Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-09-08
FARM NOTES.

IHE American anDerry Is now raised
With success at Ashburnham Park, Sus.
sex, England.
lr Is considered by some experiment.
ers in feeding that about one-ffth OF
ground corn passes through cattle undi-
| gested.
IT IS said that in Great Britain more
I persons were killed last year by horses
than by all the railways of the United
Kingdom. Very bad management some.
where.
The oxygen of the air aitls and faeili-
tates the termination of seeds. and seeds
buried SO deeply IN the ground as to be
out Of reach OF the atmospheric air will
exhibit no signs of life.
ANIMALS when first confined, and sup
piled with fattening food. always increase
largely in weight during the first few
| weeks, after which the rate of increase
diminishes to a considerable extent.
TEXAS has five million head of horned
cattle and superabundance of mast and
corn. aud thousands thoroughly educated
men and women, yet she imports butter.
| lard and school teachers from Kansas
City.
y. BRIGGS, OF Davisville, Tolo Co.
| CAL, has plantation of 460 acres Of
| graperies from four to eight years old
on which he has raised forty-six car
loads OF raisins, most of which We're
sent to the East.
! IT Is said that one of the best remedies
for the cabbage worm IS to sprinkle air.
Stacked lime on the plant in the morning
on the dew till the plants are white with
it, One who has tried it for several wears
says that at most two applications are
sufficient.
If THOSE farmers whose farms are soils
underlaid with clay would sell one
quarter or one-haf of their land and put
the proceeds into the iudicious tile
drainage of the rest, they would make
more money from the one half of the
original farm under improvement than
they now do from the whole area.
FoR general purposes on the farm cas-
tor oil, with little kerosene added is
the best lubricator and preserver. For
saws, mowers, buggies, and the like, this
mixture furnishes more body with less
gum than most other OILS. The amount
of kerosene, if any, to be added must be
governed by the purpose for which it is
designed. :.
OPINIONS upon practical agriculture
should never be formed from books or
papers alone. They are excellent for
suggesting ideas, and for comparing
notes with our own practice We NAV
be able to endorse the opinions at sight,
but generally speaking new practices
should be verified upon our own lands
before we either adopt or endorse them.
REFERRING to the scales which form
the cortex OF wool, and continue Its
most important distinction, determining
Its letting power, a recent writer gives
the following table of the average mum
Der of scales to the linear inch in differ
ent woods: East India wool. | 900 scales
| to linear inch, China wool, 1920. dones
tic wool, l AGO, Leicester wool. L400
Southdown wool, I590, Merino wool
1000, and Saxony wool, 1920 scales tc
linear inch.
MANURE should be forked over occa-
sionally TO make it fine. IF it is heat
ing, then muck or loan Should be mixed
with it to absorb the ammonia which is
formed during the pro 'ess Of decomposi-
ton. Sprinkiing the manure pile witk
ground plaster IS advisable. The plaster
Will absorb any ammonia which escapes
from the pile and save it for the use of
growing plants. Ammonia is too valua-
bic an element of plant food to allow it
to be wasted. Again upon some lands
plaster is an excellent fertilizer
HERE is probably no feed Sc good for
raising good dairy animals as warm skim
milk with a mixture of moderate quaint
tiles of ground oats scalded. The milk
and oats contain large amount of
muscle and bone material. and as a
consequence, we have COW with an ex-
cellent constitution aud a good-sized
frame Corn meal does not contain
enough of the requisite materials for
giving a good-sized and at the same time
well-formed animal. The oats might
he alternated with linseed and cotton
seed meal.
THE Australians have very stringent
law for the eradication of scab in sheen.
State scab inspectors are appointed.
whose business it is To see that the law
is enforced. Every owner who discovers
indications of scab in his flock is OBLIGED
to notify all fiock-masters within a Ger.
tain radius of the fact, and also to post
notices IN public places. If the disease
is not stamped ont within ninety DAYS.
the diseased animals must be killed.
The result has been that scab has almost
entirely disappeared from Australian
fiocks.
AN INCORPORATED company for sheep
breeding has been formed in Southern
Missouri, one hundred and fifty miles
from St Louis. The incorporators pro-
pose to locate 80, 600 acres of land on the
side of the Ozark Mountains. and to
start with 1000 sheep, fenced in at
less cost than herdsmen can be employed.
They expect to bring the land under
cultivation at an early day, and to Craze
the sheep in blue and tame grass instead
of bunch grass; also, to provide shelter
and winter feed for the fiocks. with other
necessary improvements MS needed. This
is more sensible than the Colorado
system, which relies on pasturing or
starvation in the winter.
LEGUMTNous crops have a special power
Of accommodating nitrogen in the sur
face soil, and are hence of the GREATS st
value III rotation. Red clover is the
NEST striking instance Of this acton.
ITS roots extend further perhaps than
any other farm crop, and being biennial
it has a long period for growth The
accumulation of nitrogen at the surface.
III the form Of roots, stubble and deeaved
vegetable matter, is in the case of a
good crop Of clover so considerable. that
the whole of the above ground growth
may be removed as hay, and the land
yet remain greatly enriched with nitro
gen, and in au excellent condition for
producing a crop of wheat.
AS TO the manurial value of different
cattle-foods. we finI that the oil cakes
Weld the richest manure, as they con
tam the largest amount Of nitrogen and
phosphorus acii, with a considerable
amount Of potash Next to these beans
and peas, malt dust and bran. Clover
hay Wells richer manure than oals,
wheat, barl9A or corn, while meadow
hay stands Now the cereal grains. The
various grains and the roots. like tur.
H1ps, carrots aud Swedes, contain about
the anne proportion Of nitrogen in their
dry substance the roots. however, sup
| ply much more potash. Potatoes stand
below other roots in mannrial value
Straw takes the lowest place as a ma
nure- yielding food. bean aud pea strlw
being more valnabls for this purpose
than the straw Of the cereals.
IMPROVED HARNESS. --A recent writer
calls attention 70 the fact that vi II al the
inventions and improvements that have
| been made, we are still driving and rui L
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