The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-12

Farm Notes.


of ali the live stock in Great Britain.
Prices by American breeders of pure
bred Polied Angus cattle are as high as
$3.50 for cows and 81, 800 for bulls.
Twelve tons of beets to the acre is a
frequent European average, from which
is extracted one and five-tenths tons of
sugar.
Farmers in the United States have
S12.Z10. 253, 1862 of capital invested in
their business. This ;5m includes farms,
implements, live stock. fertilizers, fences.
There are 12.009 h:ad of Jersey cat
tie on the Isle Of Jersey, and 5000 on
the Guernsey. The expectations from
both are nearly 5000 head per year
Colonel T. ID. Curtis. in the New
York Tribune, claims that cattle Win
tered in warm stables will consume only
half the feed they win require if they
are allowed to stand shiyering in the
yard.
A black walnut grove that was plant
ed by a Wisconsin farmer about twenty
years ago on some waste land. recently
sold for 81, 900. The trees are now
from sixteen TO twenty inches through.
When pigs are confined to a corn diet,
they are to suffer from disordered
stomach, which is relieved by charcoal.
An occasional handful of wood ashes
and sulphur will also be found benefi-
cial
In fumigating poultry houses with
sulphur much difficulty is experienced
in getting the sulphur to burn. The
trouble is the sulphur melts aud smoth-
ers the flame. By melting sulphur and
passing strips OF wick through it, burn
ing will afterward be an easy matter.
If Innnrfant the host
rams for breeding. The best are the
cheapest. A full-blood Cotswold may
not look any better than a three-quar-
tiers grade, but the difference will be
seen in the lambs, which are often bet
ter for fattening purposes than the full
bloods.
One of the most successful breeders
of fowls says that fowls need rowen hay
as substitute for green grass, and adds
that they will eat large quantities of it
every day in Winter when placed before
them. Another breeder writes in high
praise of the use of ensilage as Winter
feed for poultry.
Poultry breeders do not seem to APP
preciate the great value of bones for
their fowls, and but a limited few ever
make use of them for this purpose. No
matter whether the birds are confined
or not. they are sure to be benefited by
a moderate quantity of bones, though
those which are in close confinement
need them most.
Evergreens should never be pruned
in the Fall or Winter The cutting off
of the Summers growth during this
season exposes the inner parts of the
tree or hedge to the snow and cold
winds of Winter, to their serious injury.
Thousands of hedges are annually de-
stroyed by such unreasonable pruning.
Spring is the time for pruning ever
greens, especially when large limbs are
to be removed.
A writer in the CttItiUat0r and Conn
try Gentleman says of removing warts
on animals: Elm answer to various in
quiries let me say that | have for years
cured warts very easily on all animals,
no matter where located, by applying
butyr of anthony with a feather two or
three times, at intervals of two or three
days. If the warts are dry-scaled [
scrape them lightly first. It simply
dries the wart down TO hardness. when
it drops off without soreness or irrita-
ton"
The Hon Joseph Nimmo, Chief of
the United States Bureau of Statistics,
in statement of imports of the United
States, shows that in the month Of July
last i, 436. Ala dozen eggs were Imported;
and that in the seven months ending
July 81, s. 900, ATT dozen were brought
to this country, Their estimated value
was 81, 027, 7O5, all of which American
hens might have put into the pockets of
their owners, if the owners had attend
ed to business.
A California millionaire and practical
philanthropist has hired seventeen John
Smiths in that State to change their
names in consideration of $500 in cash
maid tn each