The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-06
FARM NOTES.
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SUNFLowER seeds fed in small quaint
ties impart beautiful gloss to the plum
age of poultry.
APPLES keep better in damp, moist
cellars than in dry ones. In the latter
they become dry and shriveled. In the
former plump and juicy.
IN 1881 the acreage of cereals In Man
itoba was: Wheat, 3,45S, 475 bushels
oats, 1881, 100 bushels; barley, $50, 900
bushels. Average per acre Wheat,
2S bushels oats, 90 bushels; barley, AZ
bushels.
WILD birds are uniform in color. Do
mestication causes a breaking up of color
and a variety of shape. When an indi-
vidual commences breeding to standard
by selection, he secures uniformity
again.
A VETERINARY writer condemns high
managers for horses, claiming that they
irritate the throat and create tendency
to heayes. He says the manager should
he ON level with the feet, as that Is IN
accordance with nature.
The weight of hens eggs ranges from
10 to II ounces per dozen. \ weight &C
225 ounces may be taken as a fair aver
age for good sized eggs, although a
weight of nearly four ounces Is not I'M
known for single specimens of eggs.
IT IS the opinion OF many that fowl
fattened quickly will make far more
luicy and toothsome meal than a chick.
One thing is certain, three-year-old
fowl will make much better broth for an
invalid than a six-months' chicken.
Or 10000, 900 acres devoted to the
growing OF hops in this country, Oswego
County, " Y, had 1910 acres, Oneida
$500 and Madison 6,557, making III all
20, 1T The annual value of the crop in
these three counties is upwards OF $780,
900.
IT IS said that Mr.. Leopard de Roths-
child and other English owners OF race
horses purpose purchasing American
bred yearlings to race IN England. The
repeated victories of the Americans have
caused English owners to greatly respect
the American breed Of horses for racing
purposes.
EVERY rural family that has home
should have a few hives of bees. Moth
ing of SO little cost will yield so large a
profit. Nothing Is nicer and more
healthy than dish of honey on the ia
bic at meal time. 1t is a luxury and
substantial which may and should be
found in every farmhouse.
THE largest cotton producer in the
world Is Mr.. r. Richardson. of Missis-
sippi He has 81, 900 acres of land. and
raised last season Il, 600 bales of cotton
He presses the oil from his cotton
seed, obtaining thirty-five gallons from
ton worth So %, while the cake sells at
from So to 81 per ton.
STABLE manure is preferable to any
other fertilizer. No farmer can afford to
waste his manure All OF it should be
saved aud utilized. In many cases
farming would be more profitable if less
land was cultivated, with higher fertili-
zatiun. One acre highly MANFRED should
pay better than three but half MANFRED
and halt-cultivated
WHy viii grass not grow under our
trees? VI. Paul Bert has shown that
green light hinders the development of
plants Plants inclosed in n green glass
frame wither and die as though they
were in darkness. NJ. Regnard finds
that plants specially require the red
rays. Ii sunlight is deprived Of the red
rays, the plants soon cease to thrive.
PROFESSOR VoELcKER says: "Bones
are the first manure which a farmer usu-
ally buys, and which farming commu-
mites demand. Wherever agriculture
Is improved throughout the world the
first lack of the farmer Is phosphates.
The easiest source of supply is bones
and not until that lack has been sup
piled in the soil does he begin to search
for ammoniacal manures.
WHEN young poultry has been allowed
TO contract the habit Of roosting in the
trees no time should bs lost in breaking
them of 1t. Confinement to the poultry
house and yard for day or two will gen
orally effect a cure. Sand and finely
sifted coal ashes, with pound of sui
phur TO each bushel of the mixture. is
the best for dust boxes. This should be
put IN large boxes and kept out of the
rain. Whitewash the houses, putting in
a gill of crude carbolic acid and pint of
common kerosene oil to each pailful of
Stacked lime.
DANISH butter, perfectly worked but
never receiving a particle of salt, proves
that salt so far as butter Is concerned is
not a preventative agent. No amount OF
salt will preserve butter where proper
working has been neglected, neither is
Washing of butter at all requisite to
the preserving of-butter. Washing saves
working, but the best butter is made
without washing. The great object in
working butter isfto extract the butter
milk because it contains cheesy matter in
which putrefaction soon commences, aid
ing the production of rancidity IN the fat
OF the butter.
PEANUT growing is one of the most
profitable industries of Virginia. The
return never fails below fifty dollars an
acre even IN seasons of drouth like the
past one, and sometimes rise as high as
5000 per acre. A light sandy soil is
best The nut must have plenty of rain
IN August IN order to reach perfection.
There are three grades in market, the
strictly prime, the prime and the me-
dunn, the latter of which is sold to the
retail buyer. The best are sent abroad
or used by makers of the finest grades
of candy. The peanut candy sold at
forty cents a pound is made from the
low grade, the wholesale of which is
two cents per quart.
AhoNd the marshy borders of the
Scheldt. in Belgium, osiers are extern
sively cultivated the rods are for basket
work, but the bark, the peelings, till
lately were made into cords, much in
request among fishermen. OF late these
Feelings are exported to England. where
they are subjected to process for ex-
d"osihB tnelr saHclne, OF which they
contain four to five per cent This salt
cine Is presumed to replace hops in
brewing. The Arabs cure the terrain
fever by inhaling the fumes of burning
leaves and branches of osiers, and de,
coction of that plant is properly consid-
cred eficacious against rheumatism.
The refuse of the osiers-that is to saw
the peelings-can be made thus to WELD
four times greater profit than the rods,
estimating salicine at its current price of
SIS to So per pound.
HOUSEHOLD HELPS.