The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-11-28
VOL. XXIX----NO. AZ.
Farm Notes.

When feeding hay it is bad practice to
! let the horse stand with rackful of hay be-
fore him all the time.
Including imported and native born, it
is claimed that there are now in this country
about % 900 registered Jerseys.
Now is the most favorable time In the
year for collectingall sorts of vegetable refuse
and muck for winter use in yards and stables.
! The ground should be plowed at any
time during the fall and winter that the
weather will permit, as the frost Is an excel
| lent pulveIiZer. .r.
During cold weather the water used for
watering plants should be tepid. 1t is highly
injurious TO give the house plants sprink-s
ling of very cold water. ...4
The dividends from sheep come oftener
than from other classes of stock, except dairy
cows, the fleece, lambs and mutton reaching
market at different periods.
An open shed, facing the south, is an ex.
celent arrangement for all classes of stock, as
the open air is preferred by them at some
periods instead of the stables.
1t is stated by those whose pens have been
visited by hog cholera that when the carcas.
SEES of the hogs a. not burned the buzzards,
which feed upon them, carry the disease to
remote points.
An experienced dairyman says the grain of
butter may be spoiled in churning where
great haste is used A slow, regular stroke
is absolutely necessary and Indispensable in
manufacturing firstcass article.
A cattle.ralser of Illinois has SO far changed
his system of feeding that he now feeds corn
every day all summer to his steers in pasture
He has experimental until he is convinced
that this way of feeding pays best.
A spring colt should be weaned little be-
fore winter in order that it may become used
to the change of food while. the weather is
warm and while plenty of succulent food can
be had. Enslage is an excellent feed for
maintaining growth of colts and other young
stock.
The best way to rid horses ears of warts
is to rub them well with a coarse cloth and
then touch them well with little nitric acid
every alternate day until you have admins.
tered three applications. A single drop of
the acid will be quite sufficient for the small.
er ones. 'r'
Mr.. John s. Thompson, an experienced
sheep breeder of Arcona, Ind, is of the opin-
ion that cross of Shropshire and Merino
sheep is all that can be desired, the lambs
being vigorous and healthy, and If the flocks
are well kept may consist of 500 or 1000
head.
Mr.. A. J. Hendry, of Liberty county, Ca,
gives the following as his method of curing
hog cholera, which he states has been very
successful with him. Pour spirits turpen.
tine in molasses, syrup or starch, and give
portion to each animal. The exact quantity
for one hog isnot stated.
Samuel Keyser, Kansas cattle man, win
tered 1870 cattle on sorghum last winter, losing
only one, and that one by accident. He fed
all the sorghum the stock wanted. His crop
was cut and stacked before the October rains
and frosts came last fall aud the cane was
sweet and well cured. He planted $50 acres
last spring for stock feed.
A Western farmer advises stringing seed
corn by tying the ears together with husks
in some place where the grain can be satura-
ted with coal smoke. The odor, he says, &C.
pels squirrels and worms from eating the
seed. The seed comes up quicker, the plants
grow more vigorously and ripen several days
earlier than from seed not so treated.
All manures deposited by nature are left
on or near the surface. The whole tendency
of manure is to 60 down into the soil rather
than to rise from it. There is probably very
little, if any, loss of nitrogen from evapora.
ton of manure unless it is put in piles so as
to ferment Rains and dews return to the soil
as much ammonia in year as is carried off lin
the atmosphere.
An English farmer says For two winters
| have placed six horses upon the following
weekly allowances: forty-two pounds of oats,
twenty-eight pounds maize, twenty-one
pounds beans, twenty.one pounds hay cut
into chat, seventy pounds long hay, four
teen pounds oat straw cut into chaff. Total
1876 pounds of food per week per horse. Upon
this the horses have done admirably while in
constant work.
The old idea that the sap of trees descends
into the roots in the fall, remaining there
through the winter, is an error with no fOun-
dation whatever, says Mr.. A. s. Fuller. AS
the wood and leaves ripen in the autumn the
roots almost cease to imbibe crude sap, and
for awhile the entire structure appears to part
with moisture, and doubtless does SO through
the exhalations of the ripening leaves, buds
and smaller twigs, but as warm weather again
approaches and the temperature of the soil
again increases the roots again commence
10 absorb crude sap and force it upward,
where it meets soluble organized matter,
changing its color, taste and chemical proper
ties. If this were not the case we could not
account for the saccharine properties of sap,
as in the maple.
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