Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-03-23
Farm Notes.

OF all shares. plow shares are the
most reliable. They always turn up
something.
One of the first things farmers wife
should learn, if she has not already
learned it as q farmers daughter, is to
drive and harness horse.
Strawberries are much more prolific
when four or five different varieties are
planted together, although each variety
may be perfect one, than if but one
perfect variety were planted alone.
The opinion has generally prevailed
that little bran mixed with meal would
produce more pork than clear meal, but
in some experiments lately tried it was
found that clear meal made more pork
than mixture of bran and meal.
The Flemish farmer scrupulously col
lects every atom of sewage from the
towns; he guards his manure like
treasure, puts roof over it to prevent
rain and sunshine from spelling it: he
also gathers mud from rivers and canals,
and the excretions of animals along the
highways, for conversion into phos-
pilates,
When corn on the ear is fed to horses
they masticate it much more slowly thanif
the corn was shelled. As consequence
that on the ear is better digested. A
horse requires more time to eat corn on
the ear, than if fed eithermeal or shelled
corn. If horses cannot have time to
masticate full feed of shelled corn, then
it is best to feed something else.
d. e ! l. L u i c =.
tifc School, New Haven, says: "On
account of the value of straw and of the
stalks of our corn for feeding, it is found
that an acre of corn, wheat or other
grain, pays as large profit here as in
the West, and that the labor of each
man is as well or better paid"
A new use for rghum seed has been
discovered. Glucose can be prepared
from it as well as from corn, and it is
estimated that l, ,250 pounds can be made
from the seed grown on one acre. 1t is
thought that the discovery will, by the
added profits arising from the sale of the
glucose, make the culture of sorghum
for sugar profitable business.
The value of all manufactured fertil-
izers depends upon their solubility, and
these manures should all be appropria-
ted by the growing crops. To expect
any such fertilizing matter to remain
in the ground for another year is to
presume that the fertilizers are not prop
erly manufactured. Bone dust, however,
will remain in the soil several years.
The uncommonly large number of in-
sects, injurious to vegetation, which did
so much to destroy last seasons crops,
was not in consequence of an open
winter, but followed very severe season.
The Larvae of these insects were protect
ed by the snow. The present open
winter will cause the destruction OF
millions of these pests. They remain
near the surface this winter, where they
can be fed off by the birds.
The Cultivator and Country Gentleman
says: 'It is important to SOW barley as
early in spring as the ground can be re-
duced to q good mellow condition. On
such soils as will admit fall plowing
without their becoming complicated
again by the agency of rains and melt
ing SHOWS, some advantage is derived
from the operation, but it will be found
best more commonly to depend on thor.
ough undertaking on soils that have
not natural drainage, and early spring
plowing. The time at which the seed
may be sown will, of course, vary with
soils and latitudes."
In Europe the carrot is grrsvn to q
great extent for feeding to cattle in the
winter months. Roots of some kind are
fed the winter through to the cows. Ar
Iowa raiser of Jersey cows says he il
accustomed to feed carrots, of which he
usually raises 600 bushels per acre
Carrots increase the flow of milk anC
improve the appearance and quality o.
butter. Beets are preferable to carrots
for increasing the flow of milk; the
milk, however, which is produced from
beets, is not as good for butter. The
breeder mentioned above has found i
difficult to raise his calves on clear Jer
sey milk, and advises the feeding of tha
which has been skinned.