New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-04-07
FARM AND GARDEN.

TAhM AMI GARDEN.
In selecting young Brahmas an indi
cation of what the plumage will be *
given by the bills. When the bill
has dark stripe down the uppe,
mandible the hackle and tail viii be-
dark.
A correspondent of the National
otocS7'aa'a says: ''To prevent the dep
iedatlons OF rabbits on young fruit
trees, take some lamp black or SCOT
from the chimney back, mix it up with
mllk (sklmmed milk will dog, and with
cloth or an old broom paint the body
OF the tree from the ground to the
llmbs. 1t will remain through the win.
ter, and nothing will modest the trees.
IN the spring take some strong soap
suds and wash the black from the tree,
ana 1t will remove all tree lice OF
any Impurities from the bark and
give the tree green, healthy appear
ance."
Students Of forestry have frequently
stated that cultivation of the soil has a
beneficial influence upon the distribu-
Jlon and amount of rainfall, fact well
illustrated by a statement made by Mr..
Holsteln at recent meeting of the
Philadelphia Academy of Natural
Sciences. Mr.. II. affirmed that the
streams in certain cultivated portions
OF Northern Texas were found to con-
tlnue running during the portion, of the
year when they formerly dried up.
The change is supposed to be due to
the TACT that the rainfall, which has not
changed in amount, is more evenly
absorbed over the cultivated areas.
The Maryland Farmer takes strone
ground in favor of feeding cattle in
yards and sheds instead of letting them
roam over large pastures, which must
be-tenced at great expense. It is so
much cheaper for a farmer to fence in
his own stock than to fence out all the
stock of his neichbors; and then an acre
will yield three or four times as much
cattle food II it is cultivated and the
crops cut instead of being gnawcd off
by tramping animals. The cost of
Fences is usually more than the value
of the animals pastured, and some
times more than the land enclosed
Cattle that are kept rather close. and
are handled often, are also tamer and
less breachy than those which run at
large, and are often compelled to shirk
Tor their supply of food.
A Kansas farmer who has had con-
siderable experience in raising and
feeding sorghum, is quite enthusiastic
as to It's merits us a fodder crop. He
grows the Early Amber sort, sows
broadcast one and a fourth bushels of
seed, or drills in one bushel He cuts
when three OF four feet high, and be-
ginning to show here and there head,
with a moving machine; cures thor
.oughly. When cut thus early second
crop, nearly or quite as good as the first
can be harvested, or if preferred, the
field affords abundant pasturage at a
time when pastures are generally dried
up. The same care must be exercised
in turning cattle into sorghum pas
ture as into fresh clover, turning them
in for short time only till they become
accustomed to it, The feed, whether
green OIL cured, is excellent to stimulate
milk production. 1t yields from five to
six tons per acre.
Mr.. A. II. CASTOR, Marshall county.
illinois, always found that when pump
kins or squashes were fed with corn the
animals were more healthy and thrifty
than when receiving corn alone; it also
required less corn, and the hogs were
free from disease. He noticed that the
hogs ate the pumpkin or squash seeds
first, showing that they furnished some
thing particularly needed. Mr.. CASTOR
advises swine growers to try the ..fruit
OF the vine He has grown what is
known as the Valparaiso squash, very
prolific variety, said to have sometimes
produced thirty tons per acre, an
amount he considered equal to 800
bushels shelled corn. He thinks the
seed may be had of some of the seeds
men. This squash grows well in an
early potato patch, planted about the
middle of May. Put one seed in place,
ten feet apart; they begin ''vining"
about the time the potatoes are dug, and
thus give a profitable second crop.