Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-08-19
FACTS FOR the FARM.

for which he has refused $500.
| The first dairy fair was held in Wis
cOnsin in 1875, and now Sheboygal
county has ninety cheese factories.
| New Jersey has swung into line an(
passed law against the manufactur,
and sale of Olcomargarine in tha
state.
In proportion to cost, even at til,
low price of this season, eggs return
more profit than anything else sole
from the farm.
The French government makes al
appropriation annually of $1,000 ,OOt
agricultural instruction and expert
ments.
At the recent Jersey sales at Nash
vile. Tenn, the total was $l8, $50. The
average for females was 1890, and OF
bulls 1858.
At the Orleans Worlds fair mex
winter, Mexico will exhibit a garden
OF tropical plants, covering 220,OOt
square feet.
The heavier an orchard is cropped
the more manure il requires. From
100 TO 200 pounds each of bone dust
and kainit potash salts) per acre i,
recommended by Jhe best orchardists
| Breeding sows should have plenty Of
room for exercise aud be fed plentiful
ly on grass. while those intended fol-
slaughter should be fed on cOncentrat.
ed food and kept closely confined.
n. j. Shepard tells the Western
PlOwman that he makes two or three
paintings of bush beans for succession
and prefers drills foot apart and seed
at intervals of three inches instead OF
hills.
In packing apples for shipment not
one should be placed in the barrel that
has the 81 glIie,t trace Of unsOundness.
as such apples decay sooner than the
Others, and also affect all the barrel.
At u blooded cattle sale at Mars hall
Missouri, forty-four head OF Short
horns brought 1880, and six cen J err
seys brought nearly $1,000.
Squash vines make excellent shades
inpOultry yards, being not only cool
places of resort, but serve as Il protec-
ton against hawks.
The health of the horse has much to
do with the glossiness aud smOOthness
of the hide. A variable diet is there
fore best for them, especially in sum-
mer.
1t is con'cnded that separate feeding
places should be provided for the diff
tcrent classes of stock, as it conduces
to greater harmony and contentment.
A prominent fruit grower says
weeds will never bother farmer if he
will keep the land in grass. turning
sod for crops, and re-seeding again to
grass after one or two plowings.
If brood sow gets too much feed
by accident or lack of care she may be
speedily relieved by giving her a
quart of charcoal. 1t will tone up
the stomach of hog quicker than
anything else.
A cultivator who grated grapevines
after they had grown foot or two
said that month afterward they had
done as well rs those set in December,
and all the trouble of winter prOtec-
ton was saved.
A Georgia dairyman figures the
cost of good butter in that state at
II l-2 cents II pound, where good pas
ture can he had on easy terms for ten
months in the year, and the butter
sells at % cents pound.
Lambs can be safely weancd and
separated from their mothers at four
months, and should not be allowed to
subsist upon the ewes longer than five
months, as they cannot thrive best
while raising lambs.
When cults are running with their
dams care should be exercised while
feeding, as any food that has the least
tendency 10 make the mares loose in
the bowels will operate ON the colts in
the same manner.
The New England Homestead SAYS: |
la cultiva;ing side hills let the rows |
run diagonally across the slope
neither straight up or down nor par
allel with the slope but diagonally. |
This will make horse culiivating easier
and will prevent wash.
Salt is necessary article of food To |
all classes of stock, and especially to
those turned out TO grass. 1t should |
be fed regularly and not at intervals.
A lump Of rock salt at a convenient
location is an excellent method of pro-
viding them with it.
Those who have never witnessed the
operation of a harvester and binder
will be surprised az the rapidity of the
work done by them. a driver with
hls binder can go over field, cut the
grain and bind i; into bundles a- fast
rs two men can stack them.
At Sudbury, England, dairy
'choOl has been established. No pupil
viii be received who is under the age
IF Is years, and each pupil must at
end lectures and perform work in the
larry, being also taught how TO milk
eed and properly care for the cows.
When little pigs get the scours one
" the best remedies is 10 boil the
kim milk fed TO them, ihickeniug it
With a little flour. Then add spoon
nj of sulphur. stirring well. and give
hree times day. II they are suck
ings feed the SOW in the same manner
Alaba anna has demonstrated the value
~ stdtS StVitSist. Ic fcCcut us I
overv of rich phosphate beds in Perry
nd Antauga counties is one of the
most valuable that could be made. Ii
; thought that Dallas and other coun-
les will also show rich beds of phos-
,hates.
Milk cream and butter should all
e kept as low rs sixty-two degrees.
t or below which point, if ever, car
ionic acid gas develops. With pure
God. cows rightly treated. with clean
essels and pure air, less difficulty will
e experienced in churning than with
ut such precautions.
Many cases of abortion in cows are
lused by eating ergof. which is a
Owerfnl poison especially affecting
he genical organs. 1t is usually found
! rye, tut some kinds of ergot grow
4 The seeds of various grasses. Rye
Elected by ergot il sometimes nsed
! Germany to bring cows in heat
hen they are becoming rather old to
reed freely.