The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-06-14
Facts for Farmers.

| oiulhdry MARKER makes too
deepa furrow for corn, especially
When fhe planting is early and the
ground cold. If a cold rain comes on
after planting, this corn, put so far
beloW The surface, will rot, or at best
make only sickly growth.
Inc dearest help of all is often that
whHh asks least wages. 1t is poor
econolny to keep four men to do the
work that three or two should per-
form. Ifa man is for any cause dis.
SATISFIED, the sooner he and his EN-
ployefip company the better for
both lhrties.
Cow that are watered from stag
naIlt ponds or from wells in the barn.
yafe win give milk more or less
tssifS16, and from which It tisimpos-
sible To make the best butter. So
large part of milk is water that the
drink OF the cow is of quite as much
Importance as her blood.
Fortunately, those who own soil of
any kind can grow fruit successfully,
Some kinds grow better on light than
heavy soils, but even on the worst
clays success is possible with drain
age and good cultivation. For pears
heavy soils are preferable, as the trees
are liable to blight. Insect enemies
are generally most destructive on
warm light soils.
Nearly every spring on most farms,
a portion of the farm horses that have
lain idle during the winter need to be
rebroken. For the first few days only
light work should be attempted, and
especial care should be taken not to
produce gals on the shoulders, which,
once started, are very troublesome to
heal, without stopping work al
together.
If turkeys are to be grown it is
worth while to secure the largest and
the best, for it is a curious fact with
regard to turkeys that an extra large
young fowl will always bring a higher
price per pound than one that is
smaller. The bronze turkeys are gen.
orally conceded to make the largest
fowls. They are also rather more
hardy, though while very young all
turkeys require good care.
The farmers vino spend most
thought about getting the very high
est prices do not usually succeed best.
As RUE, they get no better prices
thsaS,f'1 ..s-ighoors. and therefore
all the time and thought they give to
this might be much more profitably
directed. ii Il farmer has average or
more than average crops. hecan safely
sell whenever the price will give him
II profit on cost Of production. Some
times when his crop has been far be-
low the average, he had better not
wait even for this.
Professor George II. Cook, of the
New Jersey agricultural experiment
station, concludes, after much exper-
imenting with the feeding value of
ensilage, that it is a wholesome and
nutritious food, milk made from it
fed daily to cows having been uni
formIy satisfactory in quality to the
numerous customers who have used
it; but when compared with finely
cut dry fodder, it has not, in most of
the experiments made, been found
more nutritious. The fact, however,
should not be forgotten, that most of
the dry fodder raised by farmers is
much reduced in value by exposure
to the weather or by imperfect curing.
1t is we'll known that the use of rye
as ensilage, or dry as fodder, has not
been successful on account of being
too tough after it has headed out. A
good remedy has been found in cut
ting the rye while it is yet tender.
and packing it away as ensilage. This
early cutting leaves the land ready
for a crop of fodder corn or millet.
Such rye ensilage was kept at the
station thirteen months, and was
readily eaten by cows ; and the milk
yielded was about the same as when
they were fed or green and fresh rye.
The illustrious Spurgeon says he
never had any faith in luck. except
that he believed good luck will carry
man across ditch if he jumps well,
and will put bit of bacon in his pot
if he looks after his garden and keeps
pig. Luck generally comes to those
who look after it, and it is his notion
that 1t knocks once in a lifetime at
eyerybOdy's door, but if industry
does not open it away it goes.
Coal oil is certain and instant death
to the currant worm, and with a little
care one or two applications will de.