The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13
FARM NOTES.

found to extend twenty-six feet or more.
AN AGREEABLE flavor in cattle food
stimulates appetite and probably pro-
notes digestion.
SHORT fine wool contains the largest
proportion of fat. Pure wool hair con-
tains about sixteen per cent. of nitro
gen.
SUCH has been the recent damage to
deficiency in the United Kingdom is es-
timated at 125, 900, 600 bushels.
THE American wheat acreage is spread
ing in advance of the rate of increase in
population, hence larger quantities will
be available year by year for export.
GEESE are easily kept /; grass and
water form their chief requirements.
These, with a fair supply of corn, oats
and boiled potatoes, make up their bill
of fare.
IT HAS been proved by experiments
that if young turkeys be fed on soft food
mixed with milk instead of water much
superior and more tender meat will be
produced.
THE digestibility,,of fodder plants is
largely determined by their age. All the
constituents Of q young plant are more
digestible than in the same plant of
greater age.
In THE fattening of wethers to finish
as shearlings, English breeders state
that the Cotswold and Leicester grades
can be made up to 200 pounds, the Ok
ford Downs, to $50 pounds, and the
Southdown grades to $50 pounds, live
weight.
THE poison of q sting from bee, wasp
or hornet may be almost instantly neu-
tralized by the application OF a little
liquid ammonia, and it is said that the
poison and sting may be forced out by
pressing the barrel of a small key firmly
for o minute over the wound. No pain
or swelling will result.
TIE Dublin Farmer claims that q full
feed of hay to horses, to follow con-
centrated food, is wasteful, and crowds
the latter out of the stomach before
proper digestion occurs. This authority
claims that the hay should be fed first
to avoid the aforementioned trouble.
A hearty drink of water upon q full
stomach also operates to push its con-
tents into the intestines before there is
proper digestion.
PRoF. ARNOLD states that the presence
OF the pure oxygen at q moderate tem-
perature retards the souring of milk and
has a beneficial effect upon the favor
and keeping of butter. Ina free current
of air oxygen consumes what is called
"mi1k odor," but IN confinement has a
very deleterious effect. In the manufac-
ture of cheese experiments had shown
that warm air ripens the cheese more
quickly than cold air, and produces a
more intense odor.
ALMOST as much care Is taken to dry
hay in Norway as fish /; for the weather
has its yicissitudes, and the winter is
long and wearisome to man and beast.
Hay is hung up to dry. Stakes are set
about three feet high, and pins inserted,
upon which slender poles are laid. The
poles are so arranged that when grass is
placed upon them they shed rain. The
sun and wind soon dc the making, aided
by stalwart females, employed In turn
ing and handling the hay.
AN Iowa farmer gives his method for
raising potatoes as follows: "Plant
them In good rich soil, close to the house
OF barnyard where the chickens run, the
more chickens the better; hoe them as
soon as they are out of the ground, then
pillow them at least once a week till they
are In bloom The chickens will keep
the bugs off if the latter are not too
numerous. If there are more bugs than
the chickens can consume knock them
of the vines just before the pillow and
pillow them under every day till they dis
appear. In this way I have raised
plenty, while my neighbor's crops were
all destroyed"
The value of q bulky food, as hay or
straw, is far greater when given to .
ruminant animal than when consumed
by q horse or pig. Concentrated, easily
digested foods, as grain and oilcake,
have clearly a value above their COM
position when added to a poor ard bulky
food, IS straw chat, or to a watery food
like turnips, because they are the means
of raising the diet to a point at which
the animal will thrive. On the other
hand, roots and green fodder, even when
watery and poor In composition, may
have a considerable effect when added in
moderate proportion to dry food.
In PARTS of Norway and Sweden,
where during the summer there is al
most continuous daylight, crops of bar
ley are grown with only from six to
eight weeks intervening from seed-time
to harvest. After acclimatization many
garden flowers increase in size and depth
of color, there is a prevailing tinge of
red in the plants of the fields, the aroma
of fruits is increased and their color well
developed, but they are deficient in
sweetness. The development of essen
tial oils in certain plants is greater than
j the same plants grown in other lati-
tudes. It is an established fact that
light bears the same relation to aroma
s heat does to sweetness.
A PRACTICAL gardener makes the fol-
lowing important statement "Last
year az q test of a frequent practice
among growers of melons INT sQashes,
/ pinched the ends of the long main
shoots of the melons, squashes and Gu
cumbers, and left some to run at their
own will. One squash plant sent out a
single stem reaching more than forty
feet, but did not bear any fruit. An
other plant was pinched until it formed
q compact mass of intermingling side
shoots and main branches eight feet
square, and it bore sixteen squashes.
The present year a musk-melon plant
thus pinched in covers the space allot-
ted to it, and it has set twenty-three
specimens of fruit, the most of which
have been pinehed of. The pinching
causes many lateral branches. which
latter produce the female OF fertile
blossoms, while the main vines produce
only the male blossoms. The difference
in favor of the yield OF an acre of melons
treated by this pinching process may
easily amount to 100 barrels"
OvRRwoRKED FARMERS. = We once
heard a good farmer say that when ht
got behind with his work 20 that il
seemed as though he could not catch ny
again, he made it a practice to leav'
everything for q couple of days ani
take a recreation. When he returned
again, he said, work seemed less per
picking, and it progressed seemingi.
much faster than before. The plal
would perhaps seem ridiculous to many
and certain to occasion loss if not entir'