The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-03
FARM NOTES.

more food raised In the poultry yards Of
France than in the stalls and pastures Of
England.
GRANITE rocks, sand, and dust contain
large amounts of potash. On some OF our
sandy lands an application of potash has
but little effect.
A LAYER of phosphate of lime, which
is said to be very rich, has been discov-
cred near Apt, in the Department OF
Vancluse, France.
NEARLY all of the agricultural work
in Prussia is done by women, and the
custom is now as it has always been the
men are considered far too brave and
strong to engage in anything less I'M
portant than war.
GUANo was first introduced in England
IN 1841. 1t costs the farmer much more
than it formerly did to carry on his
farm, aid the need of the hour is pro-
ducts and prices commensurate with his
increased expenses.
IT Is the turnip alone that can be de-
pended upon to mature a crop sown
after the middle of August in the fall,
before the ground freezes up. Turnips
can be fed tops and ali. Subsequent to
the harvesting the tops can be fed, and
later on. the roots. Fed with straw, the
turnip sets at defiance the analysis of the,
chemist in the amount of nutrition they
develop.
EXPERIMENTS have shown that, OF 100
pounds of the dry matter of fodder, the
following amounts pass into excrements,
solid and liquids together: Fed to the
horse, fifty-three pounds the milch cow
iorty-four pounds; the OK, ffty-two
pounds, and the sheep, forty-edght
pounds. On the average, then, about
One-half of the dry matter Of the fodeSeE
passes into the manure.
ANIMALS of spirit and determination
are stronger than those of much greater
weight, devoid of these qualities. The
thoroughbred horse of 1000 pounds
weight can draw more than dung-hlH
plug of 1900 pounds, and can go twice
the distance on the road, day In and day
out, with relative burden or draught..
Blood in all of our domestic animals Is
superlative, as compared with low-bred
stock.
Mr. DILLON, OF Brighton, Iowa, gives
his experience with sheep In 1SS0-18S1 ::
SIN $780," he writes, "I sheared 140
sheep, averaging eight pounds to a
fleece, or 50 in value to sheep, and
raised ninety lambs worth $3.50 per
head. In 1881 [ sheared 200 head and
cold 1912 of wool and raised seventy-tive
lambs; besides lost many lambs by the,
late spring and severe winter. Neither
did the sheep shear SO heavily as the
year previous.
AN OLD New Hampshire farmer writes:
81 have been intimately acquainted with
the farmers in my vicinity for twenty-five
years, and during the whole period have
not known o man who made farming his
only business to fail and become unable
90 pay his debts. [ have known q goodly
number of men, who under similar cir
cumstances, though starting with little
or nothing in the way of property, have
become owners of valuable property and
have money to let
Worms are among the best friends of
the farmer; they are great borers. They
go down into the eartn, and the holes
they make enable the air containing
carbonic acid to penetrate down to the
mineral matter below the surface, by
which the fertilizing qualities are
changed and fitted for the nourishment
of plants. The worms, by opening and
casting up the soil, do for the farmer
what he does for himself by blowing.
The farmer is indebted to the worm for
producing plant food, and to the plants
we are indebted for our own food.
To THIS axiom every farmer should
! hold fast. Without continuous manur-
ing there can be no continuous produc-
lions from the soil. The aim should be
TO get a full remunerative crop from
every cultivated acre at every harvest
| We manure for the future crop too much
| and for tho present ohc too little. In
doing this we lock up pant OF our best
capital. It has been often and well said,
that the manure pile is the farmers
bank, and if so the funds should be
turned over rapidly and drawing good
interest every time. It is the nimble
sixpence which makes the money and
not the slow shilling.
This truism neither the farmer nor the
farmers wife should ever forget, that
while wealth can do much to make home
attractive, taste, industry, and an appre--
citation Of the beautiful can do wonders
in rot only making a beautiful home.
but happy one. The poor man may
have no coaches, and no horses, but ne
can hang delicate vine leaves along his
porch, so exquisite in delicacy that no
sculptor's art can equal it. He may
have no Conservatives with their Won
ders, yet he and his son can build UP a
eoppice of blooming things In his door
yard of which every floral leafet is q
wonder, mystery, and scientific study.
AMONG the many unexpected develop
ments of electrical science is an appica-
lion in the hiving of bees when they
swarm, successfully tried by German
experimenters. It was thought by util-
izing the electric force the bees might
be Supplied for the necessary period of
time without being injured, and the
result proved the correctness of the idea.
The first attempt was made upon bees
that had gathered upon trees, the insects
falling upon the ground in Find OF
trance, which Admitted of their being
safely handled. The next stage in the
experiment was to capture the bees when
they were about to swarm. By intro
| ducing the ends of two connecting wires
into fully-occupied honeycomb, and
turning Oh the current, the bees were
rendered inactive for about thirty min
utes, while no bad results appeared to
| follow their awakening.