The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-12-03
FARM NOTES.

Animals should not be allowed to
drink from freshly-painted troughs.
The famous Roquefort cheese, of
Lime is sure death to ducks if eaten
by them. 1t should not be left within
their reach.
Grain. hay and straw should be con-
verified into meat, wool, butter and
| cheese before being sold.
An Eastern exchange says the local
agricultural societies of Pennsylvania
are petitioning the State Legislature to
legalize wire fences.
This years corn crop. it is said. will
aggregate greater quantity than ali
that has been exported from the coun-
try since the beginning of our commerce.
OF the 445 400, 900 acres of forest in
the United States 25, 400. 900 acres, it
is estimated, are yearly required to be
cut down for the various uses of the
country.
In consequence of the wheat yield in
France being 5000, 900 bushels more
than the yearly average, that country
will require only SO, 600. 900 bushels to
make up the annual deficit
According to the estimate of a Lock-
port, N. T.. fruit-buyer Niagara county
| will produce 100000. Orleans 600, QUO,
Monroe 600. 900. Genesee 400. 900, and
Wayne 500. 600 barrels of apples.
The Russian flax crop has suffered
from various contingencies, both in
quality and quantity; serious matter
when it is remembered that it is the
greatest fine flax producing nation of
the world.
Horses to the number of 1000, 600
per year are required to supply the
business necessities of the country.
The whole number of horses in the
United States is about 10, 600, 600, in
GLIDING breeding stock
A Missouri correspondent of the
Country Gentleman writes that for
three years he has been testing seed
corn from the butt, the tip and the
| middle of ears, and noting the result.
He finds that the corn from the tips of
the ears will ripen first, that from the
middle next, and that from the butt
last.
In eight Western States there are
l,62S butter factories and creameries.
Oh these Iowa has $50, Illinois 497,
Wisconsin 1870, Kansas and Minnesota
100 each, Missouri 81, Indiana 50. and
Nebraska 40. Last year Iowa pro-
duced One-tenth of the dairy products
of the United States, $500, 900, 900 be-
ing the sum of the country's produc-
ton.
The Director of the New York Ex-
pertinent Station has been asked to
formulate such ingredients as will.
when added, compose a soil in which
insect lie is impossible. and which
will, at the same time, offer a health
ful and hospitable abode for plant
roots. That is an easy question to
ask, but DR.. Sturtevant will probably
| not tackle the solution.
One of the most successful of Illinois
dairymen. says the Germantown Iete-
graph, keeps 100 COWS, but never
raises pound of hay. He feeds his
cattle corn fodder, cut when in bios
som, bound and set up until cured, or
| till winter, when it is removed to the
barn. He gets seven tons of this dry
| fodder to the acre, and claims it is
! worth as much as the best of hay.
A correspondent of the Beeneepers'
| AGgdzthe, as 10 how to find the queen
| in order to remove her from the hive,
which he has successfully accom-
| plished, says: '.Put over hole in the
| top OF any hive . surplus honey-box
| with one or more glass sides; have no
| other box on; smoke the bees in the
hive Slightly at the entrance; then
commence drumming on the hive
| smartly, as when driving bees out.
Watch the box on top and you will see
| among the first bees to 60 up into 1t
| the queen.
The advice given last spring that I'M
| washed wool would bring more money
| per fleece than washed wool has proved
| to have been sound. In the Chicago
market many lots of washed wool,
| held at relative prices to unwashed
remain unsold, while unwashed of the
same grade has been freely taken. The
| reason why was given at the same
| time as the advice. The time has
| come when unwashed wool-not doc
| tored-will meet the best price OF
| buyers and net the most money to the
producers.
Many kinds of fruit trees which have
arrived at bearing age may grow
very vigorously while producing liltl,
or no fruit. Whatever checks the
wood-producing principle tends to
throw the p mt into a bearing state.
Hence summer pruning is often en-
| ployed. ami the same result is obtained
by root-pruning. with this difference.
that by the latter operation the whole
of the branches are proportionately
checked, while by pinching only th.
strong-growing shoots, the weak ones
gain at the expense of the stronger
ones