The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-02-23

he harvesting the tops a be fed, and
alter on, the roots. Fed with straw, the
;urnip sets at defiance the analysis of the
chemist in the amount of nutrition they
levelop.
EXPERIMENTS have shown that, of 100
of the dry matter of fodder, the
following amounts pass into excrements,
solid and liquids together: Fed to the
horse, ffty-three pounds /; the mich COW,
pounds; the OK, ffty-twoI
and the sheep, forty-eight|
On the average, then, about
of the dry matter of the fodder
passes into the manure
ANIMALS of spirit and determination
are stronger than those of much greater
devoid of these qualities. The
thoroughbred horse of 1000 pounds
can draw more than a dung-hll
plug of 1000 pounds, and can go twice
the distance on the road, day IN and day
out, with a relative burden or draught.
Blood in all of our domestic animals Is
superlative, as compared with low-bred
stock.
ME. DILLON, of Brighton, Iowa, gives
his experience with sheep in 1880-1S8l
"In $780," he writes, 81 sheared 14O
averaging eight pounds to a
fleece, or 50 in value to q sheep, and
ninety lambs worth $3.50 per
head. In 1881 I sheared 200 head and
sold $312 of wool and raised seventy-fve
lambs; besides I lost many lambs by the
late spring and severe winter. Neither
did the sheep shear 80 heavily as the
year previous"
An OLD New Hampshire farmer writes:
Ell have been intimately acquainted with
the farmers in my vicinity for twenty-five
years, and during the whole period have
not known q man who made farming his
only business to fail and become unable
to pay his debts. Ihave known a 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"
FARMERS generally lay out too much
work for the help they employ. The
best rule is not attempt the cultivation
of large areas but to make the land pro-
duce the largest yields. If one acre of
ground can be made to produce fifty
bushels of wheat or 100 bushels of corn.
that is far better than to appropriate
two or three or four acres in the produc-
ton of the same quantities. Forty acres
well titled will, in the long run, yield
better returns than a hundred carelessly
managed.
ONE of the most prevalent errors
among average farmers is the neglect OF
making and preserving manure, and also
its improper application to the ground.
Collect all the refuse material YOU can,
use your chip dirt from the wood-pile IN
absorbing liquid. Apply it to fat lands
at any time during winter. It can Their
be thrown on broadcast and plowed IL
as soon al the ground opens. The ne.
cessity of returning as much vegetable
nutriment to the ground as has beer
taken off by the crop cannot be tor
strongly impressed upon the attention O
our farmers.
Worms are among the best friends O
the farmer they are great borers. The,
go down into the earth, and the holel
they make enable the air containing
carbonic acid to penetrate down to thu
mineral matter below the surface, BY
which the fertilizing qualities ar,
changed and fitted for the nourishmen
of plants. The worms, by opening ant
casting up the soil. do for the farme
what he does for himself by plowing
The farmer is indebted to the worm TO
producing plant food, and to the plant
we are indebted for our own food.
To THIS axiom every farmer shout
hold fast. Without continuous manuI
ing there can be no continuous produc
tions from the soil. The aim should b
to get q full remunerative crop fror
every cultivated acre at every harvest
We manure for the future crop too nue.
and for the present n too little. L
doing this we lock up a part of our bes
capital. It has been often and well sal
that the manure pile is the farmer
bank, and if 80 the funds should b
turned over rapidly and drawing goo
interest every time. 1t is the nimbl
sixpence which makes the money an
not the slow shilling.
This truism neither the farmer nor tn
farmers wife should ever forget, tina
while wealth can do much to make HON
attractive, taste, industry, and IN appre
citation of the beautiful can do wonder
in not only making a beautiful home
but a happy one. The poor man ma
have no coaches, and no horses, but b
can hang delicate vine leaves along hi
porch, so exquisite in delicacy that n
sculptor's art can equal it. He ma
have no Conservatives with their wo1
ders, yet he and his son can build up
coppice of blooming things in his dool
yard Of which every floral leafet is
wonder, q mystery, and scientific study
AMONG the many unexpected develop
ments OF electrical science is an applies
ton in the hiving of bees when the
swarm, successfully tried by Germa
experimenters. It was thought by uti
izing the electric force the bees migl
be Supplied for the necessary period
time without being injured; and tt
result proved the correctness of the idei
The first attempt was made upon be-
that had gathered upon trees, the insec
falling upon the ground in a kind
trance. which admitted of their beir
safely handled. The next stage in IL
experiment was to capture the bees whe
they were about to By intr
ducing the ends of two connecting wiz,
into a fully-occupied honeycomb, ar
turning on the current, the bees we,
rendered inactive for about thirty mi
utes, while no bad results appeared
follow their awakening.
TIE experience of B. P. Ware is vel
favorable to ensilage. Last year
planted four acres OF BIunt's prolific,
Southern corn, some of which grows
fifteen feet IN height, and some W;
weigh nine pounds to the stock. F
cultivated with three horse power, a,
seven men and two horses were employ,
In harvesting ; ana THESE were necessa,
to keep the cutter running with a 81
horsepower engine (which he ordinari
used for pumping water). He cut Il
ensilage at three-eighths of an inch, al
applied to the silo a pressure of 1,O
pounds to the square yard. The sill
we're filed with the product of four acr