Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-28
AGRICULTURAL
FARlM NOTES.

n lnG NAAoC ia tA@o oAAN~R =
estimated at SIC. 000. 900.
william Falcsner, Of Long Ind, Ays
that of eighteen kinds Of lettuce fted the
royal SIMMER cabbage is best ftsumer
use.
It's good sdvic to plant small uits on
upland or near large bodies wter.
Lake Ontario kept the severe sring
frost away for four miles distanfon Its
shore.
The objection urged by some aFst en-
silage is that it is sometimes shS sour,
but this fact is claimed to be an antage,
slightly acid food being digei more
easily.
The outside leaves of cabbsges agreed.
ily eaten by cows; but with. howevia bad
effect on the milk, unless care is zen to
feed Just after milking. Given thHe bad
favor goes of before the COW rilked
again.
Two Oxford Down rams we're tibited
at the st. Louis Fair which are Why OF
special remark. One, "Bichest q 2
yesr old buck, weighed 42O poH, and
Baron Csmp6eld," I-year-old, weed 800
pounds. Both we're imported.
Cattle-men and stock-owners ohe Yel
lowstone Valley are ~aging of ex-
termination against the numbers bears,
prairie wolves and coyotes that arommit-
ting ravages on the cattle herds ohe north
side of the Yellowstone river.
An Indiana farmer states thsse cured
beayes in horses by withholdingay from
them and substituting green u IN Its
Mace. He also gives a ball asirge as
walnut, composed of equal parts balsam
of fr and balsam of copaiba.
The beemoth, which does 50 rch dam.
age to the colonies is the color old wood,
and the wings cross each other, irning up
like the tail of fowl. 1t may lseen Turk
ing around hives in the SUNNI evenings
trying to gain admittance.
Looseness of feathers is vel uusightly.
Many birds run around lookinas though
they were cold, their feathers bging limp
to the skin. Such birds areut OF con.
dition, and should be let fly, d well and
rusty iron kept in the water tn drink,
Bots in horses are not cay destroyed.
Their attachment to the stomg IS mechanl
cal, and they remain there uni the season
for their escape arrives. Thh is no way
to prevent them but by reming the nlts
from the hide whenever deplted thereon
The cattle that make the tgest returns
for the food consumed pay , best. lti'
the wellformed animal th makes the
mcst valuable meat. Ii do not pay to
feed hogs that will only devep head and
snout when there are good ghes TO be Oh
taiucd.
Water and boring insects case rapid de
cas- OF wood, and wounds trOd eating oil
limbs furnish favorable operpS, Tor des
trucliye agents; therefore All wound
Should lie throughly protected y q coat o
vanish or paint to keep waterui until tn!
entire wound becomes covered y new woot
Now that winter has set in, D occasions
allowance of green food may By had Wher
foreground is not covered VIII snow, fo'
he cattle, by permitting therto Craze o.
he growing wheat and rye q no damass
will be done the growing 6p by beIn
eaten of, provided the stocHi not KEEP
upon the pasture too closely
The amount Of land to wich wheat
particularly adapted has ut yet bee
placed under cultivation the Yves
Canada has also large area % be opened
about 26O, 100000 acres beinget unsettled
Should it be devoted TO whdt.growing
come future time, at an averge OF iittee
bushels per acre, the aunut productio
will be 100000, 900 bushels
In the production Of TWENTY-FIVE bushe
of wheat 10 the acre the soils robbed
l23 pounds Of mineral matter In the pr
duction Of fifty bushels Of orr 10 Inc ~
TIE soil loses $50 pounds OF mine
elements. 1t is plain. therefore that
less the coil is provided with an eq'
Tcurt of the elements given up as to
for plants it will soon become exhausted
Under the system Of pasturing cattle il
estimated that five acres are necessary
support q COW one year. With soiiing
the summer and the use of ensilage
wInt,. il is claimed that one acre will Ike
COW and become richer in fertility ev
year. The soiling system requires grea
lslor. but as it utilizes land the proport
of profits as compared with pasturag'
grosler.
Comb is valuable, for while the bees
building pound OF it they could gat
twenty pounds of honey, and it ought
to lie left uncared for in hives where b
have died, to DO consumed by the lsrvn
the bee.moth. These lsrvT are CT
towards, and when the combs are lii
from the hive poke out their heads, and
be destroyed surely and quickly by exl
inc Them to the fumes Of burning sulphu