Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-06-07
Facts for Farmers.

| JANUS.
Three cheeses were recently shipned
to Glasgow from New York, eachzOf
which weighed over a ton.
Have you been around your pastoSes
and put up and repaired your fences,
whether wall, rail or barbed wire?
President Newton, of the Western
New York Farmers Club, says stock
will Craze almost all kinds of grasses
| IN preference TO red clovsr.
Horses at hard work should have in
the middle of the forenoon and aftei
noon pail of water in which a handful
of oatmeal has been stirred.
There is a grade of wheat in Oregon
known as Goose wheat,so called because
it originated from few grains founG7in
the crop of wild goose.
The wheat acreage of Minnesota this
spring is placed at 100000; in Dakota
the area in wheat will be increased 2e0,-
900 acres over last years planting.
No other garden vegetable has grown
more or faster in public favor than ilre
tomato. 1t is one of the most pro!fta-
BILE garden crops, if cultivated right aRd
got in market early.
Waldo F. Brown recommends to the
readers of the Rural New Yorker that
they should simply pulyerize the sur
face of land intended for oats, instead
of breaking it up with plow.
Carrots are good feed for both horses
and mileh cows, fed in rational rations.
Sugar beets are preferred by some to
carrots. The latter are good feed both
for cows and horses, to be fed as tonic
in connection with dry feed.
The beauty of flock of sheep consists
in having them all of one size, shape,
and quality of wool. These points show
taste and Judgment in breeding, denote
purity of blood, and can not be obtained
by any mixing of breeds.
A butter maker, writing to the Iowa
Homestead. says the best butter color is
pail full of corn meal mush, fed warm
once day, the corn to be of the yellow
variety, adding that it will increase the
milk and butter as well as give a good
color.
An old sod, especially if the soil be
heavy and undrained, is usually disap
pointing the first season. The crop put
on it is rarely as good as expected. The
subsequent year it is better, and, if well
cultivated, the field will improve for
two or three years before being again
seeded.
Mango itch may be cured by scrubbing
the horse with coarse brush and then
washing with CASTLE soap and soft wa
ter, drying carefully. AS soon as thor
oughly dried, apply An ointment of four
ounces of sulphur, ten ounces of lard
and one-half ounce of carbolic acid, well
mixed.
An exchange asserts that the differ
ence between the yield of eggs in the
most prolific cases, as compared with
poor layers, is as three or four to one.
In favorable instances individual hens
have been known to produce $50 eggs
per year. Yet 200 is reached so seldom
as to be called a remarkable yield.
In the Western States or Territories,
where the largest number of cattle are
kept, there is gaeat scarcity of good
milking stock. Many of the ecOws are Of
Southern origin, and they are almost in
variablY poor mixers. The hot and dry
climate of Texas and other parts of the
South is unfavorable to the production
of good mixers.
To prevent the hair falling off horses
name and to restore the growth, rub the
skin or the part with the following mix
ture, viz: One pint of alcohol and one
drachm of tincture of cantharides. Give
the horse dose of salts az ounces) and
feed some wheat bran, which will allay
the irritation of the skin, to which the
loss of hair is due.
Potatoes draw heavily upon the fer
tility of the soil. They are, however,
good crop to grow, because if they can
not be sold they may be turned to good
account for feeding stock. The large
amount of potatoes used in starch man
ufactories creates shipping demand,
and, except in seasons when there is an
overproduction. they will bring fair re-
muneration to the grower.
In horses the pulse at rest beats forty
times, in an OK from fifty to fifty-fve,
and in sheep and pigs about seventy to
eighty beats per minute. 1t may be felt
wherever large artery crosses a bone.
for instance 1t is generally examined
in the horse on the cord which crosses
over the bone of the lower jaw in front
of its curved position, or in the bony
ridge above the eye; and in cattle over
the middle of the first rib, and in sheep
by placing the hand on the left hand
side, where the beating of the heart may
be felt. Amy material variation of the
pulse from the figures given above may
be considered sign of disease. If rap
id, hard, and full, it is an indication of
high fever or Inflammation; if rapid,
small, and weak, low fever, loss of
blood, or weakness. If slow, the proba-
bilities point to brain disease disease,
and if irregular. to heart troubles. This
is one of the principal and sure tests of
the health of animal.
F. D. Curtis, in the New York Trib-
une makes the following strong state
ments Of favor of orchard grass: Those
who keep pigs will find orchard grass
best for permanent pig pasture, on ac-
count Of its starting so early in spring
and its continuous growth during the
entire season. 1t is the least affected by
drouth of any grass with which | am
acquainted, and it will also furnish the
largest amount of fresh seed. Glover
and timothy will furnish greater bulk
of hay, but neither of them, and espe-
cially timothy, which is very poor, will
furnish anything like the amount of af-
tergrowth. Orchard grass on rich land
can be mown three times in one year,
and of course when used for pasture
there is the same vigorous growth. L
have known it to furnish a good fresh
bite three days after being cut close to
the ground, hence | am satisfied that it
is the superior of any grass for perma-
nent pasture. 1t will not run out like
clover and timothy, as its long librous
roots take rank and deep hold of the
ground, uniting at the top in tussock
or crown from which numberless blades