The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-10-28
FARM NOTES.

d1NSEED Is p6TLapSs "a OAtuhhky 4OOuS
the one most similar to milk in compo-
sition, and hence a desirable artificial
food for young animals.
UNwAsHED wool contains large
amount of potash. A fleece sometimes
contains more potash than the whole
body Of the shorn sheep.
The taturalists have found that
trunks of trees undergo daily changes in
diameter. From early morning to early
AFTERNOON there is regular diminrtion.
followed until twilight by an increase.
WHILE wheat requires hot and dry
weather for its ripening period, oats will
ripen in moist atmosphere. MangeIs
require heat and can resist drought,
while turnips develop best in cool, moist
air.
FRANCE appropriates for agriculture,
1881, in round numbers. $3.50, GOO. This
grant includes agricultural education, ex-
penses for breeding studs and keeping
up $500 stations, inspection of woods
and forests and prizes to regional for
estS.
The OK contains, in proportion to its
weight, a larger amount of nitrogen and
much larger amount of phosphoric
acid and lime than either the sheep or
pig. Of all the animals raised on a
farm, the pig contains least of all the
important ash constituents.
Poor soils yield their best results in
seasons of slow but continued growth,
the crop having longer time to collect
the scanty supply of food which the
soil contains. In hot seasons, with
an early harvest, only soils well sup
piled with food can produce full crops.
All sales of hogs in the Chicago mar
ket are made subject to shrinkage of
forty pounds for each piggy SOW and
eighty pounds for each stag. Dead hogs
sell at two cents per pound for weights
averaging 200 pounds and upwards, and
at one cent per pound for lighter
weights.
WHEAT is more valuable cut at stage
which would be commonly considered a
little early than when left to become
overripe. The cel1ulose or woody fibre
rapidly increases in the days of over
ripening, giving more bran and less flour,
thus materially reducing the milling
value of the wheat
In THE upper part of Sonoma County,
CAL, railroad track crosses deep "a
vine upon the upright trunks of tall
trees, which have been sawed off upon a
horizontal line In the centre of the
ravine firm support is furnished by two
huge redwood trees which have been
Topped off seventy five feet above the
ground.
FODDER crops do not sensibly dimin-
ish in digestibility by being made into
hay, if haymaking is carefully carried
out in good weather. But the loss Of
the finer parts of the plant by rough
treatment, or the washing out of soluble
matter by rain, may considerably dimin,
ish the digestibility. Hay appears to
lose some of its digestibiIity by long
keeping.
A GREEN worm causes the rot in the
tomato. 1t commences its depredations
first on the leaves of the plant, then
turns from them to the younger toma-
toes, and eats q part of the flesh, next
turning to the leaves again. The edge
surrounding the parts eaten by the worm
turns back and rot commences. These
worms are more numerous this year than
we have ever seen them before.
ACCORDING to the last report of the
Commissioner of Agriculture it appears
that 100000 persons in the United
States are engaged in agricultural pur-
suits. The total value of the farms and
farm implements is $13, 461, 200, 433 OF
two-thirds of the productive wealth OF
the nation. The value of farm products
and live stock for 1873 was So, 900, 900, 600
against 50, 800, 100000 of mining and
manufacturing products.
SooT, dried blood and wooden refuse
are all purely heterogeneous manures. SCOT
owes its value to the presence of a small
and variable quantity of ammonium
salts. Dried blood is an excellent man
ure, containing ten to thirteen per cent.
of nitrogen. Shoddy and other forms
of wool and hair are variable in compo-
sition, owing to admixture of dirt,
grease and other foreign matter. The
nitrogen they contain will range from
five to ten per cent.
THE solid matter of milk has O very
high feeding value, owing to the large
proportion Of fat and albuminOids pres
ent and its perfect digestibility. If we
take as a standard the heat producing
capacity of Indian corn at 100, then the
heat producing capacity of dry cows
will be 140. Milk also supplies the ash
constituents necessary for the formation
of bone and tissue. One hundred
pounds of cows milk will supply about
020 pound of phosphoric acid, .016
pound of lime. and OH pound of pot
ash.
THE bull is half the herd, thus bull
of the best milking strain of blood used
even in small lot of dairy COWS greatly
and at once improves each of his get.
And the high priced bull, though SEEM
ingly extravagant at the start, soon re-
turns to his owner heavy profit. Of
late years the Jersey importations have
been scattered widely over the land, and
the butter diaries and creameries are re-
alizing the profits from the gains pro
duced by the breeding of the native and
grade COWS Of other bloods to the bulls,
thus increasing the value Of many herds.
THE habits of canker worms are pecu-
liar. The miller that lays the egg for
the worm commences coming out of the
ground as soon as it begins to thaw III
the spring, and Immediately crawls up
the tree and lays it eggs in and on the
buds, which hatch as soon as the tree
begins to leaf, when its work begins
These millers are hardly ever seen in the
daytime, and they never climb tie tree
except at night. From half to an hour
after shutdown they appear to pop out of
the ground and start straight for the
tree The female has no wings and get
stuck in the tar or printers ink that
should be applied to the trunk of every
tree, and that is the end of it.
ACCORDING to present indications,
American cattle raisers must except
competition for the English market from
new quarter. One hundred and twenty
tons of meat recently arrived in Engl md
in good condition from Australia. This
was the result of an experimental ship
ment. and it is regarded as so successful
that the steamers of the line by which it
was transported are to be fitted with re-
frigerating apparatus for the purposes of
the trade. Although it is to be presuGaed
that England would give the preference
l.