The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-06-16
THE FARM.

for grape vinesif the fruit is defective In
color.
PLUMP and very salable chickens can
be procured by crossing bantam rooster
on ordinary hens. They are not large,
but of good quality.
HEDGES are ornamental and useful. but
if they are left to take care of them
selves they serve as harbors for weeds,
obnoxious grasses and insects.
ONE early and one late variety of Gu
cumber and squash can be raised with
advantage without much danger of mix
ing, as the time Of blossoming is differ
ent.
Ii sulphur is well busted around the
sheds and hog pens it viii efectually
drive off lice. Dust it on the hogs also,
and leave little in the troughs for them
to eat.
IT is very difficult to raise several va
rletles of melons, pumpkins, squash and
cucumbers on the same farm without
having them mix so that the seed will
produce fruit of mongrel character.
AN Improvement in the stock-yards
is greatly needed in this country. AS at
present constructed they cause the
waste of food and manure, and are a
source of discomfort to the animals con-
fined in them.
AN old poultry raiser, who believes in
milk for fowls, says: at is meat and
drink both. Some Of the finest chickens
| ever saw were reared upon the free use
Of. milk with their food Hens lay as
well, or better, when furnished with this
than any known article offered them"
A CORRESPONDENT of the Pacific Ru-
raj Press, at San Diego, says that he
has not found the catalpa (speciosa) to
thrive well on the red upland soil, but
in moderately moist, sandy bottom
land specimens made growth of seven
feet two inches last year.
A READER requests remedy for ex.:
cessive sweating in horses. This is usu-
ally caused by feeding too much corn,
| and hence the best remedy is to dimin-
ish the quantity of corn and vary the
feed as much as possible Some horses,
however, are constitutionally subject to
sweats.
| SUCCESSFUL poultry -raisers are those
who always have pure water and grass
runs for their fowls. Chickens should
never be permitted access to the horse
stable, and it is bad policy to allow them
to make themselves at home in the hay
NOW. Their coops should be entirely
separate from the stable.
CAPT. J. B. MOORE, Concord. Mass,
is authority for the statement that a
gentleman in Salem, s'with plenty of
manure and water" raises the aspara-
gus, peas, corn and other vegetables
needed in a family of seven, also the
summer keep of two cows, and hay and
mangel wurzels enough to winter them
all on one acre of land.
Coon crops of strawberries can be
grown on the same land for several years
in succession, if well MANFRED and cult
waited, but experienced cultivators say
that less labor is required and better re.
suits are obtained by preparing fresh
piece of land, setting new plants, and
cultivating them the entire summer,
than by producing them from an old
bed.
POULTRY repay any corn given them.
Layers must have material to make eggs
out of-some meat or meat scraps are
needed until they can find plenty of in.
sects; sitting hens need clean nests. A
spring withdrawing of the whole In.
terror of the poultry house and the
roosts and nest-boxes is of great advant.
age. Supply the softest hay or straw in
nests, and if infested by vermin cleanse
| with kerosene or crude petroleum.
| THE cultivation of mangels is pre-
cisely the same as the cultivation Of
heets. Any one who can grow beets in the
garden can grow mangels in. the field.
Make the land rich and SOW early in the
spring in rows about thirty inches apart.
Ii the weather is dry, roll the land after
drilling in the seed, and the work is
done. Afterward all there is to be done
is to thin out the plants to ten or fifteen
inches apart and keep clean by running
| the horseshoe frequently.
| Coon tools and plenty of them are alb
solutely demanded by rigid farm econ.
omy. Poor tools gdon't pay. IF you
have any such, good time to tinker
them up is before the rush OF spring
|
ought to be in every farmers workshop,
a good deal of this repairing can be
done at home. Later in the season we
don't have time to do it ourselves, but
lave to pay the village mechanic dol
ars that forethought would saye.-
NeaO England Homestead.
| CROOKED or broken breast bones In
chickens are caused by perches being
placed too high from the ground when
the roosting- place is of small size. Oh
| iections are made to letting chickens
roost early, but little harm will come Of
| it if the perches are at proper height.
It is the perpendicular, sudden fight te
the ground in a confined space which
Injuries and breaks or bends the tender
breast bone. In limited space, and with
chickens brought up IN confinement
shelves sanded and then Uttered with
chopped straw, are guards against this
evil.
IT is better to raise one kind of field
corn than several. IF different kinds
are planted on the same farm they will
mix, and the crop will not bring as high
a price as could be obtained for corn Of
any one variety. Indeed, it is better to
have all the corn planted in one neigh
borhood of the same variety, as it will
be likely to be stored in the same ele-
vator and shipped in the same cars.
Fences between farms will not prevent
the pollen of corn from passing from
one farm to another. If corn is to be
saved for seed, it is essential that it be
pure.
/ j. J. FL. GREGORY, in Fruit Recorder:
81 have raised many acres of the large
drumhead varieties on land that had
been in tillage and well MANFRED forsey-
eral years, by stirring well into the place
for each hill round handful of good
phosphate, to be followed by half o
handful of unleached ashes at the first
hoeing, the ashes to be scattered around
the plant before hoeing, Plant the seesf
by all means where the cabbage are to
grow, and don't have the trouble AMI
and risk of transplanting. just as soon
as they begin to break ground land
watch sharply for this-sprinkle with
fine plaster, and this will protect them
from the black fly"
On the Stumn.