Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-02-12
HOUSE AND FARM.

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per acre are fair proportion to apply
on light soils.
Hard subsoils serve TO arrest and re-
tain escaping ferti izing material, but
are usually cold and late in advancing
crops.
Rice is one of the best substances
for fat'ening fowls quickly. Boiled
and mixed with ground oats and corn
meal, IL cannot be excelled.
Seedlings are apt to succeed best
where they originate. hence the many
disappoiniihen whc" varieties are
transferred TO other sections.
| Coarse aud unpalatabl- feed, such
a. straw AID fodder, may be advhn-
;ayrou-ly u-rd ny passing il through
rut rr. moist. mining a"d sprtnklin2
Il witt bran and M al.
A larnrer in Ma-yI nj has been rx-
,rr.u,r.n iug vi Il barbed wire fences
or tel, y.ln ne use, ani ann"u rces that
farm r. aud others viii soon adopt
ri,em FIR tits purpose
Dung applied TO Land in the ordi-
nary process "f agriculture will not be
rni els exhausted until considerable
number of wears have elapsed from
the lime Of lis first application
a Kansas farmer says, according to
the New York Tribune, that he pat
stop o the heating of wheat by the
mixing with each fiftg bushels
busnel OF salt and also kept wecyils
away.
Whole oats. wheat. bran and corn
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Young stock. The heath and complete
amd meirical growth of the body
are best secured by feeding a variety
uf q ain.
TIE hog-pen should be ALWAYS ilher-
| ally brdded with straw, not only where
he pigs sleep, but 'he ward outside
n here they ran. Unless this ard Is
well b"ddrd much of the liquid rna-
nure will be lost.
Cranberry growers, in national con-
ference assembled, estimate the sea-
sons product of this fruit al $4,000
bushels, against 100000 bushels IN 1858,
the shortage resulting from the late
frosts of May and June
Ii has been discovered recently by
medical men that - lump,jaw," as 1T Is
called, or Jumps found on the jaws of
cattle, are sometimes caused by de-
cayed teeth. 1t l. not known how much
the poor brute suffers with the tooth
ache.
The board of directors Of the Amer
lean jersey Cattle club offers a prem
of $500 for the best essay, and $500 for
the second, the ESSAYS TO relate TO Jer-
sey cattle. all communications to be
sent in as the property of the associa-
ton.
The average number of eggs laid by
an ordinary flock of hens is - doZ-
en- To fowl. vet instances have been
recorded where a hen has laid go eggs
in one year, and from 10 to II dozen
is considered by poultry men re-
markable yield.
The proposition has has been adj
vanced that work horses be sold by
weight. Ii is well enough in some re-
spccts 10 charge more for a large horse
than small one, but the disposition,
-oundness, age. breed and other con-
dirions will also have TO be cOnsid-
cred.
Sir ]. Il. Laws says that Il given
weight of nitrogen, in The form of
nitric acid. will produce more growth
in the crop to which il is applied than
the same WEIGHT of nitrogen in ma
nurc. bar The influence "f the nitro
zen upon succeeding crops will be
very much les.
la "A gIcat many instances diseases
If roni c,op~ ari-e from The Use of an
lrrn"uted or partially ruIted manure.
4 onl> wrll-r'.Iicd manure j. used
r:irr. viii b'. les liability of the crops
prj,g aiierfrd win rot. This has
h'-"n parIIru noticed iii the ca-cs /
at both "hte and ~ eet pIaioes.
la pru ing trre-. aim Ia distribute ,
The cuttings sufficiently throughout
i,irrnIirr Tree. - There l. twice too
much rOpi might hc reduced by cut
IIIII of all the branch on une side.
lraviu@ the other side untouched. Is
Il tree looks 100 thin another Years |
growth will ill it up.
The United States commissioner Of |
agriculture say- thar while in some o: 4
the states the pure-bred and high
grade cattle ara about per reuI OF .
the whole. in Ohio and Kentucky il is
40 per cent, in Indiana % pr ce"t. in
iiilDoi- 81 per cent aud Massachusetts
81 per cent of the whole number.
! he sheep i exceedingly neat and
even faslidiuus about MS fool and
drink, aud hence should have clean
gra>> and clean running wafer. Z ugh
lhey ,u-c less wafer than other ami
nal~, "flen passing some days without
Il, ii i none the less necessary for their
comfort and health that it should be
iccr >>inle
A forty quart ran Of milk contain
enough bone earth TO form seven
ounces OF bone, enough nitrogen To
make several pounds of l-au meats.
and a proportion of potash. Ii the
milk j. sold off the farm all these 90
III h IL. and II the process l. kept up
'or long While exhaustion follows.
The y CIV England Farmer states
hat the co"p- al brooding hens nj
|ioughion farm are about two feet
square. with bottoms al Stats 80 small
and far apart that no hen. however
will imagine she j. sitting
while roosting upon them. They are
raised about tour inches above the
ground. Ii seems to be a first rate
for breaking up settlers.
Now that the time is at han " hen
'Ows should Toe stabbed At nights 10
protect them from cold rains and
forms the farmer should see 10 it that
he stable is kept scrupulously clean
COWS neglected in this respect will not
'ield so much milk. and unless the
milk can come through clean teats and
hy odors of fresh eX-
remeut il Will not be lit for any Use.
Natural vegetable acids DO not harm
milk. but the artificial acid of fermeut-
ny food introduces an element into
he consumption that is not possible :
or nature To neutralize. and hence af- |
ects the milk. The amount of fer
nent may be small and do little in
mry, but If carried beN ond a certain
'oini will have dcleicrious effect,
which experiment time and again has
Enquirer" is informed that peas
mould when there i long
oniinued wet weather. which causes
unyold growth. aud that loo ponudS
4 corn equals in FEEDING value about
- pounds of wheat mjd,Iliug>, 400
bounds OF potalo"s, GOO pnu"ds Of
nan> I'D "urlzrl>. 200 pounds of =,
"ruip-. l15 pounds OF brewery refuse. U
: l. - iusIr. however. diiirr~ accord
AZ To he qutlin OF tie substance.
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