Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1885-12-31
FARM NOTES.

Early maturing pigs are the most
profitable.
American seed corn is being used in
Austria.
Butter color is made of marigold
petals in Norway.
Sorghum was introduced into this
country in 1858 by Frenchman.
The sugar naples of Wisconsin are
said to be finding q mortal enemy ID
the cotton insect
In England it is thought to be inju-
rious to feed dairy cows more than
twen:y-eight pou nds of roots per day.
Unders tocking farm may not show
very good management, but it is bet
ter to have too little stock than too
much.
Dynamite cartridges are now used
| for Telling trees. 1t has the advantage
over the old method Of leaving no
stump.
If possible, let the pigs run in the
! orchard. if only an hour each day.
They will destroy thousands of the lar
we of the coddling moth.
There are 5000, 600 landowners in
France, the average size of the farms
being about ten acres. The best land,
outside of the vineyards, is worth about
$500 per acre.
Small fruit raising for market may
not pay many farmers situated iucon-
veniently to market, but every man
who owns an acre of land should raise
sufficient for his own family use.
. An Iowa contributor to the Western
Rural killed quack grass by running o
sulky plow over field in the middle
: of August. The plow was set to cut
three inches deep. He says deeper
plowing is not successful.
The labor required in farming is be-
!, coming less irksome each succeeding
year, on account of the help derived
from labor-saying machinery, and the
farmer who does not avail himself OF
this aid is behind the times.
If every farmer would make it rule to
nav no money without taking receipt,
buy no property without having the IT,
Z tie examined by competent authority,
and 10 sign no papers for strangers.
e sharpers would have fewer victims.
o The city owners of fancy horses pre-.
b fer timothy cut when dead ripe. 1t Il
then SO unpalatable there is no danger
VI that the animals will gorge themselves.
s. while grain is depended on to keep uE
-e the horses strength. Earlier cutting
makes better hay.
y To prevent the splitting or bursting
b of cabbages, j. j. III. Gregory recon-
10 mends to go frequently over the groune
- and start every cabbage that appear
Sc to be abou. to mature by pushing i
10 over sidewise. Heads thus started ar
said to grow to double the size the,
Us had attained when about to burst.
n Melons do not require frequen
+. change of land. The veteran Marshal
&c p. Wilder says that he has grown mel
o' ons on the same land for ten years; tn
Is, ground has south aspect. He pre-
n pares a compost of manure, soil ant
guano, which he spreads on tine Ian
lis in addition tc manuring in the hills
nd Surface manuring he considers yer
important. He has no trouble with il
sects, as he gets up in the morning be
fore they do.
Following is the Country Cent,
- mans way for ringing bulls: Havin
+. the ring, and the bulls head in
ard stanchion or a good halter on and Tie
10 any convenient standard, take
re- good punch made for the purpose TIL
ate will cut a clean hole through the mo-
&C. as large as the ring to be used. III
-he instrument can be placed carefully
-" the nose of the bull without the lea
o,t hurting or irritating. and when ju
right, close the handles of the pune
his and the nose is perforated with cles
So cut the full size of the ring. Ii Il
bull struggles, hold the punch still Z
as he stops; then loose the punch and i
one sert the ring, which can he easily dol
a,lv with the least possible pain and !
danger of making bad job. as q pc
son would be likely to do with b
huf iron,