Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-09-13
FARM NOTES.


Some interesting experiments have been
made In France on the advantages OF Civ
ing water to mich COWS warmed, instead Of
in Its natural cold state. At the Agricul-
tural School Of St. Remy two COWS were fed
on the same food, but one was supplied
with cold water and the other with the water
heated to lib degree fahrenheit. The lat
ter yielded onethird more milk.
A csv rather thin in flesh, if healthy,
says Hosrd's Dairyman, is almost always
sure to drop q vigorous cali, while fat COW
viii generally have lean calf and one that
is quite apt to be weak on its legs. A feshy
COW is also more apt to have puerperal fever
or milk fever, and as rule il apt to be slow
in coming to her milk after calling, which
is not the case with lean COW.
To prevent haystschs firing scatter few
handfuls Of common salt between each lay
er. The salt, BY absorbing the humidity Of
the hay, not only prevents Its fermentation
and consequent heating, but it also adds o
salty taste to this forage which all cattle
like; besides, it stimulates the appetite and
assists their digestion, and so preserves
them from many diseases. Amer
lean.
II any tolerably fine manure can be spared
from hoed crops it viii do good service as
top dressing for oats aud barley. 4 little
manure is especially advisable II grass seed
is to be sown with the grain, and scarcely
less 30 il the spring grain is to be followed
By wheat or rye in the fall. Manure ap-
piled now will be washed into and inco-po-
rated with the soil before fall, as it cannot
easily be if left until then.
Sheep, ssys s. D. Curtis, will get collie
when turned from dry food, or very poor
pasture, into rank grass, wet with dew or
rain. II the pasture is at all rack, so that
hup cry sheep would FL! i'self quickly, they
should be kept in the fold until the dew is
partially gone, or the pasture should be so
regulated that q poor or scsrty one should
be the first eating ground in the morning
ard rsnser one sfterward.
Don't milk troublesome cow but turn
calf or two 10 her ard let III m do the milk
ing. An average COW will raise lou. calves
TO veal sge during a season, and these WI!
brig $40 to $50 This ia often more than
can be made from her milk. The same
policy would pay farmers situated at dis
lance from market As rule it will pay
them better 10 lei their cows raise calves
than to make butter and cheese to sell.
In an experiment with 100 plum trees q
farmer busted FIVE trees with sjr-slscked
lime Just as the blossoms were falling and
repeated the application every two weeks
several times From the FIVE trees SO treat
sd he secured good crops OF plums, bit
upon the remaining ninety-Eve trees the
curculio did not allow single plum 70 ma
ture This is sn important discovery to
plum. growers should the method prove et.
tectusl hereafter.
The simple division OF pasture already
fenced does not involve mach expense AS
here is nothing on either side of the fence
20 tempt cattle TO any extent, the fence need
not be OF the strongest Two or three wires
stretched to posts twelve feet apart, will do
very well for cattle under such circum
stances.
1t is not economical 20 attempt to grow 3
pasture crop on land that contains weeds or
crab grass The common practice OF SOW.
ing grass seed on wheat or ost stu5ole
LIQUID be avoided unless the grain crop has
been preceded by corn, which requires FIRE.
quent cultivation, the seeds being destroyed
oy such methods.
Not less than 100000 Towering plants
are probably cold IN New York ever spring.
These retail from 10 cents 10 81 each, aver
aging perhaps rs cents, and making a total
Of half million dollars, which the city and
its suburbs devote annually TO the embelI-
isbment of their gardens and windows
This does not of course include cut flowers.