The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-01-28
FARM NOTES.

FARM NOTES.
A FARMER of experience in wooI-grow-
ing has well said there is mora money in
growing at twenty cents a pound than to
loan your money at ten per cent. interest
The grease which has become hard
ened by dust on tho axles Of machinery
can all be cleaned of by the use Of
kerosene.
BUNcHEs OF grapes We're kept three
months by an Austrian grower who
dipped the ends of the stems in wax and
packed the fruit IN kiln-dried ground
bark.
PROFESSOR RILEY says that kerosene
or oil of any kind is sure death to insects
in all stages and the only substance with
which we may hope to destroy the eggs.
Oils will not mix directly with water,
but viii mix with milk, fresh or sour,
and then may be diluted to any desired
extent.
WEAK EYES IN HORSES. A good
authority gives the following asa remedy
for horses eyes that are weak, winking
and intiamed: Take an egg and break
the large end enough to admit the handle
of a teaspoon; pour out the albumen or
white; mix in ali the salt you can until
it is quite stiff, then set it in the center
Of a heap OF red Goals and Let it burn IN
I'll done baking; then when cool grind
and blow piece Of it into ths eyes once
q day.
PURIFYING RANdIp BUTTER. of
,ur foreign contemporaries gives the fol-
towing mode of clarifying rancid and
tainted butter: 'Let the butter be melted
and skinned as for clarifying; then put
into it piece Of bread well toasted all
over, but not burnt. I'm a few minutes
the butter viii lose its offensive taste and
smell, but the bread viii become per-
fectly fetid." We have serious doubts
with regard to the above process pro-
ducing the result claimed. Still it is so
simple that any one can try it.
KEEPING Milk Milk will absorb bad
odors from the air quicker than almost
any other liquid therefore great care
should be taken that 1t is not exposed to
any condition where it will be likely to
be damaged in that way. In manufact-
uring cream into butter, great care is
necessary as to the quality of salt used,
as great loss may be entailed by this
alone. The salt is very small item il
itself, nevertheless it has cost many dol
lars in the course of year through the
damage done by the use OF an inferior
article. Always use the best known
brands and keep close watch upon them
at that. The use of tirkins, pals or tubs
made OF any kind of wood that imparts
an unpleasant favor must be avoided, as,
after packing, butter is very susceptible
in coming in contact with any favors of
this kind.
PRESERVING PASTURES. Among many
propositions to renovate the pasture. one
has been overlooked Acknowledgement, IT
is the cheapestand most practical manure
on the farm. The common plan is To
have but one pasture, upon which the
cattle must Craze at all times. If it
comes to the bare sod during the seasons
of extreme drought the stock must con-
tinue to grub at the sod for want of bet
ter This exposes the roots Of the grass
to the sun or Injuries or destroys the
plant. Suppose we use our trees and
shrubs in that way, the detriment to
growth would be at once apparent A
good top on grass for growth Is as nee
essary rs upon trees.
That one hundred acres Of land In two
pastures will keep one third more stock
than the same number of acres in one
pasture has long been known to the prae-
tical farmer. The reason is that the
stock can be removed before it has
grazed the pasture too closely, before the
roots of Che grass are uncovered. A
plan that will renovate hundreds of pas
lures in Iowa is this Let the grass
have good start i'll the spring, say four
inches, before turning on the stock. and
change pastures as often as the pSsture
appears to be closely grazed. PROT
Knapp, In homestead
FEEDING BEES IN WINTER After m
nnpropitious season bees are apt to go
into winter quarters lily provided with
stores. Well-informed and cautious
apiarists. aware of this lack, feed weak
colonies during the fall sufficiently to
supply the need. It is never desirable
to feed liquid stores, either honey or
syrup, III winter, and not we'll to feed at
all unless positively demanded. The
best way to feed if we must, is to mt
candy made from granulated sugar on
the frames, just above the cluster. This
Will be kept warm, and can be taken.
and will disturb the bees so little that
If it must be done, it will generally sue
coed. IF the bees can pass the winter
until March-and the stores needed dur
ing the cold winter are very light COM
pared with those consumed later after
brood-rearing commences-then We may
feed either honey or syrup. Then the bees
can lily occasionally and will receive no
harm from liquid food This food, too, will
stimulate brood-rearing, and thus work a
double benefit. The feeder Il need to
be SO constructed as to keep the food
near the cluster or the bees will not APP
propriate it, because Of the cold No one
should fail 10 use division-board in win
tor and spring Keep the bees crowded
on to so few frames that ali will be Gov
cred, and spring dwindling will do little
harm.- j. Cook, Agricultural Col
lege, Lansing, Mich.
ONE HUNDRED BUSHELS OF SHELLED
CoRN TO THE ACRE Mr.. Nathan G..
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how he raises one Hundred bushels Of
shelled corn to the acre. He used for
seed an eight-rowed corn which he has
improved by careful selection, and be-
lieves it to be a good variety to raise,
anywhere between Virginia and the
Canada line. The ground selected for
planting was a go9d pie If gravelly
loan. It was well plowed about the
first of May, narrowed, treated to
broadcast application Of nine hundred
pounds fertilizer to the acre; again har-
rowed faithfully, rendering the land fine
and mellow; rows marked three feet
apart, small amount of fertilizer scat
tered to each row. May 10th, three
kernels of corn planted in each hill, two
feet apart in the rows; cultivated and
hoed four times, allowing no weeds to
grow; passed through the entire piece,
cutting each hill down to two stalks;
every sucker in each hill cut throughout
the field. During the entire peric i OF
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