Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-10
NOTES FOR FARMERS.


The latter will remove from the soil 43
pounds phosphoric acid, 135 pounds
potash and 104 pounds nitrogen, while
the corn will remove so pounds phos-
phorlc acid, 1874 pounds potash and 90
pounds nitrogen.
Long rye or wheat straw is consid-
cred preferable to oats or barley straw
for bedding for animals for warmth,
cleanliness and its durability or capa-
bIlity of being used a number of times
Its length and crispness prevent it from
mating or packing consequently by
laying loose the absorbed moisture is
soon evaporated.
1t Is gratifying to know that in some
places where the clover-worm has de-
stroyed the clover. that a disease has
attacked the worm and DESTROYED it.
The disease is fungus, and it is sug-
gested that diseased worms be trans
ported to those localities where the
worms have not been attacked, in or
der to spread the epidemic.
One of the most successful of Illinois
dairymen keeps 100 cows, but never
raises a pound of hay. He feeds his
cattle on cOrn-fodder, cut when in
blossom, bound and set up till cured,
or till Winter, when it is removed to
the barn. He gets seven tons of this
dry fodder to the acre, and claims that
1t Is worth as much as the best of hav.
An experienced swine breeder states
that he avoids hog cholera, even when
it RACES in his neighbor's herds, bv
feeding apples. He does not claim that
apples alone are preventive, but that
they act in a dietary manner. Heis of
the opinion that when hogs are fed on
variety of vegetables and waste fruit
they will keep in healthy condition.
The ratio of seed to straw varies
greatly. On rich land, manured with
nltrogenous fertilizers, the growth of
straw is great compared with the grain,
and the same in wet seasons, and the
reverse when the season is very dry.
70 prevent lodging it is recommended
that an application of lime and salt be
applied in the Fall on the land intended
for grain crop.
a member of the Warsaw Ill.) Hor-
ticultural Society, Mr.. Stewart, saws he
has had an annual crop of apples for
fifteen successive years, pleasing fact
due in some measure, he thinks, to his
management. -, He cultivates so as to
make the trees grow rapidly as posi-
BILE until of bearing age, after which
he cultivates little, but keeps the sod
down by mulching.
The Faculty of the Michigan Agricul-
tural College bought packages of seed
put up by different gardeners and
nurserymen and planted them out.
marking the plots to test their germ
mating qualities. They have now pub
llshed bulletin, giving exactly the
per cent. of each kind of seed that
failed to sprout, with the name of the
scotsman who put it up
One of the greatest nuisances in farm
ing is the way that weeds are encour.
aged and protected in the crooks and
vicinity of fences, from which places
their seed is scattered over the SUI
rounding lands. The extent to which
seed is scattered by high winds proves
that one negligent farmer may annoy
hundreds of farmers by failing to ex
terminate the foul herbage.
Kerosene oil is attracting much at
tention as aninsecticide. 1t is a deadly
poison to nearly all insects, while it is
harmless to man. AS it does not mix
with water, an emulsion should be
made with milk. An emulsion COM
posed of one-third oil and two-thirds
milk, either sweet or sour, is found to be
more serviceable. This emulsion NAV
be applied in the same manner as
Paris green.
A large portion of the sulphate of
ammonia, used as fertilizer, comes
from gas factories, a ton of coal pro-
ducing aboutfourteenp pounds. Nearly
70,000,o0O pounds of nitrogen, pure and
in the fresh state, rests permanently
upon the surface of each acre, vet this
free nitrogen of the air cannot be ap-
propriated by the farmer, though the
future may open the way to him for
that purpose.
A few miles from Macon, Ga, is the
large willow farm of Mr.. l. G. Plant.
All the leaves and bark from the
switches are dried and baled, and COM
mand a price of about % cents a pound,
being used for some medical purpose.
Mr.. Plant has 100000 willows growing
A ton to the acre is the average yield,
which, when shipped dried, bring 5000
perton. The bark, leaves and switches
are sold, the trees remaining on the
land
a peach tree at Shelby, n. c., con-