Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1883-08-28
FARM NOTES.


cultural schools.
A 400-pound Connecticut hog was
lately killed by sunstroke.
The New York Tribune says that any
plant which crowds a better one is
weed of the worst sort.
A Yankee keeps woodchucks away
from his cabbage by chaining small
dog in the middle of the patch.
Mr.. Charles Goodnight has 100000
acres Of land, located at the head of
Red river, in Texas. He has herd of
10000 cattle.
A correspondent of the Western
Farmer recommends the putting up of
neat little houses for bluebirds, which
he has found most useful insect-destroy-
ers.
The harvest in New Zealand has been
plentiful. Eight acres of wheat near
Auckland averaged 1925 bushels per
acre, eighty-seven and one-half bushels
of which were first-class.
1t costs $3.50 to import Jersey COW.
This includes handling on the island
after purchase, transporting across the
Atlantic and care during the three
months detention in quarantine.
The Rural New Yorker advises the
planting of plum trees in poultry yards,
rs the only way, except jarring the
trees, by which we can have sound
plums where the curculio abounds.
The vast Importance of the dairy in
terests in this country is shown in the
fact that its annual products now ex-
ceed in money value the annual wheat
crop, or of the cotton and wool crops
combined.
In Russia the finer varieties of plums
are raised by planting the trees at an
angle OF 40 degrees or lower, and bend
ing them down before snow falls in
winter, which then covers and protects
them completely.
There are ninety-three farmers in the
New Hampshire legislature. One bill
introduced favors an increase of tax on
dogs from 50 to So, another proposes a
scalp bounty of 20 cents per head on
woodchucks and 80 cents on foxes.
There never has been year iii which
bees have been so prolific as this. From
all sections of the country bee.raisers
report that they have had hard work 20
keep hives enough ahead to accommo-
date the new colonies that wanted to
set up housekeeping for themselves.
A correspondent of the Rural New
Yorker says neighbor of his had his
orchard defoliated by the canker-worm.
1t bore no fruit that year, which was
the bearing year, but the following
season it produced large crop, and
the bearing year was permanently
changed.
The American Cultivator very truly
says: "A farmer has no more right to
grow crop of weeds upon his own
land to furnish seed to trouble his
neighbors than he has to build fires
upon lis own land where they will
oblige the neighbor to fight the fire in
order to protect his own property from
the flames"
The comparative exemption of way
side fruit trees from depredations of in
sects and blight, and consequent pro-
ductiveness, is referred to by the Ger
mantown Telegraph, and the sugges-
ton made that this effect may be large
ly due to road dust, as the crop is usu-
ally in proportion to the quantity that
settles on the leaves.
AS early as the time of Alexander III.
of Scotland, man who let " weeds 90 to
seed on farm was declared to be the
Kings enemy. In Denmark farmers
are compelled to destroy all weeds on
their premises. In France man can
prosecute his neighbor for damages
who permits weeds to go to seed which
may endanger neigboring lands.
If you wish to propagate a hardy