The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-11-05
FACTS FOR FARMERs.

Too much grain IL often sown when
seeding and too little grass seed. These
are two common errors.
Grass grown on nutritious soil is often
rs good Tor horses or cattle 'ag poorer
grass fed with grain rations.
Now is the best time to mulch apple
trees with manure, which will encourage
the formation OF fruit buds for next sea-
son.
Late advices from Sandwich Islands
state that the cranberry crop thereabouts
is greater by seven thousand barrels than
that OF any previous season.
An Ohio farmer has Cornfield OF
twelve acres, upon which the stalks are
said to average twelve feet in height, and
will yield not less than twenty-five tons Of
ensilage per acre. .....
Red top grass is regarded as very good
grass for pasture, aud Of some value for
hay il cut early, although tho yield is not
aa large as Of some other equally good or
better grasses.
An Illinois farmer has sixty acre straw
berry bed, from nine acres OF which he
gathered in one season G5,500 quarts Of
berries, which is at the rate OF about
227 bushels per acre.
There are q, 900 Cattle Club Jersey cows
and heiiera in this country, and not over
10000 COWS on the island OF Jersey. The
place to get good Jerseys now is not Jer-
sey but the United States.
BY sowing bushel OF salt to the acre,
a Fayette county (Missoari) farmer be-
ieyes no has succeeded in keeping his av-
eraVe OF twenty-five bushels OF wheat to
the acre maintained for years.
One OF the finest crops OF potatoes to be
found in this State was yielded on the
farm OF s. V. Rex, at Flowerstown, Pa,
spaGimens OF which almost as large "a
pumpkins have just been received at this
Office. ....
1t is said that some New York farmers,
who grow good crops Of clover annually,
ara blowing it under Instead Of curing ii
for hay, they believing that the crop is
worth more in this respect than when
moved.
An acre OF land, says the Ntw Hdmp.
shire Mirror, produced 800 pounds OF seed
cotton in Georgia in 1883, and after being
MANFRED by having fifty sheep penned on
500 pounds Of seed cotton.
KANT is worth about 81 Per ton ut the
mines, though 1t ranges on the fertilizer
market at from $40 to $40, German pot
ash salts Is it's common name, and it in
Cluies potash, salt, lime, magnesia and
traces OF other mineral matter.
What to do with the superintendent
crop OF apples is to evaporate them or
make cider Of them, which may be con-
yerted into vinegar or apple butter. The
hogs and sheep should bs allowed to con-
sumo those not tit for use in any other
manner.
Turkeys should not be confined to be
tatted until about ten days before they are
10 be sold. They will gain rapidly in ilssh
for about ten days. but after that time they
begin to lose flesh, owing to becoming
restless and uneasy from confinement
In using cold dips for the scab and other
diseases Of sheep unless the dipping ia
done in o thorough manner the solution
will not penetrate close compact wool and
reach all the parasites on the skip, owing
to the dirt and other matter In the wool.
Professor Brown, OF the Ontario Expert
ment Farm, AndS, after nine years expert
mentation, that q bullock gained on per-
manent pasture EOS pounds per day at a
cost OF cents per pound, and that this
was the cheapest Of the twenty ways oil
feeding tried.
Draining can be carried to excess, and
often, perhaps, on account Of certain pecu'
liaritics OF the soil and surroundings, be o.
no benefit to the land, but these cases arc
few, and much more draining could be
done 10 advsntaEeon almost every farm