The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-11-04
FARM NOTES.

600 acres in Mexico, 60, 600 in Nevada,
and %, 900 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
I of ton. 1t came from Iowa.
a.. Hoes that are ia. be slaughtered should
be kept growing. Feed is worth more
= fer fattening In the Autumn months than
4 in the severe weather of winter. when
considerable amount of food is neces-
90 arv to keep up animal heat. 1t is much
x the most economical practice to keep
hogs steadily growing until they are
killed.
3 PRoF. ArwATER says with regard to
controverted point among nof science
s' The prevailing opinion among agricui-
tural chemists for some time, ana 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,
and am, with many others, coming to
suspect very strongly that plants do,
somehow or other, get considerable nitro
gen from the air." ~
80 PRoF. BREWER, of New Haven, ques-
tons If all the money won at agricul-
tural 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.
M1t is not the cup won at a boat race that
\pcites young men to perform so much
Abor, spend so much time and money,
and to practice so much self-denial while
PTraining, but the possession of the prize
NJ the sign of victory, and so of the
5rizes won at our agricultural fairs.
iComdERcIAL bones contain about 81
z 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. 6f t5
FoUR enormous silos, with total ca
pacity of about 1900 tons, have been
erected at Mahwah, n. j. They occupy
one wing of long COW stable, and cover
an area of about 40x70 feet, with depth
OF 80 feet. They are made of concrete,
Is inches thick, very pure and smooth.
Wooden curbs for shrinkage 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 rs TO the feasibility of the ensil-
age system as well as the feeding value
of the preserved fodder. american
Cultirdtor
Mr.. GLADSTONE, in a recent speech,
made good point for the English to
consider. He told his audience that
they imported s5, 200, 900 worth of fruits
yearly from abroad, and he instanced q
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-siI millions of dollars sent
away for fruit for the reason that if
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 sprouted 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 cul-
ture. ..- :. .., ,..l--.l 49,
A COMMISSION was lately appointed in
Belgium to test the comparative merits
ct skimming milk after standing, both
by following the ordinary method IN
porcelain pans and also IL 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
8 TO throw mp the cream during twenty
& four hours the pans were then SKINNED
and the cream churhed. There was, in
8 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 grover gives his
experience in training raspberry bushes
as Follows: Il have splendid piece of
black raspberries, the mammonth 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 were one mass of
green and full of blossoms. Some OF
my nelghbors 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. 1 believe
IN pinching, and plenty of it, 1t saves
taking and tying, and makes lots of
ut. Il do not stake my raspberries
they stand up as straight as oaks.
tr RAISING young colts, it is very es-
tlal always to maintain q very keen
ish for food and sharp appetite in the
lung animal. This can only be done
y strictly guarding against overlooking
with grain. For a fve-months-o 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
rs much corn as could be shelled from
single ear. When the colt gets little
older give it the corn upon the ear, the
Smelling of which will afford him amuse-
ment. Have warm quarters in cool
weather, and have them kept clean and
we'll ventilated. Turn. the animal out to
run, during the warmest part of the
winters day for exercise. Provide the
colt with a generous supply of dry bed
ding. Allow no manure to remain q day \
In the colts box or stall. ALWAYS keepinc