The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-03-26
For The Farmer.

Practical shepherds say that not
more than fifty sheep should be kept
under one roof
An Indiana practical farmer says:
''Yet with long years of experience,
observation, and experiment, believe
I have learned some of the ways of
success in agriculture. One is good
seed; the other thorough cultivation"
Undertaking makes the ground
more spongy. Drains of till help take
the water from the soil by drawing it
from a depth of two feet or more; there-
fore much more water passes through
the soil above the level of the drains
than could pass through undrained
soil.
THE farmer is coming to the front
in public affairs. There's no question
about that And he's coming at
pretty fair pace, too. He ought to
come faster. He will come faster and
| faster, as he becomes, through educa-
ton, culture, and general intelligence,
better and better qualified to assume
| control; to occupy and maintain him
self in the front rank" So says Our
Country Home.
In Ohio it is against the law to allow
| any animal to run at large, whether tied
down or not. unless special permission
has first been given by the county COM
| missioners, or by special permit by
| township trustees. The owner or any
person having in charge any animal
| and allowing the same to run at large
is liable for all damages done by such
| animal upon the premises of another,
| without reference to the fence which
may inclose the premises.
A Texas man writes to an agricult-
ural paper that he has for years been
growing what he calls Nicaragua
| wheat in the lowlands, where the heavy
air produces rust so surely that the ordi-
nary varieties of wheat cannot be sue
cessfully grown. In many years, he
never had a crop of the Nicaragua
wheat damaged in the least by smut or
rust 1t may be true that he has n
wheat proof against the attacks of rust;
or the truth may be that he has seed
wheat to sell at a fancy figure.
In the last issue of our Country
Home is the following advice: 1--WE
feel sure we are right when we advise
farmers, in planting for next seasons
campaign, to arrange for full amount
of labor Practice rigid economy at all
possible points, but let it be economy
of the economical sort. Remember
that There is that which withholdeth
more than is meet, but it tendeth to
poverty On the farm this may we'll
be applied to the item of labor. All
farm profit comes directly from work
well done, and done at the right time. p"
A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer,
writing from the ''black swamp" dis
trict, saws that the land where he lives
was. fifteen years ago, a swamp and
would not sell for more than $40 per
acre. Now the land that was least de-
sirable is worth from S65 to $75 per
acre. The land then desirable on
account of elevation is now the least
desirable. The lowest land, where
fifteen years ago pole could be pushed
into the ground to depth of ten feet,
is now dry and titled. AS it is an
accumulation of decayed vegetable mat
ter the land is very rich. The change
was brought about by ditching. 1t
may be quite possible that like expert
ences will be seen in other places in
the West in the next decade.
L. d. Shook gives an excellent plan
in the Ohio Farmer for supporting
raspberry canes. A No. 9 or 10 wire is
stretched from post to post along the
rows and about two feet above the
ground, not directly over the plants
: but about three inches to one side
The posts may be 100 to $50 feet apart
, A wire band or loop having hool
, turned at each end and to catch on th'
{ horizontal wire is placed around the
: canes in each hill. This band should
be made of piece of No. 9 wire fifteer
/ inches long, bent into the form of :
pail-bail. The hooks in the end shoult
go over the main wire loosely enough
: to allow of being easily unlocked wheI
it is desirable to put new canes int
| Dosition within the loops