Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-13
HOUSE AND FARM.

A cellar is not good place in which
TO Keep butter.
About 100 bushels of wood ashes
per acre are fair proportion to apply
on light soils.
Hard subsoils serve to arrest and re-
tain escaping fertiizing 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 cxcelled.
Seedlings are apt to succeed best
where they originate, hence the many
disappointmenis when varieties are
transferred TO other sections.
Coarse and unpalatable feed, such
rs straw and fodder, may be advan-
tageously used by passing it through
a cutter. moistenining aud sprtnkling
it with bran and meal.
A farmer in Maryland has been ex-
perimenting with barbed wire fences
for telephone use, and announces that
farmers and Others will soon adopt
them 1or inns purpose
Dung applied to land in the ordi-
uary process of agriculture will not be
entirely exhaused until considerable
number of years have elapsed from
the time of its first application.
a Kansas farmer says, according TO
the New York Tribune, that he put q
stop to the heating of wheat by the
mixing with each fifty bushels a
bushel of salt and also kept weevils
away.
Whole oats, wheat. bran and corn
meal form an excellent ration for
Young stock. The health and complete
and symmetrical growth of the body
are best secured by feeding a variety
of grain.
The hog-pen should be always liber-
ally bcdded with straw, not only where
the pigs sleep, but the yard outside
where they run. Unless this yard is
well bedded much of the liquid ma
nure will be lost.
Cranberry growers, in national con-
ference assembled, estimate the sea-
sons product of this fruit at $50, 0OC
bushels, against 400, 900 bushels in 1883
the shortage resulting from the late
"os'' VI may any '"o'
III mas Deen discovered recently ID!
medical men that :" lump-jaw," as it Is
, called, or Jumps found on the jaws o.
att m sn'ie.,i,ie S caus1u uy w
"a! e'i ecu. !. - 10, NnoM .. ~" nut
the poor o'"'e s"'icrs VIII" ''e 'oo''
ac'e
The board of directors of the Amer
: lean Jersey Cattle club offers prem
of $500 for the best essay, aud S2OO fol
the second. the essays TO relate to DER
sey cattle. all communications TO b.
sent in as the property of the associa
: ton.
, The average number of eggs laid b,
an ordinary flock of hens is IL doz
en- to fowl, yet instances have beer
recorded where men mas laid Eoo egg
IN Que year. ana from 10 10 IL ooAei
Is cohsiuerea U! pouitr! men re
, iharkaoIe sieid'
The proposition has has been al
vanced that work horses be sold by
weight. Ii is well enough in some re
spccts 10 charge more for large horse
f 'i''i s'n''i oiT, ou, 'no posi'.on
, 1u,'un, 49, an" o'"o, ".
"I1,Y"e IA '''o i"'' W NC 'o"s''
, ered.
Sir j. B. Laws says that given
weight of nitrogen, in the form OF
, nitric acid, will produce more growth
~ .ne SioP ~ NC, ns Is apP"::u 'na,'
.ne s'' h, w a. " n,''ou @
nule, uu. '.'o ln.i DI;. y, s"o ~ ''' -, ~
zen UPON s Nv c'oP' WI" VI
: VIZ 49, -. n.nnr ;,s,.roos a;so.sos
) - !" - - 80, H.
% S ~. ~ st;a, I'm ,no o y, W
Is III III 80, ,. $3.50 " ;smuaS
, ~ onis "a, - 10 I'll Inn uf H. uu
me- VA =. Io Vi M ~: ''pps
henn narticnlarlv no,iced in tho cases
of botb white and sweet notatoes
p a -, .LL,,
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me |. nl'eu o'a,es oo ni,a - Vi y,
a9ricui'uie sa!e tnat wnn1 ~ so"Io ".
lhe soa'es 'ie pu,o anu ing
slaue cal'ic az aooIt Pc. Icn :, ~ :;
.ne Mnoie, III Dhio anu 90 Aen."ehs :: -
~ pc. oen'' III inuian' ~ pei Ieu', ~
5n 90 pei , I, .h auu .,.%an
o- PEI oeii' Vi 'n' "o,o nu''''
The sheep Is exceedingly neat and
even fastldious about us 1000 ana
drink, and hence should have clean
grass anu Iieah unnIns "a'oi Lnousu
they 'use res Maae. alah o'ne. AM.