Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-07-03
FARM NOTES.

FARM NOTES.
Tobacco refuse is rich and quick-act-
ing fertilizer. 1t is also repulsive to in
sects.
As soon as currant worms appear pow
der the plants carefully with white helle-
bore.
Feed young chicks early and often
and keep them supplied with water or
better still sweet or sour milk.
The poultry boom which has so stead
lily overspread the country for the past
two years shows no sign Of abatement.
More than half the diseases 80 preva-
lent among farm horses are due to i'm
proper attention to the common laws of
sanitation.
It is poor economy not to keep build
ings well painted, for the moisture that
paint would stop soon causes rotten
boards and timbers.
Be careful how you doctor sick fowls.
More poultry is lost by injudicious dos
ing of various nostrums, than they lack
of attention when sick.
A corn crib may be readily made rat
proof by supporting it on cedar or To-
Gust posts thirty inches high and cap
ped with stone or broad board.
Don't feed too much soft food in sum-
mer. Get the young chicks on small
grain as soon as possible. We feed on
millet seed and cracked wheat to chicks
one week old.
Small chickens should never be kept
or fed with old ones. They are apt to
be injured. Have two or three yards
and separate them according to size and
strength.
A mulch Of two inches of short man
ure on the surface around spring planted
trees will help them more than anything
else to withstand the droughts of sum-
mer.
A remedy for the maggot which in
tests cabbage is to make hole with a
dibble close to the stalk, insert ten drops
of bisulphide of carbon. and quickly
close the hole.
A few sods and little cow manure
made into heap now, where you can
throw kitchen Stops, will make an excel
lent compost for your flower pots next
winter.
The free use of clover seed and keep
ing of farm stock enables farmers to
maintain land in good condition for Or
binary cropping without purchasing
commercial manures.
If you want to make your hens to lay
feed soft food-bran and meal in the
morning, and wheat, corn oats in the
evening. Do not give corn exclusively,
as it produces fat.
Clean out all the rose bushes by taking
away the old wood and then shortening
the strong shoots one-thlrd. The growth
and appearance will be greatly improved
thereby.
A Nebraska farmer, who has been ex-
perimenting with blue grass, concludes
that all northern Nebraska will prove to
be one of the finest tame-girss countries
in the world.
A number of black Javas have been
carried to England. The breed attracts
some little attention there. The Ply
mouth Rock has never been very popu-
lar on the other side of the water.
Root crops should early be gone over,
thinning them out where standing too
close, and setting in some of the spare
plants where vacancies occur This
should be done in moist time if posi-
BILE.
DR.. Sturtevant, at the New York ex-
pertinent station, found that mulching
the soil lightly between the rows Of peas
with straw retards the attack of mildew
very perceptibly. 1t is the late sown
crop that suffers.
It is stated that it costs 1927, 500 per
head to make farmers in the agricultural
department of Yale college-that is, it's
fund of 1856. 900 expended for that pur-
pose has placed six agricultural gradu-
ates before the world.
Weed and hoe the onions, peas and a
of the garden vegetables, harrow the po-
tatoes again, replant the corn and COM
mence blowing it the very day it is large
enough. Keep the ground which the
crop occupies free from weeds, loose and
mellow.
As the weather becomes warmer all
the vegetables should be got out of the
cellar and the walls thoroughly whitened
with wash containing carbolic acid.
This will dispel noxious odors, and the
whitewash will make lighter room
which is always poorly lighted.
The problem of farming consists in
making the soil increasingly fertile.
Manure is the farmers saving bank, and
It more of them would have large heaps
of it every spring to spread upon their
lands, instead of money at interest, they
would prosper better in the end.
Clover growth is helped by lime and
plaster. Large quantities of nitrogen
are contained in the earth and air, and
clover absorbs nitrogen more than any
other plant. The plant and air work to-