the crop Of wheat
, W." creased $3.50 per acre. BY add
ing nitrate of soda the value Of the crop
was increased $40.
To determine whether or not drain
tile contains Jumps of unslaked lime,
place them in in water for few hours.
The slaking of the lime will crack the
tile. II laid untested serious results
follow in time, as the cracked tile are
liable to admit Instructions that destroy
the value of the drain.
An acre OF swamp land in Massachu-
eeits, which was purchased for $l7 and
ditched, cultivated, MANFRED and crops
harvested for four years at total ex.
pensc Of 800. produced during the
same time potatoes and hay to the value
Of $lS2, while tho acre Of land itself was
made to be worth 800.
A breeder Of Plymouth Rocks, MOTTO
ing the complaint of 50 many shades Of
color in those fowls, says the true way
te keep them in uniform color 10 to have
the cocks two or three shades lighter
color than the hens, and both of medi-
um shade, bearing in mind that the hen
is naturally darker than the cock.
We do not remember to have heard Of
any instance where q COW produced
more than two calves at ono time, but
last week case was reported at MARI
borough, N. Y, where common Eng
lish COW gave birth to four calves-three
heifers and bull. All were systemati-
cally formed, healthy and strong.
In the price of butter there is a differ
ence of about thirty cents per pound,
and the cause of this is principally in
| not having the milk clean from the barn
and oil vessels used perfectly sweet and
clean. A whole churning of butter be-
been spoiled BY setting a part of the
milk in pan in which onions had been
put while peeling.
MILK-WHAT Is FTP