The Osceola times., 1882-06-17
AGRICULTURAL.
Interesting Hints and Suggestions for TIL
lers of the Soil.


Sorghum seed is readily eaten by poul-
try and is better for small chickens than
corn.
and can be kept longer than the bright
fruit.
A Flood County, Iowa, farmer made
600 pounds of syrup from cane raised
on one-third of an acre of ground.
Examine the farm implements. Where
grease has become hardened with dust
it may be removed with kerosene.
1t is now claimed that potash, in the
shape of ashes, or the potash salts is ex-
celent for grape vines if the fruit is de-
fective in color.
Plump and very salable chickens can
be procured by crossing a Bantam roos
ter on ordinary common hens. They
are not large, but ofgood quality.
Hedges are ornamental and useful, but
if they are lett to take care eofthemselyes
they serve as harbors for weeds, obnoxi.
GUS grasses and insects.
If sulphuris well busted around the
sheds and hogs pens it will etfectually
drive off lice. Dust it on the hogs also
and leave little in the throughs for them
to eat.
No dairy products are made in Brazil
and butter sells high. Americans
have shipped butter to Brazil, but il
does not command as high a price as
that from Denmark or France.
1t has been ascertained that where
eggs are sold by the pound that they
vary in weight from one to four ounces.
The average weight of dozen eggs is
three and half ounces.
The Holstens are rapidly pushing
the Ayrshire aside, being harder and
better adapted for the butcher when
their milking qualities are no longer de-
sired.
Harseradish is a profitable crop to
grow, as it finds sale at from to q cents
per pound unprepsred. 1t is bought
readily by manufacturers of the prepared
article.
Blue grass is somewhat delicate when
very young, but after it gets good hold
it usurps the soil, cleaning out all other
grasses. 1t should not he pastnred the
first season.
One of the latest theories advanced is
that apples are more nutricious than
potatoes, and in Cornwall, Eng, work.
men say they can work better on the
fruit than on the vegetable.
Prof. Atwater states that the best ra-
ton for a COW in full flow OF milk is 100
parts of corn meal tby weight, so parts
bran, and 6j parts decortcated (husk.
less Gotten seed meal.
A reader requests remedy for excess
sive sweating in horses. This is usually
caused by feeding too much corn, and
hence the hest remedy is to diminish
the quantity of corn and vary the feed
as much as possible. Some horses, how.
ever, are constitutionally subject to
sweats.
A roam Jersey short horn (cross.breed)
cow belonging TO Gen. Howard, of Buff
falo, n. Y, is reported to have given
,7S7 pounds of milk in one month, and
to have yielded 81 "a pounds Of butter
in seven days. Her feed was grass and
four quarts of ground corn and oats
daily. This is extraordinary, il true.
If you begin pruning fruit and orna-
mental trees and shrubbery while young,
and follow it up each year, you can form
just such top as you want If your
tree needs spreading out, cut the young
shoots off just above 60 bud on the out
side of shoot and if you want to train
upward, leave bud on the uper side
of the limb where you cut it off,"
The London Live Stock Journal gives
two methods of starting balky horse
81. Tire your steed out by remaining
perfectly quiet until he starts of his own
accord. .. When horse refuses to
draw at all, put him in cart in shed
and keep him there until he walks out.
In one instance the obstinate one was
thirty-six hours in the shafts before he
gave in."
1t is not best to breed from turkeys
the first year. Persons commencing
wits pair Of young birds can not well
avoid this, but If you are going to make
a purchase do not take birds less than 9
years old. Some breeds attain maturity
at 2 years. but bronze turkeys not until
they are years old. If possible select
those for breeders that are not only .
years Of age, but that have been bred
from well matured birds.
Farmers are often at loss how to
clean an old pork barrel, making it fresh
and sweet. We have seen the following
plan recommended 1t is simply to fill
the tainted cask or barrel with fresh
earth, let it stand a couple of days, when
this should be emptied and more earth
put in. After two or three days empty
this out, and to make assurance doubly
sure, invert the barrel and burn under it
some bits of cloth saturated with solu.
tons of sulphur or birthstone.
The Delaware Beet Factory has sus-
pended the manufacture of sugar from
beets. claiming that the quality of beets
required can not be grown in that State.
The manufacture Of sugar from beets,
however, is on the increase. One-half
of the sugar product of the world is
now made from them. The pulp is
great source of revenue TO manufacturers
in Europe. No factory there could
exist for day if the valuable pulp was
thrown away, as was done in this coun-
try at Portland and Franklin. When
properly freed from moisture il is worth
more for feed than raw bees. Ia Cana
da it readily sells at from II to 70, &C.
cording to condition, per ton. We still
lack knowledge regarding the success
full manufacture o! sugar from beets.
Some writer has recommended that
salt and tar be mixed and put in the
bottsm of the salt trough for sheep.
We are satisfied that this would be an
excellent plan. The tar by itself hsrdens
after awhile, and has to be renewed.
The fly that troubles sheep in the spring
and summer seems TO have great anti
pathy to tar. sheep can be made to
tar their own noses, and thus protect
themselves against the fly. And doubt-
less the inhaling of the fumes Of tar
while eating salt benefits the Sleeps
head and lungs, and conduces to her
general health.
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