The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-04-08

BONE DUsT. now, the results
will be greater after two years than they
will the first season. 1t does no. operate
quickly.
Lnm.-Lime is an excellent fertilizer
on clay soils, on account of its power 10
render soluble many of the component
parts of the clay, and also to make u
more porous.
Roors. farmers bring to this
country liking for root feeding. One
gentleman feeds large quantities OF man
gels to his pigs, with shorts, meal, wheat,
screenings and corn. He also turns his
sugar beets into pork.
POLE BEANs.-Our experience shows
us that no other pole bean should be
planted in the same hills with the lima.
The former are likely to ripen first, and
the picking of them and the tearing OF
the vines are detriment to the lima.-
~ Y Herald.
WHEAT.-The crop of wheat at the
Virginia Agricultural College last year
on clover fallow and superphosphate,
costing on the land "a per acre, weighed
sixty-seven pounds per bushel. On &C
count of the mildness of the winter the
crop had to be grazed down twice with
sheep. Before harvest it suffered from
drought. So says the Planter and
Farmer.
P1Gs.-Pigs that are being fattened for
the market should have variety OF food.
Half of the diseases of swine are caused
by too much corn. Give wheat or rye,
bran, milk, roots, and an occasional feed
of cut and moistened clover hay, along
with the corn, and you will have healthy
pigs, provided always that they have
clean and well ventilated quarters and
plenty of fresh water.
SCABBY LEGS IN PoULTRy.-A CORE
spondent gives the following cure for
this disease: Take equal parts of lard and
kerosene oil, and thicken with sulphur
into paste. This should be rubbed up
on the legs until the scabby parts come
off, when they should he smeared with
sweet oil. The scabs are not caused by
filth, as our correspondent believes, but
by parasitic insect much like that which
causes scab in sheep.
SHEEP.-Keep your sheep gaining
through the fall; if permitted to lose
flesh they lose In vigor and general
health. Give them small daily feed of
corn when pasture gets dry and scant
Do not expose them to the fall rain,
Sheep nre exceedingly sensitive to cold
and wet, and dislike rain even In summer
Keep them dry and warm and you will
save the food otherwise necessary to pre-
serve animal heat.
BEST BREED OF Fowls. "A subscriber
sends to us the old inquiry, (which
breed of fowls shall keep" Get re-
liable work on poultry, and when you
know the wants and characteristics of
the different kinds of chickens, decide
which will best suit your accommoda-
tions and the demands of your market.
Do not keep too many kinds in one flock
They will require different feeding and
treatment. The Asiatics must be fed
sparingly, as they take on fat readily,
and are apt to become too fat to lay.
Leghorns, Dorkings, Houdans, and
Hamburgs need generous feeding, and
are all good layers. Leghorns and Ham
burgs are too small to make good early
fowls for market. The Plymouth Rocks
bid fair to become the most popular
fowls, and deserve their reputation. N.
Y Herald.
BEETs FOR SUGAR farmer in his
first trial of raising beets for sugar is apt
to fall into many errors, which discourage
him from future attempts. He finds it
IN ore difficult to raise one acre of sugar
beets, and expends more labor on that
single acre than he would Oh hall dozen
acres of corn, simply because he knows
by years OF experience how to raise corn
and does not know how to raise beets.
1t is necessary to take into consideration
the nature of the land on which you wish
to raise the beets, as well as nearness to
factory and facilities for transporta-
ton thither. Suitable land will bring
success, while a thin, gravelly soil will
result in failure, as the beets need to
grow under ground. A well titled and
richly MANFRED corn field will need but
little labor when put into beets. Never
use for this purpose q field which has
been poorly MANFRED for the previous
crop and where the weeds have been al
lowed to ripen their seeds by thousands
Such field would cause an amount of
labor in wedding the beets that would
discourage the most sanguine. Errors to
be avoided are too thick planting. causing
great amount of thinning, and putting
in more acres than can be properly at
tended to. Where too little, seed has
sown, it is Of very little use to fill the thin
places by transplanting, as the second
paintings seldom make good growth.
Conn SMUT AND CATTLE. In the fall
of the year there is always frequent
complaint of cattle dying after being
turned into the cornfeId, when husking
is done. Usually this fatality is attrib-
uted, very enormously, to the fungus or
smut SO common on the stalks. One
farmer will affirm that he knows this to
be the cauS3 having seen the results SO
plainly and so many times that there is
no possible room to doubt it. Another
testities with equal energy and certainty
that his cattle have eaten corn smut time
and time again, and that not the least
injury has happened. If this fungus is
a poison it must always operate in the
same way. Poisons 10 not work differ
emily in different casSs. Arsenic will
poison one man just as quickly rs an
other, and one animal as soon as another
animal, and if corn smut can be eaten
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