The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-10-20
Farm and Agricultural Notes.

Nearly 70O bushels of onions per acre
were raised last year by George o.
Mason of Beverly, Mass.
An average two or three-year-old
steer will eat its own weight of different
materials in two weeks.
There is no loss in feeding cattle well
upon variety of materials for the sake
of manure alone.
Samples of white Russian oats, six feet
high, with heads eighteen inches long,
have been left ut the Office of the lndi-
ana Farmer.
American methods of conducting
many departments of agriculture are
being introduced into almost all parts
of the civilized world.
The American wonder or Premium
Gcmpeas. sown in the middle of Aug
ust, will, if they escape mildew, make
fair Autumn crop.
In some instances .'sprinkling lawns
with carbolic acid and water has been
,practiced with good effect against the
army worm in Connecticut.
The crop of small fruit Is excellent in
nearly all the Eastern States. The
markets are well supplied, and large
quantities are being canned.
1t is not generally known that few
sprigs of cedar bush, mixed with hay
or any kind of litter for hens nests,
will keep them entirely free from hen
lice.
Two or three year old cattle will add
one-third of q pound more per day to
their weight upon prepared hay and
roots than upon the same materials un-
prepared.
The West now surpasses the East in
the excellence of its butter and cheese
factories. The largest combined facto-
ry in the world, it is said, is located at
fremont, Neb.
A correspondent Of the Farmers Re-
vfeU has found strong docoction Of
tansy, applied through the fine rose of
watering pot, very effective against
the cabbage worm.
The United States is fast becoming, If
it has not already become, the first wool
producing country in tho world. II it
is second, it is second only to Australia,
of which wool is the largest product.
Very frequent news items about
ghastly deaths from goring by bulls
preach effective sermons against horns.
and against careless approaches to these
generally mismanaged and treacherous
beasts.
More labor-saving machines for doing
work in fields and gardens have been in
vented in the United States than in all
other countries combined, and these are
fast finding their way into all parts Of
the world.
The general effect of lime is to render
available the plant food already in the
soil, without itself supplying any signif-
cant amount. Lining cannot, there
fore, be successfully repeated except at
considerable intervals.
There is no wisdom in working o
thirty-acre field year after year to get
five bushels of wheat or ten bushels of
corn to the acre, when with the same
expense for fertilizers you could raise
fifteen bushels of wheat and thirty bush
els of corn to the acre.
A good many farmers in different
parts of the country have, by loss Of ami
mails during the season, had the fact inn
pressed on their minds that Paris green
is deadly poison. the use Of which
cannot be too carefully guarded.
Farmers and propcrty-owncrs should
bear in mind that they are required by
law to cut Canada thistles on their
properties before they go to seed. They
are Unable for the neglect, and the
complainant is entitled to part of the
fine.
A Sharon correspondent Of the Con-
necticut Farmer reports that the prac-
tice of spaying COWS, tried to some ex-
tent in that vicinity, was not profitable
. "from milkman's point OF view"
From the humanitarian standpoint the
system is an outrage.
The Gardeners Monthly says: "Let
the laundry folks. on every wash day,
pour the boiling hot soap-suds about the
roots of peach trees. fhis will destroy
the insiduous little fungus which pro-
duces the .yellows and other diseases,
and finish the larv8 Of insects which
are so injurious to the trees"