The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-10-04
Farm and Gar,len NOtea

A ranchman says it costs about 81 per
mead to raise marketable steer in the
Indian Territory.
Nature works the best when she feels
her co-~orker putting forth his best en-.
deavors.
A gardener in Baltimore who has a
number of large hothruses for growing
early cucumberS keeps hive of bees in
each house tor the purpose OF distribu.
ting the pollen.
The Farm, Field and Preside states
that when ,urnips. potatoes and other
vegetables are chopped finely and fed to
fowls they will sometimes be refused;
but the difficulty can be obviated by
sprinkIing the vegetables with corn
meal.
The Michigan Farmer figures that the
cost Of importing Jersey COW including
transportation across the Atlantic, and
care during three months detention in
quarantine, is $3.50.
A waiter in the New York World says
that he had a variety of sweet corn with
tall stalks and ears set high. By select
ing only the lowest ears formed on the
stalks, regardless Of their size or general
appearance, he has produced corn in
every wa. equal to the original, but
with the ears set comparatively low on
the stalks. The fodder part of the plant
has also been ma erially reduced in size
An experiment was tried some years
ago in England as to the relative value
Of horses and oxen for agricultural labor.
The oxen ate $50 pounds of turnips a
day, each. Each horse ate sixteen
pounds Of cats daily; both having oat-
straw al lib. The conclusion arrived at
was that there, or farms, horses should
be employed exclusively.
The Davenport, Ia, Northwestern
says that there are eight bundled
creameries in Iowa, and that Iowa but
ter is eaten in nearly every civilized
country on the globe. The highest.
priced farms are found in those parts OF
the country where creaneries most
abound and milk farming is one of the
Chief pursuits.
"A writer says: Sheep often 60 a
long time without drinking, especially
if in pretty good pasture, and the
dcws are 50 heavy that they can till p
with wet grass in the morning; but when
they do want to drink water 1t is neces'
sary to their health and co ufort as t.
that OF other amin .ls. Therefore keep
q supply of pure water in the sheep
pastures as much as in any other, and II
tho sheep do not drink from it give
them little salt once week. They
should have ealt rs often as once week
under any circumstances.
The Husbandman makes SUPPOSE
ton which is worthy Of consideration
as follows: "Suppose a farmer who
keeps half dozen or more cows, and
has not been in the habit Of raising
roots, were to sell one oil his COWS and
uss the entire proceeds for raising Deets
for the remainder? II he conld thus
sell just as much milk or butter "a he
otherwise would from the whole mum
Der, he would certainly save the cost o
fodder and the labor Of milking arlt
caring for the COW sold. These item
would provide in advance for the mex
crop of roots, and SO on indefinitely"
A Canadian writer makes the some
what alarming statement that at tn
present rate of consumption the supply
of pine and spruce in the United State
will b. exhausted in less than sever
years. He says that the amount of pine
alone cut in this country annually Is tel
billion feet, and that the entire supply
uncut is pot more than eighty billion
feet. q, Is /. =
Mr.. samuel Miller; Button. NO., tell
the Germaptown Telegraph that if fresl
fodder corn il stacked with straw-whea
or oat-.ins alternate layers Of foot o
the latter to three inches Of the former
there 10 no danger of spelling, as tn
Juice Of the corn are absorbed by tn
straw. and the latter ID rendered &C
pa'atable that cattle eat it all greedily
without waste.