The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-12-31
FARM NOTES.

FAT Mich COWE.-1t Is possible 1OI
mich COWS to become too fat. In this
case give less meal and more bran.
APPLES. Ohio farmers, at loss how
to dispose of their apples, are feeding
them to their cows, aud report good re-
suits
FEED FOR POULTRY PER YEAR--One
bushel of corn, or corn and meal mixed,
per head, is fair allowance for common
fowls for a year. They will pick up
enough in addition to this to keep them
N good condition if they have run at
lalge every day. IF kept shut up some
scraps of meat and vegetables viii be
needed in addition to the grain.
DISEASED FRUIT TREES. We have
| tried it repeatedly and never knew it to
| part and sitting the bark on one side of
the limb and body from the affected part
down In fact, if the diseased part is
cut off and the limb and body slit, it will
stop the destruction of the tree, or at
least it has for Us every time. Fruit Re-
corder.
HORSES PAVING N THE STABnE.-A
light chain is recommended by some to
break them of this trick, fastened above
| the knee to hang down loose, but not
| longenough to touch the floor IF horses
kick, fasten the chain in the same way to
the hind leg. IF horse is at all nerv-
ous-as such as paw and kick usually
are-we should be afraid that the chain
would brighten and cause him to kick
and paw so much more violently as to
| jerk it around and seriously injure his
legs.
DIGGING PoTAToEs. A Maine farmer
says in the New York Herald that he
paid his men $1.25 per day for digging
| and pitting potatoes, which cost six cents
/ per btishel He told two OF the men he
would give them five cents per bushel If
they would do the work. They took the
| job and went to work, and dug and pit
| ted 100 bushels per day, and went home
some times by o'clock in the afternoon
| The farmer saved one cent per bushel, or
81 per day; and the men doubled their
wages.
PRODUCE Coon FfI1a11s Extra milk
ers should be kept to breed from, then
milking qualities alone emitting them to
this preference. It is quite as necessary
to raise the calves Of good mixers, in or
| der to have another race of good mixers,
as it is to raise the colts of good trotters
in order to have fast horses. Extra dairy
COWS are always in demand. It is GER
| tainly to be regretted that more care is
not taken to improve the milking quail
| ties Of our COWS; and it is also source OF
regret that SO many of our farmers are in
| the habit Of disposing of so many OF
their young calves to the butchers.
FURNISH YoUR BOYS WITH Tools. -
Prof John e. Sweet, in an address before
the Onondaga Co. Farmers Club said:
"The farmer who provides himself with
the necessary tools to do the repairing of
the farm, not only makes paying in
vestment, but does for his sons, in an
other way, just exactly what he does for
them when he sends them to school. He
gives them chance to learn to do some
| thing From among those boys will be
found the mechanical engineers of the
future" 1t would be difficult to crowd
more truth and common sense into this
short space. It is well known among
mechanics that when an apprentice
''learns to handle his tools, his trade is
half learned.
PREPARING MANURE FOR HoT-BED. -
Fresh stable manure, in which there is
plenty OF litter, is most suited for this
purpose There should be at least one
third litter in the heap. If this is not in
the mass in sufficient quantity, add leaves
or tanbark; shake it up and mix it well
together, adding water if at all dry and
musty, and throw it into compact heap
to ferment. Let it remain a week, and
then work it over thoroughly, as before,
and add water, if necessary. Where the
ground is quite dry, very good method
is to dig space about eighteen inches
deep, and put in the manure, tramping
it firmly add evenly, and place thereon
the frame or sash, and put in the rich
earth, and in about four days, SOW the
seed, having previously stirred the earth
freely, to destroy the seeds of weeds
| therein.
| Hoes IN WINTER. There is no domes-
| tic animal that suffers so much from ex-
posure to cold and wet as the hog. He
is native of mild climate, and should
be treated as his nature demands if we
would turn its peculiarities to our advan-
tage. And during winter he should be
provided with warm, dry quarters, plenty
Of warm, clean bedding, and an album.
dant supply OF nutritious, fat and heat
producing food. For this purpose there
is nothing equal to corn, owing to the
Tge amount Of carbon in its compost
ton, which the hog sppropriates in pro-
ducing fat and heat to warm his system
the same as our stoves consume car
bon III the form of wood and coal to warm
our rooms. The colder and the more
exposed these rooms are, the more fuel
we are obliged to consume to make them
comfortable. Just SO with the hog the
less care is expended in making his quar-
ters comfortable, the more corn he must
consume to keep up the animal heat, and
If not supplied with the necessary
amount of food. his system has to fall
back on carbon 1t has stored in the form
Of fat, and he must necessarily lose in
weight, at his careless or thoughtless
owners expense. Hogs should also have
a good supply of water. as it is impossible
for them to digest their food without
water to dissolve it and convey it into the
blood. They should be kept constantly
supplied with salt, coal and ashes. Salt
is valuabls stimulator of the appetite
and digestive organs. During warm
days in the winter the feed should be
regulated according to the temperature,
rst es we would regulate the fuel ac-
"orQ1ng to the demands of the weather.
When the weather suddenly becomes
warm, animals lose their appetites, and
are liable to become 'sstalled." Some
cooling, succulent food. as slo,, or vege
tables OF some kind should be substituted
for the more heating food of grain.
The Best Wood to Use.
The f1el onestion Is one of a ,ood