Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-12-22
FARM NOTES.

A NUMBER of farmers in Arkansas are
engaged in the cultivation of figs.
SUSFLowER seeds fed in small quanti-
ties impart a beautiful gloss to the plum
age of poultry.
APPLES keep better in damp, moist
cellars than In dry ones. In the latter
they become dry and shriveled. In the
former plump and juicy.
In 1881 the acreage of cereals in Man
itoDa was: Wheat, 3,45S,4 ATS bushels !:
oats, 1921, 720 bushels; barley, 500, 900
bushels. Average per acre: Wheat.
% bushels; oats, 90 bushels; barley, 40
bushels.
WILD birds are uniform in color. Do
mestication causes breaking up of color
and a variety of shape. When an indi-
vldual commences breeding to standard
by selection, he secures uniformity
again.
A VETERINARY writer condemns high
managers for horses, claiming that they
lrrltate the throat and create tendency
to heaves. He says the manger should
be OIL level with the feet, as that is in
accordance with nature.
THE weight of hens eggs ranges from
10 to "A ounces per dozen. A weight of
224 ounces may be taken as fair aver
age for good sized eggs, although a
weight of nearly four ounces is not I'M
known for single specimens of eggs.
II Is the opinion of many that fowl
fattened quickly will make far more
Juicy and toothsome meal than chick,
One thing Is certain, three-year-old
fowl will make much better broth for an
invalid than six-months' chicken.
Or 60,0O0,0 900 acres devoted to the
growing of hops in this country, Oswego
County, n. Y, had 1870 acres, Oneida
5000 and Madison 6,557, making in all
~. III The annual value of the crop in
these three counties is upwards of $780,
900.
LII IS said that Mr.. Leopard de Roths-
child and other English owners of race
horses purpose purchasing American
bred yearlings to race i'll England. The
repeated victories of the Americans have
caused English owners to greatly respect
the American breed of horses for racing
purposes.
EVERY rural family that has home
should have few hives of bees. Moth
ing of so little cost viii yield so large
profit. Nothing is nicer and more
healthy than dish of honey on the ia
BILE at meal time. 1t is luxury and a
substantial which may and should be
found IN every farmhouse.
THE largest cotton-p producer in the
world is Mr.. j. Richardson, of Nissis-
sippi He has so, 900 acres of land, and
raised last season II, 600 bales of cotton.
lie presses the oil from his cotton
seed, obtaining thirty-fve gallons from
ton worth $l2 25, while the cake sells at
from So to ~ per ton.
STABLE manure is preferable to any
other fertilizer. No farmer can afford to
waste his manure. All of it should be
saved and utilized. In many cases
farming would be more profitable if less
land was cultivated, with higher fertili-
zatlon. One acre highly MANFRED should
pay better than three but half-manured
and half-cultlvated.
Why will grass not grow under our
trees? NJ Paul Bert has shown that
green light binders the development of
plants. Plants inclosed in green glass
frame wither and die as though they
were iii darkness. NJ. Regnard finds
that plants specially require the red
rays. Ii sunlight is deprived of the red
rays, the plants soon cease to thrive.
PROFESSOR YoELcKER says Bones
are the first manure which former usu-
ally buys, and which farming commu-
mites demand. Wherever agriculture
IS improved throughout the world the
first lack of the farmer is phosphates.
The easiest source OF supply is bones,
and not until that lack has been sup
Piled III the soil does he begin to search
for ammoniacal manures. f"
WHEN young poultry has been allowed
to contract the habit of roosting in the
trees no time should be lost III breaking
them of it. Confinement to the poultry
house and yard for a day or two will gen
orally effect cure. Sand and tineiv-
sifted coal ashes, with pound of sui
phur to each bushel Of the mixture. is
the best for dust boxes This should be
put III large boxes and kept out Of the
rain. Whitewash the houses, putting in
gill OF Grade carboic acid and pint Of
common kerosene oil to each pailful OF
Stacked lime.
DANISH butter, perfectly worked but
never receiving particle OF salt, proves
that salt so far as butter is concerned is
not preservative agent. No amount of
salt will preserve butter whore proper
working mas been neg ected, neither is
washing of butter Mt all requisite il
the preserving Of butter. Washing saw.
working, but the best butter is made
without washing. The great object III
working butter is to extract the butter
milk, and we labor to extract the butter
milk because it contains cheesy matter in
which putrefaction soon commences, aid
ing the production of rancidity in the fat
Of the butter
PEANUT growing is one of the most
profitable industries OF Virginia The
return never falls below fifty dollars an
acre even in seasons of drouth like the
past one, and sometimes rise as high as
800 per acre. i light sandy soil is
best The nut must have plenty of rain
in August in order to reach perfection
ihee ara three grades in market. the
strictly primo, the prime and the me-
.lium the latter Of which is sold to the
retail buyer The best are sent abroad
or used by makers of the finest grades
Of candy The peanut candy sold at
forty cents a pound is made from the
low grade, the wholesale of which is
two nts per quart.
ALoNG the marshy borders of the
Scheldt, in Belgium, osiers are extern
sively cultivated the rods are for basket
work. but the bark. the peelings. ill
lately we're made into cords. much in
request among fishermen. OF late these
peelings are exported to England, where
they ore subjected to a process for ex-
tracing their salicine, of which they
contain four to five per cent. This sail
cine is presumed to replace hons in
brewing. The Arabs cure the terrain
fever by inhaling the fumes OF burning
leaves and branches of osiers. and de-
coction Of that plant is properly consid-
cred efficaeious against rheumatism.
The refuse Of the osiers-that is to say
the peeliugs be made thus 70 Weld
four tunes a greater profit than the rods.
estimating salicine at It's current price Of
S. to Sc per pound.
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HOUSEHOLD HELPS.