The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-10-06
farm 9etes.
pRorrcr1oN FOR GRANAR1Es.

it endangered by Insects. but IL
any are feared an open vessel hiled
with bisulphide Of carbon placed on
top of the grain will keep them Oh
HORSES FEET IN SUMMER.
Horses kept in stable during the
Summer are apt to have diseased
feet For this reason turning out
to pasture has been advocated.
Where this is impracticable a bed
of sods from the roadside will answer
every purpose. 1t will keep the
LIQUID manure from wasting, and
what dries and sets into the III
when brushed out will leave it III
good condition. It is especially
good for horses whose work Is on
hard city pavements. .fHH us a,a .
sUpER-PHospHATE FOR TURNIPs.
The success Of English farmers in
growing turnips by the free use OF
super phosphate is the more remark
able from the fact that turnips 40
not contain a large percentage OF
this plant food. But what they do
have is essential. The explanation
is that the turnip root does not
travel far in search Of its food, and
phosphate being usually locked up
in the soil, the particles in contact
with the roots do not contain enough
for even the small proportion that
this crop demands.
sUPPLEMENTING CORN FODDER
Corn, even when ripe, is not a full
ration. 1t lacks heterogeneous and
flesh and tone-forming material
though excellent orfattening. Corn
fodder is especially liable to be def
cient, rs it is apt to be too watery,
from being grown in the shade.
One of the best supplementary feeds
with corr fodder is wheat bran. 1t
can usually be bought very cheaply
at this season of the year, and is
even better as a supplementary
feed for COWS than in Winter, when
it is more generally fed and its price
is higher.
PIGS AND CLOVER.
Gas happy as a pig in clover"
has passed into a proverb for an
abundance Of the best feed. In fact,
however, though clover is good for
pigs, it is poor dependence for main
feed. The pigs stomach is not
capacious, and to do it's besti it needs
more concentrated food than most
other stock. In the pen, however,
the pigs feed is apt to be too con
centrated and too heating. With
a run at clover, enough will be eaten
to properly distend the stomach and
enable the animal to better digest
the grain than-it could if fed moth
ing else. 4@fv rs
MAKING CORN CRIBS RAT PROOF.
Rats and mice are very destruc-
tive in cor cribs. They may be
kept out forever by eIevating the
crib OF posts thirty-six inches from
the ground and capped with a tin
pan. When the mice try to run up
the post they meet the projecting
tin and a 60 no further, If
are is taken never to bring any
mice in wagons with the corn the
crib may be kept clear of vermin
indefinitely. OF course the crib
should be built at sufficient distance
from other buildings, trees or fences
on which mice might climb and
then jump on the side of the crib.
MAKE TIL FIELDS LARGER.
Farmers in the older sections of
the country have not found the
many interior fences much more
profit than damage. Very often we
have e two fields in hoed crops
side by side with a fence between
which if removed, would allow
teams and cultivators to go from
the outer edge of one to the farther
part of the other. In such case the
land wasted by being used as
a fence row is the smallest part of
the loss. On many farms the crops
that could be grown on land occu-
pied by needless fences would more
than pay the taxes, and with less
labor than now.
HEIFERS 0 PROFITABLE.
A heifer is reckoned equal to half
a cow, but she is not worth for
immediate use half so much as a
COW equally good proportionabiy
and fully matured. Their milk is
not equal in richness to that Of a