Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-24
FACTS FOR THE FARM.

tAVtS run lne fAHM.
Grow neither weeds nor thistIes
this year.
Paint and whitewash are good in
vestments.
The literature of agriculture is a
power in the land.
A great many Clydesdale horses
will be imported this year.
California now produces over IL, 700
boxes Of raisins every year.
The New York market is.extensiye-
ly supplied with foreign eggs.
Sand-paper win whiten ivory knife
handles that have become yellow.
There is quite demand in the west
for Jersey bulls for breeding purposes.
A woman has been elected president
OF the Indiana bec-keepers' asssocia-
ton.
Eggs are higher in the Boston mar
ket than they have been before since
1865.
General lie Due makes a farmers
paint of sweet skinned milk and c.
ment.
More butter is spoiled by being
overworked than by not being worked
enough.
The honey crop of the country last
year was estimated at rising 1000, 900
pounds.
Ashes or lime killed around tho
trunks of peach trees keep down the
bark worm.
Saskatchewan wheat is creating a
sensation among the wheat growers of
the northwest.
An Iowa correspondent asks for n
remedy for cabbage worm. Dust with
white hellebore.
Minnesota's butter production for
1888 will reach nearly $4,000 900 lbs.
worth S. 100000.
Professor Roberts, of Cornell, thinks
that the silo will prove a valuable aid
in winter dairying.
Rub mixture of lard and sulphur
on the backs of such calves as are
afflicted with vermin.
Don't forget that a good field of
clover is one of the best things you
can have on the farm.
In cutting away diseased portions of
trees do not let them lay around the
trees, but burn them.
In many sections in this State the
ground is said 10 have been frozen to
the depth of 2s inches.
To cut wood short or pile il loosely.
and sell for full cord, is what CORES
pendent calls stealing.
The Scottish Farmers Alliance is a
very vigorous organization with a
membership of over 1000.
Ifyour cows get out of sorts at this
season give them warm bran slop
well seasoned with ginger.
An ointment made by mixing car
bolic acid, or coal oil, and lard is sure
death TO vermin on poultry.
If you have a good idea. have learn
ed practice which you believe to be
OF value, give it to the world.
Farm property constitutes the safest
of all risks. Hence its insurance is the
least liable TO result in disaster.
1t is a good plan TO let hens run
among the currant bushes where there
is trouble from currant worms.
Colts should not stand upon hard
floors. 1t is almost certain to result
IN injury 10 their feet and limbs.
Plenty of leached ashes NAV be
worked into the soil where beets are
to be grown with excellent results.
An Iowa farmer recommends thor
ough smoking of seed corn as a sure
protection from birds and squirrels.
Now is a good time to cut down
trees planted so near the house that
they shut out fresh air and sunlight.
A peach-grower in Mason county,
Michigan, lost 2,200 peach trees BY
putting too much salt about the roots
Mnlching young trees after setting
them out always gives good results.
and is becoming universal practice.
The seed required for the annual
winter and spring wheat sowing in
this country is about 55 ,0o0, 900 bushels.
Every successful farmer should keep
system of accounts as a matter of
economy, profit, and of record as well.
Ii is claimed that club-foot in cab
bage may be avoided by sowing on
ground not used for cabbage last sea-
son.
Prof. Cook thinks Paris green the
safest, surest and cheapest remedy for
the canker worm. Apply with a syr-
inge.
1t is estimated that there will be
more than SS,000,Oo0 worth of eggs
imported 10 this country during the
year.
At the great fanciers' show in New
York one pigeon-raiser exhibited $40
birds of all varieties of the pigeon
tribe.
The Eayette county Qowa) farmers
mutual fire insurance association in
creased its risks over $4,000 in JAN
uary.
A poultry fancier says that barren
ness in eggs is more frequently caused
by lack of green food than anything
else.
Maury, in Tennessee, is the banner
county of the United States for mules
Its annual shipment is from 1000 to
5000.
IL has been decided at the New Jer-
sey experiment station that rye is |
usually sown too thick for the best
results.
Many farmers feed roots without
first freeing them from dirt. This is
an injurious practice and harmful to
cattle.
Out OF 415,Oo0 horned animals inn
ported by Great Britain last year only
about 100000 were shipped from this
country.
Many fine farms on the Mississip.
south of Cairo have been ruined by
he heavy sand deposits out of the
Ohio river.
A dairyman Of Port Huron, Michi-
gan, cooks for his forty cows bran and
corn-meal in couple of watts holding
800 pailfuls.
A Kansas City paper claims that ,
that city is the home or headquarters
of ranchmen who have $21 $50 600 in
cattle and land.
II is good plan TO give each SOW a
pen TO herself. DO not use too much :
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