The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-18
FARM NOTES.

CLEAN chopped straw, old or new, Is
the best material for mulching straw
berries and other plants.
AN IRRITABLE COW is generally an in
ferior mixer. An animal with a placid,
Eliminating disposition yields the most
milk.
LAST year the average yield OF sugar
from beets in Germany was n per
cent. higher than the year before-the
effect of a warm season.
In NORWAY fish il used to Q consider
able extent as food for cattle, and in q
book on Iceland, published over
hundred years ago, the use OF fish for
feeding cow is mentioned.
STANDARD Peruvian guano contains
8 per cent. of nitrogen, 4.8 Of solu-
BILE phosphoric acid, 81 OF reverted
phosphoric acid, 81 of insOluble phos-
phoric acid and 81 of potash.
HENS sit 10 to "a. generally 81, days;
turkeys and p~eafowis, 26 to 20 days;
geese, % to SO days; ducks, % to 80
days; pigeons, 10 days from last egg;
canaries, Is days from steady sitting.
THE time occupied in digestion in cat
tie and sheep is comparatively long. 1t
has been found by numerous observa-
tons that, after a sudden alteration OF
the feeding, the remnants OF the former
fodder are still recognizable in the excre-
ments for as many as five days.
A New YORK farmer prefers apples to
roots for feeding stock. While the ap-
Piles may not be more nutritious, he
think they are medicinal in effect. He
thinks q horse would do better with o
peck of oats a day and apples than with
twelve quarts without apples. He pre-
fers sweet apples, as our fruit sometimes
makes the teeth sore.
The highest bred cows, il must be re-
membered, are not often the best mixers
and often the ugliest looking Cow in the
herd yields the most milk. Good mixers
invariably show very angular outlines,
for it cannot be expected the COW should
be yielding q large quantity of milk and
putting plenty of flesh upon her bones at
the same time.
If ONLY one crop of grass is to be OBJ
tanned, probably the best time for cut
ting is usually when the plants are just
beginning to blossom. At this time a
larger crop is obtained than if cut earlier,
while the .digestibility is not seriously
impaired. 1t is during the ripening of
the seed that the most extensive changes
in this respect occur. If o high, nutri-
tive value is desired rather than guam
tity, IF course q still earlier harvest
would be in place.
LAMBS do best upon good p~asturage.
If fed in the stall they must receive only
the best and tenderest hay. IF the lat
ter is even slightly too coarse or is I'M
palatable from airy cause, such as unfa-
vorable weather curing its making, the
animals will not eat a sufficient quantity
and will be MECH retarded in their de-
velopment. Even hay of average quail
ity requires the addition of grain, best
of oats, or of some other heterogeneous
feeding-stuff.
A PRACTICAL gardener gives the follow
ing brief statement of his mode of rails
ing green peas: For a succession he
formerly planted two weeks apart, but
the late paintings had small crops and
widowed pods. He now plants all at
one time, and as early as the season will
permit, using early and late varieties.
When planted deep the plants continue
longer in bearing and endure the drouth.
He plants early sorts six inches deep
du0. buO 1db0 OAOo hb4C u0CRCIs IOI
this depth it is, of course, necessary that
the soil be loose and porous.
A MEMBER of the Oneida Community,
writing on the Importance of mulching
fruit trees and plants of every kind, says
that he mulched a row of the Franconia
raspberry, and also one of the Philadel-
phia, side by side. The effect was very
marked. While the Franconias, which
were not mulched, were literally
scorched and the leaves crumpled in
the sun, the row which received the
mulching carried through nearly double
the crop Of fruit. The material used
for mulching was old, half-decayed buck
wheat straw, etc.
M. GoFFART says: eve must con-
clude that maize ensilage In the matter
of retaining water is o well-balanced
food, since it furnishes to animals, in
most suitable proportions, food and
drink. Each n of my ensilages may
be regarded as an immense cylinder, anG
its covering of plank, q gigantic piston
the heavy substances with which I load
the plank act as q motive power, causing
the piston to descend and compress the
ensilage, leaving between the planks ar
outlet for the air, which the impression
is intended to drive out.
THE Westphalian hams, the most Gel
ebrated in Europe, are principally curet
at and exported from Hamburg. TIL,
smoking of these is performed in exten
sive chambers, In the upper stories O
high buildings. Some are four or fiv
stories high, and the smoke is conveyed
to these rooms from fires in the cellar
through tubes, on which the vapor il
condensed and the heat absorbed, sc
that the smoke is both dry and cool wher
it comes in contact with the meat. Tht
hams are thus kept perfectly dry ant
acquire a color and flavor unknown *
those smoked in the common method.
THE soya-bean is a half-pea, half-bear
in appearance, with singular leaves ant
pods. 1t is a prominent article of foo
among the Chinese and Japanese, ant
within O few years has come into cult
walton in Europe, and whether grown il
China, France or Hungary, it maintain
the same fixed characteristics in it
chemical composition. 1t has beel
pronounced by agricultural chemists t.
be the richest of all human food. jane
]. 81. Gregory says it is hardy and pre-
ductive, and ripens as far north IS Ger
trail Massachusetts,. The plant yield
leaves and stems more abundantly thai
the COW peas of the South, and ma
prove superior to them in value for fod
der purposes.
The time at which hay Is made is @
the greatest Importance, as the youni
plant always contains a larger per cent
of albuminoids and less crude fibre tina
when they are at a more advanced stag
of growth. Oxen were fed at Mockeru
i, in Germany, with clover cut befor
Towering, May 20; then with Glove
cut after Towering, June Z and June q
they digested respectively II per cent
65 and SO per cent. of the albuminoids
and 81 per cent, Al and 40 per cent {
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