The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-09-30
FARM NOTES.


stock
PorAroEs are surface feeders and re-
uuire a liberal, general manurlng TO
insure an abundant crop.
IT IS considered by. some expert
mentors in feeding, that about one-h1th
of ground corn passes through cattle I'M
digested.
In CHANGING the diet of an OK, five
days will generally elapse before the
remains of the preceding diet are ex-
PEELED by the animal.
FLOUR made from Kansas wheat Is
said to be stronger than that manufac-
tured from wheat raised in the same
latitude in other States.
JUDGE ALLEN H. WArRoUs has plan
tation of 1900 acres on Flint River, ga
The place is worth $50, 900, and on that
amount viii pay 10 per cent. dividend.
THYME will grow almost anywhere,
but it prefers dry, poor soil. Ii the
ground is rich, the plant will grow too
luxuriant and lose its aromatic qualities.
In ALL cases a COW should be MIXED
regularly and stripped quite clean. No
doubt this has much to do In forming
good milking tribes of cattle, by en-
couraging the milk-giving organs as far
as possible.
THERE are three classes of Yorkshire
breeds of pigs-the large, the middle,
and the small. This sometimes produces
some confusion. When persons speak
of Yorkshires they should designate TO
which class they refer.
TIE autumn-sown grains, both wheat
and rye, have deeper roots and a longer
period of growth than the spring-sown
cereals, and are better able than the lat
ter to supply themselves with the neces-
sary constituents from the soil.
THE superior fattening quality of a
pasture, as compared with that of the
hay made from it, is clearly due to the
fact that ON land continuously grazed
the animal is fed on young heritage,
while hay will always consist of the fully
grown plant.
BUTTER, when worked should never
exceed temperature OF sixty degrees,
as n higher point causes the butter TO
gravtate towards sickness. When
worked at too low a point, the butter
becomes mealy and the texture is de-
stroyed.
BLOOD readily decomposes in the soil,
yielding ammonia and nitric acid Wool
and hair decomposes much more slowly,
and their effect Is spread over many
years. Dried blood is an excellent
manure for wheat Wool and hair are
sometimes used for hops.
ALCOHOLIC fermentation generated in
the roots of apple trees has been found
by DIR. Van neghem to be often the
cause of disease in such trees. AS the
roots do not sometimes receive enough
of oxygen in wet weather, drainage is
the remedy recommended.
HUMANE societies for the prevention of
cruelty to animals are either most en-
couraSing element in our civilization, or
else evidences of the relics of barbarism.
If there were no barbarism there would
be no cruelty, and if no cruelty the
necessity for humane societies would not
exist.
II THOSE farmers whose farms are
soils underlaid with clay would sell one
quarter or one half of their land and put
the proceeds into the judicious thorough
tile drainage of the rest, they would I
make more money from the one-half of
the original farm under improvement
than they now do from the whole area.
4 CUBIC foot OF ensilage weighs from
forty to fifty pounds, and a daily ration for 4
COW is fifty to sixty pounds. One and /
a half cubic feet makes n cows ration !
for a day. A silo ten feet deep, ten feet
wide and ten feet long, will hold eusilage
sufficient for two cows for three hundred
and thirty-three days, or for four cows
for half the year.
Ok THE Island of Jersey COWS with
white horns are not looked upon with
favor. The yellow horn, tipped with
black, Is considered a much richer
mixer than the white horn; while the
crumpled horn is there now, as it was
nearly a century ago, favorite form.
LOTT Oh
curve across the head to near its centre,
dropping somewhat from base to tip.
You've grass is much richer in nitro
genous substances, also in fat, and con
tains smaller proportion OF indigesti-
ole fibre than older grass, and is conse-
quently more nourishing The same
comparison may be made between young
clover aud that which is allowed to ma
ture for hay. Hay should always be cut
as soon as full bloom is reached, since
after this point the quality of the crop
viii materially deteriorate.
A LARGE part of the elements of plant
food contained in soil is present in such
n condition that plants are unable to
make use of it. A soil may contain many
thousand pounds of phosphoric acid or
of nitrogen and yet be in poor condition.
One of the agricultural problems of the
future will be to learn the exact sub
stance to apply to soils for the purpose
of hberating the elements of plant food
locked up, or unavailable.
WOOL and wheat-grower says: alt
is my belief that the real reason whv
cur wheat crops only yield half as much
as the English crop is, that in England
farmers utilize sheep as grain-growers.
while we only consider them wool and
mutton-makers have even heard an
essay on Sheep as the Scavengers of
the Farm, meaning probably pickers MP
OF unconsidered trifies in the form of
weeds. Now, though 1 object entirely
to sheep being graded as scavengers, /,
with admirable inconsistency, admire
them greatly in the Office of dung-car-
riers, that Is, feeding on heavy lands, or
on crops which cannot be profitably used
IN some other way. Sheep fed upon
llnseed or cotton-seed-meal will distrib-
ute the elements of fertilization con-
tained in these feeds which they do not
economize, and deposit them where the
wheat was wanted to grow.
SALT FOR SHEEP.-Salt will be taken
with avidity by sheep while on grass.
Where arrangements can be made. it
viii be found convenient to have salt in
little troughs at different points about
the sleeping grounds. These should be
so sheltered rs to be protected from rain,
aud elevated so that the sheep can get
at them only with their heads. They
Will soon learn to visit these trouohs
when desiring salt, and if allowed con-
slant access to them, are in no danger
OF taking too much. The more common
custom is to distribute salt at regular
intervals over the ground, on or near the
range, whence it viii be taken up few
minutes after being found Under these
circumstances it should be given often
enough to avoid restlessness in the flock
on the approach of the sheperd, ind SO
scattered as to allow every animal ready
access. Intervals of five days have been