Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-05
Facts for the Farm.

II farm implements cannot be paint
ed brush them over occasionally with
crude petroleum.
Land that is not thoroughly drained
will not pasture sheep without the ap-
pearance of foot rot.
The increase in the area OF tobacco
in Kentucky has been effected in
many cases at the expense of the area
in hemp.
A teaspoonful of saltpeter dissolv-
ed in gallon of water has been re-
commended to kill rose bugs on grape
vines.
An occasional sprinkling of water
on the celery plants will help them
during this month, as they require
quite an amount of moisture.
Tomatoes raised ON poor, light
soil will have less growth than those
raised on rich soil. but the tomatoes
will ripen week or ten days sooner.
Unless the corn crop is good one
it will not pay, but it is crop which
Is more completely under the control
of the farmer, as far as cultivation is
concerned, than any other.
Fifteen SouthdOwn ewes raised
twenty-one lambs this year for Joseph
A. Kline, president of the HOusatonic
Agricultural society, in Massachusetts,.
Dropped in January, and sold in April,
they netted over 800.
George w. Walz writes to the Fruit
Recorder that he has boiled leaves and
stems Of tomato plants until the juice
is all extracted, and finds the liquor
deadly to caterpillara, lice and other
enemies of vegetation.
The melon growers of Georgia have
formed pool for the sale Of their pro-
ducts. with headquarters at Atlanta.
No melons will be shipped until
market has been found for them.
Eight thousand car loads were sent
north last year.
| A western bee keeper thinks sugar
the best bee feed, as the honey from
such has the advantage of not being
mixed with pollen, which he believes
causes dysentery among the bees in
winter. Glucose, however, should be
avoided.
A daub of tar on the noses of sheep
is an effective preventive against the
attacks of annoying grubs. The sheep
grub is not always fatal, but very dis
agreeable, and doubtless has a bad
effect on the general health of the ami
NAL.
One OF the advantages of sowing
salt on wheat is that it partially pre-
vents freezing of the soil, thereby OBJ
Waiting the dislodging OF the plants by
upheaval, as a lower temperature is
required to freeze ground that has
been sailed than that not sailed.
The guinea fowl is great destroyer
of nOxious insects and their larve.
They are of very rambling DISPOSE
ton, hence their eggs should be placed
under hens for Matching. The young
ones feather very rapidly. and conse-
quently should be fed often.
In 1888 Great Britain imported
494, 100000 pounds of sleeps wool,
grew 12S, 250, 900 pounds, and import
ed ALPACA, mOhair, ETC., to the amount
of over 10O,000,00O. The product of
296 SOC, 900 pounds, or about 40 1-2 per
cent. of all this was imported.
4 1t is said that the development of
flavor can be fastened by subjecting
the cheese to a strong current of air.
The flavor is developed by the process
of oxidation. If the cheese is kept in
too close air during the process of cur
ing, it will be likely to be deficient in
flavor.
. Sometimes surplus milk may be pro-
fitably fed to cows, though it is not
easy to teach an old COW to drink it,
except those cows. always extra milk
ers, that never refuse any kind of
food. The milk fed to cows should
not be soured, as it will affect what
they are producing.
Salt is being used freely by certain
New York nurserymen in their pear
nurseries, for the purpose of counter
acting blight. Iron filings and cop
peras in solution have been used for
the same purpose. If these remedies
do not prevent the disease, they at
least correct disposition to blight.
The analysis of plant is at best but
faint guide for the application of fer
tilizers, as coils vary in composition in
different regions to a far greater ex-
tent than could be done by artificial
means. Prescribing doses, therefore,
for soils to suit certain plants has
long since been found entirely falli-
cious.
Many of the most desirable qualities
of animals have been made inherent by
inbreeding. yet, unless practieed by a
very experienced breeder, inbreeding
should be avoided. 1t is not necessa-
nv, however, to cross different breeds
in order to mingle blood dissimilar,
but resort may be had to several fami-
lies of the same breed.
Sheep raising, rs conducted in Eng
land, is much more thorough and ju-
diciOus than in our country, but we
are learning. A breeder of Hamp-
shire Downs, in Kent, England, has
$50 lambs from $50 ewes this season
without the loss of one, and three
years ago had 4l2 lambs from 32l ewes
without loosing a eve in the proceed
ing winter.
+ A writer, speaking of the economic
F methods of sheep feeding, estimates
the allowance of corn for one sheep at
three-quarters of one pound each day,
stating that on this quantity of grain
and sufficient grazing or hay, sheep
will gain in condition and fatten. This
is in New York state, where dry feed
is used for several months in the year.
r. .u.:.o, 100 I,,,,b Gle of rood s;,aJ
onions to set m acre of ground for
growing seed. The best success is Sc
cured bv setting Just before the ground
freezes up in the fall, and covering six
or seven inches. ridging up over the
roots so that though frozen they will
be dry. They are occasionally, though
not often, injured BY excessive freez-
ing and thawing.
Professor Arnold states that it costs
more to make milk from old cows that
it does from young ones having the
same milk producing capacity. The
period Of profitable milking does not
terminate at the same age With all
cows alike. Some hold out longer
than others, but, as a rule, the best
efforts do not reach beyond the eighth
year of the cows age.
1t is claimed that a flock of sheep
can be made more profitable by selec-
ton. In this way the ShrOpshires
have been improved SO as to bring
forth greater number of lambs
annually. The twin lambs are select
ed as breeders, and gradually the breed
has become more prolific, until each
eve, taking flock as whole, pro-
duces onc-and-a-half lambs per year.
An Australian paper says: A lamb
dropped at WoOrv0ma, province of
Victoria, in April, and shorn on the
18th of September, gave six pounds of
very fine wool, belly trimmings not in
cluded. His girth behind the Shout
ders was 80 10 inches; he measured
43 3-4 inches from the top of the head
behind, to the horns to the butt Of the
tail. He pulled the scale down at 100
pounds.
1t is claimed by an experienced hOr-