Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-08-21
Farm and Live Stock Notes.
Oil meal is very fattening.

Harvest early potatoes when ripe
Parsnips are capital food for swine.
Clean the chicken coops the yeal
through.
Rutabagas may still be sown, and
turnips for six weeks longer.
Early July is a good time to sow Hun.
garian grass; the soil should be rich and
mellow.
In loading hay, long, wide and low
loads are better than otherwise, being
labor-saving to the pitcher, and less lai-
bic to slip.
One of the most frequent causes OF
colo in horses is the drinking of cold
water when the animal is heated.
In the sea-bound British Isles, the at
mosphere is charged with salt, which
leaves its effects on fodder, that live
stock does not require to be supplied
with salt.
A cross between dark brahmas and
dorkings produces easily reared and
hardy table-fowls, that ''look like young
turkeys
Carrots, beside being very nourish-
ing food for work horses, improve the
breathing process and prevent any ten
dency to heaves.
The best time to cut Canada thistles
is when they are in flower, the root be-
ing then in its weakest condition. This
cutting, while of course it will not kill
them, renders it less difficult to destroy
by later cuttings.
Turnips and rutabagas are generally
sown broadcast, but by using a pound
of seed to the acre in drills eighteen in
ches apart, cultivating the rows few
times, and thinning to five and six in
ches in the drill, much larger crops
may be raised.
DO not clip the WinqS. If fowls mnst
be prevented from flying, instead of
barbarously shortening the feathers
close to the wing, open one of the lat
ter and pull out all of the first or flight
feathers, usually ten in number, instead,
and the matter is accomplished with no
detriment to the their appearance.
a top-dressing that soiU pay-An APP
plication of finely divided manure made
on meadows, after the first crop is taken
OIL, will pay. Such a coat will protect
the base of the grass plants from the
heat OF the midsummer sun, and sup
ply nourishment to the roots at time
when it is much needed. The new
growth will come along quickly, and of
sufficient strength to be of great value
either for d second moving or rs pas
ture.
Dry earth or muck for bedding. Ma
nure saved is manure made; where
waste occurs it is oftener in the loss OF
urine from the animal pens and stables,
perhaps, than in any other way To
prevent this, more bedding for one
thing is desirable, and there is none
that is better than dry earth or muck
for increasing the manure yield Swamp
muck properly dried is to be preferred,
as it contains a large per cent. of nj
trogen, which renders it decidedly valu-
able in itself. A ton of this contains as
much nitrogen as seven tons of straw,
and when used freely in the winter
under pigs and cattle to absorb urine
the product makes very rich manure
In the absence of muck, any common
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ton to each pig and several for the
larger animals could be used in win.
ter to advantage, and the stables would
be drier, the animals healthier, and the
manure worth a great deal more. Now
is the time to set about drying the ma
terial. With a suitable drying floor
which may consist of any level piece O
ground, several rods or more in size
in sunny, airy place, the operation o
drying is not heavy one, after the ma
terial has been hauled to the place. A
strong boy could attend to the worl
very well. Each morning enough
should be scattered over the surface t,
dry thoroughly by night. counting OF
raklng 1t over somewhat at midday
The dried material should be stored un
der good roof near where it is to b,
used. This would also be just the ar
tiele to use freely about priyies. for rem
dering them more valuable as regards
rich fertilizer afforded, and less often
sive and unhealthful.