Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-10
Farm and Garden.

Oil the brittle hoofs.
 For more milk feed more.
 l Build well when you build. 1 Pigs also need cool fresh water. 1 It's mistake to be overstocked. l Save seed oats from cool, moist soil. 1 Travelling painters are usually rogues. | Fast walkers are more needed than fast ! trotters.
 1 Hired labor is costly; pump your water by wind power.
 1 A steer of 1000 pounds needs eighteen pounds of hay daily.
 l Don't encourage the horse racing principle | too far at the fairs.
 | Skillful draining will be repaid in l two years on most land that needs it. 1 Meadows should never be grazed short, | but above all other times not in the fall. l By carefully selecting his seed from year l to year it is possible for any farmer to great l ly improve the quality of his product. 1 An increase of twenty per cent. in the ! milk is sure to follow in cutting the feed over feeding it uncut. This has been tried 1 often enough to be depended upon. l Corn fed to pigs when in it's thickening | milk state will put more weight into them in ! given time than at any other stage of it's development.
 l The extra labor required to work through mud, clods and water-soaked land year after 1 year on undrained soil is in short time l equivalent to the labor needed to put down a perfect system of drains. This is point to figure on.
 ! It should be known that young animals re- turn less value to the land in manure for the feed they consume than older ones. They retain large share of the potash, phospho- ric acid and nitrogen of the food to build up their bodies, much of which in the case of IL IL 1>oaJ 4o xba1 1ay,1 Wheat Must Advance in Price.-Accord- ing to the best estimates the surplus wheat carried over from last year is put at 100, ,00O,- 900 bushels. The crop of this year, it is be- Eeved, will yield 360, 100000 bushels, mak- ing total amount of 460, ,000,O 900 bushels all uses in the United States amounts to about 365, 900, 900 bushels. This would then leave about 95 O00, 900 bushels on hand for export. But in recent years we have export ed yearly from 16, GOO, 900 to 50,000, 900 bush els more than our present surplus for export. If, therefore, the foreign demand for wheat will be as low as the lowest amount exported in recent years, the supply will be inadequate by some millions of bushels and prices must % up. Farmers will risk little by holding on to their wheat.
 Weeds-A traveller from the Vest who recently visited his boyhood home in central New York, remarked that one dot of thistles
  of field thirty years ago has by this year extended over the entire field. Many other visitors to their early homes of score or more years ago could testify to similar ex tensions easily noticed in the breadth of land occupied by weeds. The truth is we as farm CTS are all too indifferent to the subject of weeds, their increase and the damage they do Their extension is so gradual from year to year that we fail to appreciate how cer- tainly it is going on. Where it will all end we may well begin to ask. The damage done to crops by weeds throughout the older sec tions of the country is appalling now. If no positive steps are taken in their destruc- tion things will go on from bad to worse un- til some farms, we fear, will positively have to be given up to them. We need to prac- tice thorough culture on an increased scale, and to do this go over fewer acres. Give the weeds a set back by the most thorough til- lage, following up with heavy crops that will choke them and we have leading remedial agent More attention must also be paid to their destruction in growing crops whether in grain or hood ones. Allowing weeds to seed unmolested in pastures is another pro- life means of their spreading Here they should be cut, if they cannot be dug out, just as they are about to seed The entire subject is one that farmers must give more