Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1884-10-31
FARM AND FlRESlDE.
Farm Notes.

Hurry up the Fan Work; coiu
fingers will be the result OF delay
Lime applied as a top dressing
has an excellent effect on worn out
soils.
Flour is cheaper than it has been |
known to be in this generation.
Ensilage is being endorsed by /
more and more farmers. Its sue
cess is now an assured fact.
In some parts Of Kansas grain
remains unharvested for want OF
necessary labOrers.
Manure is never applied too
heavily for corn, aud deep cultiva-
ton is not endorsed by the most
successful growers.
The boom in POOLED Angus has
subsidized and prices have declined
80 to so per cent. as compared with
last years sales.
1t is estimated that the damage
caused by the potato bug in Ohio,
and the expense of fighting it, is
over Sl,OOO,0OO.
\ strong solution of salt applied
to walks will destroy all weeds
pound to the square yard is put IN
a gallon water and applied hot.
Cotton-seed meal is excellent for
cows and sheep, but should never
be given to pigs ol horSes,
No man will ever get frst-rate
wuvuvvS uVs -rAaAvsnri> r,r6criee OF
yearly culling.
Buffalo bones are now brought
from the Western prairies to be
converted into phosphates. They
are worth about $50 a ton, deliver
CN ~ tuc ldClOIA.
The farmer can better afford to
raise potatoes for % centsper bush.
ell than to grow wheat for 81. Two
hundred bushels per acre is not a
large average yield. This would
give $50 per acre. Fifteen bushels
is an average yield of an acre of
wheat. The potato crop will require
a little more labor, but with the
late improved machinery the cost
of cultivating and harvesting an
acre Of potatoes has been very
much reduced.
One Of the best substan ces to
mix with phosphate to make it dis.
tribute evenly is wood ashes.
There is an excess Ofsulphuric acid
in most new super-phOsphate, and
it is this which causes the thickness
which sOon compacts the fertilizer
so that II cannot be distributed.
The alkali OF tue ashes neutralizes
this acid. 1t acts on the iron drill
bottom just as ashes act on the ia
bic knives when the housewife /
SOUS Hem. ASHES will clean out /
a drill better than anything else. /
provided they are prefectly dry /
when put in. They soon gather |
moisture by standing.
The natural inclination of far
mcrs II Ia orill, pillow and perform
every other operation on the field
50 as'to have as long rows as posi-
bic. In pOwing this is an advan-
iage, though even this work is bet
ter to he occasionally done the short
way, TO enable the pillow to reach
new surfaces and to change the
course OF the dead burrows. But
with fertilizer drills long boots are
a disadvantage, as they make it
more difficult to distribute the fer
tilizer evenly. ii the field is very
long the phosphate should be put
in at each end and in the middle.
Even with this percaution it is
difficult to get it distributed as
uniformly as it may be on smaller
fields.
Mich cows cannot once be de-
prived of water without its telling
on the milk flow.
Cut the black knot on plum trees
as soon as it appears, then wrap
the wound with sulphur and graft
ing wax.
Farmers lose a great deal in not
feeding stock in mild weather, in-
stead Of waiting until cold weather
to begin to fatten.
poor quality Of stoct is about as
bad as keeping too much. 1t never
pays so we'll to feed inferior as to
feed good. roOr feed is poor at any
price.
Not more farmers, but better far
mers are what we want. We want
farmers who know why they do
this, and why they de that; who
read, study and think.
Asa matter of economy, every
farmer should have workshop or
work room where he can make and
mend. lie needs but a few good
tools and a disposition to use
them. &
A compact seed he'd is important |
for wheat, but it should be made by s
rains and previous rolling rather /
than by using the roller after the i
grain is sOwn. A slightly uneven Q
surface will prevent much of the f
wheat from being winter killed. t
Fail ploughing is good means d
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