The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-04-20
FARM NOTES.


to beet cultivation.
APPLIES placed among the ensilage in a
certain silo were well preserved. Cattle
fruit placed In the silo.
THE greater consistency of the excre-
ments from ensilage fodder shows that
the material is prepared in the silo for
digestion by the softening of the cells.
ABOUT $50, 900 bushels of. leached
ashes were imported direct from Canada,
in 1881, by Connecticut parties for fertil-
izers, at q cost of seventeen cents per
bushel.
ONE of the latest theories advanced is
that apples are more nutritious than po-
tatoes, and in Cornwall, England, work
men say that they can work better on the
fruit than the vegetable.
ESTIMATING nitrogen at 22i cents per
pound, potash at Z cents, and ~phosporio
acid at 9 cents, the Connecticut Agricul-
tural Experiment Station states the COM
mercial worth of night soil at 80 cents
per hundred pounds, OF Sc per ton, as
the most favorable reckoning.
THE specific gravity OF milk, if it is
the mixed yield Of a number of COWS,
ranges from ]. 029 to l. 33 at 59o F.; but
the milk Of a single cow, in rare cases,
may range from LOFT to 1.035. With a
specific gravity of 1.030, one quart of
milk will weigh 2 pounds and 8 ounces.
The determination of the specific gravity
and fat is the most ready means of de-
Gliding whether the milk is pure Oh adul-
terated.
An EXPERIENCED farmer writes con-
corning the most suitable weather for
sowing grass seeds that a fine day should
be chosen when the land Is tolerably
dry, but when there are indications
of approaching rain. Such conditions
are much more favorable for sowing
seeds than during rainy or showery
weather, for, in the first instance, the
seeds are more likely to be evenly COW
cred, and will be gradually absorbing
moisture from the soil previous to the
next fall of rain, which they will be in a
condition to receive with benefit.
Whereas, if sown after a shower, as is
too frequently done, the above advan-
tages are not obtained, but after the
seeds have been saturated with moist
ure the dry weather returns, and they
become "malted."
The prizes won by Vermont boys in
1881 in competition for the awards
offered by the University of Vermont
and State Agricultural College, through
the generosity of ex-Gov. Smith, have
been declared. The conditions of the
trial were the same as those of the
former trial in 1880, and show a substan-
tial advance, the first prize winners OBJ
tanning i've bushels more of corn and
sixty bushels more of potatoes to the
acre than the best of the former
years figures. twenty-five young farm
ers obtained yields of over eighty bush
els of corn and over $50 bushels of po-
tatoes to the acre, and the yields range
from these figures up to the really
remarkable n of 127 bushels of corn
aud $50 bushels of potatoes to the acre |
The latter result, at the prices obtained
for potatoes, would represent areturn OF
over $500 per acre. The first prize on
corn was won by Thomas B. Purdy of
Manchester; the first on potatoes by
Frank @. Aver of Goshen.
DIR. BAILEY says@a great amount OF
labor Is lost by sowing fodder corn too
thick, as well as q large amount of seed
wasted. Many SOW three bushels to the
acre; some SOW but two bushels, and a
few SOW but one. I SOW but one-hali
bushel, and my corn is always too thick.
The man who has raised the largest crop
the past season sowed but twelve quarts
of seed to the acre. Make the drills at
least four feet apart, and SOW one-hali
bushel of ensilage seed-corn to the acre;
then, when it is about o foot high, thin
it to six and eightinches between stocks.
When corn is planted too thick, those
plants which do not attain their full
growth are nothing more than weeds.
As dirt is only matter out of place, SO q
weed is only q plant out of place. Nc
plant is SO far out of place as when it is
crowded by other plants of the same
kind SO that its growth is impaired; il
then becomes q mere weed, and only
serves to injHre the growth of the proper
number of plants in the hill or drill.
PROFESSOR KNAPP, of the Iowa Agri-
cultural College, in reference to the sor-
ghum sugar industry, says sugar of ex-
cellent quality al be made in common
sap pan and in paying qualities. The
cane crop is sure-the most so OF
any Iowa field crop /; the yield is uniform
and of excellent quality ; there remains
then but three questions of consid.
cradle importance in the develop.
ment of the sorghum sugar industry
|. Economical manufacture OF the syrup.
2. Removal Of the sorghum flavor. 8.
h increase of the sugar yield in pro-
portion to the syrup. The first has been
practically settled in favor of steam for
crushing and evaporation. By the aid
OF steam syrup is manufactured for ten
cents per gallon, at a greater profit than
at twenty-five cents on the old sap pan.
Theremoval of the sorghum flavor in some
simple and effective way is the next step
o be taken. All the methods hitherto
practlced are open to more or less obJec-
ton. This and the increase of the sugar
yield are matters Of the highest i'm
portance. Few industries are SO full Of
promise /; rel the present product of
500 pounds of sugar and ninety gallons
of syrup per acre furnish remuneration
and profit to toll ; this, however, is but
the commencement in an industry which
has the world for a market.
THE following account of the first i'm
portations of live stock into the United
States Is. taken from an old copy OF the
Irish Farmers Gazette: SIN 1910 four
cows and a bull were, after a long and
dangerous passage by sailing vessel,
landed In Virginia from Ireland. These
were the first domestic cattle seen in
America. In 1926 eighteen ewes and
two rams were introduced as a novelty
into New York by the Dutch West India
Company. The first horses landed in
any part of North America were carried
over to Florida by Cabeca de Vace in
1927; they all persisted. The wild horses
found on the plains of Texas and the
Western prairie are probably descendants
of the Spanish horses abandoned by De
Soto. In 1925 part Of the trade of the
Dutch West India Companyw was the carry-
lug of horses from Flanders to New York,
and that year six mares and ahorse were
safely transported from France to Amer
lea. The London Company were the
first exporters of swine from Britain to
America /; and in the year 1921 they
carried on their vessels no less than
eighty-four, which were sIl, ON landing,
allowed to roam at large, and feed and
fatten on the mast, which was very
abundant in the woods. They increased
30 fast that in 1927 the COLONY was in