The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-09-01
FARM NOTES.

AFTER the bloom is of, fodder corn
becomes daily a poorer article of food,
its best time being just when the tassel
appears.
The stock breeder of whatever kind
of stock, to reach the highest success,
must have good pedigrees with good in
dlvldual animals, and must give personal
care to their management.
| HUNDREDS of farmers In Pennsylvania
have turned their attention to fish cult
ure. Many have stocked ponds and
4 streams, and In most cases they have
been successful, especially with carp.
and IN few years they will depend
upon fish for a subsistence as much as
upon any other farm product.
! s. F. NJ, IN Farm and Preside, gives
this remedy for lice on stock, which he
claims is neither dangerous nor disa-
/ greeable IN its application !" A brine
of common salt, as strong as it can be
made, rubbed in thoroughly, so as to
wet every hair on the animal, will de-
stroy not only the lice but their eggs,
and it is not dangerous, as is the kero-
sene or arsenic, nor unpleasant, like the
sulphur and lard. A pleasant day is
best for its application.
GROUND millet seed is excellent feed
for hogs. 1t has a nutritive ratio of
1.5. 4-that is, l albuminoids to "a of
carbohydrates. This is good fatten-
ing ratio, and it will depend upon the
relative price of corn whether the two
should be ground together. Half millet
and half corn, ground fine, will make a
4 better proportion than corn alone. The
pork will have better proportion of
lean and the pigs will be healthier while
fattening. Ground miliet will be found
very appropriate food for young pigs,
giving them large and more muscular
frame.
THE Cuyttvator and Country Gentle
man says in relation to the ox-eye daisy
and its extirpation: There is no easy
way to extirpate OK eye daisy and leave
the grass growing. The land should be
| put through a 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 thor
oughly Of the foul seeds. We visited a
farm of some $50 acres some years ago,
on which the ox-eye daisy had been
completely eradicated, not a solitary
| plant to be seen, In a region where other
farms were white with it, the process of
determination being two heavily ma
nured successive crops of corn COM
pletely titled and kept clean, followed
with wheat, seeded copiously to clover.
The few struggling weeds which re-
manned were grubbed up.
The Practical Farmer says that the
question of how to protect sheep from
the caresses of destructive dogs, which
has so long agitated the agricultural
mind, seems to have been happily set
tied by the farmers of Hunterdon and
Somerset counties, N. j. They tried
the experiment of mixing few goats
with their sheep, and after the goats
and sheep had affiliated for few days
they procured some dogs, regular
sheep killers, and started them for the
fields. The dogs, regarding the affair
as a sort of a picnic, went for wool and
came back shorn of their conceit. They
seemed to run against goats in the most
unexpected places, and were struck by
the singular nature of the thing and
almost driven into the ground by the
force of the remarks made by the goats
with their heads, in the heat of the de-
bate. Mutton, which the dogs had
always regarded as a delicacy, suddenly
palled upon their taste and they felt
cloyed. :
ONE great drawback to good success
with poultry results from not under
standing the breed kept. The Houdans
are what is termed hardy fowls; but re-
quire careful treatment. They should
not be herded with other fowls. Their
immense crests obstruct the vision, ex-
cept one way, and this renders them
helpless against attacks of other fowls,
which they might in fair and open COM
bat easily repel. They cannot Withstand
wet or dampness, but are not as sensl-
tive to cold, providing it be dry, as some
other varieties. The Dorkings are very
tender, and so are the Crevecnurs. The
! Dorkings must have a warm place i'll
winter. They are even more sensitive
than the large combed varieties, but will
compete with them in egg. production il
we'll fed during the winter. There is nc
fowl more hardy. after fully grown, than
the Leghorns. They will withstand
great cold without injury, but no breed
will endure gross neglect. Leghorn
chicks are delicate when young, but
soon get out of the way. They are rapid
growers and mature early. Country
Gentleman.
For KICKING Cows.-Heifers when
being broken to milk are often so unruly
as to require some fastening to enable
the mixer to do his work and also as a
meaus of subduing the heifer. The
! gentlest of COWS will sometimes kick
when her teats are sore, and some cows
I are decidedly ugly at times. A v-ry
Hommon me thod of whipping or rather
pounding the COW with the milking stool
has no tendency to quiet the COW, how
ever it may relieve the temper of the
mixer. Tying the less may make the
COW harmless, but ocra'ions struggles
that may ininre the temper of the COW.
lead her to hold her milk, and to other
evils The best method we have seen,
and which is effective, even in the worst
cases, is to pass q strap one inch wide
around the COW forward Of the udder
and back of the hip bones. Draw it
moderately tight if the COW is not very
unruly. and tighter as she rises in the
scale of ugliness, and she can be MIXED
without any fear of upsetting the milk.
or struggles with the COW and loss of
temper. Deal gently with COWS that
are nervous, and kindly and firmly with
those that are contrary, and one that
cannot be made quiet had better be
turned off for beef-Detroit Post.
Father MaguireS Goose.
Years ago there resided in the County
of Longford, Ireland, an individual not