The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-11
FARM NOTES.


600 acres in Mexico, go, 600 in Nevada,
and 1000 in California.
An AMERICAN cheese bore away the
prize Of silver medal at the great cat
tie and dairy show at Birmingham, Eng
land. The prize cheese was one of the
largest ever made; weighing three-fourths
of ton. It came from Iowa.
Hoes that are to be slaughtered should
be kept growing. Feed is worth more
for fattening in the Autumn months than
in the severe weather of winter, when 8
considerable amount OF food is neces-
sary to keep up animal heat. It is much
the most economical practice to keep
hogs steadily growing until they are
killed.
PROF. ATwATER says with regard to 8
controverted point among men of science
The prevailing opinion among sgricul
ttiral chemists for scms time, and one
which have shared, have been that
plants get nearly all their nitrogen from
the soil and extremely little from the
air. But there are many facts which
are very hard to explain on this theory,
07A-A Z CASAf u&oAA &0hny OOAC1O3 CO1aAL& "
suspect very strongly that plants do,
somehow or other, get considerable nitro
gen from the air"
PROF. BREWER, of New Haven, ques-
tons if all the money won at agricul-
ttlral fairs pays more than half the actual
expenses of the winners in entering the
objects exhibited, caring for them at the
grounds, and getting them home again.
1t is not the cup won at boat race that
incites young men to perform so much
labor, spend so much time and money,
and to practice so much self-denial while
training, but the possession of the prize
is the sign of victory, and so of the
prizes won at our agricultural fairs.
COMMERCIAL bones contain about SO
per cent. of nitrogen and % per cent. OF
phosphoric acid, existing as phosphate
of calcium. Bones that have been
boiled to extract the gelatine contain
much less nitrogen, but larger proper
ton of phosphates. Bones decompose
but slowly in the soil, especially on
heavy land, hence their effect is spread
over several years. The finer the bones
have been ground the more immediate is
their effect English farmers usually
employ bones for pasture and for tur
nips.
Four enormous silos, with total ca
pacity of about 1900 tons, have been
erected at Mahwah, N. J. They occupy
one wing ola long COW stable, and cover
an area of about 40x70 feet, with a DEPTH
of 33 feet. They are made of concrete
Is inches thick, very pure and smooth.
Wooden curbs for shriakage room rise
ten feet above the concrete walls. The
proprietor of the farm where these silos
are built is q practical chemist and a
wealthy man, able and willing to make
the most careful and exhaustive expert.
ments as to the feasibility of the ensil-
age system as well as the feeding value
of the preserved fodder.-Anoerican
Cttlt5UGt0r. g3 or a9sAah
Mr.. GLADSTONE, in recent speeci.,
made good point for the English tc
consider. He told his audience that
they imported 95, 2OO,O 900 worth Of fruits
yearly from abroad, and he instanced 8
fruit grower on the Hudson River in
America, who has an apple orchard Of
200 acres, the produce Of which was an
nually shipped to England. This Amer
lean fruit grower could do this because
The land was his own and not rented
from grasping landlord. Twenty-Five
or twenty-six millions of dollars sent
away for fruit for the reason that if Ii
tenant plants fruit trees the product
goes ultimately to benefit the landlords,
and so it is with other things that re-
quire time to mature under present land
laws in England.
AS to sowing wheat which has been
swelled and sproute1 before, We have
Prof. w. j. Beal's testimony in sub
stance as follows: He found that while
the plumule lived the young roots al
ways died by drying, and new roots
must be pushed out to cause growth
In one experiment ninety-six per cent
of wheat which had slightly sprouted,
and become dry, grew. In another
eighty-two per cent grew where the
plumule had grown half an inch, and
the roots one to two inches. Twice
sprouted and dried, about half grew
There is no doubt that these seeds were
placed under more favorable circum-
stances for growing than they would be
likely to receive in common field cui
ture
A COMMISSIONING lately appointed in
Belgium to test the comparative merits
Of skimming milk after standing, both
by following the ordinary method in
porcelain pans and also in specially con-
structed pans, immersed in receptacle
containing running water or susceptible
of receiving ice. The same quantity of
milk-thirty quarts-was used in each
set of experiments. This quantity was
placed in the porcelain pans and allowed
to throw up the cream during twenty
four hours the pans were then skinned
and the cream churned. There was, in.
variably, eleven per cent. more butter,
and of superior quality, obtained from
the milk, artificially cooled, than from
that treated in the ordinary way.
A SUCCESSFUL fruit grower gives his
experience in training raspberry bushes
as follows: I have splendid piece OF
black raspberries, themammonth cluster
[ nipped the canes off during the sum-
mer,of 1880 when only two feet high,
and kept nipping all the branches and
tops until they had the forms of little
trees. They went through the hard
winter finely, and were not killed, and
in the spring they we're one mass of
green and full of blossoms. Some OF
my neighbors' raspberry canes were all
killed to the ground. They were left to
grow up all without pinching, and the
cold weather finished them. It is best
to prune or pinch in summer. | believe
in pinching, and plenty Of it. 1t saves
stalking and tying, and makes lots OF
fruit. I do not stake my raspberries
and they stand up as straight as oaks.
In RAISING young colts, it is very es-
sential always to maintain very keen
re ish for food and sharp appetite in the
young animal. This can only be done
by strictly guarding against overlooking
with grain. For five-months-old foal
of about medium size, if the weather be
moderate, about one and half pints Of
oats at meal will be enough. Later,
and with the advent OF cold weather,
one quart at each meal may be Fed with
as much corn as could be shelled from a
single ear When the colt gets little
older give it the corn upon the ear, the
shelling of which will afford him amuse
meDt Have warm nuartnrs in cool