The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1880-07-01


FARM NOTES.
Quicklime is destructive to worms,
slugs and the larve Of injurious insects.
vick's Magazine says that cabbage
worms may be killed of by an applica-
ton Of lime water.
II il said to cost as much to raise one
acre of tobacco as it docs to raise eight
acres Of corn.
Manchester township, York county,
Ia, derived 800, 900 revenue from the
sale Of its tobacco last year.
At . recent shcaring at Caldwell Prai-
RE, Racine county, Ind, the heaviest
fleece shorn was twenty-five pounds.
A two-ycar-old Leicester buck, own
cd by Mr.. Vaughan, Darlington, Ind,
shearcd fleece which weighed fourteen
pounds.
Fowls arc very fond of milk aud
thrive well upon it. Sour milk will
bring better returns in eggs than in any
other way it can be fed.
Three tablespoonfuls of London pur-
pie, well mixed in peck of plaster of
Paris. will make . compound which is
sure death to the Colorado beetle.
The Country Geatlensaa relates an in
etance where an old pasture that had
nearly run out was restored BY applying
two barrels to the acre of wood ashes
end salt mixed.
Clean farming is the best nndcr all
circumstances, and if adopted as rule
will tend largely toward preventing the
increase of chinch bugs and all other in
furious insects.
+. 1t is said that in Scotland, on a farm
containing 1000 acres, there would be
1890 lambs obtained a year at least. The
death rate in ordinary seasons is from
5to ten per cent. per annum.
The number of cattle killed per year
in tho United States is IL 1926 900, the
meats from which amount to 4,068, SOO,-
900 pounds, and their total value when
killed for food is ecu, 2O0, 900.
DR. Noelcker analysed the milk from
. Dutch COW and also from an Ayrshire.
He found the milk from the former con
tanned 2-27 per cent. of butter, while the
latter gave SIS per cen.
For maggots which work at the roots
Of squash vines, it is said that table,
spoonful of saltpetre in a pailful of wa
ter applied to the roots will destroy
these pests and greatly invigorate the
vines.
Never work with dull tools; they re-
Quirc too great an outlay Of strength.
Tho best mower we ever saw was man
Who weighed only ninety-five pounds,
but the secret Of his success was keen
edge.
Mr., Richard Hawley, Of Goodrich, On
tario county, New York, has steer
which, at three years of age, weighed
$40 pounds. In six months and ten
days it gained 40 pounds, or about two
and quarter pounds per day.
The young Jersey COW Arawana But
tercup, owned by Mr.. William Crozier,
Of Northport, Long Island, due to calve
June ., 1880, ON the 2Sth Of May gave
70 pounds of milk, after being in milk
eleven months.
The United States now have ten times
more acres in wheat than the United
Kingdom; they have twice the number
Of horses Of both England and France;
one-third more cattle and four times
more hogs than both.
The agricultural appropriation bill,
just passed by the Senate at Washing
ton, contains an appropriation Of $685.
600 for experiments with machinery for
making sugar from corn stalks and in
the cultivation of tea.
The New England Farmer quotes a
successful old farmer rs saying that ear
ly cut hay il the best for cattle. They
eat it later and like it better than that
which is cut late. lie will cut this year
before the Goth Of June.
There are now produced from Indian
corn millions of pounds of starch and
glucose annually of which large guam
tity is exported. These substances car
~ away no mineral fertilizers; they
come entirely from the atmosphere.
The butter globulcs in milk from far
row COWS and cows nearly dry arc small
CT than from cows in flush OF milk, and,
in order TO obtain all the butter, the
cream from the former should be churn-
Cd together, and the same Of new milk
cows.
Sulphur has been found TO cure roup
insowls when applied as follows: Open
the affected fowls bcak, and with tube
which may be formed Of paper. hlow
halfsa teaspoonful of sulphur down the
threat. Three applications have been
knaWn to cure.
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