Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-05-27
FARM NOTES.

Iyless the is old and well
roaed it should not be allowed 10
aSch the roots of the fruit trees, but
spread upon the surface.
In ploughing under green crops it
should be done while tie crop is ye,
green and full of sap, generally be.
fore 1t has attained full growth.
A farmer who has for three years
practiced sowing tie largest and
piumpest kernels of wheat says he
knows of 9 certainty that his cror
improves.
If the fruit ladens the tree toe
heavily thin it out and the tree will
not break down nor be much exhaus,
ted, and the balance of the fruit will
be much larger and finer.
An egg broken in the feed once OF
twice a day will tone up a horses
system and make his hair more CLOS
sy. But special foods are to be used
only for emergencies.
1t will not be much trouble to pour
manure water around q few tomato
plants each day, and thus make them
mature much more rapidly and the
fruit ripen several days sooner
Permanent pasture lands are the
main anchor of agriculture, and the
farmers of this country will find this
out after a while, as they already
have in England, and will commence
seeding their land with permanent
grasses.
Never try to stimulate man or bird
or beast. A hen filled with "egg
producer or a COW given more food
than she can digest, will go like man
kept on whiskey. There will be bril-
liant, feverish work for a time, and
then a grand collapse.
If the farmers of the West grew
sorghum only to insure getting a
pure sweet for family use, it would
amply and abundantly justify them,
for apart from it they can warrant
the purity of no other sold in the
. stores.
The average importation of horses
from Canada into the United States
for some years past has been about
$4,000 head. A few years ago the
average value per head of horses so
imported was S95, whereas last year
it was $40.
Weed and hoe the onions, peas,
and all of the garden vegetables, har-
row the potatoes again, replant the
corn, and commence ploughing it the
very day it is large enough. Keep
the ground which the crops occupy
free from weeds, loose and mellow.
The hogs should have undisputed
sway in the orchard during the fruit
season, and they will eat up all the
fallen and wormy apples, and hunt
ont many of the grubs, etc, which
are injurious to the trees. In this
way they destroy many of the ene-
mics of sound fruit and sound trees,
and in other ways greatly benefit the
orchard.
Many families have an abundant
supply of all kinds of early vegeta-
lies, but neglect to make any pro-
visions for late ones, and in the late
fail their tables are devoid of the
choicest and most healthful food. 1t
Is very easy to have IN abundant
supply of vegetables on till frost, and
each farmer should try to have plen-
" of them this fall.
The efforts to preserve eggs in
purity are never more than partially
successful. The lined egg, though
not spoiled, is never absolutely fresh.
1t has lost some moisture and has
absorbed some air, which has a ten
dency to %decompose its particles.
Although lime and other prepare
tons exclude air, they do not exrel
what the egg had previously absorb
ed.
1t is astonishing that a farmer can
look upon a grade colt of 1 or 2
years, see its size, note its advan-
tages, consider its capabilities. and
then continue to breed rats" when
the only question involved is that of
the slight additional cost between
the service of a thoroughbred draft
and a scrub stallion. 1t is now be.
coming easy 10 obtain the services of
a good sire in almost any neighbor-
hood in the Northwest, and this fact
will certainly be utilized to the ex-
tent OF a universal improvement in
the horse as well as cattle.