The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-06-23
farm
BOOM IN BROOM CORN.

O1OO1 WIN
in the West the coming year. Far
mers who have spare time and skill
to make up their crop into brooms
have for years made this crop profit
able; but those who 90 into'the bust
ness now with the expectation OF
realizing last years prices for hurl,
will probably be disappointed.
- FAST MILKING.
Meyer tolerate asloM-milker, and
if cow holds up so that she cannot
be MIXED rapidly turn her off to the
butcher. If the milk flows freely, a
good mixer should be able to strip
a COW, in between four and five min
utes.. The quantity given has not
much to do with the time required,
as COWS which are already dry, or
give only a small quantity, need a
good deal of stripping. .,. ..Ia4J
- q3llfs HURDLING STOCK. sri ~,,t.
,bConfning stock In small 'enclos-
ures is quite common in England.
The advantage is that the land
grazed over may be left to grow un-
checked for a time until it's turn
comes again Undoubtedly more
stock can be kept on a given area in
this way, as, next to soiling, it best
insures cropping Of the heritage over
the entire surface. Hurdling stock
on thin land and feeding extra grain
is a good way to increase it's fertility,
especially with sheep, whose drop
pings IRE pretty evenly distributed.
DESTROYING CROWS WITH sTRYCHNINE.
There are diversities of opinion as
regards the crow, which many sci
entists hold to be a friend to the
farmer. Most farmers are strongly
prejudiced against the crow, and we
have seen many times when he GER
tainly did more damage in the corn
field than all his services as an in
sect or grub destroyer could com
pensate. In such cases, scatter a
little corn that has been soaked in
stryehnine, broadcast over the field.
1t is not easy to get near enough to
crows with a gun to shoot many, as
the. smell of powder makes them ex-
ceedingly shy. .ts Il. ID is. l.3..
RANK GRASS IN PASTURES.
When there is an excess of grass
in proportion to, stock early in the
season the result1will be seen in rank
patches of grass In pastures. This
is probably because such grass is
tainted with the ordor of fresh ma
nure. The grass itself is not injured,
andis in fact, presumably richer than
that grown on poor soil. If Fit is cut
and made into hay it will be readily
eaten next winter. 1t should be cut
early so that the second growth may
start quickly. This will come when
fresh seed is less abundant, and the
rank grass will probably be kept
cropped close during the remainder
of the season. .'"s r''' a..
@ CULTIvATING CORN EARLY. ..
The more frequently corn ground
is cultivated the more thoroughly it
is exposed to the action of the air
and thus warmed. Besides, the cul-
tivation is often important to induce
rotting of sod, which would start
into new growth if undisturbed.
When sod ferments in the soil it
makes additional heat, besides ma
king available plant food in the soil
that would otherwise be latent. 1t
is not necessary to cultivate deeply
at first. A slight brushing of the
surface, such as will be gwen by the
smoothing harrow, does as much
good as if it were deeper, and with
the harrow fifteen Or more acres can
be gone over in a day. .tt...t.
EXTRA FEED FOR HoLsTE1N COWS.
Holsteins will probaly givea great
er quantity Of milk than any other
breed of cows, but it does not pos
sess the extreme richness of Jersey
milk. But this lack of richness may
be remedied by feeding corn meal
or oil meal. Whatever the Holstein
cow. gets in feed rich in oils will
come out in cream, for while giving
milk, no matter how highly fed, she
will not fatten, and there is less dan
ger of causing caked bag or milk
fever by high feeding with Holsteins
than with Jerseys, whose milk is
naturally as rich as it can be on or
binary feed. The forcing of large
production is therefore better adapt
ed to increasing the richness of milk
already large, than to increasing the
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