Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-11-12
FARM NOTES.

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It is much easier as we'll as more
profitable to keep a soil in coed con-
dition than it is to restore it where
its fertility or productiveness has
been impaired.
Any person supposing that milk
will not quickly absorb odors near it,
has only to place = shallow vessel
containing milk in room where there
is decaying meat or other bad odor.
The milk will soon become too often
sive for use.
A contemporary advises: "Don't
allow a reckless dog to chase the
COWS home at night" Better advice
would have been: Don't allow reck-
less boys to demoralize the dog.
The man who allows his COWS to be-
come duly excited always gets his
pay in bad milk.
Unless clover be sown frequently
by wheat-growers and some stable
manure be used, there will come a
time when commercial fertilizers will
fail to make good wheat crops.
Mineral manures tend to make the
soil more compact, and therefore
less absorptive and retentive of
water.
In Denmark wheat bran, oats and
rope cake are considered the best
food for COWS for the production of
butter. Barley and rye, with peas
and linseed cake, is considered next
best. In the Wo corn and oats,
groule- setherth little linseed
or cotton see1>1 e, combine essen
tials with profitable outcome.
Thoroughly fattened turkeys and
chickens should be picked dry, hung
up until the animal heat has escaped,
and then packed with clean straw,
each fowl being separately wrapped
in clean, porous paper. Some per-
sons pack in clean leaves, using no
paper, but only bright clean, long
straw. Ducks and geese should al
ways be scalded and steamed by
covering up with a blanket for a
short time before picking. In other
respects handle them as turkeys and
chickens but no poultry should be
packed until perfectly cool and dry.
Apples continue to come to the St.
Louis market at the rate Of 5000 to
1000 barrels per day, and as a re-
suit prices are low. mainly $1.50 to
iS2 barrel. Illinois is furnishing
nearly half the entire receipts, which
shows it is not an off year with the
orchardists of that state. For the
first time in the history of the trade
there are more of the ben davis va
riety offered than there is a demand
for-the shippers being at last sur
feited with it, and other varieties the
past two weeks being the more sought
for. This, however, is no reflection
on the fruit, but simply the proper
tion of this kind was SO large as to
exceed the general wants Of the trade.
It is evident that most of the grow
ers have hurried to market with un-
necessary haste all of their ben davis
apples.
Whatever repairs are to be made
on the farm buildings should be
done before cold weather sets in, or
or it will not only be more expensive,
but the work cannot be done so well
in cold as in moderate weather. In
making repairs, lesky roofs should
be the first to receive attention; il
the shingles are much worn, or there
are many blown off, it is better econ
omy to put on all new shingles thar
to try to patch the roof up. As this
is work which most of farmers car
do themselves, the only outlay vii
be for stock; In fact, on..many farms
timber enough can be cut to make al
OF. the shingles needed to keep th'
buildings III good repair, so If TIN
farmer begins in season he will onl,
have to pay for the saving of tn
shingles and for the nails. Whel
the roofs Of all the buildings are tigh
the farmer will next look to the wall
and see that they arc all right. Th
windows always need looking afte
to keep them in good repair; unlss
, kept we'll covered with paint. tn
putty will soon dry 50 hard that
will peel off, thus ioosening the glas
and letting the wind through. TIL
, farmer who studies economy Wi
keep the window sashes well painte'
and thus keep the putty from drop
lping off. Every farmer should bu
his glass by the box and he shoul
keep on hand linseed oil and within
and thus be prepared at all times t
l make his own putty and set squar
of glass whenever one chance TO b
broken; by so doing he can keep hi
3 windows in repair at a trifing expense
We have read, now and then, g
single ladies going to the West an
securing future homesteads on go,
ernment lands. During the presen
: journey We have met and heard d
rectly of not less than q dozen suc
, cases, and are informed that they al
quite numerous. The homestead la
makes no distinction of sex.
Dakota married women have simiia