Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-19
FAEt8I NOTES.

Too long pulls on heavy road often
ruins the wind of Il horse.
Many worn out pastures of Massa-
chusetts are being planted with chest
nuts.
The pig-pen is always the best place
to dispose of imperfect and small fruit
and potatoes.
Remember that animals can not tell
you of their pains. Watch for symp-
toms of illness
New Jersey famers and gardeners
used 400, 600 tons of commercial fertili-
zers last year.
The true policy is to secure the great
est amount of vegetable mold you can
accumulate at the least cost.
Holland dairymen have to pay $50
annual rent for land in which they keep
cows, and they make money at that.
There good cow is valued at $3.50.
Ventilation is absolutely necessary
and essential to health. Unless a poul-
try house be well and properly ventila-
ted fowls cannot be kept healthy for any
length of time.
A remedy for the maggot which in
tests cabbage is to make a hole with a
dibble close to the stalk, insert ten drops
of bi-sulphide of carbon, and quickly
close the hole again.
Professor Stewart says green sorghum
is better green food for cows in August
than green corn, because it has more
soluble sugar and is quite as rich as in
indigenous elements.
j. d. Shedd, of Fairfax, Vt, reports
that he owns a SOW that has given birth
to fifty-three pigs in three litters within
twelve months-thirteen, twenty and
twenty respectively.
Clean out all the rose bushes by TAX
ing away the old wood and then short
ening the stronger shoots one-third.
The growth and appearance will be
greatly improved thereby.
To have beautiful bed of flowers
try Chinese pinks. They are of all col
ors, and when a bed of such pinks is
made by sowing seeds of all the varie-
ties the contrast of colors is striking.
The trees can be protected from field
mice by banking the tree up for a foot
or so with soil, and borers and rabbits
can be kept away by wrapping the
trunks for q foot above this with tarred
paper.
Try the experiment this year of
scattering hay or straw over the straw
berry bed and burning it over as soon
as the bearing season is over" says the
Fruit Recorder, 'as old beds can be
made as good as new in this way"
While planting the tree do not try to
rattle the dirt among the roots by shak-
ing the tree up and down, for this
draws the fine, hair-like roots out of
place, but does not push them back; it
folds them up and gets them all out of
shape.
A correspondent of the Country GEN
ttemdn says that q COW which at home
viii test up to fourteen pounds of but
ter standard, if taken to strange place,
among strange cattle, and MIXED by a
cross man, will not make half that
quantity.
The cherry is about the only fruit tree
which can be recommended for shade
in pastures along roadsides, as the har-
dy varieties of cherries are not affected
by the tramping of stock or passing of
vehicles, which would prove injurious
to most other fruit trees.
English authorities assert that sulphur
mixed with grease will enable cattle to
resist the attacks of the gad-dy, and
thus be free from MARBLE maggots or
''grubs. " The dressing is well rubbed
along the backs of the cattle several
times during the Summer.
The onions of Wetherfield. Conn,
have long been famous, but Sunderland
Township, in Western Massachusetts,,
devoted sixty-three acres to that odori-
ferrous bulb last year, which yielded
; 524 bushels to the acre each, worth S29,-
900, or about 1917 to the acre.
An experienced horticulturist thus de-
scribes his mode of planting fruit trees:
He makes holes eighteen inches deep
and three feet in diameter, fills in four
inches of strong, short horse manure,
then two or three inches of street dirt
sets the trees and fills in with earth.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton tells how he
cured dog of the habit of worrying
sheep by fastening the sheep by a strong
wire under the dog and compelling him
to drag the burden about wherever he
went for whole day. Similar treat
ment will cure a dog of worrying fowls.
A spring of water is better than well
for farm use, because it is always access
sible, and water from it may be con-
veyed readily to other points. Then, if
drainage suitably regulated will support
constant flow. it establishes provision
better than u well for watering farm
animals
Apple trees should not be trimmed to
a crotch with two or more limbs. 1t is