The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-01-06
FARM NOTES.

peen exhibited weighing over twenty-five
and tWenty-three pounds the pair respec-
lively.
KEEP sheep dry under foot. This ia
even more necessary than roofing them.
Never let sheep stand or lie in mud OF
water.
The cotton States consume ~. 252. "a
bushels more of wheat than they raise.
and pay to the North for wheat. corn.
oats and hay $3.50, 600, 900 annually.
WINTERING bees in cellars appears to
be an improvement over wintering them
outside. The bees consume less honey.
have less loss and are healthier in the
end.
A FARMER of experience in wood grow
ing says that there is more money in
growing wool at even twenty cents per
pound than in loaning money at ten per
cent. interest.
If THE owner of a COW will realize the
fact that unless she pays him in clear
cash S4A so yearly she is kept at loss,
he will soon become interested In the
subject of the improvement of COWS.
PEAR blight has ia several instances
been arrested in affected trees by syring-
ing them with weak solution of potash,
and in some cases it has proved pre-
ventive when applied to the healthy
trees.
ONE reason why our wheat crops are
only about half as much per acre as III
England is because the British farmer
employs sheep as grain growers, while
with US sheep are considered as wool or
mutton makers
A COW with three rings on her horns
is six years old; with four she is seven.
No new rings are formed after the tenth
year. The deeper rings, however, and
the worn appearance of the horns, are
sure indications of old age.
BOTH for its effect upon fattening and
upon health q small amount of wood
ashes should be given to swine. The
food without this is rich in phosphoric
acid, but has little limo, and the equiv
alent should be thus supplied.
Too much attention cannot be paid to
the cleanliness and ventilation of stables
and pens. To insure the health and
comfort of animals they must be kept
dry and warm and have plenty of light
as well as pure air and plenty of water.
AS FLOORS to poultry houses, boards
are not good, especially if chickens are
to be brought up upon them, as they
produce cramp. Concrete or brick is
better, yet nothing is so good as deep,
well-pulYerized, dry soil, which is really
the least expensive Of anything.
To PINCH off the tip of a shoot is not
to produce a shock. but to change, not
impede, but send the flow of the sap in
other directions, by which the fruit is
benefited, while the leaf power is not
materially interfered with, the axillary
leaves afording the needful supply.
WHEAT is now sowu in nine months
of the year in England; that is, from
August to April. October and Novem-
Der are the principal months, however,
for this work. The advocates of thin
seeding prefer early sowing, while it is
advantageous to SOW thicker as the sea-
son advances.
FARMERS should endeavor to sell as
little as possible Of that which comes
mainly from the soil, and as much as
possible of that which comes from the
atmosphere. Butter and fat stock sold
will improve a farm while cheese. milk.
and lean stock sold will keep the farm
lean, unless manure or fertilizers are
bought.
ENaIIsH agriculture is almost equally
depressed with Irish, and large estates
are officially reported to the British Gov
eminent as lying idle in the best farming
counties of the kingdom. Reclamation
of bog and moorland in Ireland is out Of
the question when the best land in Eng
land can not compete with American
prairies.
FARMERS can not afford to use COM
mercial fertilizers at random, and it is
time they understood the reason why.
The right materials in the right places
bring large profits. Artificial fertilizers
rightly used must prove among the most
potent means for the restoration of our
agriculture. The only way to find out
what soil wants is to study it by care
full observation and experiment.
IN New ENGLAND horses are advancing
from fifteen to thirty per cent. In price
Horse-car companies three years ago
bought good serviceable horses at from
$50 to 800 each, while they now pay as
high as $130 for equally good animals.
Heavy draft teams are worth from 1926
to $3.50, while stylish, well-matched and
well-bred carriage pairs bring all the
way from $500 to 81, 900.
THE best way with all grapes, and es-
pecially with those not quite hardy, is to
prune in the autumn as soon as practica
ole after the fall of the leaves. If the
vines are pruned and trained upon the
renewal system, it will be very small
matter to lay them upon the ground and
give q covering of two or three inches of
earth upon the shortened canes, which
covering should be left on until all dan
ger of severe freezing is passed in the
spring.
THE seed is q st0re-house of concen-
trated plant food, intended to nourish
the germ till the root and leaf are de-
yeloped. In the seeds of the cereals,
and Of many other plants, the chief in
gredient is starch. Another class of
seeds, of which hnseed and mustard
seed are examples, contain no starch,
but in its place a large quantity of fat
A seed generally contains considerable
of albuminoids; its ash is rich
in phosphoric acid and potash.
SOME dairymen say that mich COWS
do as well ON ensilage when mixed with
about one quarter its bulk of fine cut
dry hay or straw as with meal or shorts.
Perhaps the straw tends to distend the
as cob-meal does when ground
with corn. For sheep with lambs, sows
and mares, ensilage is especially profta-
BILE. and also for fattening sheep. For
use when the pastures are dried,
ensilage June grass will keep up tine
supply of milk as nothing else can.
In KEEPING sheep for profit the great
point is to secure cheap pasturage
Where wool alone is the source of the
income cheap land is an absolute neces-
sity, and the supply of this is rapidly
There are few localities
left In the United States where land
can be procured in large tracts for fifty
cent? to 81 per acre. Ye* ouch tracts
can still be procured in the mountain
regions of Southwestern Missouri, West
Virginia and North Carolina, where the
climate is al that can be desired for
sheep husbandry. Where mutton is the
leading source of profit, land of greater
value may be employed.
CoEsTDERARIE attention has been re-