The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-06-02
FARM NOTES.

WITH London sewage - a fertilizer
certain varieties of beets have been
raised weighing upwards of sixty pounds
each.
THE first shipment OF wheat from Chi
cago was made in 1889, and consisted OF
seventy-eight bushels, which was carried
via lake to Buffalo, N. Y.
THE Maryland farmers nave so little
faith in their agricultural college that
they are calling upon the Legislature to
refuse an appropriation to the institution.
The London Agricultural Gazette
states as within its experience that bull
calf, taken from pedigree Shorthorn
cow, has weighed above 100 pounds
when removed from the dam.
ONE who has been successful under
the system of ensilage plants his corn in
hedges about thirty-two inches apart,
and about six inches wide. planting forty
or fifty kernels to the running foot, and
secures thereby wonderful growth.
THE Canada thistle perpetuates itself
chiefly by means of root stalks, which
are full of dormant buds, and hence any
piece an inch long will send up q stalk.
A single plant In an ordinarily cultivated
field will soon spread all over it by
means of the roots.
In STATE of rest animals should be
allowed as much water as they will take,
but where they are likely to be called
upon to perform severe exertion, smaller
quantities are advisable, and in which
case the allowance should be repeated at
short intervals.
THE annual product of wheat in the
world is about 1,590, 0O0,000 bushels.
OF this the United States already pro-
duces 400, 000,0 bushels, one-third Of
which we send over the sea. Ten years
from now we shall produce much larger
portion of the whole, and shall send a
much larger fraction of its abroad.
TENDENCY to disease is hereditary in
pigs, therefore it is well to know the
pedigree and past history of your boars.
Ninety per cent. of the stock of large
Yorkshire boar were more or less affected
with lung disease. On inquiry, it turned
out that the sire of the boar had died Of
inflammation of the lungs.
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Pa, is said TO
be the largest wool-growing county in
the Union, and produces annually $780,
600 to 1000, 900 pounds of wool, worth
in cash 100000 for the wool alone,
besides the sale of fine sheep fer breed
ing purposes, and mutton sheep and
lambs for the meat market of the East.
The more exertion an animal under
goes the greater is the wear and tear of
the system. Exercise increases the re-
spiration or breathing, more oxygen is
is consequently taken into the. system,
and the tissues of the body are burned
up in proportion. Unless this extra
waste is met by an additional supply Of
food emaciation and illness follow.
The wild boar differs from the tame
hog in putting his hind feet into the
marks of the fore feet. The cloven feet
of the tame hog divide as he walks the
wild boar, when he is walking without
suspecting danger, keeps his claws close
together. The wild hog buries his snout
deep, roofing the earth up in straight
line before him ; the tame hog turns it
up right and left, here and there. The
wild boar grows for four or five years
and lives for twenty or thirty.
! AN ANALYSIS of o sample of apple
pomace from press of more than ordi-
nary power, and hence unusually dry,
was made at the Connecticut Agricul.
tural Experiment Station, with result
showing the pomace to carry food ele-
ments superior to corn fodder and to
turnips, mangels, and all of our root
crops except the potato, and showing
but little inferiority to the last named
tuber. The new system of ensilage
should render the preservation of apple
pomace a matter of ease and certainty.
In SPEAKING of his experience with
feeding ensilage to dairy stock, J. w.
Walcott, of Readville, Mass, states !:
"As to the quality of the cream can
say that by feeding fifty pounds of en-
silage maize, and one quart of cotton
seed meal, the increase over the amount
when feeding English hay and six
quarts of corn meal, averaged twenty
five per cent in milk, and ten per cent.
i'll butter from the milk, which is total
gain in butter of thirty-seven and a half
per cent The butter brings the highest
market price in Boston"
Hoes are gifted with an exquisite sense
of smell as will as touch residing in the
snout, and this enables them to discover
roots, acorns, earth-nuts, or other delica-
cies suitable to their palates, which may
be buried in the ground. In some parts
Of Italy swine are employed in hunting
for truffles that grow some inches below
the surface of the soil, and which form
those pickles and sauces 80 highly es-
teemed by epicures. A pig is driven
into field, and there suffered to pursue
his own course. Wherever he stops and
begins to root with his nose, truffles will
invariably be found.
FARMYARD manure well decomposed is
specially suitable for grass lands, be-
cause it is slow and continuous in its
action, and is invariably found to main
tain or restore good variety of grasses,
clovers and other bottom heritage. The
best success commonly follows the APP
plication of such manure in the fall.
The sole application of salt or nitrate OF