The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-03-16
FARM

FARM NOTES.
See that the outlets to each Of your
drE ms are open and are not In any way
clog ged.
4 N years ago it cost nearly as much
to g ia bushel OF grain from Buffalo to
New York as it now does to carry it from
Chicsvo to Liverpool.
A WRITER Of experience and reputa-
ton has stated that the fence tax on the
farmers in the State Of New York is
three and Q half times greater per acre
than the State, county, and township
taxes on the land.
DR.. j. N. BAILEY says "From my
experience in feeding, 30 far as I n
slider ensilage to be worth one-haf as
much as the best timothy hay. I would
not, however, exchange eDsilage for hay,
and give two tons for one."
The best of forage may not always
furnish in suitable proportions all the
elements necessary to produce the best
milk therefore, give o large variety OF
food, but guard against anything that
will faint the milk or butter.
A TRIAL was made in Scotland to test
the feeding value of an acre of cabbage,
compared with the value of an acre of
Swedish turnips for fattening sheep, and
it was found that the cabbages were
worth very nearly 500 the most.
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.
TIE SOW should be fed but little corn
during the last two mouths of her preg-
nancy. Her diet should avoid that which
Is too heating and fattening. Oats, bran,
middlings, and beets are q great deal
better han the everlasting corn diet of
the West.
THE food of animalahas 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 the 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 a good COW from a
poor farm, in which case improvement is
almost certain. There is no good reason,
however, why q poor animal should be
kept on a 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 q
well-rotted n put about them on
the surface. In some localities strong
laka ~ InaA a42a4- ~~A-kI H.
transplanted with good results.
EXPERIENCE and observation will con-
vince anyone that better results will fol-
low the application Of manure at the SUI
face, or at least within three inches of it,
than if plowed under to three times that
depth. For immediate results all WELL
rotted should be intimately
mixed with the surface soil by repeated
civilizations or 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. AZ
ter such a winter the wheat crop gener-
ally is in q backward condition and finds
itself In an impoverished soil.
A. J. DOWNING, who was perhaps the
best horticultulst America has known,
said: "H I were to preach o sermon on
horticulture, / should take as my text
Stir the Soil" Frequent and deep
stirring viii 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.
80. hHE.H .aaH-HHl- IT,
WHERE nitrogen is required az q 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 q deficiency
In phosphorus acid and potash. Next th
Peruvian guano. fish guano. fish scraps
or sulphate OF ammonia would be the
cheapest source Of nitrogen.
TIE character of the food will affect
the quality of the manure even more
than the character Of the animal. A die
of corn fodder and straw, for instance
can yield only a poor manure, because
these foods contain very little nitrogen
OF phosphates. A diet including a lib
eral amount Of oil-cake or beans will, OF
the other hand, yield valuable manure
these foods being rich in nitrogen ant
ash constituents. A common mode il
England and France of increasing the
supply of. manure on o farm is by the
consumption of purchased food by the
animals of the farm.
Tx HIS pamphlet on Fertility" DR.
J. B. Lawes asserts that practically tn
source of the whole of the nitrogen il
our crops is the store within the sol
itself and in the heterogeneous manure
brought upon it. At Rothamsted Their
are about twelve acres of land, distribu
ted in six different fields, and unde
more than as many different crops, whicl
have either been kept entirely withou
manure, or have only received purel,
mineral manures, for periods of from
twenty-five to forty years. As thes
areas are exposed to the same atmos
pheric Influences as other fields, and a
crops growing on them are, with the ex
ception that they receive no nitrogen b,
manure, subject to the same influence
as similar crops in neighboring fields
we may look with confidence to the re
suits which they viii yield in the cours
of time.
A WRITER In the Scientific america
says I'VE clean our promises of th
detestable vermin, rats, by maxim
whitewash yellow with coperas and COY
ering the stones and rafters with IL. i