Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-09-20
FARM NOTES,

"oou cio'er nay Is perfect foddei
Tor sheep.
There are 65, 900 registered American
Short horns.
A little salt in the soft food Of fowl,
will be rclshed
Colonel Curtis thinks a cross of the
Percheron stallion on native mares
makes the best farm animal.
There is a horse still in the harness
IN the City of Mexico that was taken
there by Gen. SCOTS army.
Secretary Schaffer, of the Iowa Agri.
cultural Society, says there is a gener-
al complaint OF apple trees dying.
An Illinois farmer raised $40 tons of
sugar bccts last year on eighteen acres,
at COS, Of less than Sl.j0 per ton.
Three or four tons per acre is not an
uncommon yield for Hungarian grass
on rich land, and it makes excellent
hay.
The NeW England Times maintains
that 1t is better to cut grass at night
than IN the morning. 1t claims that
grass is cured but little the first day in
either case.
NJ. w. Callahan, in the Southern
P0uHry J0HrHdt, tells Of duck hatch.
Ell from guinea-cgg-a fowl that was
perfect guinea IN form and plumage.
but its head, with comb and wattles,
was that OF common cock.
The american tn.tivator says tha,
the cut-worm has an aversion to salt
peter. and that solution of one table
spoonful to gallon Of water has so fan
proved sure preventive. 1t is applied
with dIpper aud poured on the plants
and all around the hill.
A squtre-bullt, wel-muscled horse,
says the StOcc BreCdgr. will stand more
work and more hardships than two
lank, loose jOlntcd ones, and not re-
quire rs much food Us one OF them. A
half-brecd Norman is worth four
scrubs in the harness or two in the
market.
Public roads in France now measure
lS, 100 miles OF which $3.50 are border
ed with trees, while i,JUu miles are be-
ing planted, or will be shortly. On
the remainder the soil is uufavorable
to trees. The number OF trees already
planted amounts to 2.G7S, 6J3, chiefly
elm, poplar, acacia, plane, ash, syca-
more and lime.
10 prevent hay-stacks firing, scatter
few handiuls oI common salt between
each layer. The SAT-, Dy absorbing the
humidity OF the hay, not only prevents
fermentation and consequent heating,
but it also adds II salty taste to this
forage which all cattle like; beside, it
stlnliIlpils l,. a a nj,
digestion, and So preserves them from
many diseases.
DR.. Peter Collier, late chemist TO the
Department OF Agriculture, has lately
imported from various points in Asia,
and from Natal, Africa, seventy-Lhrer
distinct varieties OF sorghum, none of
them which seems identlcal with any
oi the many sorts already introduced
here. In those dry countries sorghum
Is preferred to corn, because its deep
roots enable 1t TO grow well, after once
getting start, where maize would
parch up; and its seed is considered
quite as nourlshlng and valuable as
that OF maze. Inc value OF the stalk,
in addition, is being developed here by
superior mills and management.
An exchange remarks that in mo
way can iand be improved faster than
by judicious pusturing. This does not
consist in allowing the stock to eat the
grass OIL until the sod is bare and
brown, and eXhaustng the grass
plants, or in extracting all the SUBJ
stance from the soil! Enough growth
should always b. left on the soil to
protect the roots from the action OF the
scorching sun" rays. This Slight
growth will keep the ground moist and
mellow, and The grass viii really make
larger growth and more pasture than
when cropped too closely. In fact to
pasture sod SO closely as to expose
the grass roots to the action Of sun and
frost is poor management