Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-06-22
AGRICULTURAL,
Farm Notes.

The advice to put q COW before csIVing
on short rasbtions to prevent milk fever IS
5ad. The food should De regular, not
forced.
Now is an excellent time to push young
pigs, as the grow very rapidly after the
weather commences to become warm.
The best bred stock cost the most
money, but its produce brings o great deal
more than the produce OF that which IL
badly bred.
In feeding you want to notice that some
animals sre more dainty as TO their choice
than others. Their Ike should be resPec,
ted.
Calves kept gaining vigorously through
toe first year are worth az the end twice 50
others that have been retarded in growth
Irregularity in sailing will not conduce
to the laying of the aesh. Especially 10
diaryiug will irregulsrIty in sailing SIT" IN
the milk.
Vigorous growth of plants is the best
protection against insect enemies, and
timely cultivation comes in ss q most ef'
~fectiye auxiliary force.
Trees in o cultivated field are trouble
some, bat where they ere not numerous
,hey add enough to the beauty of the land
scspe to compensate.
Constant ResdeE. The difficulty is
that the hen is very fat, due 10 heavy feed
ing. She should be fed sparingly on
bulky food, such as grass, with no grain.
A soil but five inches deep cannot De
worth as much IS sAorher that gives free
scope to the roots Of plants 70 whatever
depth they may penetrate IL search o.
uutrimeRt.
A second brood Of currsnt worms usual
IL makes IT'S appearance Just as the fruit
begins to ripen, and is quite as injurious
to the crop as the first If not promptly de
stroyed.
II is said that calves begin 10 form cuds
| and ruminate as soon as they are allowed
on the pasture, but three months Is soon
enough 10 allow them to do 80 or the result
will be scours.
Public wster-troughs, it ia clsimed, ore
places at which infectious diseases are
spresd; hence the water should always
be flowing in them instead Of turning 1t On
/ only when wanted.
Roots of plants that 90 by choice ten OF
twelve inches in the soil fail to bring up
full support when they are restricted TO
tour or Eve inches by reason OF impenetra
bic earth beneath.
II is said that the best mode Of using
SULPHUR about plants, in order to destroy
insects, is to sprinkle it on the ground dur
ing q warm dsy, when it will prove benz
fetal without iDjuring the plants.
Bad slough water will make milk that
contains fermentive organisms and that j.
liable to decay. Made into butter or chesse,
the latter will not keep. See that the
cows do not quench their thirst in barn
yard pools.
In order TO produce the bunch celery
tia, il 40 famous in the Boston markets
the plants ere given plenty OF room IN
which 70 grow, 30 taat tf9 suckers or SIDE
branches will start simultaneously With the
central shoot.
b. keeping land in c~lavsr, cutting the
| frst crop, and blowing UGder toe seeoGo' .
New York former produced 100 bushels o,
/ shelled corn per acre. The ieruhzer useo
was a handful Of hen mAru:e ABOUND s"en
hill ofcorn.
The Hubbard Cleaner sud Binder. man
ufactured BY George 4 Singerly X 70:
Norris,own, Pa, Rss awarded Grss Preml
Qm at the Queens County Agriculture
Fair, held st Miueols. Long Island, N. I.
on June II and Is. The Binder Was par
chased By Mr.. VsnnOss'Sn on the ground
The Rursl Home thinks that il the farm
ers will keep good muttoe sheep sna sens
fine csreases to market, they need not DOTH
ar about the wool, as the profit 10 sheep Il
from the mutton and early lambs, to So
nothing of the fact that sheep greatly I'm
prove the s0l.