Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-02-10
For Farmers.

Oats grown on clay land make the
best meal, keep longest, and bring tho
highest price.
Australia has a larger acreage of
wheat than Great Britain, while our
acreage is twelve times as great.
Some dairymen estimate that butter
milk is worth one-quarter to one-half
more, and others twice as much as
skim milk.
Arkansas lands are now somewhat
in demanS-those located in the cotton
belt-by capitalists who intend engag-
ing in cotton culture.
In spite of drouth and chinch bugs,
Kansas, according to the latest rella-
bic estimates, will have this season
about 10000, GOO bushels of corn
When farmer neglects or refuses
cooperating with his brother farmers
he strikes blow at the advancement
of his class and becomes his own worst
enemy.
One dollars worth of food when the
COW is dry is worth $50 after she
comes in. An animal in poor condition
can not digest as much food as one in
good condition.
A black walnut grove that was plant
ed by Wisconsin farmer about twenty
years ago on some waste land, recently
sold for S27, 900. The trees are now
from 16 to 20 inches through.
If ewes suffer from an excess of milk
or Inflammation of the udder on &C
count of weakness or loss of the lambs,
the milk should be drawn either by
hand or by substituting an orphan
lamb.
France and Italy have hitherto pro-
duced sugar only from the beet root.
The sugar cane has lately been intro
duced in both countries, and its rapid
growth threatens the beet root in
dustry.
Merino ewes that have been bred to
Cotswold bucks will bring forth lambs
that will require copious nourishment.
| The Merino mother is small sheep.
Such cross needs the watchful eye of
the farmer.
Alsike clover is highly praised by
those who have grown it. The vines
often attain length of five or six feet.
Used as pasturage 1t makes a good
feeding plant Ten pounds is the usual
amount recommended for seeding an
acre.
The breeder who can bring to notice
a breed of fouls that will eat potato
bugs has fortune in his hands. They
are desirable want on all potato fields.
Bugs are usually plenty. Where is the
breed of fouls that will devour them
During the recent Arkansas State
Fair at Little Rock, Sam Morrow, col
ored, of Washington County, took the
| first premium on wheat. The wheat
WAS splendid white variety, and weigh
ed nearly sixty-eight pounds to the
| bushel.
One hears great deal nowadays
about the heterogeneous fertilizer, but
few know Of what they are composed.
The small per cent of nitrogen in fer
tilizers comes from dried blood, flesh,
fesh-scrap from tanneries, old leather
and fish refuse. The compound OF
nitrogen are ammonia, nitric acid, salt
peter, etc.
The various trades and occupations
| depend in a greater or less degree up
on the farmer for success in their diff
erent callings, and where will you find
the professional man, the merchant,
artisan or mechanic who can say he
does not measure his successes or fail
ure, in greater or less degree, by the
prosperity or adversely of the farming
community?
The brown Leghorns are looming up
as winter layers. 1t is claimed that
they are equal to the heavy-feathered
fowls in that respect. The considera-
ton, however, is that they must be
kept very comfortable and have pro-
portion of animal food. II exposed and
unprotected they are liable to roup,
and sick fowl is the most Improbable
thing farmer can have.
If Ohio, in place of her 300,0 dogs
was to keep at the same expense the
same number of pigs, the figures would
stand something like this: 100000 pigs
Kept one year would dress 60,000,000
pounds Of pork, worth 100000. This
would be an actual gain, whereas now
the loss on sheep killed by dogs foots
up into the millions
The value of potash for the grape has
been recognized by cultivators. A Curl
Gus proof IS reported to one of the
French journals. A variety of the
black musket has been found defective
in color where potash is deficient in the
soil, and the writer recommends that
one vine of this grape be placed in
every grape-house, to show by its full
or by its deficient color whether the
border for the root has sufficient sup
ply of potash.
When smoking hams something to
burn long time without looking after
is desirable Corn-cohs are an excel
lent fuel for smoke-houses, burning
slowly long time, and if, after the
heap is well under way in burning, they
are partly covered with ashes, the time
will be prolonged. Wood will burr
slower if similarly covered. Shavings
and sawdust, as is generally known
are also good, and if covered dowr
pretty well to keep the draft from pass
ing through the heap will last many
hours.
The farmer not only stands in need
of books of reference on stock matters
but also in regard to grain, trees anc
plants If farmers generally were vel
informed on these subjects the swindl
ing tree, plant and seed peddlers would
soon find their occupation gone, and
their victims the richer fer its depart
ure. No man who has become famil
lar with the elementry principles o
botany or horticulture would become
the victim of the sharpers who are al
this time travelling about the country
selling grated strawberries, blue roses
and other impossible or unknown
plants Tens of thousands Of dollars
have been taken out of the pockets O
farmers in our Northern States for the
the roots of the common garden rhu
barb.
Telegraphing from Moving Train
On Sept. %, through Messrs. Dewey
& Co., patent was issued to resident
of Santa Barbara for method of tele
graphing from moving railroad car.
Each freight or passenger train is tc
have its own telegraph Office. Two
wires are required instead OF one, anG
these are surrounded directly over the
track, and above the moving train
They are parallel and about eighteen
, inches apart. One wire is connected
with battery at the station from which
the train starts, and the other with S
, battery at the terminal station. They
are So suspended nv a someWhat in