The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-06-23
HOUSE AND FARM.
Farming Brevities.

The prospecting demand for binding cord
for use with grain harvesters will, the Pr0i-
rio Farmer estimates, be- 5000 tons this
season, and 40, 900 four: years hence, and
our contemporary rises suggestive query
as to where the material is coming from.
An English cab-owner was Elately fined
800 for driving glapdered horse through
the streets of Hammersmith- too Sc
we're penalty for disregard for humanity
and law, when it is remembered that two
years ago gentleman died of this terrible
disease contracted. while riding In such q
public conveyance drawn by an infected
animal.
During the past winter thirteen western
states Gave packed 6,919, 456 hogs, in ad-
dition to the large numbers consumed ut
home. In the pork and lard from these
packed hogs, an immense amount of our
great corn crop has gone eastward and
abroad in concentrated form.
A Georgia paper says of the devotion of
that state to cotton planting: Simply be-
cause all of us are struggling to swell the
crop to the largest dimensions, under the
silly idea that we can make more money
out of it, we ruin ourselves, and toll from
years end to years end without accumulat-
ing a cent of profit"
President Garfeld's farm of 155 acres is
we'll drained, and the drains permit o
copious supply of pure healthy water,
which by means of hydraulic ram, of
cheap construction, is forced up for the use
at the house and barn, The farm sustains
26 cattle, mostly grade Shorthorns, besides
some Jersey cows and bulls, Is thoroughbred
Costwold sheep, and a lot of Berkshire and
lot of Berkshire and Poland China swine.
T.orrv pf hv,oh Ill of
apples are annually grown on the farm.
The place is valued py the general at $25,
900.
To preserve cucumbers ready for use:
When they are about three or four inches
long but them in strong brine consisting
of salt and water. After standing a week
or ten days, take them out, and put them
in large jar, put hot vinegar on them,
and let them stand two weeks, then pour
the vinegar off and renew it with milk
warm vinegar and cover it up tightly. They
will be ready to use as soon as the vinegar
penetrates through them. We know of no
way to keep cucumbers without first
picking them.
The rains of last week were most welcome
visltants, over q wide expanse of country,
though in many parts farmers are disposed
to take gloomy view of the growing crops.
Oats and corn are yet in the background.
The Utah Farmer says: A gentleman
who has had experience, asserts that moth
ing is such an enemy to alkali lands, as a
crop of alafafa plowed under. The latter
will remove the former and render the
land fit for cultivation of any kind Of c.
reals. Thousands of acres of land may be
utilized by the above process that have
hitr erto been considered worthless.
There is always great uncertainty in
breeding from Crosse bred animals, the in
heritance in such cases being quite as like
ly to take one direction as the other, and in
either case frequently reverting to the ORR
ginal type in very unexpected manner.
The surest is to use thorough bred male
Of some one breed, and make your own
crosses. A breed of cattle cannot he built
up in one or even three generations of
cross breeding, or of a grading in given
direction.
Mr.. Harrison fed his pigs and thirty head
cattle on SO acres of corn, and had l 900
bushels left in the crib. At so cents
bushelthe corn would have been worth ST.
600. His pigs alone brought this sum, and
the.feeding of 80 cattle and the l 1000 BUSH
els in the crib were the profit. For sever
al years past there has been vigorous con-
test in Burlington county, N. j., to raise
the heaviest pigs, and this is a sample of
the result. It is worth making note of it.