The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-04-21

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son.
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.
REFusE SAnr.--Refuse salt and brine
from the pickle barrels should be sown
broadcast under fruit trees.
WooD ASHES. Where this can be pur-
chased cheaply enough it will pay to
procure quantity and scatter it literally
under the fruit trees.
SINGULAR GRAFTINa.-A tomato vine
has, with some difficulty, been grated
upon a potato. It was done simply a.
matter a curiosity.
EARLY LAMBS. April lambs are best.
| Lambs that come after the first OF June
seldom grow thrifty or amount to much.
| Ii intended for fairs or breeding stock
February and March lambs arc neces-
| sary.
SULPHUR ron KoUP. -Roup will some
times yield to the following treatment:
Open the affected fowls beak and with
q tube, which may be formed Of paper,
blow half teaspoonful Of sulphur down
the throat. Three applications have
been known to cure.
WHEAr.-See to IL that your land il
we'll prepared before sowing wheat If you
desire good crop. Roll before sowing
| if the land is clayey, roll after sowing il
it is sandy. Do not make the mistake
Of thin seeding. Use about two bushels
Of seed to the acre, and drill in rows five
inches apart.
STORING CABBAGEs. Leave them in the
ground as late as they can be pulled up
by the roots, then pull them up and
pack them in level beds, six feet wide,
with alleys between Of the same width.
During the next two or three weeks, or
until the ground freezes, cover them
gradually with soil until it is six inches
deep. 1t is Of the greatest importance
that the final covering should be de-
iayed as long as the season will permit.
QuALrrY or WooL.-Amateur sheep
growers are not all aware that the wool
Of sheep grows most rapidly in cold
weather, and that any check in the quail
| ity aud amount Of feed ct this time in
lures the quality Of the wool. When
sheep are well fed in the winter the wool
starts to grow, but should any starving
take place the wool fiber would have q
weak place III it, and render it entirely
unfit for combing wool, which brings
such good price in our markets. 1t
could only be used where poor grades Of
wool were used. as in coarse blankets and
carpets.
New METHOD or RrSarSo PIos.--Cer-
tain Poland China breeders at Nashville,
Indiana, give their method of ringing
pigs, that, with four years trial, has
proved far superior to the old method.
The ring should never be put in the
gristle. II by any means it should be
too deep III and feels solid in the gristle,
cut the ring out with nippers and put in
another that is loose in the skin. Theu
the pig will suffer no pain, will go right
off to eating, aud the pig or hog can not
root with the ring in the center of
the nose, nor do they ever tear out as in
the old way.
PRODUCE OF AN AcRE.-An Ohio farm
or sends to the Practical Farmer an &C.
count of the products of an acre lot,
which, he says: Il have cropped for
several years as truck patch, planting
it in potatoes, sweet corn. and vegeta-
bles, until it became foul with weeds,
particularly those meanest Of pests, but
ton weed, red root, and foxtail grass. It
was becoming SO foul could not get
only half q crop, 80 determined to
eradicate the pests. In the spring Of
1879 plowed the ground and sowed 1t
| in oats, and at harvest cut and threaded
eighty bushels Of No. oats, for the be-
| ginning. Then, again, plowed and
sowed it in buckwheat, and from this
planting threshed eighteen bushels Of
fine buckwheat. A third time / plowed
it about the middle Of October and
sowed it in wheat, and cut and threaded
from this third planting twenty-five
bushels of No. wheat this season. But
this is not ALL / sowed this same acre
in clover this last spring, the first week
in March, and by the middle of August
cut two and half tons Of fine clover hay.
All these crops within sixteen months.
But still the ground is not exhausted, for
at the present writing there u fine crop
| Of pasture six inches high.
FAT BAcoN.-The English object TO
our hogs because they are too fat. and
| we are advised to feed them moro bar
ley and less corn. This, says Joseph
Harris. is all very we'll; but if our hogs
are too fat (Which very much doubt),
the way to correct the difficulty is not
merely by feeding less corn, but by in
Producing better breeds and adopting .
better system Of feeding and manage
ment A large, lean hog does not furnish
the pork or bacon which either the
American or English market requires
Large-boned. lean hogs are not scarce.
# the improved breeds are too fat it is
because we do not manage them prop
| erly. We may have to let them get
| more growth before we fatten them.
Instead Of selling them at nine or ten
months old we may have to keep them
till they are fifteen or eighteen months
old. Keep them in thrifty, growing
condition. In the summer and autumn
the food will consist principally Of grass
or corn fodder; in the winter we can feed
corn, bran, cnsilage. &C. The point is
to keep the pigs constantly gaining till
they are shut up to fatten. In this Sec
ton good plan would be to have the
pigs come in May, june or July. The
SOW and little pigs should run ont every
day to grass. The SOW should have
slops, or anything that would favor the
production Of milk. Feed her literally.
As soon rs the little pigs are old enough
to eat give them some cooked or soaked
corn, or oat or barley meal, with oil the
skinned milk You can spare. Moth.
ing is SO good for little pigs as milk.
Success in raising pigs probably de.
ponds largely on feeding literally till the
| pigs are three or four months old. Let
them have the run Of grass or clover
pasture, and after harvest they will do
well on the wheat stubbles. The cost Of
raising pigs in this way ID very little.
In the winter they will need richer food
They should have dry. wary, quarters,
with plenty Of clean straw. Where cows
or cattle are fed grain or oilcake, or
where the new system Of ensilage is
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