The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-07-01
1884.
SKETCHES.
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have greenness and deep,
to furnish moistL HUssm below in
seasons of severe sick .tb. You may
have an imperfect lawn on a poor.
sandy soil. which may be gradually
improved in successive years by top
dressing; but if you have plenty OF
manure, with which a small portion
of ground bone and wood ashes may
be well intermixed and fermented, il
will be most satisfactory and success
full to apply and work it well in by
repeated blowing and narrowing be-
fore the grass seed is sown. Kentucky
blue gross and rel top, with white
clover is desired, will make a good
lawn if thickly sown, at the rate of
several bushels to the acre. The seed
may be raked or brushed in, not over
half an inch deep and unless the
weather is quite moist. the ground
should be then rolled. Jf'this IS done
early in spring, and rains follow, a
fine green surface will soon make its
appearance.
EXPERIMENTING IN HOG FEEDING.
From the Rural New Yorker.
Prof. Sanborn, in a recent report
on swine feeding at the Missouri
Agricultural College Farm, gives facts
that should be carefully studied by all
farmers. He shows that the cost of
maintenance alone, Simply running
the machine) is from 2 to 3 per cent,
the latter while the pigs are roughing
it in the cold and storms of winter.
Of two lots of pigs, equal in numbers
and weight and fed equal quantities of
grain, the lot confined in pens with
no green food gained rs pounds,
while lot number two, having the run
OF a blue grass pasture, gained ia
pounds. The same lots during an
other period, fed alike and both on
grass, showed gain of "a pounds in
favor of lot one, showing there was no
deficiency as to health or thrift.
During another period, lot one, fed
grain and running to grass. gained 103
pounds while lot two, to grass alone
gained 20 pounds. These experiments
show that pigs fed grain alone hardly
make profitable gain; that fed the
same grain and running to pasture,
they make the most gain, and that on
pasture alone they gain too slowly to
be profitable; and that while running
in good pasture and feed grain, the
grass furnishes the nutriment for
maintaining existence, and the grain
is all used to increase the growth,
thus giving the greatest measure of
profit. He further shows that crowd
ing pigs forward from the time of
their birth so they will be fattened
ready for slaughter when seven
months old, there is twice as much
profit as in wintering and feeding two
summers. What hog raisers need
everywhere is a qulck-growing, early
maturing hog that need not be kept
over winter. There is really no profit |
in those large hogs that can not well
be marketed before two years old.
To PREVENT Loss OF EARLY CHICKS.
From the .ltry Keeper.
As soon as you are aware that the |
nests contain young chicks take them |
out and place them in little brooder,
and keep them there till they are at |
least twenty-four hours old, and longer |
if possible, or until they are strong
and active. Take every chick away
leaving the hen ON the nest. As
they seem strong place them under
her at night and there leave them till |
morning for the ben to bring them off,
but before doing so clean out the
nest or make new one, and you
will thus incur less liability of the hen |
trampling them to death. Let her |
lead them to the feed. Should one or
two hatch out weak immerse them,
except the head, in water at the tenn
perature of 100 degrees, giving a
nics bath, washing off blood or dirt,
then wrap quickly in warm flannel
and place them in a warm location to |
dry, but be cautious that no cool !
draughts reach them as death may be |
the result. Expose no chick to cold
air unless thoroughly dry.
FRUIT.
The Chicago Tribune is of opinion
hat the prices of fruit will never be
ow again in this country. The
facilities of transportation are so
abundant and the foreign demand
or evaporated fruit so consta Mt and
Increasing that fruit-growing in the
United States may be considered es-
ablished as paying business "while
,rass grows and water runs" Tins