, 1883-05-10
FARM AND HOME.
Farm RaktnDss

green and dry, in the South Of Spain for
horses feed.
OATS FOR PROFIT. subscriber asks
how he can make oats paying crop?
BY giving thorough cultivation and ap-
plying plenty Of manure. Also give at-
tention to the proper rotation, and do not
raise oats on the same spot year after
year.
SWEET PoTAro EAY.-A Southern
writer says: "Sweet-potato vines make
rather inferior hay, which stock will
cat when nothing better is to be had.
Gather the vines just before the time for
frost and throw them up into small
cocks or stacks for few days to sweat.
This toughens the leaves and prevents
crumbling off in handling. After this
dry the vines and store them away under
shelter for use." I
QTrnE-Quitter is caused by prick
ing with q nail, or by the horse resting
with the toe of one foot and bearing with
the heel of the shoe of that foot especial
ly should the shoe be calked upon the
coronet Of the opposite one. Hence
unshod horses can with difficulty get
quitter. Neither do they. An urshod
horse "feels his feet" and knows what
he is doing with them, so he scarcely
knows what it is to over-reach himself,
and even if he does such thing no evil
consequences are ever noticed, because
the horn cannot inflict injury Like iron.-
Horses and Roads.
MLLET.-Common mIlet, says the
Prairie Farmer, grows to the height OF
three or four feet, and bears loose pan
icle of seeds hanging on one side. Ger
man millet has numerous succulent
leaves, is larger and considered moro
nutritious than common millet. The
leaves remain green until the seed ma
lures. Pearl millet is known under va
rious names, as Egyptian millet, etc. 1t
was sent ont by the Agricultural Depart.
ment at W. hington in 1879 as O new
variety, but proved to be q variety that
had been previously cultivated in the
extreme Southern States. The testimo-
ny of farmers and planters is that it is
Of little value unless cut as a green for
age. 1t grows rapidly and is eaten with
relish by stock, but if allowed to attain
full growth or produce seed it becomes
useless for hay. 1t is more exhaustive
to the soil than either common millet
or German m!let. The yield per acre
varies largely with different soils and
other conditions. Common millet r2ay
be sown at any time before the 25th Of
June in this latitude. Ii sown early it
usually is mature in August. Eight
quarts per acre Of seed is sown if intend
ed chiefly for cattle feed. Hungarian is
lie most productive, and is much more
generally cultivated than the common
nlillet. The quantity of seed recon-
mcnded for pear miliet per acre varies
largely in different localities. 1t should
be drilled in.
BEE CULTURE any one should
ind fertile worker in a colony, says
writer in the Bee Journal, let Inn try
the following experiment: Shake the
bees from ail but one or two combs dur
ing the day, and at nignt, when the
bees are qulet, remove tue hive to new
stand ard put q new hive with tho
combs taken from the old colo y on
the old stand. In the morning the bees
will commence to 60 lack 10 the old
stand, and, afrer sufficient number Of
them have returned, give them queen
cell and brood III all stages. The bees
in colony having a fertile worker are,
of course, nearly all Old bees, and SO
will nearly all return to the old stand.
The fertile worker and few bees will
gomaiu, which can be destroyed or
united with the colony after the queen
Is established. This manner of treat.
meut reminds me Of very sure way to
Introduce queens. Remove the hive to
TO new stand and place hive contain
ing frame OF two Of brood on the Odd
stand. After all tho old bees have re-
turned to the old stand, introduce the
queen to the yong bees left IN the
hive. and after she has comn-nced to
lay take the hive of the old stand and
return the old hive containing the queen.
The old bees will return gradually, but
80 few returning at time, and they
finding the queen so quiet on the combs,
do not offer to touch her. This is the
way introduce imported queens end