Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-19

90 that the rains of winter may help to ASST
milate the fertilizers with the soil preparatory
to stimulating the crops of the following
spring. The rotted manure only should be
applied direct to the soil, as it alone is ready
for immediate use. The unrotted manure
should be piled up in some convenient shady
place and mixed with and covered over
with soil to preserve and mature it for
another year. when it will also be in condition
for use. This matter of cleaning out the
barn yards has a double meaning or slgnln-
canoe. 1t will remove the slosh and m axe
the yard more pleasant and agreeable to get
around in for the next year, but II the above
directions be followed the consequence to the
land of the farm will be of value, and the
farmers pocket will be made fuller. The
truth is that an empty barnyard makes
productive farm and full granary and purse.
Agricultural Notes.
Poultry need as much protection during
the summer from the fierce rays of the sun
as thew do in winter from the severe cold,
although far too many of our breeders lose
sight OF this very important fact, and suffer
corresponding losses in consequence. Birds
compelled to stay in yards which have little
if any shade during the entire summer. with
the sun pouring down on them with the in
tensity it does In July and August, cannot
thrive, while they are rendered much more
liable to disease and disorders. 1t pays,
and pays well, too. to give the fowls COM
fort at all times, and 1T costs but little to
furnish the necessary shade, no matter
how large the runs may be. Trees,
such as plums, peach and apple,
should at once be planted in the runs,
especially the former, which seems
to thrive better there than the other kinds
named As these trees will not afford
much shade for few years, temporary
shades must be made by making skeleton
sheds of poles along the sunny sides OF the
runs, and then covering them with boughs,
cedar limbs or almost anything cheap and
convenient, which will afford the neces-
sary shelter from the sun. These may not
look very handsome, but then the utility
compensates fully for the lack OF beauty.
Poultry Monthly.
It is stated, on what is regarded as good
authority, that an acre of grazing land in
Lincolshire, England country famous
for its grass-will carry an OK and sheep
from May ID to October lst, and that dur
ing this period the OK will gain $50 pounds
and the sheep 40 pounds in net weight of
meat when slaughtered. The acre will thus
yield $40 pounds of meat in l53 days graz
ing. Its produce may be sixteen tons,
perhaps more. This is one pound OF meat
for every hundred weight of grass, but we
must remember that the grass of such land
differs from the average in the quantity of
its product. We have not the least idea
what the estimates would be in the West
or Northwest, of the quantity Of grass re-
quired for 100 pounds OF beef or mutton.
The results, of course, would be varied
by moist and dry seasons, and by the
quality of the grasses with which the pas
ture is stocked. The aptitude of the ami
result. 1t is claimed that in Montana the
buffalo grass is the richest of all grasses
for fattening purposes, it being quite
equal for fattening animals to feeding corn
in addition to most of the grasses in the
West.-TColeman's Rural World.
In the Rurat of October Sth, Horticola
asks whether any experiments have been
made in making cheap silos, and in reply
l would say that DR.. Paxon, of the Sailors
Home, Quincy, Mass, ensilaged large
quantity of corn last fall simply by dig
ging trench six feet deep by eight wide
and as long as he required. The corn was
not cut up, but laid in all one way and
well trodden down. Before he commenced
putting in the corn he set posts against the
sides and ends of the trench or pit. Against
these he laid rough boards, and put in his
stalks, which held the boards in place.
The earth was packed in between the
boards and the ground. When the pit was
filed four feet above the top, it was
thatched by putting straw on top, and the
rest of the dirt was put on it. The silo
was opened in March, and the doctor said
that for all he could see it was as good as
DR.. Bailey's OF Billerica. Mass. This year
he has put in lot in the same way
Rural New Yorker.