The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-10-17
For the Farmer.

Dead weeds SOW no seeds.
Milk is three per cent heavier than
water.
A machine for shocking grain has
been patented.
Foreign cattle companies own l,000,-
600 Texas cattle.
There are 100000 acres of planted
forest in Nebraska.
SKINNED milk, sour milk and butter
milk are all good for poultry.
Cedar wind breaks are recommended
by the Kansas Horticultural Society.
Sandwich Island breeders are ship
ping blooded horses from this country.
The Massachusetts PlOughman says
"ensilagc is still on its successful
march"
An invention is reported for making
rural transportation easier and cheaper.
1t is cheap wooden railroad made to
run wagons over.
A ram's-horn horseshoe has been
manufactured in Lyons, France. 1t is
intended for use on pavements, AMI
mails wearing them being less likely to
slip than those wearing iron shoes.
Professor Budd, of the Iowa Agri-
cultural College. the best authority on
tree-culturc in the West, says the white
brches from Eastern Europe are much
better adapted to our prairies than the
birches native to this continent.
The swine mango is said to be caused
by minute insect that burrows under
the skin, and keeping the swine in filth
increases the insects. To cure it, wash
the pigs with strong soap-suds, and,
when dry, grease with mixed coal-oil
and lard, equal parts.
+. ID. Curtis, in the New York Trt-
June, says he plowed up a six-acre field
where the grass was running out, and
found it was due TO the presence of
white grubs in the soil. He sowed it
to buckwheat, which the grubs will
not eat, and proposes to starve them
out.
TO feed young pigs six times day
is better than to do so less often, says
an exchange. By a "little'' is meant
enough to fill the stomach moderately
full, but in no case to the extent Of
stuffing or gorging. This latter man.
ner of feeding will destroy the appetite
or produce an inflated or poddy condi-
ton and stunt the pig.
Professor Beal, of the Michigan Az
ricultural College, one Of the best au-
thorities on grasses, writes that he has
many times seeded land to grass with
out another crop, and always received
fair yield OF grass the first year with
Spring seeding, and good crop with
Fall seeding. If sown in early Au-
tumn, the annual weeds die out and
leave the grass to take the lead in the
Spring.
The National Live Stock Journal says:
1--WE wish TO call the Western far
mers' attention TO the fact that West
ern horses are found less able to work
on pavements than Canadian horses of
the same weight, and that in the East
ern markets this is attributed to the
general use in the West Of corn as food
for the young horses, while oats and
peas are fed mostly in Canada as grain
food"
The Poultry World says that the diff
ference between an egg laid by
plump, healthy-fed hen, fed with good,
fresh food daily, and an egg laid by a
thin, poorly-fed hen is as great as the
difference between good beef and poor.
A fowl fed on garbage and weak slops,
with very little grain of any kind, may
leg eggs, to be sure, but when these
eggs are broken, to be used for cakes,
pies, etc, they will spread in a weak,
watery way over your dish or look q
milky white, instead of having q rich,
slightly yellow tingo. A ''rich egg''
retains its shape as far as possible, and
yields TO the beating of n knife or spoon
with more resistance and gives you the
conviction that you are really beating
something thicker than water or diluted
milk.
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