Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-05-01
FARM NOTES.

H. CLAY.
FARM NOTES.
Ground properly prepared for plant
ing, is half cultivated.
The corn row will not be straight il
you look behind yoa.
Michigan celery growers propose to or
ganize celery exchange. Last yea,
they shipped $4,000 worth.
Make record of the time when YOU
set your hen, in order that you may be
looking out for the Matching.
If the hay ran short and the cattle are
thin and poor, remember to use caution
in letting them into rich pasturage.
Be very careful about the, temperture
of the hot-bed, keeping it as even and
moist as possible, and not too high
never over SIS degrees.
Grape cuttings should be placed in
the ground at once The same is true
of all hardy cuttings. The earlier in the
spring the better,
A healthy hen requires no stimulants
except good food. If any substance be
used, let it be ground ginger, using q
teaspoonful for twenty fowls, in soft
food
Don't disfigure your grounds with
laths or Stats when wire netting is sc
cheap, says the Homestead. A netting
Enclosure is durable and will be blown
down in no wind
The hens are paying the rent on many
WORKOUT farm. They are calling peo-
pie back from the factories to the de-
serted farm houses. The American
eagle will yet be hen if solid worth is
ever counted.
Never try to stimulate man or bird OF
beast. A hen filed with "egg pro-
ducer," ora COW given more food than
she can digest, will 60 like man kept
on whisky. There will be brilliant, fe-
verish work for time, and then a grand
collapse.
The wheat recoed for last year is as
follows: Minnesota, 1895, 900 bushels;
Michigan, 81, 261, 900; Iowa, 1885,, 900
bushels of wheat. Last year Dakota in
creased her wheat area by over 100000
acres beyond that of the year previous.
A fat, puffy" bull is a nuisance.
Don't let bull overfeed. Give him
plenty of exercise. He never will be fit
for service if you pamper him. If you
can tit up harness for him, and make
him haul out the manure and do other
light jobs, you would be doing business
like farming.
Mr.. Phipps, chief of the Bureau of
Agriculture, Canada, is strongly in favor
of planting the silver leaf popular for
producing fuel. He states that he has
known tree only twenty years old to
afford four cords of wood. He raises
the trees from cuttings of last seasons
growth. He does not pillow the land near
the rows, as the pillow cuts the roots and
causes growth of sprouts.
Ponds are not good for young ducks.
Wet grass, dampness and cold sleeping
places will kill young ducks as quickly as
such influences will destroy young chicks.
Feed the ducks on bulky food. Cook
ed turnips or potatoes, thickened with
oat meal make good and cheap food
for them. Give them plenty of water to
drink, but not to battle in until the down
is off and the feathers cover the body.
Then you may let them enjoy themselves
In the water as much as they desire.
Gram is always less injured by dry
weather than it is at first supposed. If
the plant is somewhat pinched up, nature
concentrates her efforts on perfecting
the seeds, thus insuring reproduction.
The straw may be short, but the berry
will often be plumper than when much
causing excessive growth of
straw, also inducing mildew, rust and
other fungus attacks which feed on the
juices of the straw that should go to
perfect the grain.
Suitable food and lodging; regular
hours of labor; freedom from nagging,
ridicule and the annoyance from en-
ployer's saucy children; considerate treat
ment or wages according to agreement,
are the rights of the hired man, accord
ing to r. J. Fleming.
The white of hens egg contains S4S
per cent of water, IL of albumen, 2 of
lat, sugar and membranes, and IL per
cent of mineral matter. The volk shows
a much greater degree of richness than
The white;it contains 51.5 per cent water,
l5 of casein and albumen, 80 of oil and
,at, 81 coloring matter and extract, and
|. a per cent minral matter.
Fuchsias placed in the cellar in the
all may be brought into heat. When
hey begin to show new leaves, shift into
pots size or two smaller than those
occupied, shaking out most
If the old earth. The soil should be
resh, light and well enriched with old,
lecayed manure. Ivy and like plants
With heavy leaves should be often wash
ID for the sake of health and looks.
NOTES OF THE DAY.