River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-08
Facts for Farmers.

The annual tribute paid as rent to the
landed aristOcracy of England by the
farm rs is estimated at 100000, 1000.
The Western Stock Journal says that
milk fever never attacks a COW with her
first calf, and very rarely with the sec
ond
Apple trees which were pruned last
spring are probably sending out water
sprouts. They should be removed this
month and next.
Jesse Collier, of Ruthel ford, Tenn,
sold five steers averaging 1904 each.
Two of them are thoroughbred short
horns, two high grades and one a scrub.
Among the members of the British
parliament are nine tenant famers
This does not look as though tenant
farmers were without wealth or infiu-
ence in the old country.
1t is important to have pure fiaXseed
Troublesome weeds are frequently III
flax fields. Many Of them can be re-
moved at this season of the year by care
III going over the fields.
1t is announced that a world s fair of
sheep, wool and wool products, under
the auspices of the Pennsylvania State
Agricultural Society, is to be opened in
Philadelphia September q, immediate
ly after the state fair.
Potatoes or any other root crops may
be grown in young orchard. 1t would
not do any injury to grow corn, but
grain crops should not be attempted.
They take from the soil the very ele-
ments which the roots require.
Firecrackers are said to be an effect
ual method of keeping crows out of the
cornfield, as the birds dislike the smell
of powder, and the boys do love the
fun of firing the crackers, and the
crows dislike both noise and smell.
Mr.. VIM Myers, of Pittsford, n. Y.
recently lost COW in which, on post
mortem examination, were found six
fully developed calves, the smallest of
which weighed twenty-five and half
pounds. The COW was three year
old short-horn. Five of the calves were
males and the other heifer The skins
have been stuffed and will be preserved
as curiosity.
The remedy for noxious weeds is
thorough cultivation. If piece Of
ground is full of briers, milk weed,
couch grass, Sodom apples, Canada
thistles, sorrel, toad flax or other miser-
able stuff that so often tries the mettle
of our good farmers, let them put the
ground in corn for couple of years or
so, keeping the cultivation going con-
tinually, and especially going in the
earliest part of the season, and the
IL ~ dc
will fail to stand the ordeal. If the
hand hoe can be spared to go in among
the hills of corn occasionally, where the
teeth of the harrow can not reach, or
to cut off here and there one which the
harrow may miss, bad case may be
cured in IA single season. But, if this
can not he done, a couple of successive
years with a sharp-tooth cultlyator
among corn crop will generally do
the business for the worst case that ever
was.
Let any one who has a weedy field
before him resolve, another season, to
put the whole tract in corn and keep
clean. and he will soon give up all the
common ideas of smothering out with
deep LAYERS of earth, cutting up in the
full of the moon, putting salt upon
their tops. or the many other recon-
mendations started in the interest, it Is
believed, of laziness, but which really
call for more trouble and hard work
than thorough and systematic clean
ing. such as we have indicated, does
-Germdnt0wn Telegraph.
ANY time during the present month
the seed of Hungarian grass may be
sown on land that has been in corn,
pototoes or small grain, or on new