The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-02
Farm Notes.

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An Indiana inventor has patented 3
straw-staeking machine
Sorghum seed is readily eaten by
| poultry, and is better for small chick
ems than corn.
The brown or rusty orange is sweeter
and can be kept longer than the bright
| fruit.
A Flood county Qowa) farmer made
/ 1000 pounds of syrup from cane raised
on one-third of an acre of ground.
Examine the farm implements now.
Where grease has became hardened
with dust it may be removed with kero-
sene.
Each year II, 600, 900 heads of cabbage
| find sale in the Philadelphia markets,
and 100000 are converted into sour
krout.
Hedges are ornamental and useful
but If they are left to take care of them
| selves. they serve as harbors for weeds,
obnoxious grasses and insects.
II sulphur is well busted around the
sheds and hog pens it viii effectually
| drive off lice. Dust it on the hogs also,
and leave little in the troughs for them
to eat.
No dairy products are made in Brazil,
and butter sells high Americans have
shipped butter to Brazil, but it does not
command as high price as that from
| Denmark or France.
1t has been ascertained that where
eggs are sold by the pound that they
vary IN weight from one to four ounces.
The average weight of n dozen eggs is
twenty-three and half ounces.
| Blue grass is somewhat delicate when
very young, but after it gets a good
hold it usurps the soil, cleaning out all
| other grasses. 1t should not be pastur-
ed the first season.
| One of the latest theories advanced is
that apples are more nutritious than
potatoes, and in Cornwall, Eng, work
men say they can work better on the
| fruit than on the vegetable.
Professor Atwater states that the best
ration for COW in full flow of milk is
| 100 parts of corn meal (by wei@ht,) so
parts bran, and 65 parts decorticated
| (huskless) cotton-seed meal.
A reader requests remedy for exces-
sive sweating in horses. This isusualiy
| caused by feeding too much corn, and
| hence the best remedy is TO diminish the
| quantity of corn and vary the feed as
much as possible. Some horses, howey-
er, are constitutionally subject to sweats.
A roam Jersey short-horn (cross-
| breed) now belonging to General How
ard, of Buffalo, n. Y. is reported to
have given 1, 787 pounds of milk in one
month, and to have yielded 21$ pounds
of butter in seven days. Her feed was
| grass and four quarts of ground corn
and oats daily. This is extraordinary,
| if true.
A celebrated French breeder, who for
many years held first rank in the art of
fattening sheep, when urged to divulge
his secret, replied: .tMy secret? l have
none; it is only question of fare. In
duce animals to eat abundantly of "a
large, choice variety of w'ell-prepared
food; that is all there is to it,
| If You begin pruning fruit and orna-
mental trees and shrubbery when young,
and followed it up each year, you can
| form just such a top as you want. If
your trees need spreading out cut the
| young shoots off just above bud on
the outside of a shoot; and if YOU want
to train upward, leave bud on the up
per side of the limb where you cut it off.
The London LiUe Stock journal gives
two methods of starting a balky horse:
'sFirst, tire your steed out by remaining
perfectly quiet until he starts of his own
| accord: second, when a horse refuses to
draw at all, put him in cart in shed
and keep him there until he walks out.
| In one instance the obstinate one was
thirty-six hours in the shafts before he
gave in
1t is not best to breed from turkeys
the first year. Persons commencing
with pair of young birds cannot well
avoid this; but if you are going to make
a purchase do not take birds less than 2
years old. Some breeds attain matIlri-
ty at 2 years, but bronze turkeys not IN
til they are years old. If possible, &C.
iect those for breeders that are not only
years of age, but that have been bred
from well-matured birds.