The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-10-07
FARM NOTES.

bloom but once They require sandy
soil.
Attic present price Of improved cat
tie no farmer can afford to keep scrub
stock.
PorAToEs are surface feeders and re-
quire a liberal, general manuring to
insure an abundant crop.
IT IS considered by some expert
mentors in feeding, that about one-ffth
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 Ell. WATRoUs has plan
tation Of Z, 200 acres on Flint River, Ga.
The place is worth $50. 900, and on that
amount will 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 cow should he MIXED
regularly and stripped quite clean. No
doubt this has much to do informing
good milking tribes of cattle, by en-
couraging the milk-giying 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,
The autumn-sown grains, both wheat
and rye, have deeper roots and 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
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 a higher point causes the butter to
gravltate towards st ckiness. 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 Dr. Van Ieghem 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 recommending
HUMANE societies for the prevention of
cruelty to animals are either a most en-
couraging element In our civilization, or
else evidences of therelics of barbarism.
If there were no barbarisr there would
be no cruelty, and if no cruelty the
necessity for humane societies would not
exist
IF 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 iudicious thorough
tile drainage of the rest, they would
make more money from the one-half of
| the original farm under improvement
than they now do from the whole area.
A CUBIC foot Of ensilage weighs from
forty toffty pounds, and a daily ration for
o COW is fifty to sixty pounds. One and
half cubic feet makes a cows ration
for q day. A silo ten feet deep, ten feet
wide and ten feet long, will hold ensilage
sufficient for two COWS for three hundred
and tlirty-three days, or for four COWS
for half the year. ID r. Fl .
On 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 century ago, q faYorite form.
| This latter is short horn, turning in
curve across the head to near. its centre,
/ dropping somewhat from base to tip.
T YoUNa grass is much richer in nitro
genous substances, also in lat, and con-
tains smaller proportion OF indigesti-
/ BILE fibre than older grass, and is conse-'
quently more noarishing.s The same
comparison may bemade between young
clover and that which is allowed to ma
turefor 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. sa.'~ @4
"A LARGE part of the elements of plant
food contained in soil Is present, in such
a condition that plants are unable to
make use Of it. Asoil may contain many
thousand pounds of phosphorus, acid or
Of nitrogen and yet be IN ppor 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 llberating the elements Of plant food
locked up, or unavailable.
/ A WOOL and wheat grower says: at
is my belief that the real reason why
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
nlutton-naakers. [ have even heard 10
essay N tSheep as the Scavengers of
the Farm, meaning probably pickers up
Of unconsidered trifes in the form Of
weeds. Now, though I object entirely
to sheep being graded as seavengers, I,
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 proftably used
in some other way Sheep fed upon
lnseed Or cotton-seed-meal will distrib-
ute the elements of fertilization con-
tanned in these feeds which they do not
Economic, 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
will be found convenient to have salt in
little troughs at different points about
1.-THE sleeping grounds. These should be
SO sheltered asrto be protected from rain,
and elevated so that the sheep can get
at them only with their heads. They
viii soon learn to visit these troughs
when dasirinor calf onI If allowed con-