The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-07
Farm Notes.

If the owner of a COW will realize that
unless she pays him $50 yearly in clean
cash she is kept at a loss, he will soon
! become interested in improvement of
stock.
1t has been ascertained thatwhere eggs
sre sold by the pound that they vary in
weight from one to four ounces. The
average weight of a dozen eggs is twenty
three and a half ounces.
Professor Riley thinks that immunity
from the ravages of the Hessian fly may
be expected for several years, as the heat
and drought of last Summer.killed large
numbers of them.
One of the latest theories advanced is
that apples are more nutritious than pota-
toes, and in Cornwall, England, work
men say they can work better on the
fruit than on the vegetable.
1t is commonly stated that superphos-
pilates, potash salts and other similar
materials are more effective when used
together than when applied separately.
Certainly, complete fertilizers are more
efficient than partial fertilizers.
Quinby, the well-known writer on bee
culture, says of catnip for bees: eff
there is any article that would cultivate
especially for honey, it would be eatnip.
/ find nothing to surpass it." This is
high authority, and ought to entitle this
common but little utilized product of
nature to a place among the valuable
things of the farm. 1t is but another
instance that goes to show that our peo-
pie fail to utilize the native resources of
their farms as they should. They have
not learned the value of the things they
tread upon and often ruthlessly destroy.
An exchange gives the following state
ment of an orchard successfully pastur-
ed by sheep and hogs: THE orchard
occupies thirty two acres, and is made
the run of thirty hogs and $50 or 200
sheep and lambs during the Summer.
Enough grain or bran are given them to
place them in good condition. They eat
every blade of grass and green things
close down. and every fallen apple as
soon as dropped, for which purpose
sheep are better than hogs, which sleep
so soundly as not to hear an apple fall,
but sheep are always on hand and de-
YOUR everything as soon as it touches the
ground. The fruit each year grows fairer,
with fewer wormy specimens, and the
manure, from feeding SO much grain,
has given a healthy growth to the trees.
To prevent the animal from gnawing
the bark the trunk is washed over once a
month with mixture of soapsuds, whale
oil and sheep manure.
Buckwheat given to hens makes the
yelk of their eggs a very light yellow.
More corn will increase the color.
Although garden seeds, originally
good, and carefully preserved, win often
terminate and grow at much greater
age than that given in the following
table, their vitality is likely to be more
or less impaired, as proved by practical
experiment, which has fixed upon the
figures cited as covering in years the
limit of safety: Beans, 2; beet, 5; cab
bage, 4, carrot, 2; caulifower, 3 celery,
3; corn. 2; egg plant, 2; cucumber, 5;
lettuce, 3; melon, 5; onion, 2; parsley,
s.; parsnip, /; peas (round9, 2; peas
(wrink). 1; pepper, 2; pumpkin, A; rad
ish. 4; squash, 5; spinach, 2; tomato,
5; turnip, 5; satisfy, 2.
Nevada has about 10000 acres OF
salt land, and could supply the whole
earth If necessary. Besides this she has
about 1000, 900 acres of soda and brlm-
stone deposits.
A New Jersey farmer reports that
dressing of eight bushels per acre of salt
to land badly infested with white grubs
enabled him to raise good crops for
three years past, which was impossible
previous to this application.
Paint, to last long, should be put on
early in Winter or Spring, when it is
cold and no dust flying. Paint put on
in cold weather. forms body or coat
upon the surface of the wood that be-
comes hard and resists weather, or an
edged tool even, like slate.
The Government of New South Wales
has prohibitedthei introduction of horned
cattle and sheep. fodder and fittings into
the colony from any place other than
the Australian and New Zealand colon
les, cattle or sheep shipped prior to this
notifications ayoorfad