The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10
AGRICULTURAL 7

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SO large an amount of food and with so
little labor as Indian corn.
FARMERS in New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vania are giving considerable attention to
the culture of iute plants.
DEoAYED grain of any kind is highly
injurious to stock. It has a paralyzing
effect upon the animals fed with it, often
times causing death.
SPENT tan-bark has been plowed into
a compact clay soil with the best results,
rs it rendered the soil mellow and in
creased its warmth.
EWES in lamb are very liable to take
cold, and when exposed to wet and cold
weather, or allowed to lie on the ground,
are likely to suffer abortion.
PASTURES that have been fed a few
seasons will generally produce more
milk, or make more fat, than those
which have been newly seeded down.
ASHES are, for many soils, q standard
fertilizer. Places where q tree or brush
heap has been burned off show the effects
of the manuring for years. It is an old
saying, 1.-The land never forgets ashes"
A WISCONSIN farmer, twenty-three
years ago, planted o piece of land unfit
for cultivation with black walnut trees.
The trees are now from sixteen to twenty
inches through, and nave been sold for
s27. 900.
SNOW melts away from drained lands
sooner than on those undrained, hence
the drained soils are ready for blowing
much sooner. In Scotland it is claimed
that the harvest is from ten to fifteen
days earlier on drained than on I'M
drained lands.
The moisture in which one kind of
seed would flourish would be destructive
to another class, causing them to rot in
stead of forcing growth. The heat neces-
sary to start one class of seeds would dry
up and utterly destroy the gum Of an
other class. The application of rules
requires a mixture of common sense and
observation. :
a LADY VINO mas raised a large number
of hens says that after yainly trying the
recommended remedies for lice, she has
hit upon the plan of giving them once or
twice a week a large loaf made of Ora
ham -four, in which a handful of sulphur
has been mixed. The hens like it, and
are freed from lice and kept healthy
through the season.
WE have noted, from time to time,
the constantly decreasing area in Great
Britain devoted to cereal crops. The
agriculture of the country is gradually
changing from grain growing to stock
feeding and dairying. From the inval-
J ian, published by Mr.. Giffen, it APP
pears that since 1870 there has been an
increase of $500, 900 of acres in perma.
nent grass.
No BRANCH of ~husbandry furnishes
.--No.I11 Ill.,, f0raz&
culture. 1t affords pleasant diversion
from the protracted lnbors of the field,
and employment for long winters tina
without it might prove monotonous. In
diligently and systematically managed
our forests will yield profitable returns
not only to our own, but to all succeed
ing generations.
FARMERS should be careful not to bt
in too close competition with each other
and above all things not to compete will
themselves. We once knew a farme
who, not wishing to trust too much K
one man, consigned three lots of par
= ticular product to each of three differen
c commission houses in the same city. /
happened to be theionly consignment o
. the kind offered. Unfortunately TO
! him he proved to be his own competito
in the market.
s PROPORTION OF CREAM IN MnK.-Th
" first fifth portion of milk from the COY
d contains about one-twentieth part c
& cream; the second fifth, one-twelfth; til
v last fifth, one-sixth. How importan
then to get the last and richest droI
even if it were not true that COWS M
Z" quickly dried up by q slovenly practic
$ of leaving a small portion in the uddel
Cows will continue to give n flow of mil
at a much longer period when mike
dry. Farmers, it will be seen, receive
d double benefit by such q course. First
It there is more cream in the milk, an
IT second, the flow will continue longer
two requisites in all dairy countries.
= EWES in lamb should, as far as practi
cable, be fed and sheltered separated,
le from the non-breeding animals, as tn
:" crowding and more rapid movements o
the latter are apt to result in~iuriously
10 while such separation makes more con
re venient certain little attentions to which
lie breeding ewes are entitled Us the yearn
!? ing season approaches, and which ma,
J. be proftably accorded to them. AID
le vantage will be found in subdivision O
&c the several ages and sexes into as man,
o smaller lots as circumstances will adnai
he of, as such course lessons the liability t
N providing and ~over-feeding of tn
Or stronger animals ut the expense of til
le weaker ones. It also brings each amino
more directly under the eye of the al
a. tendant, who will the more readily de
a tect the first symptoms of deviatin
from tho desired thrift.
ie SELECTING SEED CoRN.-Professor A
IN E. Blount, of the Colorado Agriculture
i, College at Fort Collins. gives these view
on selecting seed corn: eff the stock b
to o healthy one and free from injury b
1T insects or weather, the topmost ear is a
s. ways the largest, and best formed, an
We has the best filled grain, provided th
e. parents from which it came We're perfec
ce Every variety of standard corn produce
its best ear nearest the tassel for reason
that are quite evident. Being nearest
receives the pollen first and in great'
ry quantity than those below it: anoth'
10 reason is that it is the natural distant
in from the soil, ETC., etc. A careful exam
IS, ination of the stalks in every stage
ed their growth always shows that tt
1 lowest ear has the longest shank, tt
I'D next has a shorter one. and SO on to I'll
No ropmoSG one, which sets close upon tt
to stalk. It shows also that the lowest Ell
nd is the smallest and the top ear the lar
est, as above stated"
BEDDING FOR CATTnE.-There is I
farm work, considering the outlay, tn
pays 50 large dividends as the procuri1
no of some sort of bedding for the cattl
for it not only keeps them clean-a gre
RS point in itself-but also promotes the
growth and thriftness, and the addition
to accumulation for the manure pile W
is more thar pay for the labor. There
sh usually a large amount of litter tn
sr- goes to waste that if thus utilized won
in be of great service. Straw, oats, C
nd corn butts, etc., are valuable, and fl
sr- sand is not Objectionable, for in itself
he is one of the most clearly of beds, al
ne Us it is a large absorber of liquids, and
IL of real benefit to clay land, there is
as solid reason why n few loads of it m
all not be judiciously used. A farmer
our acquaintance late in the fall tax