Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-09-08
FARM NOTES.

Give mich COWS extra feed as soon
as signs of falling off are seen.
Pigs profit by good run on clover
or fresh grass. When slaughtered,
they should weigh pound for each
day they are old.
at this season of the year do not let
stock Craze the pasture too close. Feed
hay, or what is better and cheaper, fod-
der corn, and provide an abundance of
pure, fresh water anDshade from mid
day sun.
Green corn, as soon as the grain be-
gins to harden, is the very best fatten-
ing food available to the general farm
er for feeding swine. The pigs eat it
with peculiar relish, and will grow
and fatten upon it with surprising
rapidity.
A Lexington, Ky, correspondent
writes: 1.-THE gardeners in this vicin-
ity have adopted salt brine as a COM
plete remedy for the worm in cabbage.
All who have tried it say that in one
nights time after the head has been
thoroughly sprinkled with the brine
the worm disappears"
A Denver paper says that enough
alfalfa has been sold in that state this
year 10 seed 10000 acres, which next
year will give an increase of $4,000
tons of hay, worth $1,250,OOO, estimat-
ing the yield at six tons an acre. On
some farms near Denver it has pro-
duced eight and nine tons.
Gen. Harding, speaking for Tennes-
see, considered Hungarian grass to be
the best forerunner of timothy. He
recommended that this be sown in
summer and harvested in August or
early in September, and that timothy
be sown upon the stubble and narrowed
in. The Hungarian grass, he thinks,
destroys all weeds and gives a certain
compactness to the soil necessary to
secure good stand o. timothy.
An Illinois farmer writes that he
has found carbonate of lime to be as
good as Paris green or London purple
in destroying potato beetles. A few
pounds busted from dredging box is
enough for an acre of potatoes. The
more widely this is known the better,
for there has been no such terror ad-
ded to farm life of late years as the in
PRODUCTION of deadly arsenical poison
in daily use. The number of cases in
which the human or other animal life
has been Icst through the careless use
of Paris green is saddening, and worst
of it is the casualties increase as the
public becomes familiarized with the
handling of the poison.
L. B. Arnold says the best dairy
products be has ever seen have been
produced on small farms and as he re-
suit OF skill in managing the milk o. a
few cows. The milking has been reg
ular, and the spaces of time between
milEings equal. Much depends on
this. Milking at 4 o'clock in the NOR
ming and 8 at nigh never makes the
finest bu.6er or cheese. Sixteen hours,
or an approximation to it, are too
long time for the milk to remain in
the udder, for the good of the milk OF
of the cows, especially when the flow
is large. BY crowding and straining
the bag it becomes painful and fever.
ish, ard the butter fats, becomes al.
tered III consequence. There is moth
ing Ike sound and healthy udder fol
secreting good milk.
An Ohio farmer has this to say
about harvesting orchard grass fol
seed: Cut with the grain cradle, tic
in small bundles about rs large as you
can span with both hands, set in
shocks in the way we used to set up flax
lei stand about ten davs; take in wher
quite dry, NOW awsy if you please, OF
thres'l off the seed at once by taking 6
bundle ut time and striking it over &
barrel. Ey this operation you only gel
the seed, and it is clean. If you run il
through thresbing-machine and take
all the wind off, you have hay ant
seed go odt together, Tor it cannot bC
cleaned by any wind, for it is too light
Having my own thresher, 1 would
never pretend to run orchard gras.
through to clean it. I have grown Thu
grass quite a number of years. anC
feel assured if farmers once try it they
will keep it on their farms, as it makes
the earliest pasture. being a rapid
grower. Two crops of hay can be GU
in a season. We made some hay from
it three weeks since. We will say,
about twenty bushels of seed this year