The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-09-29
SWEET CORN COBS.


The cobs from which sweet corn
has been cut contain considerable
nutriment and will be greedily eaten
by cows. Putting IL little salt on
them makes them IA little Q pal
atable. Until the corn ripens,
the cob contains much of the sac
charine matter that is afterward
changed to the starch of the grain.
SWEET VS.. SOUR APPLES.
Sweet apples are generally con-
sidered more valuable for feeding
than sour, but there is less difference
than many suppose. If we'll ripened
even u apples contain a good
deal of sweet, which is to the taste
overcome by a slight disproportion
of acid. Those who have fed sour
ripe apples find them nearly or
quite as nutritive as sweet one
They should not, however, be given
to hogs which have corn in the ear,
as this makes the pigs teeth
WHY SEEK ELEVATED GROUNDS.
If left to themselves sheep will
retire at night to the most elevated
part of the field. This is a relic Of
the time when such %precaution was
necessary that they might guard
against approaching danger from
wild animals. But the fact has its
advantages. The knobs are gener-
ally poor, but sheep will soon enrich
them. The grass also is sweeter
than on lowland and sheep arc less
liable to disease.
FALL FLOWING.
Where the object of Fall blowing
is to expose the soil to thorough
pulverization by frost, getting it
done early is not important. In
fact there is sometimes a gain by
leaving it until the surface is slight
ly frozen. This turned to the bot
tom Of the furrow holds it up, and
less freezing is required to pulver-
ize the whole mass. But if a heavy
sod is to be fall plowed, have the
work done early enough so that the
sod may partly rot this Fall. If
not, it will be a bad piece to put
hoed crops in next season.
SEED REQUIRED PER ACRE.
The respective advantages of
thick and thin seeding depend upon
circumstances, some of which cannot
be known at the time of seeding.
So far as the weather is concerned
sowing a crop will always be some
thing like taking a ticket in a lot
terry. AS a rule, the richer and bet
ter fitted the ground, the less seed
will be required Of small grain. But
with corn the reverse is true. On
very poor soil in the South it is a
common practice to make hills Of
3! and sometimes four feet apart,
and allow only two stalks to the
hill.
CLEANING FENCE CORNERS.
After the harvest is done, if the
work has not been attended to
the fence corners should be cleaned
up and all weeds burned. This
work is much more neglected than
it used to be before and
reapers came into vogue. 1t is
something that has to be done by
hand, and the difficulty now is to
get men who will swing the scythe
faithfully. Many hired men if set
at this job consider it an invitation
to take a day off, and will fool away
all of al afternoon doing less than
a man ought to do in a couple of
hours. The difficulty in getting
fence corners cleaned out is the
casase Of many weeds in fields, and
one strong reason for abolishing all
ilterior fences.
FEED FOR COWS.
Frank s. Peer, Mount Morris, N.
Y, >peakingof economical grain feed
for a2ws, says wheat bran and mid
din - Mve given him the best re-
suits. IAcomparing bran with other
grain, it sh2uld be by weight and
not by meassNe. Next to bran. he,
favors ground oats, then cotton seed
meal. He has had as good results
from feeding one pound of bran to
one Of corn meal as from two pounds
of corn meal. Half oats and half
bran, by weight, price considered
give better results than oats and
corn. He is no advocate of corn,
except for pork or beet. Next to
oats he finds. cotton seed meal cheap
err than corn or oil meal. Under