Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1884-10-10

ces per quart.
When the soil contains enough
of any one plant ingredient it is a
waste of money to apply more.
The estimated apple yield for
Western New York is 100000 bar
rels.
English markets are slightly
more favorable to American ship
pers than they were a few weeks
ago.
The California Orange crop this
year is estimated at 10000 boxes
or Is, 100000 oranges.
1t is claimed Missouri and Kan
sas furnish nearly one-fourteenth
of the hog crop of the world.
Where corn is light much low
grade wheat will be fed to stock,
and perhaps to better advantage
than to sell the grain.
Don't give all the skim milk to
the pigs. The hens will pay you
more for il and pay it sooner.
Butter-eaters desiring to be econ
omical should remember that but
ter has more flavor than food about
it and can be easily dispensed with
as an article of diet. It's use is
largely a matter of habit.
Prof. Forbes says that the wheat
straw worm, the Larvae Of which re-
mains in the stubble through the
winter, can be largely extermlna-
ted by burning the stubble.
Don't forget to order some plum
trees to set in the hen yard next
spring. The hens keep Oft the cur
culio and the droppings are good
fertilizer for them. The Lombard
is a good variety.
a prominent fruit grower says
weeds will never bother a farmer II
he will keep the land in grass, turn
ing sod for crops, and reseeding to
grass again after one or two plough
ings.
When colts are running with
their dams, care should be exercls-
ed while feeding, as any food that
has the least tendancy to mares
loose will operate on the colts IN
the s ame manner.
While they get plenty OF food, or
rather a place to lay their eggs,
potato beetles will never move from
a field, and very seldom move much
in it. But as soon as the early po-
tatoes die down or are eaten OIL
thousands of beetles may be seen
flying to fresh pastures.
A spring colt should be weaned
a little before winter in order that
it NAV become used to the change
of food while the weather is warm,
and while plenty of succullent food
can be had. Ensilage is an excell-
ent feed for maintaining growth of
colts and other young stock.
1t is well to be suspicious of a
COW over-fat while giving milk.
She either gives little, or it is poor
in quality. The best mixers not
only put most of what they eat in
the pail, but steadily pull them
selves down while being MIXED,
no matter how highly they may be
fed. For this reason the best
mixers should, if possible, be dried
two months ormOre before calving,
so as to give some chance for laying
on flesh. They will give it back in
the pail next season.
An Indiana man gives the follow
inc as a remedy for MARBLES in cat
tie: Take lard or any kind of
grease, and grease your cattle's
backs from the shoulders to the
root of the tail. Grease every week
from July to October, as this is the
period in which the fly does the
mischief.
Manures made on the farm are
of very unequal value, and their
nelpfulness is greatly increased by
thorough mixing together before
applying to the land. This is es-
pecially the case with hen manure
which is extremely rich in nitrogen.
If this is composted a few days in
a pile of COW manure, mixed with
straw, the nitrogen in the hen drop
pings will leaven the entire heap,
and the richer manure can itself
be much more evenly distributed
over a larger surface than it could
in smaller bulk.