McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-04-23
Farm and Garden.

Farm and Garden.
England will spend $4,000. 900 fol
American apples this year.
First class cows can be raised cheap
er than they can be purchased. In
fact it is the only way to secure prime
herd.
A New York horticultural society
recommends putting teaspoonful OF
sulphur about the roots of the cabbage
plants when set, as a remedy for clut
foot.
At the New York Experiment Sta
ton Jersey cow refused for thirty-siX
hours to eat stale brewers grains.
This is good enough evidence that her
"head was level"
1t is found by experiment that while
the different forms of commercial pot
ash increase the crop of potatoes they
impair the quality, making the tubers
watery and spongy.
A couple of ounces of carbolic acid
to three quarts of water sprinkIed in
The poultry house from small water
ing pot, once or twice a month, will
destroy lice and other parasites.
President Lyon, speaking of the
peach yellows, says: wherever the
disease attacks the extremity of the
longest limbs, the tree is doomed, and
the only safe way is to destroy it,"
Light, friable soil should he rolled
before putting in the seed and after
ward. Nothing is better for the gar
den than well rotted stable manure
Hog manure proves detrimental to
cabbage.
Sheep should have their feet trim
med twice a year, says an exchange.
Ii they are not trimmed, the hoof
curles under at the edges and retains
a mass of filth and dirt, which is apt
to cause footrot.
Galvanized wire netting car now be
obtained for one cent per square foot,
and as 1t is more easily converted into
fence than is lumber, and Is at the
same time more durable, more of it is
being used this year for poultry yards
| than ever before.
Good cows are always in demand.
but fresh COWS always command
higher prices from the first of Janu-
airy to the first of May, than at any
other season, and it is well to so man
age your herd that the heifers and
cows which you may have for sale will
calve within this time.
The american CultiUator says: cit is
scarcely possible for grain to stool
much on very poor soil. We can get
but few heads from a seed, and these
need, therefore, to be sown more
thickly to make q crop than on land
where large number of heads NAV
be expected from single plant
A veteran sheep-breeder in western
Massachusetts, thinks the remedy for
the disease in sheep known as grub in
the head, is plenty of grub in the
stomach. He thinks healthy sheep
have maggot in the head, and when
not properly cared for, the grub gets
the better of them, and the result is
death.
1t is estimated that fully fifteen mil
lion gallons of amber cane syrup were
made IN 1884. Of this a very small
proportion went on the market. Prob
ably three-fourths was made for farm
ers who grew small patches of cane
and had it manufactured into syrup
for themselves and neighbors.
Beets and turnips raised by phos-
phate are not disfgured by growth
of coarse, struggling roots, which so
much affect their market value, but
are smooth and attractive in appear
ance. Superphosphate of lime in
creases the yield of potatoes, with
proper cultivation, and the tubers are
rarely, if ever, affected by the scab.
A correspondent of The New York
Tribune says sour land is not indicated
by growth of sorrel, but by coarse
heritage or unhealthy looking moss on
the surface. Draining is the best cure
for sour land. and when this is done,
a dressing of lime will help to decom-
pose the coarse vegetable matter and
bring the soil to fertile state.
In breaking the fresh heifers to
milk, the farmer does we'll to attend to
it himself, and use the utmost gentle
ness and kindness towards the timld
and oftentimes nervous brute. Vic
iousness, which is sometimes exhib-
tied at this time, is almost ALWAYS the
product of fear either for herself or
tleneSs.
A correspondent of The Country
Gentleman says that in Ohio at pres
ent it would have paid farmers 81 per
bushel for all the corn fed had they |
fed their sheep early and made them
fat for the winter market. He saws
he has found by experience and obser-
walton that it is never a good plan to |
sell stock of any kind when it is unu-
sually low.
The american Cuztivator says that
in planting apple seeds it is important
to get vigorous growth the first
year, as on that the number of roots
to be grated depends. The seeds
should: be planted early on well-ma-
nured ground and as free from weeds
as possible. The young plants re-
quire nearly as close care and hand