Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-12-02
Live Stock and Farm Notes.

An average two or three-year-old steer will eat it's own weight of differ ent materials in two weeks.
 There is no loss in feeding cattle well upon a variety of materials for the sake of manure alone.
 Two or three year old cattle will add one-third of a pound more per day to their weight upon prepared hay and roots than upon the same materials un- prepared
 There is no wisdom in working thirty-acre field year after year to get five bushels of wheat or ten bushels of corn to the acre, when with the same expense for fertilizers you could raise fifteen bushels of wheat or thirty of corn to the acre.
 The general effect of lime is to ren- der available the plant food already in the soil, without itself supplying any significant amount. Lining cannot, therefore, be successfully repeated ex- cept at considerable intervals.
 Judge Miller. of Missouri, says he has learned how q full week may be gained in getting sweet-corn for boiling. As soon as the ear is formed, break the top down or cut if off, but leave the stalk erect in order that the pollen of the tas- sel may be sure to dust the silk of the ears, as they may not be fully impreg- mated should the stalk be stopped.
 More care is required to make fine, velvety lawns than is usually supposed. It is necessary to have plenty of rich loam, sufficient well-rooted manure or fertilizer, and the best of seed. If the c,thSnil lNo ,It-, r-f.ll,- for depth of loam is needed. or the bottom must be partially puddled with either clay or peat; if not, any manure or top dressing of any description soaks away, and disappears entirely.
 The secret of success in transplant ing is to press the soil well about the roots. In setting out plants, such as cabbage, celery, etc, be sure that the moist soil is brought into contact with the roots by pressing it down with the foot or hoe, or the back of a spade Mir. Peter Henderson urges the import ance of this matter by compacting the soil both in sowing seeds and in trans planting plants, bushes and trees, and in setting out cuttings.
 It appears from experiments that 8 heaping teaspoonful of paris green to twelve quarts of water is just as certain to destroy the potato beetle as a larger quantity; but one pound of the poison mixed with 100 pounds of plaster may be applied by the hand, as it is proved by repeated tests that no bad results will follow taking it in the bare hands when mixed in these proportions. The | plaster is worth to the crop all the la bor expenses.
 Jerusalem artichokes have long been ] known as most valuable addition tc the rations of hogs, but that they arc 1 even more valuable as an addition tc 1 the diet of cattle seems to be less gen. erally recognized. They are hardy ! yield fair crops on poor and very large ones on rich soil; are more nutrition, than the potato, and once planted there will be no need of replanting, as they are not easily got out of piece of lanC after they have become established.
 The wearisome fault of horses, called forging, wherein they strike and clicE the hind and fore feet, is sometime caused by too heavy shoeing. A yer, heavy, awkward shoe is not always ; good shoe. Lowering the feet is some times remedy. Much is due also t the breaking of the young animal, ant if he has been made to forge the reme dy should be applied as quickly as pos sible. Keeping the head up is gooC idea. Horses prone to this babit throv their fore feet back, lunge, and do no get themselves up in shape.
 The daily food of Queen of Barnett, a Jersey COW that has q record of 74 pounds of butter in 1881, consists 0 four quarts of bran, four quarts c ground oats, three quarts of corn meal eight quarts of carrots, and all the goo hay she can eat daily. Would there nc be more famons Cows if they had tn same treatment? There is good deG of truth in the adage that ''the breed in the mouth'' We shall never kno, the capacity of common cows til " give them uncommon advantages.