Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-06-12
FARM NOTES.

FARM NOTES.
In the transplanting or setting out
raspberry plants care should always be
taken to keep the roots moist.
Blackberries are not always ripe when
they are black. Leave them on till they
part readily from their stalks.
There are fewer COWS in proportion to
the population of the country than there
were thirty five years ago.
It is not safe to turn cattle in to pas
ture upon wet clover, as it produces in
them indigestion, which sometimes proves
fatal.
Select for seeds smooth, large, we'll
formed potatoes, with shallow eyes, in
stead of the refuse Of the potato heap, as
is too often the case,
Never purchase brood-sow the i'm
mediate progenitors of which have been
prepared for show ring. She will lack
strong constitution.
For the currant borer cut off and burn
the branches upon which they have set
tied. This is the only sure remedy,
and the work must be thorough.
There is little doubt that in the near
future old storage-houses will be consid-
cred almost as indispensable to the fruit
grower as ice-houses are now to butchers
and dairymen.
I'D. Shedd, of Fairfax, VT, reports
that he owns a SOW that has given birth
to fifty-three pigs in three itters within
twelve months thirteen, twenty-five
and respectively.
1t is suggested that if honey we're
put up in quarter pound packages, to be
sold to children and others for individ-
ual consumption, it would enormously
increase the aggregated sales.
A COW should never be allowed to
skip milking, as the retention of so
large volume of milk in the udder will
infame it and injure the quality of the
milk, and perhaps the udder also.
A recommended preventive of cholera
Construct long, deep trough; keep it
supplied with Stacked lime, with rea-
sonable amount OF salt, and attract the
hogs to it by stopping them there.
Foot-rot in sheep, distemper in horses
and cattle, cough in pigs, and score of
other ailments arise from filthy barnyards
in winter and spring. Prevention is bet
ter than cure in these cases.
Turning sod under and Immediately
seeding down again by sowing grass
seed alone in August, or with grain in
spring time, is one of the best and
cheapest way of increasing the hay crop
of the farm.
Two oilings of harness, except the
collars, year is enough; but the collars
should be oiled every two weeks during
the working season, and the sweat and
dirt be removed each morning with a
dull knife.
Young trees must be mulched as a
protection against summer winds and
sun, as well as against winters frosts;
and every newly set tree should be
firmly staked so that it may not be
wrenched about by the wind.
It is about time that the attention of
farmers and all rural people was turned
in the direction of decided effort in be.
half of protection to insectivorous birds.
They should be encouraged in every
practicable way.
A Missouri farmer who has heen test
ing seed corn from the butt, the tip and
the middle of ears for three years, finds
that the corn from the tip of the ears
will ripen first, that from the middle
next, and that from the butt last.
Where does chess come from? is a
question perplexing most wheat raisers.
1t is asserted by many that it springs from
abnormal wheat grains which produce
nothing else, and consequently mon
strosity in the wheat family.
"A oCo"OOiIy SIO"CI Bays SOuuO Soio w
berry plants are naturally barren, and
should be pulled out and treated as
weeds. He goes over the patch when
the plants have not blossomed.
Ground potash and bone applied to
grape-vines not only increases the guam
tity but improves the quality of The
fruit, adding largely to the amount of
sugar it contains. For immediate effect
in the spring use the dissolved bone.
Trees that are pruned in the centre, SO
as to make them low and spreading, are
in far more danger of splitting down
when bearing full crop of fruit than
when trimmed with a strong central
stem with good limbs branching out
from it.
In lecture at the New England Ag-
ricultural Hall, Secretary Russell, of the
Massachusetts, Board of Agriculture,
maintains that thirteen miles a day for
every day in the week, was full days
work for horse, and all that can be done
without overwork.
A Woman in The Procession.
One of the most important and striking