Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-10-05
Live Stock and Farm Notes,

An average two or three-year-old
steer will eat its W 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.
t~hirty-acre field year after year to get
five bushels Of wheat OF 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 rem
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 a full week may be gained
in getting sweet-corn for boiling. As
o o 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-
sci 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,
velyety lawns than is usually supposed.
1t is necessary to have plenty of rich
loan, sufficient well-rootcd manure or
fertilizer, and the best of seed. If the
subsoil be sandy or gravelly, a greater
depth of loan 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 a hoe, or the back of a spade.
Mr.. 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.
1t appears from experiments that q
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 Ut the poison
mixed with 100 pounds of plaster may
be applied by the hand, as 1t is proved
by repeated tests that 10 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
Dor expenses.
Jerusalem artichokes have long been
known as a most valuable addition to
the rations of hogs, but that they are
even more valuable as an addition to
the diet of cattle seems to be less gen-
orally recognized. They are hardy,
yield fair crops On poor and very large
ones on rich soil; are more nutritious
than the potato, and once planted there
will be no need of replanting. as they
are not easily got out of a piece of land
after they have become established.
The wearisome fault of horses, called
forging. wherein they strike and click
the hind and fore feet, is sometimes
caused by too heavy shoeing. A very
heavy, awkward shoe is not always a
good shoe. Lowering the feet is some
times a remedy. Much is due also to
the breaking of the young animal, and
if he has been made to forge the reme-
dy should be applied as quickly as pos
sible. Keeping the head up is a good
idea. Horses prone to this babit throw
their fore feet back, lunge, and do not
get themselves up in shape.
The dailyfood Of ''Queen of Barnett"
q JERSEY COW that has q record of 746
pounds of butter in 1881, consists of
four quarts of bran, four quarts of
ground oats, three quarts of corn meal,
eight quarts of carrots, and all the good
hay she can eat daily. Would there not
be more famous Cows if they had the
same treatment? There is a good deal
of truth in the adage that 1.-The breed is
in the mouth" We shall never know
the capacity of common cows till we
give them uncommon advantages