McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-04-09
FARM AND GARDEN.
New Englanders furnish tho largest
of silo advocates.

| concentrated f0OdS 1Or DutteT.
Plant raspberries and blackberries
as soon as the soil can be worked.
Sweet cream must be churned longer
than sour. with lower temperature.
Canadian Farmers, who grow excel
lent crops of oats, consider that crop
hardest on land.
A ounce in the California exhibit at
the New Orleans Exposition measures
seventeen inches in circumference.
Clover seed may be sown this month
upon the bare ground. A more even
cast is obtained by sowing upon a
light fall OF snow.
French cheesemakers aim to get
$3.50 to 5000 yearly per COW. Fine
stock, great care, and specialities in
manufacture, are the means.
Butter is worth more in proportion
than wheat or other grain. 1t will
paw well to use the COWS to turn some
of this grain into butter, and to make
the calves grow.
Josiah Hopes, in the New York
Tribune, says experience has con-
WINGED him that any soil too damp
naturally to produce healthy trees
should always be avoided by the or
| chardist.
| A San Francisco naturalist sent a
nice cage and a wagon to a friend S
house for fine specimen OF ground
| hog that was offered him. He re-
ceived q sausage, and it took him three
| days to see the joke.
Low prices of grain in the north
west will cause lessened demand for
| young stock for feeding. Much stock
will be hastily fattened ar sold. and
thus cause lower prices for beef and a
scarcity two or three years hence.
Miller Purvis says in the ohio F'arn,-
err that the costliest mistake he ever
made was in buying cheap seeds. He
| recommends saving seeds for one 5
own planting; if this has been neg
lected, get the most reliable seeds to
| be obtained and then save seeds from
them.
Nothing will pay the owner of one,
dozen or hundred hogs better than
the extra expenditure which will at
this time of year secure them dry,
warm, comforting bed to lie in at
| night and during such part of the day
as they may not be taking exercise or
| eating.
Raisers Of early chickens do well to
remember that chicks must have grass
food at twelve to fifteen days. If
chicks are Matched before grass comes.
then it must be raised artiiicially for
them, A good plan is to SOW oats in
frames in the kitchen window or
greenhouse.
Manure is on most lands the great
essential to successful gardening.
About New York, market gardeners
put as much as Seventy-tve tons of
manure upon an acre in a single year,
and when it can not be obtained, as
much as two tons of fine bone flour
are often used.
Canker worms come out early. APP
ply protection to the tree now. The
simplest is band of thick brown pa
per, foot or more wide, tackled
around the trunk. On this paint a
band of pine tar, which should be re-
newed if from any cause it does not
remain adhesive.
NIL. hUSScll. ullC ScCICUulf VI tnO
Massachusetts State Board of Agri-
culture, says that horse will do bet
ter if fed four times day, and should
not be fed less than three times. He
says the horse is different from any
other animal in that he has the small
est stomach in proportion to his size,
It is now asserted that the common
earth worm is the cause of the cape
parasite in chicks. In examining
earth worms from cape infected dis
trict the cape parasite was found to
be coiled up in the structure of the
earth worm, and on feeding chicks
with such earth worms the disease was
at once produced among the brood.
Job Mills, of Pine Village, Ind, has
fed 4S hogs the present season on cook.
ed wheat, and says they gained at the
rate of 2 pounds per day each. He
figured the wheat as worth 60 cents,
and the corn 30 cents per bushel. Says
80 hogs will eat about 10 bushels of
wheat at an expense of Sc per day, or,
20 bushels of corn worth also So, at
80 cents per bushel.
Peach growers in Southern Iflipois
declare the curculio breed faster on
wild cherry trees than farmers can kill
them in the orchard. The hawthorn
is said to breed apple tree borers and
apple maggots. It is stated that one
of the most serious orchard pests in
the ssfruit belt" is the rose chafer,
which multiplied in swamp OF wild
roses to such an extent that it over
ran the country for miles about.
Consul Ryder, at Copenhagen,
writes that the Danes, in order to in
sure full development, health ETC.,
seek: Cleanliness, cooked or ground
food. which is easily masticated and
digested, plenty of water, regular
hours Of feeding, good ventilation,
equable temperature, and freedom
from misunderstanding rats. These
requisites are not novel to American
breeders, yet some people are forget
full.
The Dorking fowls, while not quite
as hardy as the hardest, are a valu
able breed. They are good laye :,
make good. careful mothers. and as
CHICKS are quick to mature. They are
especially valued for the delicacy of
their flesh, the breast is broad and
deep, and give large quantity of
Juicy meat. The fowls weigh as high
aS ten mounds. live WEIGHT: they are