The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-04-27
Farm Notes.


An Indiana inventor has patented
DEMONSTRATING machine,
Sorghum seed Is readily eaten by
poultry, and is better for small chick
ems than corn,
The brown or rusty orange is sweeter
and can be kept longer than the bright
fruit.
A Flood county Qowa) farmer made
1000 pounds Of syrup from cane raised
on one-third Of an acre Of ground
Examine the farm implements now.
Where grease has became hardened
with dust IL may be removed with kero-
sene.
Each year II, 900, 900 heads Of cabbage
find sale in the Philadelphia markets,
and 5,000,00 are converted into sour
krout.
Hedges are ornamental and useful
but if they are left 10 take care Of them
selves, they serve Us harbors for weeds,
obnoxious grasses and insects
II sulphur is well busted around the
sheds and hog pens il will efiectually
drive off lice, Dust it on the hogs also,
and leave little in the troughs for them
TO eat.
No dairy products are made in Brazil,
and butter sells high. Americans have
shipped butter to Brazil, but it does not
command as high price as that from
Denmark or France.
II has been ascertained that where
eggs are sold by the pound that they
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The average weight Of dozen eggs is
twenty-three and half ounces.
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 bo pastur-
ed the first season.
One Of the latest theories advanced is
that apples are more nutritious than
potatoes and in Cornwall, Eng. works
men say they can work better on the
fruit than Oh the vegetable.
Professor Atwater states that the best
ration for COW in full flow Of milk is
100 parts of corn meal (by weight) 50
parts bran. and 65 parts decortcated
| (huskless) cotton-seed meal.
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sive sweating in horses This isusually
caused by feeding too much corn, and
hence the best remedyis to diminish the
quantity Of corn and vary the feed as
much az possible, Some horses, howev-
er, are constitutionally subject to sweats.
A roam jersey short-horn (cross-
breed) now belongiDg*6 General How
ard OF Buffalo, N Y. is reported to
have given 1887 pounds Of milk in one
month, and to have yielded Zl3 pounds
of butter in seven days. Her feed was
grass and four quarts of ground corn
and oats daily. This is extraordinary,
| If true.
A celebrated French breeder, who for
many years held first rank Ia the art Of
iattening sheep, when urged 10 diyulge
bis secret, replied My secret? have
none; it is only question Of fare. In
duce animals to eat abundantly Of "a
large, choice variety of well-prepared
food that is all there is to it. ="
II you begin pruning fruit and orna-
mental trees and shrub6ery when young,
aud followed it up each year, you can
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your trees need spreading out cut the
young shoots off just above q bud on
The outside Of shoot; and if you want
70 train upward, leave bud on the up
per side Of the limb where you cut it of.
The London Lire Stock J0urRQl gives
Two methods Of starting balky horse:
First, tire your steed out by remaining
perfectly quiet until he starts Of his own
accord; second. whcn'a horse refuses TO
1raw at all, put him in cart in shed
and keep him there until he walks out
In one instance the obstinate one was
;hirty-six hours in the shafts before he
gave in
IL is not best TO breed from turkeys
.he first year. Persons commencing
With pair Of young birds cannot well
avoid this; but if you are going 70 make
purchase do not take birds less than 2
ears old, Some breeds attain maturi-
| y AT 2 years, but bronze turkeys not UNI
il they are years old. II possible, Sc
ect those for breeders that are not only
years of age, but that have been bred
rom weIl-matured birds.
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