The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1883-01-11
T@f aal'abita Gaglf.
NOTES.


On Governor Stanford's farm at Palo
Alto, California, are over 500 horses,
and the whip is never used. Even an
angry word from an employe TO an an
imal is not allowed.
Potatoes, when dug in an unripe
state, may be at times waiery and I'M
fit to eat, but if spread as thinly as pos
sible in dry, airy place they will in
time become as mealy as if left TO ripcn
in the ground.
In Australia and New Zealand 4,000,-
600 people have already 10000. 900 sheep,
and have an area sufficient for the easy
pasture of 2O0, 1000, 600 sheep at the least.
With one-twelfth of our population
they have twice our aggregate stock OF
sheep.
A fruit-grower placed tobacco stems
around the trunks of peach trees, and
there is not the sign of borer in any
of the trees so treated. lie set the
stems around the butts Of The trees and
tied them at The tops. 1t keeps of
rabbits as wei IN winter. Try it.
The characteristics of a breed become
more ana more fixed after generations
of breeding for the same points. The
most rapid fixing of individual or flm-
ily physical traits takes place Where
close in breeding is practiced u families
famous for some especially va'rsb.e
pecuiiarity.-Ic.
In Georgia IN acre of land which, in
1880, produced only 800 pounds of seed
cotton. was manured by having fifty
sheep pastured on it twenty nights, and
in 1881 it produced 1850 pounds OF seed
cotton. This virtually tripled The an
nual value OF the land.
Australia presents the strange anom-
ally of choice breeding rams selling at
81 900 10 $1,000 per head, while mutton
is worth IS and cents per pound.
There is evidently a wider gap over
there between the appreciation Of wool
and mutton than would seem TO be
reasonable or warranted.
In all the tests of the new grapes it
should be remembered that the test for
mildew is not conclusive unless the vine
has acquired age. Most very young
vines arc exempt. IL would seem that
after very few years the annual prun-
ing destroys the proper proportion be-
tween branches and roots. IL this be
the true cause root pruning should be
a remedy.
A writer says he has never failed to
cure garget by the use Of beans. lie
feeds one pint of bean meal, mixed
with other meal, for four successive
days, and has found that quantity suf-
fcient TO cure the worst cases. lie
thinks if cows were fed with bean meal
several times year they would never
be troubled with garget.
A Western cattle breeder reports that
the greatest profit is made in the first
year of an animals growth. This rs in
creased, but in less proportion, The sec
ond year. II kept year longer not
only is there no profit, but all the clear
gain of the second year is wasted. This
is a striking commentary on the advan-
tage Of early maturity.
The Chicago Inter Ocean says that
one-third of all the broom corn raised
in the country grew in Kansas fields.
Kansas corn and wheat are world-re-
nowned, while her broom corn and
other productions are unsurpassed, yet
the State will not have arrived at agri-
cultural perfection until sorghum takes
precedence of everything but wheat
and corn.
The demand for tillable LAID for small
farms is breaking up some Of The large
ranches in California, containing from
10000 to 10000 acres each. Colonies Of
small proprieiors are beginning to set
lie upon them, the owners of the great
tracts. il is said. showing a Opposition
10 meet the demand by subdividing
their property. The American idea is
100 acres TO each farmer, and so'iar the
attempts of individuals to own. control
and cultivate enormous bodle. Of land
have ,,rnxod failures