The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-05-03
For the Farmer.

White hellibore will destroy the
currant worm.
The fne-wool sheep of Canada
are giving place to coarse-wool
breeds.
The best American cattle sell in
England for 10 cents per pound
dressed.
About 100000 bushels of wheat
are annually used for seed in this
country.
A gill of strong green tea is said to
be a specific for sheep poisoned 10y eat
ing laurel.
A farmer in Dedham, Mass, gets
four tons of timothy hay per acre. He
manures heavily.
Investigate tile-draining. Many
farms would be trebled in value if
thoroughly underdrained.
Florida growers aid the heading of
cabbage by sprinkling little salt into
the heart and tying up the leaves with
Irvine.
If 100 acres of arabic land will not
keep six horses, twenty COWS and twen-
ty hogs, it is not up to the standard Of
good land.
Persian insect powder, applied by
means of q small bellows, is recon-
mended as an affectual remedy for lice
on cattle and horses.
Egg shells should be crushed before
feeding them to the fowls for when
fed whole it is apt to teach them the
bad habit of eating their eggs.
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unless they have properly arranged
house for their accommodation. This
is just as necessary to their well being
as it is that the cattle or horses should
have good barn.
Lysander S. Richards, of East Marsh
field, Mass, writes to the Massachu-
sets Ploughman that he planted pota-
toes last Season that had turned green
from exposure to the sun. and saw no
difference in the yield.
In portions of North Carolina nine
teenth century methods have made but
little progress. A recent letter from
the state says many of the housewives
still follow the cotton with their own
fingers from the stock to the stock
ing.
Grass means cattle: cattle means
manure; manure means rich lands;
rich lands means good crops, and good
crops means prosperity. This is the
history of the world. Seed part OF
your faru down to grass and see if the
assertion is not true.
Gravel or coarse sand is as much
needed by fowls as ordinary food.
With this their food is rendered di-
gestible. When the birds are confined
to close quarters. especially in houses
with wooden floors, the absence OF
gravel will quickly become apparent in
the fall away in flesh and good health
of the inmates.
Every weed that secures growth on
the field deprives the soil of so much
fertility and robs the crops of that de-
gree. The labor of eradication is also
greater the stronger the weed, and it is
a well-known fact that the majority of
weeds are not only gross feeders but
tenacious in habit, doing more injury
in occupying and seeding the ground
than by depriving itof its fertilizing
elements.
| OF the SO. 000.0 600 people in Japan,
nearly 5000 900, in 1880, were farm
ers, in almost equal proportion OF both
sexes. Since 1868 the people own the
land. paving the tax for it to the gov
ernment. Three-tenths of the titled
land is in the hands of small proprie-
tors, who, with their wives and children.
do nearly all the teamwork. The pillow
in common use is nothing but spade,
with a narrow blade about three feet
lone. There is fine climate and
much fertile land in Japan.
A Kansas correspondent of the
Prairie Farmer MIR. Jacob Nixon. in
answer to request for something to
prevent wire-worms from injuring seed
corn after planting, advises the trial OF
a pint of coal oil to the bushel OF seed.
He finds this remedy effectual in pre-
venting moles from following the
planters marks, and also the prairie
1 squirrel. or striped gopher. Corn thus
treated gives no trouble to horse Of
hand corn-planters.