The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-07
FARM NOTES.

each COW In France is 269 gallons.
HEMP seed is recommended by some
as cure for barrenness among dairy
COWS.
THE average yield of wheat in France
last year was about fifteen bushels pei
acre.
LESS than one per cent. e the sugar
manufactured In the world is made from
the sugar maple
A FARMER In Cherokee, Iowa, raised
forty bushels of beans from one and q
half bushels of seed on prairie soil.
SWITZERLAND produces only about one
third of the amount of cereals required
| for home consumption.
TIE importation of potatoes, cab
bages, and other vegetables from Euro
pean countries is constantly increasing.
NNETY-FIvE per cent. OF the elements
contained in plant are of atmospheric
origin, and which enter the plant through
the leaves.
Mr.. L. CUMMNs, of Brunswick, Me-,
sold to pickle factory forty-seven bar
rels of cucumbers, raised on one acre Of
land.
AGRICULTURE is taught in $4,000 OF
| the "a, 600 schools of France, which have
gardens attached in which practical in
structions can be given.
FROM careful experiments it has been
found that the flow of sap from the sugar
maple decreases as the tree is tapped
from the base to the top; also that the
degree of sweetness will decrease in the
same ratio.
GREAT BRITAIN and Ireland take sixty
two per cent of our hog product,
France nine and three-f ourths per cent
Germany nine and one-fourth per cent
Belgium, Holland, and Sweden ten per
cent, Cuba and Haiti three and seven
eighths per cent, and all the other coun-
tries five and one-half per cent.
A CEREAL crop contains at the time OF
full bloom all the nitrogen and potash
which is found in the mature crop; the
assimilation of phosphoric acid contin-
ues somewhat later; the increase of
carbon and silica proceeds as long as the
plant is in green state.
INTELLIGENT horsemen appreciate all
efforts to keep the stabl clean and free
from offensive odors, and they find that
it pays, in the increased yigor and health
IF the animals and in the cost of their
keeping, feed being always better di-
| 5ested and assimilated by healthy than
~ sickly animals.
THERE is such striking resemblance
between our best native grade cattle and
the thoroughbred Ayrshire as to create a
| general impression that breed in
digenous to this section of the country
might be produced which would excel
for New England itself every known
breed of to-day.
DoN'T neglect the cattle. Keep them
as warm as possible and it will require
less feed to keep them up in condition,
Have regular time for feeding, water
ing, and milking Give them enough to
eat, but do not give them so much that
any will be wasted. 1t is poor economy
to waste crops after you have them in
the barn.
In ORDER to have supply of eggs
during the winter keep the apartments
where the fowls are quartered warm and
clean, supplied with variety of food.
occasionally with meat and fresh water
| daily. Once or twice week drop into
the water little cayenne pepper. It is
an excellent tonic and is warming to the
crop in very cold weather.
WHERE a crop is growing 4he nitrates
will be kept nearer the surface. the
evaporation Of water from o growing
crop being far greater than from bare
soil. The nitrates will also he constantly
taken up by the roots, and employed as
plant food. The loss of nitrates by
| drainage is thus far less when the land
is under crop than in the case of bare
fallow.
In THE process of teaching little beside
potash is distracted from wood ashes.
Ii they are made from soft wood fifty per
cent. of the potash can be taken out.
while only thirteen per cent. of the
| potash can be taken from hard wood
| ashes. Ii lime is used in teaching a
slightly larger per cent. of potash is
separated. Leache6 ashes are worth
fully half the price of unleached for
fertilizing purposes.
THERE is scarcely malady to which
| the horse is subject that is not hereditary.
Contracted feet curb. spawn, roaring
| thick wind and blindness notoriously
| descend from sire or dam. Cattle being
less exposed to the existing causes Of
| disease are not subject to so great .
variety of maladies, and those which
they have are less violent in character
III I,o aF 4ho hit u
IRE equally transmissible and should be
wooded with the same care by the
breeder.
TT IS said 20, 900 acres of new vineyards
we're planted in California last year.
The vines planted are generally of the
liner foreign varieties. The wine product
last year fell off 1000, 900 gallons, in
consequence of Injuries to grape crop by
'rost The character of the California
vines has completely changed within the
last four years, owing to Improved
knowledge of fermenting processes, and
the discoveryof the adaptation of varieties
f grapes to soil and locality.
In NORWAY it takes from 10 to 100
| days from the sowing for spring wheat
and oats to grow and be ready for
harvesting; barley about 80 days. Rye
is used exclusively for bread. It is
made in round cakes, about one foot in
diameter and from to ! inch thick.
After baking, the cakes are thoroughly
dried and become very hard, but are
easily soaked for use. This bread is
considered very healthful and nutritious.
The cakes will keep any length of time.
In THE rural districts of Europe dogs
are almost everywhere used in tending
sheep. 1t is not an uncommon sight to
see an old man or woman who, from age
and feebleness of body, is no longer
able to obtain livelihood by hard labor,
accompanying flock, with the intelli-
gent shepherd dog to keep the animals
from trespassing and to take them to
and from the fold or the pasture. The
absence of fences, the pasture strips
lying alongside of growing crops of grain,
renders this species of care imperative.
The value of tile drainage for farming
land can scarcely be overestimated. A
table by the Indiana State Bureau of
Statistics. with the view of ascertaining
the benefits Of tile-drainage, shows that
land which Welded an average of nine