Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-10-01
FARM NOTES

vince him that backing is a very much
harder motion than going forward.
FARM NOTES
Your orchards need additional fert ility
in most instances. Money spent in
manure or ashes for orchards is well in
vested.
Sixty tons of almonds were gathered
from sixty-f acres on the Oakshade
farm, in lolo county, Cal, the present
season.
Secure early, before fall rains or winter
SHOWS begin, bountiful supply of dry
straw to be used about and under stock at
night.
Calves must grow all summer to be
worth keeping through the winter, or to
bring anything like remuneratiye prices
in the autumn.
1t has been proven over and over again
that little land well titled is more profit
able than an extended area neglected and
improperly cared for.
Give the young turkeys meat three
times week, and force them in growth
as much as possible, in order to secure a
large size by Thanksgiving.
Do not feed breeding sows very largely
on grain. They may be kept in good con-
dition, but it should be done by more
bulky or partially green food.
Cotton seed oil sells in London at half
the price of lard oil. 1t is the low price
of cotton-seed products that keeps the
price OF all other grease down.
Incubator chickens are increasing in
the market every season, and yet the
prices are still very high during the
period between Christmas and June
A mixture of several kinds of grain for
feeding stock is always better than one
kind alone. Variety in grain is as i'm
portant as variety in bulky food.
The one great cause of the small
profits of the majority of smalI-fruit
growers and market gardeners is due to
the fact that they try to work too much
land.
A few sods and a little COW manure
made into a heap now where you can
throw Kitchen Stops will make an excel
lent compost for your flower pots next
winter.
During the dry seasons a large supply
of fine road dust should be stored away
for winter use as an absorbent. 1t is ex-
cellent in the stalls and also in the manure
heap.
The best binder Irvine measures from
| go to 700 feet per pound. The cheap
stuff, that will hardly stand the strain of
| tying but about 40 to roo feet Better
test the Irvine next season before buy
| ing.
| 1t is advised to SOW two bushels of John
son grass seed Sorghum halapense) per
acre in order to get good stand. This
| is essentially Southern grass, and i'll
that climate thick seeding is essentially
! necessary.
| Tomatoes trained to stakes give the
! sweetest fruit and remain in bearing the
longest; but many cultiyators, who grow
! for size and quantity only, believe they
| have the best results when growing them
on the level ground.
1t is not all in rushing from daylight
| till dark, but as much moro depends upon
the proper forethought and laying out
of the work-that is, putting thought as
well as muscle into the management of
! the farm.
A successful grower of bedding plants
lays two inches in depth of rich, old man
ure over the entire surface of his grounds
| before digging over in the spring. It is
a good time now to start Il manure heap
for next years use.
While planting the tree do not try to
rattle the dirt among the roots by max
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 ont of shape.
All small apples and others defective
IN form or damaged by worms have their
best market on the farm as food for ami
mails. If packed with sound fruit even
in small proportion, they reduce the
price of them all, even to the point of
! loss.
writer says: Last year We tied our to-
mato vines up to stakes. This year we
have put three stakes around the hill and
nailed Il hoop on them. 1t keeps the
vines out of the dirt. We have also mulch
ed them with old pea vines.
Many nurserymen advise transplanting
evergreens in the late summer rather than
spring, as the pleasant moisture of the
autumn causes them to root well before
winter, and they are not first taxed to en-
dure the scOrching heat of early sum
! mer.
Plans should be laid to prepare the
| ground to be planted with raspberries or
| blackberries next spring this fall. If the
! ground is plOwed at any time after this
and thoroughly cultivated about the close
of the month of October, raspberries can
be planted as soon as the frost is out with
out replowing.
Farmers who have sown gypsum on
| strawberry plants to promote their vigor
met some disappointing results. The
gypsum produced so large a growth of
growth of clover that it became almost
impossible to keep the rows clean, and
in some instances the bed had to be
| abandoned.
Straw may be rendered more valuable
| by being cut into short lengths and mix
| ed with chopped hay and grain. It will
| greatly assist in increasing the amount of
coarse material, if so fed and the prac-
tice is much more economical than that
of using it for bedding entirely.
In order to guard against flies the sta
BILE should be thoroughly cleaned often.
A spriukling of the floors with a mixture
| of a teaspoonful of carbolic acid and two
! gallons OF water will disinfect the stall.
while the manure heap may also receive
an application with advantage.
To compel Brahmas and Cochins TO
roost high will be cruelty. They have
difficulty not only in getting upon high
roost, but in getting off. All the roosts
should be made low and on the same
level. There is no necessity for having
them high, as nearly all diseases of the
feet arise from high roosts they should be
| abolished.
Orchards that are in grass continually
| are sometimes injured. The best method
is to pillow under the grass, lime the land,
| give an application of well-rotted manure,
and re-seed. Some orchards do best
when in grass, if the soil is rich, but the
! peach and PLAN are exceptions. The
should, however, be plowed under coca
sionally.
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