The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-01-27
FARM NOTES.
ARKANSAS grows sorghum stalk
twenty-five feet high.

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A FARM of ], 500 acres IN Barry County,
Mo-, is devoted to the breeding of mules.
THERE are said to be more pure Bates
| (Shorthorn) females In the vicinity of
Sterling, KY, than there are in England
and the rest Of America combined.
II SEEMS that there is poison in
lupins which produces in sheep disease
closely resembling jaundice. This virus
can be neutfalized, on the authority of
DR.. G. 1iebacher and Professor Kuhn,
by resorting to steaming.
In 1880 there were 2,413, 137 milch
COWS in the United States, an increase
over 1870 of 3,476, S05. During the
same period the increase in the aggre-
gate of all cattle has been Il, 057, 1S3.
The regions of France, which pro-
| duce the best wheat are Beauce, Cham
payne, Lie de France and Picardy.
After these come Berry, Pgitou, Limagne,
Normandy and Languedoc.
CABBAGE is the best and cheapest
green food which can be fed to poultry
In winter. 1t is not necessary to feed
the best heads, but the loose, soft speci-
mems that are not exactly marketable.
FREQUENT cultivation of corn, as made
and reported by the Illinois Industrial
University, gave an increased yield of
upwards of eight per cent. over those
plots which only received ordinary Guilt
vation during the same season.
ACCORDING to DR.. Won Liebenburg, all
Rir-dry soils, at the same temperature,
radiate heat equally. He insists strongly
on the injurious effect of any agency
that lowers the temperature of the ground
In spring, as that will certainly influence
the quantity and quality of the crop.
FINE butter can only be obtained by
churning at favorable temperature. If
the temperature of the cream is too low,
the butter will be long in coming and
will be hard in texture. If the temper
allure is too high, the butter will come
very speedily, but the product will be
greasy, destitute of grain and deficient
IN quantity.
Corn and oats ground up together
afford an excellent feed for horses, if the
mixture be fed with hay or wheat straw,
the latter furnishing the requisite bulk.
Ten pounds of this mixed grain with
twenty pounds of cut straw viii make
three fair rations or one days feed for an
average horse having moderate exercise.
IT IS reported that sometimes in India,
if prices are too low to suit native grain
dealers, they bury the wheat in holes
dug in the ground, in which it keeps for
some months, if carefully covered. Some
times sufficient care is not taken in
unearthing the grain, and dirt is mixed
with it to quantity of five per cent. and
upwards.
Il NUMBER of researches on the ripen-
ing of cheese have been made by Drs.
Musso and MenozN and Signor Bigna-
mini. They find that the quantity of
of true albumen suffers little change
during the process, but the double COM
pounds of albumen with CALCIUM phos-
plate are decomposed, yielding peptones
and amides. Lactose und6rgoes both
the mucous and alcoholic fermentation.
The farmer who would be successful
must keep sharp eye upon such of his
land as is down to grass. If it yields
him good crop of hay or furnishes him
rich pasture for his animals, he may be
quite sure he is on the road to success.
On the other hand, if the meadow is
light, and the pasture furnishes only a
scanty picking, there is little hope that
the year will be profitable one. Look
well to the grass land.
AT THE estate In England known as
Elyedon, y owned by an Indian prince,
who is an enthusiastic sportsman, there
are l40 acres of woods and meadows,
enclosed by a wire fence ten feet high,
devoted to breeding pheasants 5000
birds form the breeding stock, and at
the height of the laying season 1900
eggs are picked up in day. These are
sold all over the country, and Elvedon
eggs are most sought for by other gen
tlemen who rear pheasants.
BEFORE the civil war the exports Of
pecan nuts from Indianolia, Texas, were
reported at $780, 600; now it is estimated
that the amount annually gathered ex-
ceeds 100000 in value. No care,
however, has been taken of the trees
in fact, in many localities. trees from
fifty to one hundred years old have been
cut down to secure the nuts. With
proper care of trees and systematic
gathering of the crop it is believed that
$10,000,000 could be annually realized.
Mexicans and negroes are the most
numerous pecan gatherers.
Rev. s. R. HALL, in the report of his
part of the geological survey of Yer
mont, says that he surveyed the muck
beds in the town where he resided. and,
estimating their value at fifty cents per
load, finds more than $50, 900 worth of
muck in the town. He further says
that muck from many localities requires
the addition Of caustic lime or ashes, or
to receive for time the liquid manure
from the stable. Thus prepared its value
is greater than COW dung for crops either
of corn, wheat, potatoes, or grass.
The horse chestnut is a native Of Tur-
key, and received its name on account
Of being extensively used for horse feed
there, the nuts being ground and a
course flour made, which is considered
very nutritious. Before the nuts harden
the COWS are very fond of them, and for
this purpose they have q marketable
/ f"4uO Al bLIO OIdUc VI N6W IOEh. II ldIS
amount of wholesome cattle food now
allowed to go to waste might thus be
saved from this neglected source.
ANNUAL RINGS IN WooD.-It is a re-
eeived belief that the annual rings in
the trunks of trees correspond to the an
nual growth, though there are doubts as
to whether it is always q correct guide.
The English oak often has two growths
Of branches year, and it may be posi-
bic that two rings are produced annually
when the extra growth occurs. There is
acase recorded of the eucalyptus, or blue
gum tree of New South Wales, which
was known to be eighteen years old, but
was found to possess thirty six concentric
rings. 1t would be well to experiment
In this direction, in cases where the age
Of trees is exactly known, though there
IS always the argument against it that
We can not afford to be prodigal Of
forests.
A FREIGHT train was recently wrecked
in Colorado in which there were fifteen
ears of cattle. The scenes and incidents
subsequent to the mash-up will not soon
be forgotten by the train hands. About
one hundred of the animals were either
killed or manned, and the sight of so