The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-03-08
FARM NOTES.


THE feeces OF any sheep are badly
injured around stacks. Long-wooled
feeces are more damaged than the
downs Of fine wools, since they are
longer and more open, and casch more
boards, chaff and straw.
An Eastern paper says lambs can he
made to shear from two to four pounds
more wool by little extra care and
feed during the winter. The extra
wool will more than pay for the extra
feeding. and the result will be a much
larger and stronger sheep. For this
purpose feed good clover hay, with
bran. oats and corn mixed equally.
HENRY STEWART, in the Rurd, Nen
YORKER, says that no dairyman or
farmer can afford to give more than
$500 for heifer promising 20 pounds
of butter week when mature, rs all
that might be paid in excess Of that
sum il what might be called q "fancy"
price. and the "bric-a-brac" value Of
the animal, paid merely for the pleas
,lre IF owning it. No limit can be
placed on this value, as it depends
wholly on the fancy and pocket of the
ultimate owner and the speculative
recklessness Of the intermediate dealer.
WORTH OF INcUBAToRs. - Fanny
Field finds that many farmers and
poultry raisers are afraid to purchase
incnbators for fear that they will not
work satisfactorily, or that inexpe-
rienced hands cannot run them. / do
not blame them for this feeling. / lost
good bit of money on incubators be-
fore found one that filled the bill, but
at the same time I can assure them that
there are incubators that will do all the
makers claim for them, and that any
one who can follow printed directions
can run them.
G. H. MCKINNEY, of Stanford, Ky.,
gives to the Louisville Coarier-JOur-
nal the following recipe for DESTROYING
lice on cattle and horses: "Boil Irish
potatoes in such quantities MS required,
peck if need be, until they are thor
oughly cooked. Then take out the po-
tatoes and boil the water short while
to increase its strength. Then wash the
animals. whether cattle or horses, with
this ooZe or tea. 1t will effectually de-
stroy the lice. If one application fails.
keep on trying, as the remedy is cheap
and perfectly harmless otherwise.
Ar times horses are habitually over
fed, and their systems become so disor-
dered by it that their health suffers, and,
the power of digestion failing, they lose
flesh instead of gaining it, and will re-
cover condition only by diminishing
from one-fourtl to one-half the quanti-
ty of their allowance. Frequently old
horses become thin on account Of their
teeth wearing unevenly. SO that it is not
in their power to masticate their food.
/ In such eases farrier should be EN-.
! ploved to file them: or the owner, if he
| possesses the particular kind Of file
used, can file them himself. In this
case much less food will soon restore
the horse to u proper condition. Rock
salt should, of course, be ever present
IN the manger. as horse was never
known to take too much of it.-Ger.
mantorn Telegraph.
ELI ELLIOTT gives this advice Il
stock-raisers in the Diary and Farm
Journal: First, get good stock o.
some Of the best beef breeds; then send
them along in calfhood, and be sure
you never let them lose their calf-fat
but push them on good feed, as we'll as
good grass, at the same time: never
let them know what hunger is, but
make them weigh from !, 800 to l,6OO al
2 years old. In such case you may
have fed them on good ground feed
such rs oats, corn, bran. shorts and oil
al &
you will have fine profit, as the time
has never yet been that it did not pay
to feed good animal all it would eat
of the best and most nutritious feed tt
be had. regardless of the cost of it-pro
vided it had always been so kept, anl
was put in market at not more than 2,
years old.
JosEpn HARRIS, author Of walk.
and Talks on the Farm etc, asks ant
answers some important questions il
farming in the -imerican -igricnltur
ist Nenow have far better tools fo
cultivating lands than formerly. II
fact. our tools are better than our agri
culture. And we may rest assured tha
SO soon rs We adopt improved method
of farming and gardening, our inventor
and manufacturers will furnish all tn
tools. implements and machines neces
sary to do the work. But will it pay I,
adopt high farming? That depends ol
what we mean by high farming. Higl
farming. ii We contine ourselves to til
production Of hay, Indian corn, wheat
oats. and ordinary farm crops, vii
not pay in this country. And Sir Johl
l 4
gave lecture before farmers club i
Scotland, in which he demonstrated tina
high farming was no remedy for the lo'
prices of agricultural products of Grea
: Britain and Ireland. / think, however
he would admit that thorough cult
vation and heavy mannring could b
pretitablv used for the production (
what We usually term garden products
The advocates of high farming max
Il mistake. Neither Old England no
New England will ever raise all til
wheat required by its population
Even the great State of New York.
! hope, will not long continue to rails
On its soil all the wheat it annually COZ
sumes. Commerce is the feature of til
) age. and wheat is carried ten thousan
miles to market. Cheap bread Is whs
/. the world wants. and what the worl
! wants the world will get. Cheap whea
! can never be- furnished hv high farm
' ing. 1t must and will be grown largel
Q on land manured only by natur
n There may be places in which whe
can be profitably grown, where many
9 the constituents Of the plant must
i applied to the soil, just as there n
places where we can protitably III
chemical processes for the productit
OF ice. As rule, however. nature III
" commerce will furnish ice cheaper tbs
!, even modern science can manufactnl
! it. We shall have two kinds of farm
= ing. One will consist largely in tt
: !. production Of wheat, corn, oats, barle
= cotton, sugar and rice. The othe
: while it will not entirely neglect the
: great products, will aim to produ,
> crops which cannot be kept from We,
u IN yaar nc ordinarily ha transnnrf.