The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-22
FARM NOTES.

gested.
1T Is said that in Great Britain more
persons were killed last year by horses
b by all the railways of the United
Kingdom. Very bad management some
where.
THE oxygen of the air aids and facili-
tates the termination of seeds, and seeds
buried 30 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 o superabundance of mast and
corn, and thousands thoroughly educated
men and women, yet she imports butter,
lard and school teachers from Kansas
City.
D. BRIaas, of Davisville, Tolo Co.,
CAL, has a plantation of 400 acres Of
graperies from four to eight years old,
on which he has raised forty-six car
loads of raisins, most Of which were
sent to the East.
IL ID bd40 lAeb Ouo VI tQ6 D0SG Ion0Ql0S
Tor 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 years
says that at most two applications are
sufficient.
LIZ THOSE farmers whose farms are soils
underlaid with clay would sell one
quarter or one-half of their land and put
tho rnranaan11 H. 81
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 a 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 vi 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 O endorse them.
REFERRMe to the scales which form
the cortex Of wool, and continue its
most important distinction, determining
its feltlng power, . recent writer gives
the following table of tho average mum
Der OF scales to the linear inch in differ
cut woods East India wool, 1000 scales
to linear inch. China wool, 1900, domes-
tic wool, J, 400, Leicester wool, 1,400,
Southdown wool, 1900 Merino wool,
1000, and Saxony wool, 1900 scales to
linear inch. = sos
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 process of decomposi-
ton. Sprinkling the manure pile with
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-
BILE an element of plant food to allow it
to be wasted. Again upon some lands
plaster is an excellent fertilizer
THERE is probably no feed SO 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 a large amount of
muscle and bone material, and, as a
consequence, we have u COW with an ex-
cellent constitution and q good-sized
frame. Corn meal does not contain
enough of the requisite materials for
giving q good-sized and at the same time
a welI.fnrme6 animal The oats MIGHT
he aIternatad viii 1;nsee5 ond &C.,
sead meal
L. g.. ~ raJ;ooEaao 80 :" .Leon'
STATE scaRs insnectors are snno;nte5
whose h,siness r. 10 70 500 tbof Az Io1,
;s enforcsd Everv owner ybo d;sco1ars
;n6;cot;ons ~ -sooh;n his AocL 10 ohl;rSa5
70 notify All AocE.masters Within q csr'
tain rad;ns Of fba fact and aIso 70 nos,
NOTICES in n1b,;c niacss IF h 5;ssasa
is NOT slammed ont within n;netv 5ays
fbe diseased anirn.la mn.t 10 t;lI.5
The result has been that scah has alnnosi
entirely d-isanneared from Arst-oI;ar
Aocks.
AN r-scovso. .r,n -.
b,eed;no has hean far1aaS - Santhoe
missouri 4 hnndred and fifty miIas
from ST. .I,ouiss The incornorotors nro
pose to. locate 80, 600 acres Of land on the
side of the Ozark Mountains, and to
start with 900 sheep, fenced in at 8
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 j; also, to provide shelter
a winter feed for the focks. with other
necessary Improvements as needed. This
n.hnore sensible than the Colorado
syseen: which reiles on pasturlng OF
''srSatlon IN the winter.
LEaUMrNoUs crops have a special powe
VI accumulating nitrogen in the sur
lace soil and are hence of the creates
value In q rotation. Red clover is tn,
most striking instance of this action
It's roots extend further perhaps thai
any other farm crop, and being biennia