The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-08-30
Farm Notes.

Bricks of an inferior quality may be rem
dered excellent for some purposes by satur-
ating them with tar.
The best way to deal with sorrel is %
plough it under, and th1n make more val
liable crop grow in its place:
II is considered by some experimenters in
feeding that about one-ffth of ground corn
passes through cattle undigested.
Animals when confined and supplied with
fattening food always increase largely in
weight during the first few weeks, after
which the rate OF increase dminshes to a
considerable extent.
IL is said that one of the best remedies for
the cabbage worm is to sprinkle air-slacked
lime on the plant in the morning on the
dew till the plants are white with it. One
who has tried IL for several years says that
at most two applications are sufficient.
There were sheared in Michigan over two
millions of sheep, according to the state
ment of Mr.. Jenny, the Secretary of State.
He says that the total average clip was TO-.
OLA, 1873 pounds of wool, which is an average
of nearly five and one-half pounds per head.
If thoSo farmerS whose farms are soils I'M
derlaid with clay would sell one-quarter or
one-half of their land and put the proceeds
into the judcious thorough tile-drainage Of
the rest, they would make more money from
the one-half of the original farm under i'm
provement than hey do from the whole
area.-Boston Cultivator.
For general purposes on the farm castor
oil, with a little kerosene added, is the best
lubricator and preserver. For saws, now
ers, buggies and the like, this mixture fur
nishes more body with less gum than most
other oils. The amount of Kerosene, if any,
to be added, must be governed by the pur-
pose for which it is designed.
Referring to the scales which form the
sortex of wool, and constitute its most i'm
portant distinction, determining it's telling
power, recent writer gives the following
table of the average number of scales to the
linear inch in different woods: East Indian
wool, 1000 scales to linear inch; China
wool 1000; domestic wool, 1,4G0; Leicester
wgol, 400; Southdown wool, 1900; merino
wool, 1000, aud Saxony wool, 1900.
If thoroughly hardy rose, with good
roots. be planted in the fall. and can be in
sured against being drawn out by frost
through the winter, it will bloom great
deal better for being fall planted. All for
lists put in their pot roses in the fall for
spring blooming. But if the frost is likely
to tell severely on the plants, it will be best
TO leave the planting until spring, though
be towering may not be as fine.
Manure should be forked over occasional
ly to make 1t fine. If it is heating, then
muck or loan should be mixed with it to
absorb the ammonia which is formed dur
ing the process of decomposition. Sprink-
ling the manure pile with ground plaster is
advisable. The plaster will absorb any am
monia which escapes from the pile and save
it for the use of growing plants. Ammonia
is too valuable an element of plant food to
allow v 70 be wasted. Again, upon some
lands plaster is an excellent fertilizer.
Prof. Ira Remsen, of Johns Hopkins Uni
verslIy, has been investigating the question
whe her or no cast-iron stoves allow delete
ricus gases TO escape, and the result ylndi-
Gates the stoves. The Professor finds that
earbonic oxide, the gas generally thought to