Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-12-15
EARM NOTES.

we occasionally find those who prefer
spring for planting, yet the majority
OF fruit growers agree that fall is
just as good as spring, and decidedly
better for many small fruits, such, for
instance, as blackberries and raspber
ries. Pear trees and cherries, set out
as early as the middle of September.
do well, as we have shown before.
They become rooted and start much
earlier and consequently make better
growth than spring-set plants. The
only objection to fall setting, is that
upon wet clay or hard pan land, plants
set late in the fall are sometimes par.
tally thrown out by the frost in winter.
This can be remedied by drawing the
earth well up around them before the
winter sets in and removing it in spring.
Fruit trees set in early fall, if exam
ined in spring, would show that they
had made some roots, and the great ad-
vantage Of these to the tree needs no
dwelling on here. Get trees in in the
fall, when yeu have the leisure to plant
them right.
shown that the trunks of trees undergo
daily changes in diameter. From
early morning to early afternoon there
Is regular diminution till the mini
mum is reached, when the process is
reversed, and the maximum diameter
is attained at the time of twilight:
then again comes diminution, to be sue
ceeded by an increase about dawn-an
InRraQcn r10orlyo1 - = Al
evening. Variations in diameter are
believed to coincide with variations of
tension, but they are shown to be in
verse to the temperature, the maximum
of the one corresponding roughly to
the minimum of the other, and so on.
In connection with these investigations
it may be remarked that the height of
a man is greater in the morning than
in the afternoon, and again that, other
influences being suspended, the baron
eter is higher in the morning than in
the afternoon.
DOvers Journal: our western
farmers consider curl prices of
cattle, $5.00@7.50, not high enough to
Justify full feeding of grain, what
would they think were they in Canada,
and only getting $4.50@5,25 for export
steers. One of the main troubles with
man seems to be that he does not know
when he has a good thing. If Canadian
farmers can afford to sell export cattle
at the sea-bOard for the prices current
at Chicago thousand miles from the
sea-for ordinary butcher steers, it
certainly looks as if we have no cause
for complaint.
Sweet potatoes can be preserved
through the winter packed in barrels in
dry sand or sifted coal-ashes and kept
in warm place. They require a tenn
perature of go deg. In the spring the
seed potatoes are planted in April in a
hot-bed, and in May the sprouts are
removed and planted out in hills about
two feet apart in rows three feet DIS
tant. The cultivation consists in keep
ing the ground free from weeds and
mellow, and in preventing the vines
from roofing at the joints, which they
will do If not moved about continually.
An old teamster of fifty years ex-
perience says he has never had a case
of gals upon his animals where the
following preventive was adopted,
which was simply to rub the collars
inside every few days with little
neatsfoot oil, and the moment any dirt
was found sticking like wax to wash it
off with warm soapsuds and then oil.
A yoke from oxen or collar from horse
should not be removed when brought
into the stable from work until the
sweat is entirely dry and all chaffed
spots should be oiled.
Teach every one in your employ, as
well as yourself, always to put every
tool back in its place as soon as done
with, no matter how great a hurry he
may be in. Better spare half minute
now in doing so than for you to hunt
half an hour with a team or a man
waiting.
Petroleum is an excellent preserva-
tive of exposed wood work and tools.
1t penetrates the pores and repays its
cost many times over 1t is good for
all farm buildings, gates, tools and
rustic work, and is very cheap.
A pound of bones contains as much
phosphoric acid as one hundred pounds
of wheat. On many farms there are
bones wasted sufficient to supply
phosphoric acid for all the wheat CON
sumed.