Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-01-09
FARM NOTES.

| FARM NOTES.
Show me tidy farm and I'll show Jou
a successful farmer.
Generally successful mans greatest
debt is to his difficulties.
Every dimes worth of paint saves 81
worth of wood.
Butter tubs should be thoroughly
cleansed and then soaked in brine before
packing down butter in them, which will
materially assist in preventing the butter
from being tainted.
A few statistics may be of service: An
ordinary barrel contains Al solid feet; q
bushel contains trifle over IT solid feet
solid foot of water weighs 62} pounds
an acre contains a, 260 square feet.
Whatever COWS you may have to win
ter. if in milk, keep them warm and
fully fed on rich food to the extent of
their digestion. If store COWS feed so as
to keep in good condition for spring.
It is said that il packing apples for
shipping the fruit should be filled two
inches higher than the head of the bar
rel, 80 that when pressed down it will
not shake by rough handling in the cars
or in being delivered.
Rows of willows are profitable in
meadow lands as permanent fence posts,
which can be pulled or topped once in
five years, and thus furnish and abun-
dance of good frewood for kitchen use
in the summer.
Drainage deepens, aerates and breaks
down into friability tough, hard clays.
The action OF frosts upon such soil
when saturated with water is to cause it
to run together. When filed with the
vapor of water-the natural condition
the soil is disintegrated by the action Of
freezing and thawing.
Bees, to be made sure and profitable
producers, must be cared for and fed at
certain seasons just as surely as poultry,
and their product of honey can be just
as certainly relied upon. There is no
more fascinating work than the care of
bees when one becomes interested in
it.
1t is said that while peameal is a great
butter producing food. 1t is very dan
gerous to feed it in large quantities. It
is much worse than finely ground corn
meal for forming into balls in the stom-
ach, repelling the gastric juice, and thus
creating inflammation of the stomach.
The most safe way to feed is to mix it
well with plenty. of oilmesl, new pro-
cess.
For trees and plants of undoubted
hardness there are some advantages
and no great risks in fall planting. Some
kinds, like larch, birch and beech, it is
always best to plant in the fall. With
evergreens it is different; plant only in
the spring or just after midsummer. At
ter several hard frosts, the earlier that
fall planting can be done the better; if
leaves remain, strip them off. Stake
securely in windy places and mound up.
Never plant a tree or shrub deeper
than the collar.
Every farmer should have workshop
and the necessary tools to work with.
He will rapidly learn to attend to much
of his own repairing of the ordinary inn
Elements and machines upon his prem
ises instead of mourning the delay, ex-
pense and uncertainty Of depending on
professionals at q distance. A person
becomes very expert in the use of good
tools after short experience, and many
thus save many adollar without consum-
ing any time necessary for the usual de-
mands of the farm.
The new wheat pest lately discovered
n Milwaukee, when viewed by the naked
eye, was scarcely discernible, being the
merest atom. When put under the rays
of a powerful magnifying glass it is seen
to be an active midget, transparent in
body and apparently terminated from
the grain. Its industry is shown by the
samples of the berry which are reduced
almost to dust through its workings. The
bin in which these workers were dis
covered is, strangely enough, selected
wheat culled from the choicest lots that
had been sent in.
The most extensive cabbage farm in
the world is near Chicago. It consists
of 100 acres in the cabbage district" as
it is called, which comprises $500 acres
of rich, heavy soil, especially adapted to
cabbage culture. It requires LILA, 900
plants to set the 100 acres. and counting |
those used in resetting, 100000 for the |
whole district under cultivation. The
bulk of the crop is sent south in box cars
to supply q demand which exists after
the consumption of the southern crop,
which owing to the climate, cannot be
stored for future use.