St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-10
FOR THE FARMER.
Notes Of Information For the Tiller
of the Soil.

Notes Of 1nfO-ma tiOm For the Ti1ler
of the Soil.
1t is said that eggs from hens in close
confinement seldom hatch well. 1t is also
advisable in selecting fowls to breed from
not to take the largest.
Common red clover is said to be better
than the larger kind for general purposes.
The latter is difficult to cure, makes coarser
hay and is more apt to become musty.
Half pint of sunfower seeds given to a
horse with his other food each morning and
night will keep him in good health and
spirits, and his hair will be brighter.
Horses soon become very fond of the sun
flower seeds.
Pray, see to your wells. If you have the
slightest suspicion that the water is impure,
have them emptied and cleaned out. See
that there is no possible connection between
the well and the barnyard, the privy or cess
pools.
Potatoes should be planted, as far as pos
sible, on new soil, for natural vegetable re-
Fuse such as grass or clover sod turned I'M
der, is better than stable manure for this
crop. Pillow deep, so as to encourage the
growth of tuber rather than of top.
An experienced dairyman says: 'Never
churn your cream till the butter comes in
chunks as big as your fist. Stop churning
when the butter grains are twice the size Of
pin head. Such butter has good grain
and brings more than greasy butter"
In our experience, the very best way to
raise fine strawberries planted in hills, is to
mulch the space between the hills and rows
heavily with old farm manure late in the
fall, and leave the mulch until the end of
the fruiting season. Then this mulch may
be forked under.
For the early fattening of lambs provide
small troughs in yard adjoining the sheep
fold, with entrance little too small for the
| old sheep to go through, and put few oats
| on little cornmeal or cottonseed meal every
day. The lambs will begin to eat when
three weeks old and grow rapidly.
| Sheep husbandry is well worth consider
ing on account of its peculiar adaptability
| for association with all branches of agricul-
ture. A well-selected flock will, in a ma
| jority of instances, add to the value of grain
and grass crops while adding in other -di-
rections to the profit side of the balance
sheet.
| In farming there is no such thing as luck.
Laws, fixed and immutable, govern the
| growth of even the most worthless weeds.
| What man sows or allows nature to sow,
| he Will surely reap. THESE ldCIS SHoulu
impress two very practical and important
lessons-the necessity of clean culture and
| of clean seed.
Objections are raised to plank floors for
| hog houses, ON the ground that they are
colder than the warm dry soil. Protection
over and around the hogs will keep them
quiet, while they would be constantly
squealing ON plank floor rheumatism,
catarrh and lameness, from knotty legs, are
also said to be caused by plank flooring.
In England the farmers pay annual rent
ais per acre larger than the price of some
farms in this country. They live only by
keeping the land in the highest state of cul-
tivation. If English farmers can afford
such system there is no reason why our
farmers, who own their lands, should not
make their farms pay handsome profit
every year.
A good feed for breeding ewes is corn and
oats, equal parts, coarsely ground together,
and mixed with one part of wheat bran
thoroughly wet, but not allowed to sour.
Give each eve quart of the mixture daily.
A tablespoonful of faxseed will be valu-
able addition, and it will be found beneficial
also to feed turnips, potatoes, carrots and
| beetS