The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-19
FARM NOTES
Far Is Of no value as manure.

The number of registered Shorthorn
bulls In England is $4,000.
The Spanish horse is small, and has 9
strong dash of African blood.
The nearer fattening animal ap-
proaches maturity, the greater is the
proportion OF fat in the gross increase
obtained.
Roors fed in state of decay induce
blood poisoning, disorder the milk of
ewes and cows, and act prejudicially on
the young of both.
The fats occurring in the ANIMAL body
are principally stearine, palmetine and
oleine. Stearine preponderates in hard
fats and oleine in fluid fats.
CoTswoID sheep have large, handsome
frames, well covered with flesh, and a
great propensity to fatten. Their NUT
ton is apt to be rather coarse grained.
DEELPY-RooTED crops, as wheat, red
clover and mangel, are those best fitted
to resist drouth, while shallow-rooted
crops, as grass and turnips, are those
that suffer most from it.
The oleomargarine factories of New
York have producing capacity of 49,
GOO, 600 pounds annually, while the pro-
duction of dairy butter in the State is
only Ill, 600, 600 pounds. -.
A FAT calf is SIS per cent. water and
Is per cent. fat, while an extra fat
sheep is 81 per cent. water and 4S per
cent. fat, and fat pig is 43 per cent.
water and IA per cent. fat.
HORSES are social animals. particularly
so in the case of young horses. They
thrive best when in the society of others,
hence tho advantage of pasturing several
in one field where practicable.
The pigs ON the great Cheddar dairy
farms In England are never fed on whey
alone. It is thought more profitable to
have a greater number than the whey
will support, and then supplement by
supplies of other food.
The beef of Hereford cattle is pecul-
iarly tender and ine-grained. For
quantity as well as quality of meat they
are not exceiied. The capability of the
breed as quick feeders and economical
producers of meat is unquestionable.
In THE management of live stock it is
safer and better to give water before
feeding than after. In the latter case
the food is liable to be washed out of
the stomach prematurely, while in an
imperfectly digested state, and thus oc-
casicn intestinal irritation and disease.
The delicate substance called arrow
root is pure starch obtained from the
root of plant which grows in Jamaica
and various islands in the West Indies.
While the root of this plant furnishes o
wholesome and agreeable food, the juice
OF the same plant is highly poisonous.
CABBAGE will thrive on any good corn
land, though the stronger the soil the
better they will develop. New land is
preferable. Plow deep and manure very
literally. The early sorts bear planting
from eighteen inches to two feet apart in
the rows, with the rows from two to two
and half feet apart; the large varieties
to be from two to four feet apart, the
distance varying with the size. The
crop should receive as many as three
hoeings and three cultivatings. Cabbage
will not usually follow cabbage nor
turnips successfully in fed culture,
unless three or four years have inter-
vened between the crops.
A ROUGH wind prevents the regular
spreading of seeds, therefore, choose a
still day for sowing grass seeds. Instead
OF mixing clovers and grass seeds to-
gether, the practice is recommended of
going twice over the land, sowing the
light grass seeds first, passing up and
down the burrows, and subsequently
crossing the lands at right angles with
the mixture of clovers and other heavy
seeds. The bush-harrow should be ap.
applied Immediately before and after
sowing, thereby covering the seeds be-
fore tho birds or change of weather
can interfere with them. After the har-
rowing, the whole should be carefully
rolled.
AMONG the suggestions made by the
gentlemen who attended the ensilage
congress at New York were the follow
ing: Whatever may have been the
kind of silo used none of them seem to
have failed to preserve their contents,
not even the cheapest, which are really
only holes in the ground" ST cut dry
hay and straw and feed it, about one
quarter in bulk, with the ensilage. It
does as well as meal or shorts" "I I'M
load my stalks from the wagon by ropes
laid under the stalks, attach the front
ends to hook and drive from nnder.
The load rolls right off," "The siIo is
a receptacle for catching any crop that
may be ready whenever the farmer is
ready" {" The greater consistency in
the excrements from ensilage fodder
shows that the material is prepared in
the silo for digestion, by the softening of
the cells" "The green fodder does not
ferment in the silo nor produce alcohol.
It only gets ready to ferment." "Crops
should be kept in the silo at least three
months, and the longer the better. %
DIR. J. B. LAwEs, of Rothamsted,
England. is not full believer in the new
system of ensilage, although he has not
given it practical trial. He gives an
opinion of the effect OF fermentation on
green food as follows: cat Rothamsted
[ have about fifty-four COWS in milk and
about thirty head of young stock. Their
main supply of food until next May will
consist of mangels. More than half of
the whole dry matter of these mangels
consists OF sugar, and this sugar is the
most valuable of all the ingredients
which they contain. Now, if [ were to
subject these mangels 10 fermentation in
a pit until the sugar was converted into
alcohol and carbonic acid, should be
destroying that valuable element OF
food which had been at so much cost
to obtain. In the clamps where our
mangels are stored their quality i'm
proves, rather than the contrary, and a
farmer would give n preference to roots
which had been stored up for six months.
If succulent food for winter is so valua-
blein the States, some comparison should
be instituted between the relative adj
vantages of corn and mangels. AS re-
CARDS ensilage, I must confess that 1 do
not altogether like a process which ap.
pears to be SO destructive OF food"