The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-29
FARM NOTES.
BnEwrns' grains contain two per cent


tie no farmer can afford to keep scrub
stock.
PorAroEs are surface feeders and re-
quire q liberal, general manuring to
insure an abundant crop.
IT Is considered by some expert
menters in feeding, that about one-fifth
of ground corn passes through cattle un-
digested.
In CHANGING the diet Of an OK, five
days will generally elapse before the
remains Of the preceding diet are e1-
PEELED by the animal.
Flour made from Kansas wheat is
said to be stronger than that manufac-
tured from wheat raised In the same
latitude in other States.
JUDGE ALLEN II. WArRoUs has a plan
tation Of ZOO acres on Flint River, Ga.
The place is worth $50, 600, and on that
amount will pay 10 per cent. dividend.
THYME will grow almost anywhere,
but it prefers dry, poor soil. Ii the
ground is rich, the plant will grow too
luxuriant and lose its aromatic qualities.
In ALL cases n COW should be MIXED
regularly and stripped quite clean. No
doubt this has much to do in forming
good milking tribes of cattle, by en-
couraging the milk-giving organs as far
as possible.
THERE are three classes Of Yorkshire
breeds of pigs-the large, the middle,
and the small. This sometimes produces
some confusion. When persons speak
Of Yorkshires they should designate to
which class they refer.
The autumn-sown grains, both wheat
and rye, have deeper roots and longer
period Of growth than the spring-sown
cereals, and are better able than the lat
ter to supply themselves with the neces-
sary constituents from the soil.
The superior fattening quality of
pasture, as compared with that OF the
hay made from it, Is clearly due to the
fact that ON land continuously grazed
the animal is fed on young herbage,
while hay will always consist of the fully
grown plant.
BUTTER, when worked should never
exceed temperature of sixty degrees,
as a higher point causes the butter to
gravitate towards sickness. When
worked at too low point, the butter
becomes mealy and the texture is de-
stroyed.
BLOOD readily decomposes in the soil,
yielding ammonia and nitric acid. Wool
and hair decomposes much more slowly,
and their effect Is spread over many
years. Dried blood is an excellent
manure for wheat Wool and hair are
sometimes used for hops.
ALCOHOLIC fermentation generated in
the roots Of apple trees has been found
by DIR. Van Tieghem TO be often the
cause Of disease in such trees. As the
roots do not sometimes receive enough
Of oxygen in wet weather, drainage is
the remedy recommended.
HUMANE societies for the prevention Of
cruelty 10 animals are either q most en-
couraging element in our civilization, or
else evidences Of the relics Of barbarism.
II there were no barbarism there would
be no cruelty, and if no cruelty the
necessity for humane societies would not
exist
IF THOSE farmers whose farms are
soils underlaid with clay would sell one
quarter or one half of their land and put
the proceeds into the judicious thorough
tile drainage Of the rest, they would
make more money from the one-half OF
the original farm under improvement
than they now do from the whole area.
A CUBIC foot Of ensilage weighs from
forty to fifty pounds, and daily ration fol
COW is fifty to sixty pounds. One and
q half cubic feet makes cows ration
for day. A silo ten feet deep, ten feet
wide and ten feet long, will hold ensilagt
sufficient for two cows for three hundred
and thirty-three days, or for four COWS
for half the year.
n,r rtru leland of Ta~..u ,<,.. .w,sxl
white horns are not looked upon with
favor. The yellow horn, tipped will
black, Is considered o much richie
mixer than the white horn while th,
crumpled horn is there now, as il wa
nearly century ago, favorite form
This latter is a short horn, turning in I
curve across the head to near its centre
dropping somewhat from base to tip.
YouSo grass is much richer in nitro
genous substances, also in fat, and con
tains q smaller proportion of indigesti
ole fibre than older grass, ard is conse
quently more nourishing. The sam,
comparison may be made between younl
clover and that which is allowed to ma
ture for hay. Hay should always be Gu
as soon as full bloom is reached, sine,
after this point the quality of the cro]
will materially deteriorate.
A LARGE part of the elements of plan
food contained in soil is present in sucl
condition that plants are unable t
make use Of it. A soil may contain man
thousand pounds of phosphoric acid O
Of nitrogen and yet be in poor condition
One Of the agricultural problems of tn
future will be to learn the exact SUI
stance TO apply to soils for the purpos
OF hberating the elements Of plant foo
locked up, or unavailable.
A WOOL and wheat-grower says: al
is my belief that the real reason VIII
cur wheat crops only yield half as muc
as the English crop is, that in Englan
farmers utilize sheep as grain-growerl
while we only consider them wool an
mutton-makers. have even heard q
essay on Sheep as the Scavengers {
the Farm, meaning probably pickers. u
of unconsidered trifes in the form
weeds. Now, though I object entirel
TO sheep being graded as scavengers, ]
with admirable inconsistency, admir-
riers, that is, feeding on heavy lands,
on crops which cannot be proftably use
in some other way. Sheep fed upo
linseed or tton-seed-meal will distrit
ute the elements of fertilization col
tanned in these feeds which they do n,
economize, and deposit them where Il
wheat was wanted to grow.
SALT FOR SHEEP.-Salt will be take
with avidity by sheep while on gras
Where arrangements can be made,
will be found convenient to have salt
little troughs at different points abo
the sleeping grounds. These should
NO sheltered ms to be protected from raj
and elevated so that the sheep can 6
at them only with their heads. Tn
will soon learn to visit these troug
when desiring salt, and II allowed co
stant access to them, are in no dang
of taking too much. The more comm,