The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-05-19
FARM NOTES.

berries and other plants
AN IRRITABLE COW is generally an in
| ferior mixer. An animal with a placid,
Illuminating disposition yields the most
milk.
LAST year the average yield of sugar
| from beets in Germany was one per
cent higher than the year before-the
effect of q warm season.
In NORWAY fish is used to consider
able extent as food for cattle, and in
book on Iceland, published over one
hundred years ago, the use of fish for
feeding cows is mentioned.
STANDARD Peruvian guano contains
per cent of nitrogen, 4.S of solu-
BILE phosphorus acid, 81 of reverted
phosphorus acid, 81 of insoluble phos-
phoric acid and 81 of potash.
HENS sit 10 to "a. generally 81, days;
turkeys and peafowls, 20 to % days;
geese, % to 33 days; ducks, % to 80
days; pigeons, Is days from last egg;
canaries, Ii days from steady sitting.
The time occupied in digestion in cat
tie and sheep is comparatively long. 1t
has been found by numerous observa-
tions that, after q sudden alteration OF
the feeding, the remnants of the former
fodder are still recognizable In the excre-
ments for as many as five days.
A NEW YORK farmer prefers apples to
roots for feeding stock. While the APP
Piles may not be more nutritious, he
think they are medicinal in effect. He
| thinks a horse would do better with a
peck of oats day and apples than with
twelve quarts without apples He pre-
fers sweet apples. as sour fruit sometimes
makes the teeth sore.
THE highest bred cows, it must be re-
membered, are not often the best mixers
and often the ugliest looking COW in the
herd yields the most milk. Good mixers
invariably show very angular outlines,
for it cannot be expected the COW should
be yielding large quantity of milk and
putting plenty of flesh upon her bones at
| the same time.
If ONLY one crop of grass is to be OBJ
tanned, probably the best time for cut
ting is usually when the plants are just
beginning to blossom. At this time
larger crop is obtained than If cut earlier,
while the digestibility is not seriously
impaired. 1t is during the ripening OF
the seed that the most extensive changes
in this respect occur. Ii high, nutrl-
tive value is desired rather than guam
tity, of course still earlier harvest
would be In place.
LAMBS do best upon good pasturage.
II fed in the stall they must receive only
the best and tenderest hay. If the lat
ter is even slightly too coarse or Is I'M
palatable from any cause, such as unfa-
vorable weather during its making, the
animals will not eat sufficient quantity
and will be much retarded In their de-
velopment. Even hay OF average quail
ity requires the addition OF grain, best
| of oats, or of some other heterogeneous
| feeding stuff.
A PRACTICAL gardener gives the follow
ing brief statement of his mode of rails
| ing green peas For q succession he
| formerly planted two weeks apart, but
the late paintings had small crops and
widowed pods. He now plants all at
one time, and as early as the season will
permit, using early and late varieties.
When planted deep the plants continue
longer IN bearing and endure the drouth.
He plants early sorts six inches deep
and the late ones rather deeper. For
this depth it Is, of course, necessary that
the soil be loose and porous.
A MEMBER of the Oneida Community,
writing on the importance of mulching
| fruit trees and plants of every kind, says
that he mulched a row of the Franconia
raspberry, and also one of the Philadel-
phia, side by side. The effect was very
marked; While the Franconias, which
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scorched and the leaves crumpled in
the sun, the row which received the
mulching carried through nearly double
the crop of fruit. The material used
for mulching was old, half-decayed buck
wheat straw, etc.
Nj. GoFFART says: 1--WE must con-
clude that maize ensilage in the matter
of retaining water is a well-balanced
food, since it furnishes to animals, In
most suitable proportions, food and
drink. Each one of my ensilages may
be regarded as an immense cylinder, and
its covering of plank, gigantic piston !;
the heavy substances with which / load
the plank act as a motive power, causing
the piston to descend and compress the
ensilage, leaving between the planks an
outlet for the air, which the impression
is intended to drive out.
THE Westphalian hams, the most Gel
ebrated In Europe, are principally cured
at and exported from Hamburg. The
smoking of these Is performed in extern
slve chambers, In the upper stories of
| high buildings. Some are four or FIVE
stories high, and the smoke is conveyed
to these rooms from fires in the cellar
through tubes, on which the vapor is
|
that the smoke is both dry and cool when
it comes in contact with the meat. The
hams are tins kept perfectly dry and
acquire a color and flavor unknown to
those smoked in the common method.
THE soya-bean is a half-pea, half-bean
in appearance, with singular leaves and
| pods. 1t is prominent article of food
among the Chinese and Japanese, and
within a few years has come into cult
walton In Europe, and whether grown in
| China, France or Hungary, it maintains
the same fixed characteristics In its
| chemical composition. It has been
| pronounced by agricultural chemists to
be the richest of all human food. James
| J. a. Gregory saws it is hardy and pro-
| ductive, and ripens as far north as GEN.
trail Massachusetts,. The plant Yields
leaves and stems more abundantly than
the COW peas of the South, and may
| prove superior to them in value for fod-
| der purposes.
THE time at which hay is made is of
the greatest importance, as the young
| plant always contains a larger per cent.
of albuminoids and less crude fibre than
when they are at more advanced stage
of growth. Oxen were fed at Mockern,
In Germany, with clover cut before
Towering, May 90; then with clover
cut after Towering, June z and June 20,
they digested respectively II per cent,
IS and SO per cent. of the albuminoids.
and 81 per cent, Al and 40 per cent of
the crude fibre. The digestibility of
the extractive carbohydrates was not
greatly affected At Hohenheim the
same effect was noticed in feeding sheep
with clover cut at four different periods;
the proportion of digested albuminoids
falling from 20 to 90 per cent, and that
of crude fibre 60 to 80 per cent. Many
other experiments showing the same
fact might be adduced. The greater
digestibility of aftermath is undoubt-
edly due to the more or less tender con-