The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-07-03
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

Seventeen bushels Of wheat Is the
product from one grain of seed in
three years on a Dakota farm.
Seed corn should be changed
every four or five years, or at least
new kinds mixed with the local sorts.
N. Y. Tribune.
Stock hogs which ran on clover
freely have, so far as We can hear,
been entirely free from hog cholera
Indiana Farmer.
The fact is, the average farmer Is
not alive to his own interest, and the
cunning, willy schemers are too much
for him.-W Western Farmer. .
Farmers having good horses and
very cheap eggs would do well to
break one in each horses feed occa-
sionally journal Of agriculture.
When we buy seed corn, 1t should
always be in the ear; when we shell it
we should spread and scatter s % there
car be no heating or sweating.-Honae
and Farm.
"A man has tried the experiment Of
setting a hen on a d~ouble-yelked egg
with entire success, Recently a little
head came through each end Of the
egg, and when the shell was removed
two chicks were found. They were
slightly united, but were easily sepa-
rated Chicago Herald.
Prof. Henry. of the Wisconsin Ex-
pertinent Station, reporting relative to
a trial plant of potatoes, says that on
the appearance of rot striking the
vines, a portion of the crop was dug
and dried, and the rotting ceased at
once in that portion, while those re-
naming undug for two weeks rotted
almost entirely.
The most successful farming the
past few years seems to have been
made by men who had little land and
were able themselves, with their faml-
lies to do the greater part of the work,
with little expense for the hired help.
To such farmers the growing of small
fruits on a small scale generally pays
well.-Southern Home and Farm.
One thousand pounds Of dry corn
cobs will burn down to four and a half
pounds of ash, and of this two and a
half pounds will be pure potash! The
fact that cows often like corn-cobs
may be due to the potash they contain,
and which may serve to correct disor-
dered digestion. Corn -cobs also con-
tain about two pounds of nitrogen to
M thousand of dry cobs, but this is,
of course lost by burning.-M Y.
Times.
When the comb of a fowl is large
and b~right-colored, showing it to be
full OF blood, and shaking with every
activity of the bird, she is in a healthy
laying condition. With this condition
of comb you will discover the utmost
activity in your fowls, starting atevery
sound or motion. The movements are
not like a nervous jump, but with an
elastic spring, showing a condition of
vigorous health. On the contrary, if
the edges of the comb and wattles are
a purpllsh red and the movements
sluggish there is disease and danger
Chicago Tribune.
"A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman boldly advises the poison
ing of sheep-killing dogs by putting
bits of mutton, covered with strych-
nine, about the pasture, and then
keeping ones own counsel. "Soon,"
he says, "you will hear of this and
that dogs dying "a horrible death
Such good dogs, too! Their owners
will Indignantly declare that their dog
never left the %dooryard, and t~iercely
you with having thrown poison
into their %dooryards. Keep cool; it is
unpleasant, but can't be helped. The
sheep will have a rest, and though you
may have been the death of nine inno-
cent dogs, yet you have punished the
one, and the nine ought to have
kept out of the pasture"