Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-20
FARM NOTES.

Weed cut your stock and get rid Of
the poor mich and butter COWS. Ths
profit in n dairy comes wholly from
the good COWS, while the poor onos
not only 90 not pay for their keep,
but they reduce the profit made by
the others.
A good butter COW ought not to eat
less than from six to eight quarts of
meal per day, but not clear corn meal.
Bran is not worth much to make but
ter, but mixed with corn meal gives
health and thrift. Il Western Rural.
One of the largest silos in Europe is
said to be in France, on the property
# NJ. Vloompte Arthur de Cheselies,
in the department CT the Oise. In
this is deposited the produce Of no
acres. The silo Is described as an
oblong shed, rooted with tiles 70 yards
In length, 81 yards wide and ~ yards
high, forming an admirable Dutch
barn, under which a great portion of
the cereal produce of the farm Is
stored at time of harvest. The floor,
instead of being level withthe ground,
Is sunk about IL feet, and Is paved
and drained. In this great pit is
stored the ensilage.
Oatmeal is said to be excellent for
calves, and some are successful In
feeding wheat shorts, but both are
usually too coarse to be drank with
safety with milk. They should be fed
dry; then there will be little danger
from ov~ereating, which is not the case
If given In the milk. We are aware
that the results of q single expert.
ment, and even of number of exper-
iments, must be taken with caution in
forming conclusions, but We certainly
feel that we can speak very favorably
of rye meal, both rs q regulator and al
q safe food for mixing with the
skinned milk used for raising calves
by artificial methods. 1t Is a subject
that must interest q large number Of
farmers. New England Farmer.
Over 800, 600, 900 pounds of cleo
margarine was thrust upon the people
the past twelve months, and yet but
ter aid not fall one cent In price, al.
though this vast quantity directly
supplied the place of so much
butter In the market. Curiously
toe, our supply of butter was as larg,
as usual, and promises, owing to thu
rapid multiplication of ~creameries, t.
be larger, while the supply Of oleo
margarine will be doubled the com
ing year. 1t Is a problem how butte
kept Its price in the face of this mon
ster, and threatened to drive it from
the markets entirely; but we ma!
naturally conclude that 1t Is an i'm
possibility to overstock the market
with anything. -Fsrmers' Magazine
The profit in feeding sheep must al
ways largely remain In the manur
pile; whatever else falls, that is Away
secured On grain. growing farm
especially, ~fattening sheep In winter i
almost indispensable to proftabl
farming. They dispose of huge stack
of straw, eating q little and compact
Ing the remainder with their excre
tions after being fed with the riches
foods and making the best manure
We have hardly learned how much
load of manur is worth, but a flock
fifty to eighty sheep, we'll bedded an
well fed, will..work down a big stack 1
the course of the winter, and make
least as many loads Of barnyard m,
nure as there are animals employed !
the work.
A Little Farm Well Titled.
Reports have recently been pull
lished of q number of experiments !
raising corn under a system of hig
cultivation, from which the yield hs
been at the rate of from 100 to 25
bushels per acre. In most of thes
experiments the area cultivated WI
small, yet they we're large enough
J show what results may be obtained b
heavy msnuring and thorough cultivl
tion. Upon one plot, SO by 33 fee
in Mclean county, Illinois, 81
pounds of ears or 160 pounds
shelled corn were raised last yea,
The soil was creek bottom rath,
than sandy. An underground draI
ran directly through the plot. We
: rotted bsrnyard and hog manure WI
used good two.horse load befo
planting. This was worked In with
, tive shovel pillow, the soil being stir,
about torr inches deep. The plot W
marked fos four rows, and 160 grail
. were planted, twenty inches apart, {
. May All. One hundred and thirt
five grains terminated. The avera,
height of stalks was twelve feet.
In Crawford county, Missouri Il
= kernals planted on ground which h,
been for four years planted to onion
and each fall heavily MANFRED wi
w%ell.rotted manure from the she
barn, produced at the rate Of 2
bushels per acre. The seeds we
planted nineteen inches apart, in Gig
rows. A large number of experimeI
have given results as coed as this.
" Such reports have no little practic
value, since they show what may
"a done. Whether or not 1t will be 90
II to convince the western farmer tn
ID 1t will pay him to plew less land, 81
n to cultivate the smaller area mo
n. thoroughly, remains to be seen. Ma
e in the west seem to believe their la
ne Is 30 rich that no manur Is needle
a. and acting upon that belief, they
Se on year after year making heavy dra
no upon the store of wealth nature plac
~ there, and never seem To think
j.: making a deposit to keep their sccou
I'd good. They do not keep enou
tx stock to eat any oonsideral
b. part of their grain crops, and
to return to the land part at least of I'll
I'd which has come from 1t In the form
of grain. II a few such farmers CO
IA by the reports of the results Of I
better methods in farming, be Undue
"a TO cultivate fewer acres, to turn part