The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-10-06
farm NOTES.

EkMIN on foT IS and about hen roosts
VIII leave headquarters by injecting
from a syringe weak steep in water of
pennyroyal herb tea. Drive this weak
steep thoroughly over the roogts and
the poultry. and it will cleanse them
from lice. Several varieties of flies an
noy and suck blood from horses and
other animals. Pennyroyal steep will
drive them awayif the animal is washed
with it.
Moss IN PAsTURES.-A successful
Hatfield farmer tells the Nelr Fngln,1d
Homestead that he restored to useful
ness a pasture which had been complete
ly overrun by moss, by the application
OF muriate of potash at the rate of 800
pounds to the acre. The field had not
been plowed for twenty-five years, and
the moss showed that it was pretty well
run out. But after the potash was APP
piled, not trace of moss remained, and
clover and various nice grasses took its
place without reseeding.
SETTING STRAWBERRY PLANTS.
correspondent of the Germantown
Telegraph says that the main failure in
raising strawberries Is in setting poor
plants, Old plants are good for nothing;
new plants from an old bed are not
worth setting. We should set plants
that are grown from those that have
never fruited When q plant produces
a crop of fruit that fruit exhausts the
energies of the plant to certain extent,
and its young plants will not have the
constitution and vigor of those from
plants that give all their energies to the
young plants.
PIG-K1L1Na. HoGs.-Bertly Wilder
writes to the RaJral NeU Yorker that
there is nothing on earth that will make
man feel so much like indulging III
profanity as on going to his hog-house
where he has an extra-nice hog from
which he expects to raise some extra
nice pigs, to find that the SOW has had
pigs and killed them all. Now that man
might have raised his pigs if he had
thought in time The man who loses
his pigs IN this way has kept his SOW
shut up all winter or summer in a pen
with a tight floor where she could not
root the ground, and the beast has
very natural laundering after something
fresh Ii man wishes success with his
pigs (and all men do he should let the
SOW run out on the ground, if it is only
yard sixteen feet square, where she
can root and get wori1s and roots, and
she will not kill her pigs.
COOP FEEDERS. Careful investiga-
ton has established the certainty that
a 1,000-pound steer needs eighteen
pounds of good hay per day merely for
his support. If he improves any he
must have more A steer, therefore,
which has attained to that weight, but
has hg appetite for any more food, or
power Of assimilation if he does eat
more, is Improbable to the owner. He
is daily consuming valuable food with NO
increase. If steer will demand and
assimilate six pounds more per day, the
one-foutth Of bis food goes to the profit
of the owner. And go on in proportion
to the amount he proftably consumes
and converts into meat, fat, muscles,
etc, the more profitable is such stock.
And this is what stockmen mean when
they call certain stock good feeders.
And this is one of the questions breed
ers and feeders must look to.
THE CoNPosTa HEAP. The NdsSn-
c7iatSEtts Plo,ighmd!t, among other
things, talks sqgg9stivelx about the
compost heap, saying that 1t is d good
plan to have one for the benefit OF the
farm. The compost heap may be made
Of road-serapings, the scourings of
bitches, the cleanings Of ponds, clip
pings from banks and hedge-rows,
scrapings and sweepings of farm-yards,
garden refuse, house refuse, and, in
deed, all sorts of rubbish may be added
to a compost heap. Even weeds will
decay, and then help to swell the ma
terial for en1iching the land The heap
shotl1d occasionally be covered over
with layer of lime, and q layer of salt
now and then is also good addition.
These materials are beneficial in them
selves, and keep weeds from seeding on
the top of the heap. The compost
should be turned over from time to
time, and, When we'll mixed, the land
ulay DG (lI0SSCN Will III S1sItbI III SpI1LS
or autumn.
HEAVIER HoRsEs.-There must be
great profit in rearing large, powerful,
enduring horses Good and safe men
have been making large importations of
Normans and Clydes the past year. In
fact, the demand for these classes of
horses has been SO grelt and persistent
for importation that the scarcity Of the
quality demanded has materially adj
vanced their prices. But the more our
farmers have become acquainted with
the character, merits and domestic
habits of these noble horses, the more
enthusiastic they have become in their
favor. Dollars and cents have con-
verified some who could be reached by
no other arguments They find it costs
no more to raise good horse than a
/ poor one; and by the time half-blood
Norman or Clyde is or years
old, he can never ask enough for them
SO as to be allowed to keep them.
Large, strong horses are in demand at
high prices, and ever will be- In these
breeds every horse raised is a good one;
but in raising fast horses scarcely one
IN hundred is a success-Des Mojne5
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