The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-24

together than when applied separately.
Certainly complete fertilizers are more
| Efficient than partial fertilizers.
THE SOW should be fed but little corn
during the last two months of her preg-
nancy. Her diet should avoid that which
is loo heating and fattening. Oats, bran,
middlings, aid beets are great deal
better than the everlasting corn diet of
the West.
The food of animals has duties to per-
| form which are not demanded of the
food of plants. In plants the food merely
provides the matter for building up the
vegetable tissues. In the animal, be-
sides constructing tissues, the food has
to furnish tie means of producing heat
and n echanical force.
Cows purchased from rich lands and
carried to poor soils seldom do well. It
is far better to buy good COW from
poor farm, in which case improvements
almost certain. There is no good reason,
however, why poor animal should be
kept on poor farm. Keep better stock
If you have to keep less of it.
WHERE plants are abundant the old
stools Of strawberries may be lifted, the
grass picked from around them, and
they may be reset in trenches with a
weil-rotted manure put about them on
the surface. IN some localities strong
plants of last seasons growth may be
transplanted with good results.
EXPERIENCE and observation will con-
vince anyone that better results will fol-
| low the application of manure at the sur
face, or at least within three inches of it,
than if plowed under to three times that
depth. For immediate results all we'll
rotted manure should be intimately
mixed with the surface soil by repeated
civilizations OF borrowings.
The character of the winter has often
considerable influence on that Of the fol-
lowing season. In a wet winter the soil
may lose nitrates by drainage to q con-
siderable extent. Root development will
also be prevented by excessive wet. At
ter such winter the wheat crop gener-
ally is in backward condition and finds
itself in an impoverished soil.
A. j. DOWNING, who was perhaps the
best horticultulst America has known.
said: elf I were to preach a sermon on
horticulture, 1 should take as my text
Stir the Soil" Frequent and deep
stirring will enable one to grow fine veg
etables on comparatively poor and
slightly MANFRED soil; while without it
one fails to gain the proper advantage,
even from the richest and finest soil.
WHERE nitrogen is required as fer
tilizer it is better to use Peruvian guano
than nitrate of soda, and sulphate OF
ammonia or dried blood is preferable to
nitrate of soda, the latter as a general
thing being too soluble and too energetic
for plant food. The 10 per cent. ammo
MIA standard guanos are not always the
most profitable, because with their ex-
cess of nitrogen they have a deficiency
in phosphoric acid and potash. Next to
Peruvian guano, fish guano, fish scraps
or sulphate of ammonia would be the
cheapest source Of nitrogen.
THE character of the food will affect
the quality of the manure even more
than the character of the animal. A diet
of corn fodder and straw, for instance,
can yield only poor manure, because
these foods contain very little nitrogen
or phosphates. A diet including a lib
eral amount Of oll-cake or beans will, on
the other hand, yield valuable manure,
these foods being rich in nitrogen and
ash constituents. A common mode in
England and France of increasing the
supply of manure on farm is by the
consumption Of purchased food by the
animals of the farm.
In HIS pamphlet on fertility" DR..
j. B. Lawes asserts that practically the
source of the whole Of the nitrogen in
our crops is the store within the soil
itself and in the heterogeneous manures
brought upon it. At Rothamsted there
are about twelve acres of land, distribu-
ted in six different fields, and under
more than as many different crops, which
have either been kept entirely without
manure, or have only received purely
mineral manures, for periods OF from
twenty-five to forty years. AS these
areas are exposed to the same atmos-
| pheric influences as other fields, and as
crops growing on them are, with the ex-
| ception that they receive no nitrogen by
manure, subject to the same influences
as similar crops in neighboring fields,
we may look with confidence to the re-
suits which they will yield in the course
| of time.
A WRITER in the Scientific american
saws: eve clean our premises of the
detestable vermin, rats, by making
whitewash yellow with coperas and COW
ering the stones and rafters with it.. In
every crevice in which rat may go we
| put the crystals of the coperas, and
scatter in the corners Of the floor. The
result was perfect stampede of rats
and mice. Since that time not a football
of either rats or mice has been heard
around the house. Every spring coat
of yellow wash IS given the cellar as
| purifier, as a rat extermlnator, and no
! typhoid, dysentery. or fever attacks the
| family. Many persons deliberately at
tract all the rats in the neighborhood by
leaving the fruits and vegetables uncov-
cred in the cellar, and some times even
the soap is left open for their regalement.
Cover up everything eatable in the cellar
and pantry and you will soon starve
them out. These precautions, joined to
the service of good cat, will prove as
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| can provide. We never allow rats to be
poisoned in our dwelling. They are so
apt to die between the walls and produce
much annoyance.
An EXCHANGE says of the amber cane
in Minnesota, one acre of land planted
to amber cane and fairly cultivated will
yield twelve to fifteen tons of cane, ac-
cording to soil and season. One ton of
cane will yield twelve to fourteen gallons
of string syrup One gallon of
string-syrup will yield five TO seven
pounds of sugar. The remainder, after
the sugar is extracted, being frst-class
syrup. The cane can be raised. laid
down at the mill, with not more than
two miles of hauling, and worked into
string proof syrup at an average cost not
exceeding twenty cents per gallon. At
twelve tons of cane per acre and fourteen
gallons of syrup per ton we may average
the product at 168 gallons of syrup per
acre. At five pounds of sugar to the
gallon the sugar product would be $40
pounds, leaving a residue of eighty
five gallons of syrup. The sugar at
eight cents per pound amounts to $67. 90,