Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-02-28
FARM NOTES.

Morning milk is richer than the even
ing.
Mature plants for spring and sum-
mer.
Draughts in poultry houses cause
roup.
Tho value of butter sent 10 New
York c'ty last year was $22, ,627 ,579.
There is not WOODEN mill in New
Mexico, though it has $4,000, 900 sheep.
Michigan annually markets over
10000 coo pounds of wool from its
2,0O00 600 sheep.
Wheat worth nearly dollar bushel
in Chicago brought Dakota farmers
from 60 to rs cents.
The butter exports of France amount
to $l6,000,000 annually, and of
cheese somewhat less.
1t is said that tobacco stems laid in
the first fork of the trees will protect
fruit trees from rabbits.
Remember that all fowls relish both
skinned milk and buttermik, also
that it is good for them.
The total value of brick and tile,
made in the United States last year is
estimated ut $34 ,000,0 900.
The Clydesdale Horse association of
Great Britain is prosecuting several
cases of alleged forgeries Of pedierees.
Really good butter is sometimes
ruined by the use of inferior salt. The
economy of purchasing mean salt is
sheer waste.
Remove and burn diseased peach
trees. DO not plant others in the same
place, or they will most likely be
affected in the same manner.
The cherry tree makes 81 pleasant
shude, and the wonder is why farmers
do not grow cherry trees moro gen
orally in place of shade trees.
1t is estimated that the value of tho
garden products of Massachusetts, ex-
elusive OF potatoes and bOans raised on
the farms, equalod $5,O00,000 last
year.
A forest mathematician has figured
out that there are enough pine trees
growing in the south to furnish the
whole country with lumber for 250
years TO come.
Buckwheat should not precede either
corn or wheat. 1t makes the soil too
light and porous for wheat, and ex-
perionce shows that corn nevor does
we'll after bucHWheat.
The black knot on plum TIRE os is easily
kept in subjection if properly cut of
when it first appears. This seems the
only efficient remedy, and il is certainly
a simple and easy one.
The want of pure and fresh water
accounts in many instances for the
) lack of eggs during the winter season.
Fowls require constant supply OF
water, and without it wlll not lay.
A Michigan grape grower found that
one full-grOwn Concord vine produced
moro and better fruit when accupying
fifty feet OF trellis than the vines of the
same length Of trellis planted eight feet
apart.
a New jersey farmer writes to tie
New York Herald that he gave n
= dressing of salt (eight bushels to the
:. acre) 10 land badly infested with
! white gruts, pnd for three years aftor
-. raised good crops OF corn, which was
!, impossible previous to this applica-
= ton.
r Tho Now York Herald says chat in
using carbuli0 acid for dsintcctants
q or msec; killers in the poultry house
it is not well 10 mix it with whltewash.
i The fowls may pick the whitewash fol-
/. the lime, to uso in their system fo;
q shells, and thus poison themselves
4 with the carobolic acid inwatdiy.
d On the subject of sulphur TO remedy
Il the rot III potatoes, u correspondent o
v the Elmira (N. Y.) Husbandman says
"a Vermont Farmer rolled his DOtato