The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-09-02
FARM NOTES.

The Prairie Farmer says grass and
clover can be successfully sown with
| buckwheat.
LABOR should be the application of .
principles, and net merely to follow Q
blind pre6epent.
The New York papers deaonnoe the
| practice OF spreading manure on lawns
or public parks as endangering health.
WY do not our courts change the
oath to jurors so as to agree with the
general practices 1--WE viii find a YER
dict in favor of the smartest lawyer"
For six months of the year the cattle
and horses must depend upon hay as
their principal supply of food and it is
all important that it be saved in the best
condition possible.
TIE days of routins farming are or
ought to be past. The farmer who VIII
succeed now, must not only know how to
do things correctly, but he must know
why he does things thus and SO.
We HAVE variety of able professors
| IN our schools, colleges, and universities,
but what they all lack now is profess
sor of common SENSE. VIII not some
rich man endow such a profess6rshipy
GRASS in cornfeld is the same as 9
weed. Too many stalks in hill dimin-
ish growth the same as weed. It
comes very near the truth to say that
weed is only plant out Of place.-Be::-
nett.
IF You are fattening hogs soak the
corn, for it is hard and dry, and ewine
can't eat much of 1t. It would pay to
construct box on purpose to soak corn
in. Pigs, calves and horses all do bet
ter on soaked eorn.-Bennett
THAT man or woman who gratuitously
leeds tramp is worse than the tramps
themselves. This is the process by
which they are encouraged and sup
ported. There is demand for double
the workmen which can anywhere be
found.-Ioa0o State Register.
The farm is the place to grow healthy
lads and lassies. The excitement of a
city life blights when young. 1t is the
country that infuses new life and energy
to the city, which continually receives
recruits from the best blood of the
country.
MILK turns sour in thunder storms
because during their continuance ozone
is generated In the atmosphere. Ozone
is oxygen in state of great intensity,
and oxygen is the great acidifer through.
out nature. The excess of oxygen in
the air imparts acidity to the milk by
the formation Of Tactic acid.-Prarie
Farmer.
A NEBRASKA dairyman gives the fol-
lowing advice: "Feed sound food and
give clean water to your stock be per-
fectly clean in all the operations of pro-
ducing butter; market it while fresh,
and don't wait for rise, and I will
guarantee the value will rise to an aver
age Of seventy-fve cents per pound, and
oleomargarine factories will slig out of
existence, and both makers AID consumers
of butter will be satisfied"
To KILL lice on cattle, correspond
emit of the country recommends q mix
ture of one bushe1 of dry sand and five
pounds of sulphur will clear fifty head.
Get them into huddle, if you have
large lot, then go on the windward side,
and throw it or sprinkle, as best you can,
to get it on. One good sprinkling will
kill and clean out every one Sui phur,
coal oil and lard will clean fowls Of lice
and scaly legs. Rub it on the feet and
legs, and run your greasy hands through
the feathers.
The young lady goes to school or col
lege, and if luckily she has teacher
who understands domestic economy, she
will learn that albumen dissolves in
warm water, sbut hardens in boiling
water. But when she comes to assume
the great duties of life, though she has
learned that the albumen of meat is the
most nutritious part, yet she will her.
self or permit her domestics to put her
meat for dinner in cold water and bring
1t slowly to boil, thus dissolving her
albumen and losing it. Here is where
a professor of common sense is needed.
IMPORTANCE OF BREEDING SHEET
However much by iudicious manage
ment we may enable flock t., produce
wool under the most favorable ircum-
stances, it is perfectly clear that the
natural character of the breed will be
very important agency; management
will go far to favor the growth of wool.
but it certainly cannot do all we need,
Hence the Importance of securing sheep
which are OF a suitable breed, and from
which we may be sure to obtain wool of
the desired quality and weight The
value of long-continued and careful
breeding is shown as forcibly in the wool
as in the general form of the body.
These focks which, for several success
siVe generations, have maintained one
steady and uniform character of wool,
offer the best source from which to
breed when it is desired to improve the
wool of any flock. The buyers should
not look for rams suitable for this pur-
pose without duly considering the prev
ious history of the flock from which they
may be selected. Many sheep pos
sesses the external publications desired
so far as the eye is able to judge-but
unless the flock from which it has been
obtained has been carefully fed, the
buyer will probably be disappointed.
The value of good wool is strong in
ducement for making its growth as
abundant and as good as the local cir
cumstances of farm will allow.
FARMING IN CALIFORNIA CORES
pondent of the Chicago Tribune. who
has recently been iourneying from Cali
fornia to Los Angeles, writes as fol-
lows: Shocking from the car across the
great agricultural section, the range OF
the eye is bounded only by the distant
mountains, while broad expanse of
waving grain, covering many thousand
square miles of level land, lies between.
Nowhere else is farming prosecuted on
such an extensive and scientific scale,
and the quantity of wheat and barley
produced each year is something enor-
NOUS. To the Eastern tourist, the1Rck
of fences, roads, and homes is surpris-
ing. For miles and miles on each side
of the road nothing but wheat-felds are
seen, and the play of light and color
upon the standing grain exceeds in
beauty the best tints of the most famous
artists. On every ranch is seen farming
machinery Of whose value the Eastern
farmer is scarcely yet aware. Gang-plows
for preparing the ground, centrifugal
sewers for scattering the seed, combined
plows and sewers, giant headers for cat
ting, and costly separators for threshing,
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