Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-02-10
FARM NOTES.
Green oats is a good soiling crop.

Green oats is good soiling crop.
Hay should surely be cut in its ear
lest bloom.
Milk is almost nine-tenths water, or
873 in 1000 parts water.
A true test for eggs is to drop them
in water, and if the large end comes up
they are not fresh.
Good milk requires good sound food.
and large yield of milk requires a
large supply of good sound food.
Care, kindness, quiet, moderate exer-
else, regular and judicious feeding are
all important factors in milk supply.
Meadows may be pastured in the
dry season after the crop has been re-
moved; but never in the early spring
nor late in the fall.
The air supplies most of the organic
matter, and thus helps to keep the
land good when we sell off part of the
products, which are part OF the farm
or of the soil itself.
Do not undertake to keep sheep on
low, undrained lands. They will sure
ly contract disease, and sick sheen is
about as mean a thing as we know of.
not excepting sick chicken.
Good sweet milk contains one-fourth
more of sugar than of butter; this sug-
ar turns to acid, and if this acid is too
much developed before churninp the
coveted aroma of good butter is lost.
Bran is an admirable food in slop.
1t produces large quantity of milk,
and it can be fed with safety in the
hottest weather. Meal may be added
to bran as the weather becomes cooler.
1t always pays to keep young stock in
a thrifty, growing condition. Better to
feed little corn and meal now than to
defer it until next February. Always
keep young stock in an improving con-
dition.
The yearly consumption of butter in
London has been estimated at I0lbs
per head of the population, or 10000
600 per year, without including some
5000 tons necessary for victualling
ships leaving the port.
Cows remove more from the pasture
than their droppings supply; therefore
it is good plan to spread manure over
them, sprinkled with plaster to save
the ammonia for the young grass in
the early part of spring.
Warm and airy stables, great clean
illness with the animal and her pro-
ducts, judicious feeding of cows, and
feeding of pastures, are the indispen-
sable means to supply milk in quality,
quantity and soundness capable of re-
sisting decay.
The country is rich and prosperous,
says the politicians. How few of the
non-producing classes stop or admit
that all wealth, all riches proceed from
the soil, and it is only by the increased
productiveneSs of the earth that the ma
ton is rendered richer.
Stringhalt is an affection of the
nerves, and is incurable. 1t is caused
by loss of power of the nerve which
controls the muscle by which the leg is
lifted, the action then being spasmOd-
ic, irregular and excessive, causing the
high lifting usual in this disorder.
The longevity of animals is some
thing extraordinary. Camels some
times live a century. According to
Cuvier, whales live a thousand years,
An eagle died ut Vienna ut the age of
1O4. Crows frequently attain a cen
tury. Swans have lived 500 years, and
turtle 10Y.
Pure water and salt must be sup
piled to cows dd libitun, as 81 per cent.
of the milk consists of water, and where
salt is sparingly supplied the digestive
powers of the COW are enfeebled, and
the milk is defective in keeping quail
ty, and probably also in quantity and
quality.
For storing onions there is no better
place than dry, cool and airy loft,
where they can be spread out thinly
and often looked over for the removal
of those which may have begun to de-
cay. Warmth and moisture are fatal
to the keeping of onions, and much
handling is almost equally so.
When farmers will pay more atten-
ton to cows and the dairy, and make
butter that will bring a smile to the
face of the purchaser, as well as one
on the face of the farmer when he re-
ceives the purchase money, then will
dairying pay better than anything else
on the farm. The cows milk, properly
handled, is sure crop. AS it is the
early bird that catches the worm, so it
is the one who watches the signs of
the times, and seizes hold of every
modern improvement to enhance his
products or lessen his labor, that wins
the golden prize of success.