The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-01-06
Farm Notes.


Sheep make up about three-fourths
Of all the live stock in Great Britain.
Prices by American breeders OF pure
bred Polled Angus cattle are rs high as
$3.50 for cows and 81 500 for bulls.
Twelve tons of beets to the acre is a
frequent European average, from which
is extracted one and iive-tenths tons of
sugar.
Farmers in the United States have
Sl2,2lO, 25S,362 of capital invested in
their business. This sum includes farms,
implements, live stock, fertilizers. fences.
There are 10000 head Of Jersey cat
tie on the Isle Of Jersey, and 6,0OO on
the Guernsey. The expectations from
both are nearly 5000 head per year.
Colonel f. d. Curtis. in the New
York Tribune, claims that cattle Win
tered in warm stables will consume only
half the feed they will require if they
are allowed to stand shiveling in the
yard.
A black walnut grove that was plant
ed by Wisconsin farmer about twenty
years ago on some waste land, recently
sold for $1,000. The trees are now
from sixteen to twenty inches through.
When pigs are confined to 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 beneli-
cial.
In fumigating poultry houses with
sulphur much difficulty is experienced
in getting the sulphur to burn The
trouble is the sulphur melts and smoth-
ers the flame. BY melting sulphur and
passing strips OF wick through it, burn
ing will afterward be an easy matter.
1t is important to secure the best
rams for breeding. The best are the
cheapest. A full-blood Cotswold may
not look any better than q three-quar'
ters 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 breeder:
OF fowls says that fowls need rowen hay
as substitute for greengrass, and adds
that they will eat large quantities OF II
every day in Winter when placed before
them. Another breeder writes in higt
praise of the use of ensilage as Winter
feed for poultry.
Poultry breeders do not seem TO ap
preciate the great value of bones TO
their fowls, and but n limited few eve
lmake use of them for this purpose. NJ
matter whether the birds are confined
or not, they are sure to be benefited b.
q moderate quantity Of bones, thoug
those which are in close coIhlR9E,en
need them most.
Evergrcens should never be prune'
in the Fall or Winter. The cutting OF
of the Summers growth during thi
season exposes the inner parts of thu
tree or hedge to the snow and cole
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
green's, especially when large limbs ar
to be removed.
A writer in the CaltiOator and Conn
try Gentleman says of removing wart
on animals: In answer to various in
: ouiries let me say that have for year
cured warts very easily on all animals
no matter where located, by applyin.
butyr of anthony with q feather two o
three times, at intervals Of two or tire
DAYS. If the warts are dry-scaled
scrape them lightly first. 1t simpl
: dries the wart down to hardness. whel
: it drops of without soreness or irrita
ton"
The Hon. Joseph Nimmo, Chief o
the United States Bureau of Statistics
in a statement Of imports OF the Unite'
States, shows that in the month of Jul
t last l, 4S6, Ala dozen eggs were imported
a and that in the seven months ending
q July 81, 6,9OO,477 dozen were brough
I TO this country, Their estimated valu
was 81, O27, 7O5, all of which American
I hens might have put into the pockets O
their owners, if the owners had attend
: ed to business
A California millionaire and practice
, phlanthropist has hired ses en,een job
, Smiths in that State to change thei
names in consideration of $500 in cas-
t paid to each.
Curing Bacon Hams and Shoulder.