Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-08-27
HOUSE AND FARM.
Farming Breyities .

Farming Brevities.
According to the London ASricultur0J
Gazette. the Sussex cattle" is the coming
animal for farmers in al those districts
where cattle breeding is distinct from dairy
ing. 1t can add to the size and deep flesh
to the scrub breeds. The Sussex and Scotch
polls seems coming forward together in the
estimation of English breeders.
Abiding to the approaching fairs, q writer
IN the Rstral Neao Yorker justly condemns
the too common practice of competitors
hanging around the judges stands; prac-
tee which Is not only indicate, bat an
noying to the judges.
Use the colt gently and give him some
bits OF cracker or Jumps of sugar or fruit
every time you put on his bride or harness,
and this will have the effect to make him do
your own bidding, and even to open his
mouth tor the bit. There are few horses
that will not soon become gentle under GEN
tie and kind treatment When you want
him to take the bit pat his head, and with
the hand press in his lips just back of the
front teet, which will usually make the an
imal open his mouth. Work gently and
slow until the horse knows just what is
wanted Of him, and you will have no furth-
or trouble, unless he lis naturally vicious
brute.
The corn crop Of the United States usu-
ally averages 100000 900 bushels. or
A, 200, 900 tons, enough to load 100000
rail cars, making 10000 trains each half a
mile long, requiring at least 60, 900 locomo-
tlves to draw them. This seems almost be-
yond belief, but such is the enormous
yield of this greatest of all cereals.
We find the following capital hint in the
boy (Pa.) lnteligemcer: A COW
reared on the farm where she is to remain is
more valuable to her owner than strange
COW. She is acclimated. She is acquaint-
ed with the herd with which she must as
sociate. She is familiar with the lands
from which she obtains her food, and can
travel over it with greater ease than
strange COW. In consequence of these
things she will yield more milk and be more
profitable. Find out which of your COWS
is the most productive and best adapted to
your farm and the business you are engag-
ed in. When this is known breed her, no
matter what her extraction or pedigree may
be, to a good Guernsey bull, and rsise her
heifer calves. They may not all be as good
as the dam, but by persistent selections and
attention to breeding good herd can be
produced.
A Prince Edward country farmer writes
that he has found carbonate of lime to be
as good as Paris green or London purple
in destroying potato beetles. A few pounds
busted from dredging box is enough for
an acre Of potatoes. The more widely this is
known the better, for there has been no
such terror added to farm life of late years
as the introduction of deadly arsenical poi
son into daily use. The number of cases
in which human or other animal life has
been lost through the careless use Of Paris
green is saddening, and the worst of it is
the casualties increase as the public becomes
familiarized with the handling of the
poison.
A Pennsylvania farmer who has tried it
recommends that when the spring sowing
of clover does not 'catch," owing to drouth
or other causes, that sowing of clover seed
upon the stubble in August, or early in Sep
TENDER, will generally repair the damage,
either with or without narrowing in, al
though narrowing is the most reliable prac-
hce. The cost Of the extra seed is but trifle
compared with changing the proper rota-
ton of crops established upon every we'll
regulated farm.