Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-13
FARM NOTES.

| 1MfhoNEMENTS OF the rlPnb KING DO
not cost any more than those Of wrong
kind.
Dew Is more abundant on cloudy
nights, since the heat which is radiated
by the earth does not return to it.
FRESH eggs have ime-like appear
ance to the shells, whereas the outer
covering of stale eggs is glossy and
| smooth.
A MIXTURE of muriate of potash, fish
guano, or sulphat of ammoniate and su-
per-phosphate of lime, is an excellent
fertilizer for corn.
MATTHEW Scorr, of England, has q
crossed Black-fa and South-down eve
twenty-one years old, that has reared
thirty-six lambs.
The value of barnyard manure depends
upon the potash, phosphoric acid and
nitrogen which it contains and the me-
chamcal effect it has upon the soil.
THERE is wonderful variety of apples
not confined solely to the taste but also
to size, ranging all the way from the size
OF pea to near pound in weight.
EARLY maturity is the most valuable
characteristic of improved stock. To
keep young stock growing is the only
way to attend success in stock raising.
JERSEY QUEEN, the famous Vermont
COW owned in Peacham, gave 4.403
pounds of milk during the first 100 DAYS
of her yearly test, making 251 pounds Of
butter.
CAPITAL acts an important part in the
successful management of the farm, and
is quite as requisite as good soil, favor.
able location, enduring muscle or mental
| capacity.
IRRIGATION is subject in farm econ
omy which requires more attention than
1t has yet received, and the counterpart
OF drainage, it may in many cases be
made q co-worker with it.
| GEORGE PLATT, of Roy, N. Y, has
raised wheat on one piece of land for
twenty successive years with one excep-
ton, harvesting in that time $3.50
bushels, an average of twenty-four
bushels per acre for nineteen years.
PROBABLY the largest hog in the United
States was lately exhibited at Junction
City, Kansas. His length is feet, girth
Of neck 81 feet, girth of chest u. eirth
of center feet, width across the hips
80 inches, and weight $50 pounds.
To SAVE girdled trees connect the
girdled space by twigs tapered at each
end as If for grating, then insert each
end Just under the bark Do not be
| sparing Of twigs, but do not tear up the
bark ; cover the whole wound with graft
ing wax.
Pooh shelter, care and feed will, in
| few generations make scrubs out OF the
| finest thoroughbred stock Thorough
| bred scrubs are little better than native
scrubs, and the farmer who raises either
will always be poor. Breeding the best
stock and keeping it in the best manner
possible, pays the largest profits.
The half-bred merino or medium wool
las for several years past sold for five to
ten cents per pound more than the
coarse, and during ten years has brought
more than the fine. Medium and half
bred wool has never been IN over-sup
ply and to-day commands a higher
price and is most wanted of all the quail
tiles.
Dvr IT tipr y7f=,sssiSn 10 EiipsUsc ca
farming IS the amount of land needlessly
wasted even on the best farms by stone
heaps, bushes and weeds. The stones
are too often gathered into unsightIy
heaps in the fields, or thrown into the
| corners of the fences. Perhaps the best
use to which they can be put, if there
is no need of them for the purposes of
drainage, is for utilization i'll road beds
THE location of farm houses and barns
| is something receiving much wisdom
and judgment. Some build so that prac-
| tically the barn is almost in the house
| or the house almost in the barn These
buildings should be some distance
| apart and so located III relation to each
| othes that the barn drainage is IN di
| rectly opposite direction from the house.
| If tits Is observed much sicknc IS in tie
family may be prevented.
HERE is quite as much necessity for
| barn cleaning on the farm rs for hoes.
| cleaning, and If farmers were as leuic-
| tilious about the renovation ana puriaca
| lion of the outbuiidings as firners
wives are about the dwelling, there wouil
| speedily be M Improvement about tht
| appearance of things as well as OF con.
| veniepce. Lost or misplaced tools an
brought to light, barn, shed and sA,l
furnishings put in order, space gained,
and there is revival of cheerfulness
| every WHERE. EIlltA IliAo ioI baiA S4cad-
| ing.
| To PROTECT horses from flies an Eng
| lish veterinarian authority gives the fol-
| lowing advice: Before Harvesting, a
mixture of one part of crude carb0iic
acid with six or more parts of olive oil
should be rubbed lightly all over the an
imal with rag, and applied more thickly
to the interior of the ears and other
parts most likely to be attacked. This
| application may need to be repeated in
the course of the day, but while any odor
Of the acid remains the flies decline to
settle and the horse is completely free
from all their annoyance.
IrIs stated ON good authority that an
acre of the best Lincolnshire, England,
grazing land-and it is a county famous
for its grass-will carry an OK and q
sheep from New Monday till Old Mi
this period the former will gain $50
pounds and the latter forty pounds in
net weight of meat when slaughtered.
The acre will thus yield $40 pounds of
meat. Its produce OF grass may be six
teen tons. perhaps more. This is one
pound of meat for every hundred weight
f grass; but we must remember that
the grass of such land differs from the
average in the quality as well as the
quantity of its product.
IN recent address on the subject of
Corn, Professor Beal remarked that the
topmost car was the best for seed. OF
two fields. one planted with seed taken
at random and the other selected in the
field, the latter yielded as much again
as the former. Manure and cultivation
may the thrown away on poor seed. The
best time to cultivate corn is before
planting. A shallow cultivation was
recommended. Twenty-three ears of
corn can be produced from one kernel,
and by proper cultivation and the best
seeds as high as twenty-five ears. Smut
is great damage to corn, and smutty
corn Is very injurious to cattle.
LATE chickens can be kept more
profitably than early ones. Chickens
from eggs set in August and September
may be kept warm in a tight glazed
house, so that they will grow continu-
ally through the winter, and if they
came later all the better, If they are well
fed The early broods will be salable
at good prices when the market is bare
of chickens, and the later ones viii fur
nish spring chickens long before the
usual supply comes TO hand. Spring
chickens hatched in the fall or even in
the winter are rare. but not entirely un-
known to q few persons who made the