New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-04-15
FARM AND GARDEN.

All soils of sour, heavy nature, full
4 of thready undecomposed vegetable
hbre, are greatly benefited by dress.
ing of air-slacked lime.
There are about six thousand spe-
eles OF grass, or one-sixth of all the
lowering plants grown. Yet of this
large number only about half dozen
are known to and grown by the average
farmer.
A New England farmer, who proba-
oily speaks from experience, says the
! white daisy and wild carrot can be
eradicated from the pastures by keep
ing sheep on them for few consecu-
tive years.
The Ohio Agricultural Experiment
Station calls attention to the fact that
in it's experiments potatoes raised from
large, whole seed ripened nine days
earlier than those from seed cut to
4 single eyes.
If tarred paper is used about young
trees as protection from mice, it should
be removed as soon as the warm
weather of spring warrants, as the
fresh tar on the tender bark some
times causes fatal injury to the trees
under hot sunshine.
On opening big cabbage grown at
Sodus, N. Y, it was found that within
an outside covering of large, thick
leaves were tightly imbedded thirty
two small and almost perfectly round
cabbages. Another one contained
twenty-seven small cabbages.
An onion patch of five acres, once an
unsightly, useless swamp, near Fair
port, N. Y, IN 1888, yielded 5000
bushels, 600 bushels to the acre. Ow-
ing to the low price, the owner claims
he made no profit on the crop. He
uses stable manure, phosphates, guano
and ground bone.
The Commissioner of Agriculture
says that, while in some of the states
the pure-bred and high-grade cattle
are but per cent of the whole, in
Ohio and Kentucky it is 40 per cent,
in Indiana % per cent, in Illinois IS
per cent, and Massachusetts 80 per
cent of the whole number.
Connecticut strawberry growers ex-
press a preference for sowed corn,
grown pretty large, as mulch for
o.T"" Ooi Aloo 1CA WlAIoI pIotecLlOH.
1t is cheap, and there are no weed
seeds to sprout. Pine needles, where
they can be obtained, are also excel
dent for this purpose.
In Scotland they do rot award
premiums to stations for beauty of
form and symmetry, but for their
usefulness. A stallion, when Compel
ing in the show room, must be ac-
companied by large number of colts
sired by him, and the young stock is
judged as closely as the stallion.
Michigan farmers who have black
walnut on their farms ought to know
z that "a single tree, if we'll grown, lis
i quite a valuable possession, and mot
: part with it, for next to nothing.
From $500 to 81, 200 and even $4,000,
has been realized from a single tree
when manufactured. Such timber
ought not to be sold for song.
A correspondent of the Country Gen.
1enaan thinks we have reached that
stage in the history of breeding Jer-
seys in this country when the animals
OF small milk and butter capacity are
beginning to disappear from the field
OF speculation. The more rapidly this
>class of animals are retired the more
will the butter interests of the .country
sadvance.
Mr.. P. M. Augur, of Connecticut.
says that orchards which have borne
four crops of fruit and retain health
and Vigor are comparatively few, out
side the Delaware orchards. He
thinks peach trees of Inherited weak
constitution can not stand the exhaus-
ton of successive crops. hence too
much care can not be exercised in Sc
Letting trees or seed from healthy
sources.
G. W. Hoffman, of the Elmira Farm
ers' Club, thinks barley straw as feed
for cattle, is more palatable and nutri-
tious than any other straw. It is not
desirable for sheep, because of the
boards which get into the wool. Cat
tie will eat out the barley straw from
straw stack before they will attack
other kinds. Another member of the
club thinks barley straw nearly as
good for young cattle rs hay of ordi-
nary quality.
A large crop Of potatoes can not be
produced unless the soil kas .afull sup
ply of nitrogen, phosphates and potash,
IN an available condition. available
nitrogen, however, is a costly article,
and it's good policy to use np;all that
the soil annually affords. This we can
do by seeing that the growth of the
plants is never checked for want of a
supply of phosphates and potash. We
are now getting in this country super
phosphates at reasonable prices, and
farmers can use them with profit on
such crops as usually command good
prices.
What the market gardener needs is
trich manure. The ordinary manure
obtained from city stables and,else-
swhere is poor in nitrogen
an soluble nitrogen. Five hundred
pounds OF the nitrate of soda, used in
conjunction with twenty tons of ma
,nure per acre, would often produce a
better crop than forty tons of manure,
as a good cOdnmercial articla 0f N fra to