The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-09-07
WHOLE NO. 1858.
Farm Notes.


If we have q drouth, it is wise to ex-
anime and 'slocate" all moist spots,
springs which do not fail, and indica-
tions which may lead to water. The
time is favorable for deepening wells
and opening hidden springs in pastures,
so that cattle may always have water.
The failure of water in pasture is often
a serious thing; cattle suffer greatly,
and it is much trouble to drive them to
water or bring water to them. Artifi-
cial basins may be constructed to hold
the water that falls in Summer showers.
A clayey spot-if possible natural
basin-is selected, the basin formed,
and pigs fed upon the ground when
somewhat moist, to pack it down.
The Cultivdtor and Country Gentle
man says in relation to the ox-eye daisy
and its extirpation: There is no easy
way to extirpate ox-eye daisy and leave
the grass growing. The land should be
put through course of rotation. Well
cultivated and clean-hoed crops have a
tendency to reduce it, and dense
growth of clover smothers it down.
Some years are required to clear the
soil thoroughly of the foul seeds. We
visited farm of some 15n acres some
years ago, on which the ox-eye daisy
had been completely eradicated, not y
solitary plant to be seen, in region
where other farms were white with it,
the process of determination being two
heavily manured successive crops of
corn completely TILED and kept clean,
followed with wheat, seeded copiously
to clover. The few struggling weeds
which remained were grubbed up.
''B. T. P" of East Bethany, N. Y,
writes to the CattiUato' and Country
Gentleman cure for kicking COWS. as
follows: Take snap ring, attach a
half-inch cord about a dozen feet in
length, put the snap in the kicker's
nose, draw the cord around her, letting
it rest on her gambrel joints or below.
Let person stand at her shoulder and
hold the cord just tight enough so that
it shall not slip down to the floor. ANY
one can then proceed to milk her with
out trouble. This course of treatment
pursued for one week has never failed
to cure the most obstinate kicker, and
without any struggles or harshness.
There is perhaps more hay injured by
not being dried enough than. by being
dried too much. One extreme is equal.
ly as bad as the other. Clover. for in
stance, If allowed to become too drv in
the sun, will lose all Of its leaves and
its blossoms, and the stalks that are left
are OF little value. On the other hand.
Ii put IN the NOW too soon it will become
NOW burnt and equally worthless.
The English hop crop is reported to
have been visited with an attack of flv
so virulent and general that there is
reason to fear the destruction of the
crop unless the parasites depart soon.
Small numbers had been seen before,
but fortnight ago they arrived In ,e-
glons over the entire hop-erss'wing loca-
the ''ai''o ~ of the hay crop in New En-
land, according to the statistician of
the Agricultural Department at Wash
ington, is as follows: Maine, SIG, 1885,
740: Massachusetts,, SIS, ,456; Ver--
mont, $12,293,1 ,112; Connecticut. $12,-
16S, 800; New Hampshire, 1926, 255;
Rhode Island, S1,728,240. Total, $780,
383, ,604.
A hog of the proper sort should not
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shoulders and fore parts, but that great
width should be carried all through the
carcass, SO that when fat they are just
as wide through the hams as at the
shoulders. A broad, wefl-covered loin
is also an essential point.
A net profit of nearly 5000 per acre
was the yield of straw berries to John G.
Wheeler, of South Viueland, who gath
cred 1,439 quarts from three acres of
ground. The product is equal to the
first cost of the ground.
Grab grass is a persistent grower.
After cultivating to eradicate it. place
the accumulation of grass around toma-
to vines, strawberries. etc., as it furnishes
an excellant mulch.
Hen manure carries much less water
than stable manure. but more nitrogen
and organic matter. The proportions
OF potash and phosphoric acid are near
ly the same.