The Osceola times., 1881-10-15
FOR THE FARMER.
Fxperime nts with Chess-Onion for Chicken
Cholera-Agricuitural Notes.
EXPERIMENTS WITH CHESS.


Cholera-Agricultursl Notes.
ExPBRIMKNTs WITH CHESS.
7. ID. Cooper, of Kansas, has been ex-
perimenting for a number OF years to
prove to his satisfaction the truth or the
contrary of wheat turning to chess. He
commenced experimenting as far back
as 1870 and has kept il up each year.
fie SAYS: | wanted convincing proof Of
it, so | commenced experimenting bv
taking a number of grains OF wheat, and
also of chess Ia hundred of each.) |
would say right here let me beg of those
who may believe that wheat will pro-
duce chess, just to try my plan and be
convinced. Have your ground perfectly
clean. Take 100 grains of good average
wheat Tor more of each if you wish;
plant the grains twelve or fourteen
inches apart each way, your wheat in
one bed the chess in another. Insert a
small stick in the ground by each grain
of both wheat and chess; then keep the
ground clean, only allowing what you
have planted to grow. If any of the
wheat should winter kill, leave the sticks
standing in the place, and you will soon
be convinced the is no chess growing
either, but il the vitality Of the plant is
only injured, it will produce weak wheat
and poor yield. i have been expert
menting for some years, and have rs yet
failed to make wheat produce anything
but wheaton chess produce anything
but chess. raised over 1000 grains Of
chess from two grains-over l 500 from
one and over 2200 from the other. Let
us have established facts if possible.
ONIONS FOR CHICKEN CHOLERA.
A correspondent of the Poultry Yard
thus describes his new remedy for
chicken cholera: while our neighbors,
for several miles around us, have lost
nearly all their chickens from the So
called cholera, ours are in fine condition.
They were attacked with the premoni-
tory symptoms of the disease, which
seemed to be epidemic here, but we
cured them and have no trouble with
them since, having accidently found a
cure. Cut up onions with food, and ad-
ministered once day for several days,
afterward once week will answer.
Also mix a little ground ginger with
their meal, once every day or two. We
also give them little salt every two or
three weeks, which we deem highly
necessary, and above all things, keep
watermellons musk MELONS and cucum.
Ders away from them. The tops of celery
cut up with their food will be found
highly beneficial, and they appear to
like it very well. Do not get these state
ments mixed up. The onions and ginger
only for cholera, the remainder constant
attention. Too much whole corn We
have found injurious; we give a meal of
this only once in three or four days
Raw onions and very little ginger
against the world for curing cholera, il
the disease has not been allowed 10 run
too far. We endorse heartily the raw
onions and ginger, but have never found
melons injurious. Last summer we
raised, in an amateur way, nearly three
hsndred chickens and turkeys. Bushels
of melon rinds aud imperfect melons of
both kinds were thrown to them daily
and eaten eagerly. Over ripe cucumbers
and seeds of muskmellons were likewise
devoured. We had no losses from any
disease.
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
PEARL millet has been a success this
year in some localities. where it was
planted and cultivated like sugar cane
Each seed produces number of stalks,
which make very rapid growth, are soft
and valuable for feeding when green. 1t
is not so satisfactory when cured for fod-
der.
To keep his neighbors' cattle out OF
his field an ingenious farmer stuck few
nails through clothes line. A shrewd
man saw his device, and soon afterward
patented the "barbed-wire" fence. The
farmer from whom he got the suggestion
now pays him tribute, and the income to
the manufactu rer is said to be about
100000 per month.
No property pays so well for improving
as flock Of sheep, and none can be 30
well improved by careful breeding. But
a shepperd should exercise the greatest
care in changing his rams. When one
procured good stock. he should hesitate
to destroy it by introducing animals that
will not match. Matching is necessary to
successful mating especially with skeep
which are so easily impressed for good
or i'll by breeding.
THE boards of bearded kinds of wheat
add materially to the weight ofthe heads
Given the weight Of kernels to be the
same. and the strength and height Of
straw, as between bearded and beardless
kinds, it is plain the bearded will lodge
before the beardless Boards are of no
known value. Hence, all other things
being equal, it is desirable 10 cultivate
beardless kinds.