The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-19
Farm NOTES.

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PERHAPS the heaviest returns ever OBJ
tanned In this country from a single
sheep was secured lest year by Daniel
Smith. of Hinsdale, n. H., who raised
from q Shropshire eve three lambs,
which he sold for S18, and the wool of
the eve for 81. so, making the total in
come from the sheep $3.50.
FRIEND farmers, prepare your land for
wheat better than you ever prepared
it before. Harrow, harrow, harrow. If
the soil Is sandy, roll after sowing or
drilling in. Ii at al inclined to be
clayey, roll before sowing. See II the
results of this careful preparation do not
more than pay the cost.
PRoF BUpD says, in the Iowa College
Quarterly, of the Worden grape: eve
have the true Worden growing on the
college farm, ard the merest novice can
distinguish between it and the Concord
at distance of ten feet. It ripens in
Iowa fully ten days before the latter, and
the fruit is larger and more juicy"
CHICKEN CHoLERA.-Seeing considera,
bic about this disease In the different
agricultural journals, I give you very
simple Gjife, which was communicated to
me by lady friend. We have tried it
a, d found it to work "to charm" 1t
is simply piece of salt bacon or shout
der nailed to stump or board and
placed where the fowls can pick at it.
Gid wormy stuf-that is not good to eat
is just as good as any, and large
piece can be bought st almost any coun-
Try stare for mere song. Try it.-Hay-
seed, an tie Son Of the Soil.
TIE COMING FENCE. The Farm Jour
nal gives in q few words its opinions con-
corning the fences of a no distant future.
It says: "1st, the fencing material of
the era now dawning will consist more
largely Of iron than heretofore, but, I'd,
iron posts will not be used unless there
is great fall in the price of iron, cir
cumstance not likely TO occur 3D., to
turn cattle and horses only, a fence con-
sisting Of wooden posts with three iron
No 0 wires viii prove the cheapest and
best fence. This bottom wire, about two
feet from the grotlnd, may have barbs
upon it, to prevent cattle from pushing
against it; the top wire should have
plastering lath wired to it horizontally,
the lath whitewashed, to prevent ami
mails running into the fence 4th, to
turn sheep and hogs wooden fence is
cheapest and best. 9Th, as to the fence
of the more distant future for turning
cattle, we are not prepared to name it,
but many farmers in the old dairy sec
tons will say fence, no fence. The
soiling system that will feed and sup
port one hundred COWS on one hundred
acres requires no fence at all, for the
COWS do not Craze, but are fed at the
barn winter aud summer.
SALT FOR POULTRY. Hens often have
a habit Of biting and pulling their feathers
and greedily eating them until their
bodies are bare. This practice, it is be-
heved, 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 a
week has been adopted with success,
while others put a teaspoonful Of salt
with two quarts of meal or shorts
moistend, well mixed, and fed about
twice every week. Fowls, like human
beings, to be healthy must have a GER
tain allowance Of salt. So long as the
American people prize sugar sweet cakes,
and the New York hotels consume ], 800,
900 chickens and poultry, and $500, 000
of eggs every week, the poultry business
in this country will remain good one.
Give your fowls warm, clean houses and
dry, grassy runs, if you would have
them clear of roup and canker. And
feed them regularly with good nourish-
ing food, if you would have them free
from disease, lay more eggs, and be
more profitable every day.
WINTER DAIRYING.- better class
of livers in the United States are begin
ming to demand good, fresh butter in
stead of the sailed article which has
hitherto been eaten through the winter
months. In consequence those farmers
who try to please the palate by produc-
ing sweet, nutty-tasting commodity,
will reap their reward by receiving a re-
munerating price. Setting aside fancy
prices, it is certain that good, fair rate
will always be paid for butter which can
be depended upon to come to hand
weekly in uniform quality. The best
butter-mal6er in the United States fails
nnless the COWS are fed properly, there
fore there must be the right sort of food.
The hay should be made from grass cut
when in bloom, and this alone will do,
but some corn meal and wheat bran will
increase the cream and add to the rich
flavor of the butter. Also the use OF
carrots will cause a greater flow Of milk,
and there will be then the peculiarly
fresh taste which characterizes butter
when COWS are i'll good pasture in June
Of course comfortable stabling, cleanli-
ness, and exercise in a sheltered yard will
be requisite for full success. The
cows should have their calves in
September or thereabouts, and the heifer
calves from ali good mixers should be
raised, which can be done on the
skinned milk. In the autumn there
is no forage or food Of any kind, better
for mich COWS as a help to failing
pasture than pumpkins. I have used
them freely for years with the best re-
suits, and find the fear of the seeds all
nonsense. At the present time have a
fine lot growing among the corn and
about three acres planted near the barn,
which together will be sufficient to last
till Christmas if I can secure a portion of
,,lem from frost After the pumpkins
arc gone, carrots are better than any other
variety of roots, and if fed till grass
comes again there need be no loss of
quality in the butter. The quantity of
the milk will be equal to the best grass
oe;sson, and will depend upon the cows.
Any man having common sense, and
managing properly, can obtain double
the average given by cows of the kind
usually met with, if he will buy good
ones and breed from none but deep
mixers, and from bulls which are from
deep milking strain Correspondence OF
Country Ge1atLenan.