The National tribune., 1884-09-11

wort 1t into something elsa. Hay sells well In
the shape of butter and beef, while corn can be
shipped in the form of pork.
When you sow your wheat make the seed
bed fine. Do not apply all the fertilizer at o
time in sowing but divide it into two parts,
using one-half now and one-half in the spring.
The yield viii be larger, both in grain and
straw.
- 1t Is good time now to select your seed
corn for next year.
- See that your haryesters are put away In
good shape, so that when you need them next
year you viii not have to lose time while hay
ing them repaired.
- One of the largest ard most experienced
breeders and raisers of horses in Illinois says
that If you will give one or two mouthfuls OF
hay to the horse before you water him, there
will never be any danger of the horse being
water -foundered. This is, as far as his expert
ence is concerned, an infallible rule, and Ii
worth being remembered by all horse-men.
- Mr.. GoiIart, the inventor OF the ensilage
system, at his farm in France tried ensilage II
years before he said much about it. 1t costs
him 3-6 cents per day to feed COW, and he
estimates the cost of ensilage at 80 cents pen
ton.
= Ventilation and plenty of it at this season
is very essential, not only in the stable, but
also in the barn.
= Cultiyating on hot day is a grand way
to kill weeds. At the same time it is beneficial
to plant growth.
= 1t is never safe to leave hillside naked
through the Winter. In the dryest seasons
frest will pulverize the surface so that much Of
it will be washed away. In very rainy VIM
ters gullies viii form on the hillside TO the
permanent injury of the field.
- A farmer says more and better sugar can
be made from watermelens than from beets
and he claims TO have made sugar from them
by boiling down the juice and treating Rs if il
were maple sap.
= The great share Of the fattening of old
sheep might consist of apples, pumpkins, and
the ike. A sheep fattened in this way Is sec
| ond only to lamb in tender, luscious sweet
ness.
- An exchange says that, by all odds, the
cheapest and best way to eradicate common
hardwood stumps is to work the ground with
shovel-plow, SOW bHekwheat or plant corr
until seeded to timothy, orchard grass and
| clover and pasture until the stumps SO far dc
cay that they can be pulled out By hitehing &
chain around the top when the ground is wei
! IN Winter or Spring.
- Fowls that are confined should have
/ plenty of green stuff. The tops Of vegetables
grass, eabbage-leaves, etc.. viii answer the pur
| pose.
/ - In feeding oats to horses during the sea
/ son of hard labor, remember that the best ar'
/ not always those which look bright and ar,
/ free from mustiness or other odor indicating
previous dampness or heat; weight of oats do
termines value, if their condition is good
| Light oats contain little nutrinlent. It pays
at this hard-working time of year, TO feed goot
grain and good hay.
- In California the waste from the harves
/ of grain is often allowed to reseed the land
and a second or volunteer" crop is raiset
without any plowing or additional seeding.
= Broom-sedge indicates silicious, albu
minal soil; ig-weed and dock, good subsoil
sap-weed, potash soil; poverty grass, worn
cut soil; red piney, barren soil wire grass
| a strong soil; crab grass, rich surface soil
sassafras and mullen show want OF calcareou
elements; sumae indicates potash, while sorre
indicates deficiency of lime.