The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-05-26
FARM NOTES.


each.
The first shipment of wheat from Chi
ago was made in 1889, and consisted of
seventy-eight bushels, which was carried
via lake to Buffalo, n. Y.
THE Maryland farmers have so little
faith in their agricultural college that
they are calling upon the Legislature to
refuse an appropriation to the institution.
THE London Agricultural Gazette
states as within its experience that bull
calf. taken from a pedigree Shorthorn
cowr has weighed above 100 pounds
when removed from the dam.
ONE who has been successful under
the system of ensilage plants his corn IN
hedges about thirty-two inches apart,
and about six inches wide, planting forty
or fifty kernels to the running foot, and
secures thereby wonderful growth.
THE Canada thistle perpetuates itself
chiefly by means of root stalks, which
are full of dormant buds, and hence any
piece an inch long will send up q stalk.
single plant in an ordinarily cultivated
field viii soon spread all over it by
means of the roots.
In STATE of rest animals should be
allowed as much water as they will take,
but where they are likely to be called
upon TO perform severe exertion, smaller
quantities are advisable, and In which
case the allowance should be repeated at
short intervals.
THE annual product of wheat in the
world is about ], $50, 600, 900 bushels
OF this the United States already pro
duces 450, 900, 600 bushels, one-third of
which we send over the sea. Ten years
! from now we shall produce much larger
portion of the whole, and shall send a
much larger fraction of its abroad.
/ TENDENCY to disease is hereditary in
pigs, therefore it is well to know the
/ pedigree and past history of your bears.
/ Ninety per cent. of the stock of a large
/ Yorkshire boar were more or less affected
with lung disease. On inquiry, it turned
/ out that the sire of the boar had died Of
Inflammation of the lungs.
/ WASHINGTON COUNTY, Pa, is said to
/ be the largest wool-growing county In
! the Union, and produces annually 2, 500, :
/ 600 to 5000, 900 pounds of wool, worth
in cash 81, 600, 900 for the wool alone,
Z besides the sale of fine sheep fer breed
/ ing purposes, and mutton sheep and
/ lambs for the meat market of the East.
I THE more exertion an animal under
( goes the greater Is the wear and tear of
/ the system. Exercise increases the re-
SEPARATION or breathing, more oxygen Is
1 is consequently taken into the system,
( and the tissues of the body are burned
up in proportion. Unless this extra
waste is met by an additional supply of
1 food emaciation and illness follow.
/ THE wild boar differs from the tame
] hog in putting his hind feet into the
marks of the fore feet The cloven feet
1 of the tame hog divide as he walks the
] Wild boar, when he Is walking without
suspecting danger, keeps his claws close
/ together The wild hog buries his snout
J deep, roofing the earth up in a straight
; line before him; the tame hog turns 1t
mp right and left, here and there. The
/ wild boar grows for four or five years
/ and lives for twenty or thirty.
An ANALYSIS of a sample Of apple
/ pomace from press of more than ordi-
/ cary power, and hence unusually dry,
was made at The Connecticut Agricul-
tural Experiment Station, with result
showing the pomace to carry food ele-
mepts superior to corn fodder and to
/ turnips, mangels, and all of our root
/ crops except the potato, and showing
( but little inferiority to the last named
/ tuber. The new system of ensilRge
I should render the preservation of apple
I pomace a matter of ease and certainty
IL SPEAKING of his experience with
feeding ensilage to dairy stock, J. w
'Ealcott, of Readville, Mass. states
LAS to the quality of the cream 1 can
say that by feeding fifty pounds of en-
silaae maize, and one quart of cotton
seed meal, the increase over the amount
when feeding English hay and six
quarts of corn meal, averaged twenty
five per cent. In milk, and ten per cent.
IN butter from the milk, which is total
sain in butter of thirty -seven and q half
per cent. The butter brings the highest
market price in Boston.
Hoes are gifted with an exquisite sense
of smell as viii as touch residing in the
suout, and this enables them to discover
roots, acorns, earth-nurs, or other delica-
cies suitable to their palates, which may
be buried IN the ground. In some parts
of Italy swine are employed in hunting
or truffies that grow some inches below
;he surface of the soil, and which form
hose pickles and sauces so highly es-
;eemed by epicures. A pig is driven
nto a field, and there suffered to pursue
ais own course. Wherever he stops and
begins to root with his nose, truffles viii
Invariably be found.
FARMYARD manure well decomposed is
specially suitable for grass lands, be-
cause il is slow and continuous in its
action, and is invariably found TO main
tain or restore a good variety OF grasses,
clovers and other bottom heritage. The
best success commonly follows the APP
plication Of such manure in the fail
The sole application of salt or nitrate of
soda has a natural tendency to encour-
age the growth of luxuriant grasses to
the destruction of clovers and the finer
kind Of grasses. This is a general tend
ency of ammoniacal salt, while super
phosphate of lime, on the contrary, en-
courages the growth of cloyers and
ieguminous plants generally.
A. l.. MURDOCH, writing from London,
states that mutton retails much higher
in England than in this country. Thus
at High street, Noting Hill, meat es-
Enlistment legs and loins of mutton
were selling at % cents per pound, sad
dies at % cents. launches at %, shout
ders at 20, whole necks at IS, breasts at
IA and trimmed chops at % cents per
pound. With beef at the same market
it was noticeable that there was less
range of prices between the best and
poorest cuts than prevail IN American
CITY markets. Sirloin cuts are not SO
high in England as here, but shlns,
briskets and cheap pieces rule much
higher. In London sirloin roasts retail
at % cents per pound, rib roasts at y
cents, side pieces at 20 to 81 cents, aiteh
bones 10 cents, brisket IA, beef steaks
"a, rump steaks 80 and shins at is cents
per pound. Veal outlets were selling at
80 cents per pound.
w. 8. WARD, Fullers's Station, n. Y,
in the American Bee Jaur1ldt, gives
the following statement of his profits
with bees for one year: For several
years L have run farm and apiary to-
gether. Last year 1 had my farm worked
on the shares, and gave my time and
attention to the bees, with the following
result Commenced the season of 1881
with seventy-two colonies increased by
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