The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-05-26
Farming In Short ROvyS

wooden partitions with wide dead air spaces
filed with sawdust or similar material.
Never milk while tho COW il eating" is
ing from the character Of much of the milk
that comes to market, it would be moro to
the point never to milk while the COW is
drinking.
Mr.. NJ. P. Wilder writes to Grsen's ryuit
Grosser that II he could have but one of
his 800 varieties Of pears it would be the
Beuire q'Apiou; VI
Mr.: ]: W: sannbo}H{,, Of the New Hamp-
shire Agricultural College, leporta "bettel
results in feeding 20 pounds of hay than
from 80 to 100 pounds Of corn fodder
The American ivy, or Virginia creeper, is
continually growing in estimation in
Europe, no Other v;.:s making; 60 GoGlplete
and Beautiful 4 curtain Of shade, or grow.
ing with such rich shades of color in the
autumn. A writer remarking on mixture
of the Virginian creeper and Virginian
clematis on the front Of the Waterloo hotel
Vale of Bettws, Wales, seya that i; is the
admiration Of oil atIGhgers, and that two
cottages covered with the creeper near the
Waterloo bridge have an effect so remark
able that it is impossible to imagine that
any tropical growth could surpass it. Both
the American and Eng!isA ivy are said tc
wear their richest livery III the humid
west. It is the Quickest and completes
shade here to defend lower windows from
summe4 sup:
A practical farmer writes in favor Of soak.
ing asparagus seed. He says: my ex-
perience leads me to believe it to be oil
great advantage, whatever may be said OF
soaking seeds generally. Asparagus seed
on account Of its hard, horny outer coat, il
very slow to germinate at all. It SHOULD be
soaked in warm water for week or ter
days before sewing, or until the sprouts be.
gin to show on the seeds. The dish con.
tanning the seed should be placed where il
will keep warm (the top Of the reservoir te
q kitchen stove is good place., anu have
the water changed several times. Treated
thus. asparagus seed will come up al
quickly as corn, and not only save wedding
ing season, which will make quite differ.
ence in the size of the plants the first year
The Indiana farmer thinks that short.
horn cattle are improving on all hands, and
instances the late sale at Chicago, at which
the animals offered averaged about 1851
per head.
A plant, which grows wild in Louisiana,
has just been discovered to possess valua.
bic fiber. It is the I. Caroliniano, thu
aliuvial lands. called locally wild indigo
and SIENNA. The plant has fibrous bark
easily REDUCED, and is a valuable fibre fo1
many purposes. 1t is not SO fine as jute
but is quite as strong. 1t is we'll suited
for the manufacture Of baggging. sacking
mating and rope. This weed springs III
spontaneously in the fields after the corn i.
laid by, and attains its growth and goes tt
seed before frcst. It costs nothing fol
production, and the only expense is atten.
for the market.
A Demand for Cord.
A few years ago all of the self binding
harvesters used fine iron wire for binding
the bundles of grain as cut in the field
This wire when the grain is thresAed pass.
es into the straw, some of which is swal'
lowed by cattle having access to the straw
find their way into the grain and thence t
the mill where they frequently play mis-.
chief with the stones and boiling cloth
The millers by using magnets for catching
the wires have practically overcome the oh.
lection to wire for binding, but the farmer
still finds it great nuisance when feedine
the straw to his animals. Quite recent!
harvesters using cord for bindinghav beer
invented aud are now taking the lead, ane
are preferred to those using the wire. The
change from wire to cord has created q nov
and very large demand for the hitter article
and the Pr03re Farmer estimates that dur
ing the present year no less than 5000 tom
of cord will be required for binding grair
alone, and by 1856 not less than 40, 600 ton,
will be needed to supply the demand
Where all this is to come from. and out o.
what kind of fibre It is to he constructed
are questions not readily answered.
Sheep Shearing.
From tho Western Rural
Sheep shearing should not be delayed
too long, for reasons that are obvious. The
animal, when the weather becomes warm
suffers greatly when covered with heavy
fleece, and if exposed to heavy rains, thu
process Of evaporation draws heat from thu
body and exposes the sheep to imminen
danger from disease. If the shearing ii
put off too late in the season. the wool hat
not time to get. a sufficient start for the
perfect protection of the animal from the
cold weather of the approaching winter
/ k1eAA4S oAossAAuS. scA4OWSS INV Oo AoAo wv
early. We have seen sheep that were
shoared in the too early spring that looked
as it they felt something like the poor vic
! tim of the fellow who signed the temper.
! ance pledge conditionally, the condition be.
ing that the pledge should lie imperative
when he was washing sheep. AS this very
ancient story goes, the temperance orato
who had performed the wonderful feat o.
getting this mans name to the conditiona
temperance pledge, called on the signer il
the middle OF winter, and was much sur:
prised to find him drunk.
! demonstrating with him for violating hi
pledge, the man denied that he had done
so, aud leading the way to the barn h
pointed to sheep shivering and dripping
with water, saying: '"4See that! I've waehet
that sheep more than thirty times to-day!
Taking heavy fleece from sensitive ami
NAL in cold weather leaves it in about tn
I condition that q man would be in if he tool
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