New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-12-02

FARM AND III USEHOLD.
Miscellaneous Farm Notes.

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Eve have tried every know method
Of raising celery" says the Rura. New
Yorker, "and give the preference to
shallow trenches, say, six inches deep.
They are better than planting on the
surface, as nowadays recommended;
better than deeper trenches. Apply
old manure literally in the trenches
and spade it under, enriching and mel
lowing the soil. A slight sprinkling of
any high grade complete fertilizer will
be found advantageous. The plants
should besset six inches apart in this
trench, and see to it that they never
once suffer for water. This is the price
OF fine celery"
Farmers who use pork as food in
their families should produce it as
healthy as the nature of the beast will
admit of. Hogs should have range in
a spacious lot, and have the free use
OF their nose, and all the pure water
they want to drink; and if it is con-
venient let them have plenty of water
to Wallow in. It is claimed by some
that when fattened under the most
favorable circumstances there is not
more than l out of 10 not diseased, If
they have attained Is months.
H. c. B., Webster Co., Iowa, in re-
Spouse to inquiry by a Prairie Farmer
reader, says he finds it advantageous
to brace the post next to the corner
one, using the latter for an anchor.
Bore hole through the post at or be-
low the ground lire and run an iron
rod to top Of next post SO as to re-
ceive the strain from it. Drop the wire
into slot in the top of the post so it
can be removed to wind the wire
around easily. Barbed wire may be
used instead of the rod, but several
strands would be required to give suffi-
Gent strength.
Few men have been more intimately
connected with the progress OF Ameri-
can horticulture than hewho has been
for SO many years President of the
American Pathological Society. Born
during the last years of the eighteenth
century, Mr.. Wilder is now nearly 81
years of age, and more in love than
ever with the "higher branch of agri-
culture" he has SO zealously befriended.
Mr.. Wilder was one of the earliest
members of the Massachusetts Horti-
cultural Society, and has ever since
been an active worker in it's behalf.
S. Clemmons, a Nebraska breeder,
has had a most favorable experience
with white hogs as compared with the
blacks, during several years he has
been experimenting with the various
breeds. He tried Poland Chinas and
Chester Whites side by side, and bred
the sows to bears of their own breed;
had them farrow at the same time,
and reared them in the same pastures
and pens. When sold, the Poland
Chinas averaged 232 lbs. and the
Chester Whites $50 lbs. each. The
former brought 81 per hundred, and
the latter $4.25. He summarizes his
experience III these words: ~ have
tried several breeds against the Ches-
tiers, but the white ones always takes
the cake"
Hitis objected that keeping the litters
apart requires too much care it would
be well, suggests a correspondent of
the Breeders Gazette, to keep a less
number and give; them the better at
tention. Large herds Of stock Of any
kind poorly kept are usually source
of much vexation and loss. This is
particularly true of swine when the
young pigs Of different ages are al
lowed to run, feed, and sleep together.
The continuous and thrifty growth is
impossible where the olderand strong
er pigs are allowed to pillage and rob
their weaker comrades, and to crowd
the latter i'll their sleeping quarters,
or expel them altogether.