Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-09
For The Farmer.

Practical shepherds say that not
more than fifty sheep should be kept
under one roof.
An Indiana practical farmer says:
yet with long years of experience,
observation, and experiment, | believe
| have learned some of the ways of
success in agriculture. Ore is good
seed; the other thorough cultivation"
Undertaking makes the ground
more spongy. Drains of till help take
the water from the soil by. drawing it
from depth of two feet or more;there-
fore much more water passes through
the soil above the level of the drains
than could pass through undrained
soil.
The farmer is coming to the front
in public affairs. There's no question
about that. And he's coming at q
pretty fair pace, too. He ought to
come faster. He will come faster and
faster. as he becomes. through educa-
ton. culture. and general intelligence,
better and better qualified to assume
control; to occupy and maintain HIM
self in the front rank" So says Our
country nome.
In Ohio it is against the law to allow
any animal to run at large, whether tied
down or not, unless special permission
has first been given by the county COM
missioners, or by special permit by
township trustees. The owner or any
person having in charge any animal
and allowing the same to run at large
is lilo h1a for n II 1o, DONE hxy
animal upon the premises of another.
without reference to the fence which
may inclose the premises.
A Texas man writes to an agr;cult
ural paper that he has for years been
growing what he calls Nicaragua
wheat in the lowlands. where the heavy
air produces rust SO surely that the ordi-.
nary varieties of wheat cannot be sue
cessfully grown. In many years, he
never had crop of the Nicaragua
wheat damaged in the least by smut or
rust. 1t may be true that he has
wheat proof against the attacks of rust;
or the truth may be that he has seed
wheat to sell at fancy figure.
In the last issue of Our Country
Home is the following advice: I'VE
feel sure we are right when we advise
farmers. in planting for next seasons
campaign, to arrangefor full amount
Of labor. Practice rigid economy at all
possible points, but let it be economy
Of the economical sort. Remember
that There is that which withholdeth
more than is meet, but it tendeth to
poverty On the farm this may well
be applied to the item of labor All
farm profit comes directly from work
well done, and done at the right time.
A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer,
writing from the ''black swamp" dis
trict, says that the land where he lives
was, fifteen years ago, a swamp and
would not sell for more than SiO per
acre. Now the land that was least de-
sirable is worth from $65 to S75 per
acre. The land then desirable on
account of elevation is now the least
desirable. The lowest land, where
fifteen years ago a pole could be pushed
nto the ground to depth of ten feet,
is now dry and titled. As it is an
accumulation of decayed vegetable mat
ter the land is very rich. The change
was brought about by ditching. 1t
nay be quite possible that like expert
snces will be seen in other places in
The West in the next decade.
L. d. Shook gives an excellent plan
n the Ohio Farmer for supporting
raspberry canes. A No. 9 or. 10 wire is
stretched from post to post along the
rows and about two feet above the
ground. not directly over the plants,
but about three inches to one side.
The posts may be 100 to $50 feet apart.
wire band or loop having hook
turned at each end and to catch on the
horizontal wire is placed around the
canes in each hill. This band should
be made of piece of No. wire fifteen
inches long, bent into the form of
pail-baiL The hooks in the end should
90 over the main wire loosely enough
to allow of being easily unlocked when
it is desirable to put new canes into
position within the loops.