The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-10-13
FARM NOTES.


change says: @This is annoying, espe- |
cially in the driving horse, but the rem
edy is very simple and easy at hand,
consisting Of head of cabbage fed to |
the horse just before using him for
work or driving. 1t is cheap and eff
fective"
THE CELLAR FOR PLASTs.-The |
american Agricult,rist urges amateur
florists to make better use of the cell |
lar for keeping plants through the win |
ter. The temperature should be kept |
at as near 40 degrees as possible. Light, |
If admitted at all, should be but little, |
at most sort of twilight, for we do not
wish the plants to grow, but to be kept
In state of complete rest. They will
need very little water, bit, especially
toward spring, must have enough to
sustain life. In such d cellar may be
kept those shrubs that are Just on the
verge of hardness, the variegated hol:
lies, cape jessamines, oleanders, pome-
granates, also fuchsias and other decid-
uous shrubs that have d complete rest
during winter. Geraniums and other
bedding plants, taken up and planted
in boxes of soil, will keep almost as well
in the cellar as in greenhouse. In
deed, good cellar, well used, is worth
more to the average amateur than q
greenhouse"
WHAT PAYS AND WHAT DON'T Pay
On the farm it pays to be honest in all
things. It pays to be at peace with all
your neighbors. 1t pays to indulge in
practical thinking. It pays to always
have little something of the best class
to take to market to exchange for farm
and house supplies. It pays to improve
the quality of all classes of stock. 1t
pays to do all the work on the farm in
time and Systematically. 1t pays to have
a good credit for selling the best of all
products of the farm. It pays to make
home cheerful and the wife and children
happy. 1t don't pay to be always
grumbling and growing about your
neighbors. It don't pay to keep poor
farm implements. It don't pay to EN-.
ploy ignorant and willful farm hands.
It don't pay to spend all the day in
town and then scold the boys in the
evening for doing no more work. It
don't pay to keep poor stock poor. It
don't pay farmer to run for an office
that he is not qualified to fill. It don't
pay farmers to go on the bonds of town
ofice-holders. It don't pay to hang
around saloons. 1t don't pay to be
stingy and penurious, nor loose and ex-
travagant.-Iolca State Register.
FooD FOR STooK.-A writer in the
Germantown Telegraph repudiates the
idea of the enhanced value of
silo-kept fodder. He states that he
had fifty-four cows in milk, and
about thirty head of young stock,
the principal food of which, up
to May, consisted of mangels, beet
that contains large amount of sugar,
which is the most valuable of all the
ingredients they contain. He adds:
"Now, if [ were to subject these
mangels to fermentation in pit until
the sugar was converted into alcohol
and carbonic acid, should be destroy
ing that valuable element of food which
| had been at so much cost to obtain.
In the CLAMPS where our mangels are
stored, their quality improves rather
than the contrary, and farmer would
give preference to roots which had been
stored up for six months. If succulent
food is so valuable for winter in the
States, some comparison should be in
stituted between the relative value of
corn and mapgels. As regards ensilage,
/ must confess that do not altogether
like a process which appears so de-
structiye of food"
EXTRA CULTURE.-Prof Roberts, of
Cornell University, says in an article
upon Extra Culture: :" Herein, [ am
satisfied, lies the secret of England's
success in raising large crops. It would
take away the breath of a prairie farmer
to hear even an Englishman's en1mera-
tions of the 'spuldings,' the grubbings,'
the twitchings,' the borrowings, the
cross-harrowing, the rollings, the crush
ings that heavy clay field is subjected
to before it is considered fit for wheat.
What is all that for? Simply to I'M
lock the full storehouse of nature.
That it is full has been proved time and
again, By actual analysis, it is found
that an average soil contains in the first
six inches plant food enough for from
fifty to $50 full crops of grain. lido not
desire to discourage the purchase and
use of fertilizers, but what I do protest
against is purchasing on time COM
mercial manures at $40 ton to enrich
cloddy fields already f,irly rich in plant
food, locked up, it is true. but there
none the less, only awaiting little jul
dicious application of brain and muscle
to set it free. If these hastily jotted
facs and impressions are the means of
inducing my fellow-farmers to remove
some of the useless trees and fences, or
to give the fields An additional cross
narrowing or two before carting in the
seed, and asking the Lord to bless the
labor of their hands, my object Will
have been attained"
WASTE BY WASHING We do not suf-
fciently estimate the loss to our farms
by washing. The richer the soil, the
greater the amount of the farmers best
capital is carried to the sea to aid in
forming islands and deltas. And in
Iowa our rich, loamy soil is very much
inclined to float away in our floods.
This is owing to its loose and crumbling
nature. Hard rains not only wash
away the cream of the farms, but cut
deep and hideous bitches and gullies
So long as the prairies of the West
were covered by grass, and sod formed
almost impervious to water, the rains
had but little effect. So soon as the |
sod is broken and the soil loosened, the |
attrition by the rapid flowing of the
water is taking the best part of the
land which the owner 1nlagines he has
a good warranty deed for. We know of
farms on which twenty-five years ago
the sod was unbroken along the ravines,
the water flowing on top of the sod,
which now have deep, yawning chan
nels, eight feet deep and fifteen wide.
And still the washing goes on.
1t is not only in the ravines that this
depletion is progressing. It is radically
SO on all rolling land, and more or less
wherever the water runs on the surface
There are but few remedies for this de-
Of the fertility of the farm. The
billy or rolling lands should be kept in