Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-09-21
Farm Notes.

II
CHARRED Corn. -Charred corn. fed
in limited quantities, is excellent for
laying hens,
BOILED POTATOES. Boiled potatoes
are said to be cure for diarrhea in
cattle. Feed warm and give as much
IS the cattle will eat.
CURRANT WoRMS.-Break off the
yoHng sprouts or suckers that start
from the roots of currant bushes and
there Will seldom be any trouble from
the currant worm.
LINsEED MEAL FOR Suffolk
and Berkshire pigs may be proitably
fed, to be sold at nine or ten months,
upon clover, corn meal, linsced meal,
or corn and oat meal. Half a pound
of hnseed meal per day on the aver
age, to 6-months old pigs, would be
sufficient.
SOWING WHEAT. Recent expert
ments in England show that thin
sowing of wheat in drills is more pro-
ductive than thick sowing. By spe-
cial culture on small plots, single
grain to the hill has given a yield of
100 TO 1872 bushels to the acre, accord
ing to the Experiment Record.
TOMATOES. you would have a
full crop of good tomatoes, water the
young plants twice each week with
rich liquid manure Nip off many of
the new shoots and tie the heavy
stems up so as to expose the fruit to
the sun. Mulch thickly around the
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fruit grows too closely.
BRITTLE HooFs. -Among the causes
which produce brittle hoofs in horses
and cattle the National Live Stock
Journal mentions the frequent stand
ing in rotting dung heaps or in pools
of decomposing liquid manure. In
the dung heap there is not only the
moisture and steam soaking and soft
ening the hoof, but there is abundance
of ammonia gas, which is especially
calculated to soften, dissolve and des-
troy the horn. Standing in such de
composing organic matter is still
more injurious when the animal is
confined to a box or stall, for here
the injurious effect of inactivity is
added to the other conditions.
THE CURRANT CATERPILLAR. The
gooseberry and currant caterpillars
are great pests to American fruit
growers. The following receipt for
dealing with these pests is given by a
County Down subscriber to the Gar
den, and which he states he had used
there thirty years and never failed
with it until 1879, when the daily
rain washed the salt off the leaves be
fore it had time to dry or act on the
young caterpillars: Mix one pound of
common salt with eight gallons of
cold water; but be careful not to eX-
coed that quantity. About the sec
ond week in May or as soon as per-
forated leaves are observed choose a
dry day and syringe the bushes with
this mixture. Repeat the syringe in
a week or ten days should more per-
forated leaves appear. This mixture,
though destructive to young cater
pillars, will not kill old ones; these
must be hand picked Farmers Ad-
Vocate.
MELLON CULTURE. An Ohio farmer
says: During the winter and spring
| gather together all the fine man
ure | can, such as hog manure, barn
yard scrapings, etc. After the melons
are planted l load this mixture on the
wagon, and if not wet enough throw
a few pals of water on it, drive into
the field and straddle one row, and
with another hand take two rows, one
on one side of the wagon, and put a
small shGvelful of this mixture on
each hill. By soaking the seed before
planting over night it will be neces-
sary then to examine a few hills III
course of five days, to see if they are
making their way through the inch of
dirt that was first covered on seed;
if so, then the manure should be
showed to one side with the back of a
rake. After the melons are begin
ming to get the third leaf take a
mixture of two-thirds of Stacked
lime, one third plaster, and dose each
hill with about half a spoonful,
getting the greater part on dirt around
the plants With this method | get
200 good salable melons per acre,
and always get a premium at our
county fairs"