The Wichita city eagle., 1882-10-12
NOTES,

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Lately the Chicago Gamers have de-
pended largely upon old ''native" cows
for their supplies.
The best plan for all breeders is to
raise chickens every season to be layers
of the next year, and kill all of the old
stock over two years old.
The boom in butter is confined TO
creamery, and creamery buttery can be
made by associated dairying. There is
no boom on farmers butter.
SO soon as the young clover begins to
show heads, it may be lightly pastured
without much injury. Blossoming is
an exhaustive process, and stock prefer
the blossoms.
A Mr.. Ferguson, a breeder of Polled
Angus cattle, at Kinnochtry, Scotland,
has refused IS 900 for four of the choic-
est of his cows, exhibited successfully
at recent shows.
DIR. Gilliland, of Lincoln county, Mo-,
started in last spring with two swarms
of bees. During the season he lost SIX
stands, but has eight remaining, all OF
which have fine stocks of honey.
The value of agricultural implements
yearly produced in the United States
has increased ten-fold since 1858. In
that year the census showed it 10 be
$6,S00,O00; now it is more than $685.
100000.
Ii an orchard is cultivated until it
gets a good start, and is then neglected,
it is likely to come into bearing at once,
but early decay is almost sure to be the
result of too early bearing.
The hardy varieties of geraniums
make the most satisfactory flowers for
winter house-gardening. They are con-
slant and profuse bloomers, and will
stand either cold or heat best of any
Towering house-plant.
Reduce as far as possible the amount
of fencing upon your farm, and put
that which is necessary into first-class
condition. Fences are at best dead
capital. Reduce that capital to the
smallest possible amount.
Fields intended for wheat should be
cultivated frequently, especially after
warm rain. Plant food is developed
very rapidly in soil at such a time, and
especially if it be stubble with the
grain commencing to grow.
A rabbit warren, game and poultry
company has recently been formed
near London, England, containing $50
acres of land The stock is 500, 600 in
shares of S. each, all of which was TAX
en- in three weeks.
1t is not good policy TO let work
horses get thin. 1t costs more to put
on flesh than TO keep it on. Flesh that
becomes hardened by exercise will be
kept up with less food under the same
work than it took to put it on.
A quick and effectual mode of de-
stroying plantain aud other weed pests
on lawns is to cut the plant off at the
crown and drop on the top of the root
two or three drops of kerosene. The
lawn will not be defaced by digging,
and the work is at once and completely
done.
The best litter is that which will alb
sorb the largest quantity of liquid ma
nure. In this connection bean, buck
wheat and pulse straw are placed first,
as they absorb three times their weight
of liquid, wheat straw but twice its
weight, and dried earth but one-half its
weight.
1t has been well demonstrated that in
case of all live stock a clean and open
condition of the skin is conducive to
health and economical feeding, and no
labor in The barns is more profitably
expended than that which is employed
in a thorough cleaning, not only of the
horses, but also of the cattle.
1uC dHhudi Nucit Ciop vi 1hihuccoeo
is glorified in the four quarters of the
globe, while the hay crop stays quietly
at home, and is seldom ever thought of
by the outside world. Yet its value
this year is reckoned at nearly SIC, ,000,
600. The crop is estimated at SOC, 900
tons of wild hay and 100000 tons of
cultivated.
1t is just about the right time to con-
slider that $50 pounds of meal properly
fed TO the right kind of pig will make
100 pounds of pork, and at the same
time add $l.42 to the value of the ma
nure heap. Now, then, this, added to
the price of pork as it should be, shows
aproit in turning Western corn into
pork.-Nesc England Farmer.